... . c VISCOUNTESS HALIFAX, C.I., is the wife of Viscount Halifax, K.G., P.C., G. C.S.I. G.C.I. E., British Ambassador in Washington since 1940. He was Viceroy of India from 1926-31, and was Secretary of State for Foreign A ffairs from 1938-40. Lady Halifax is a daughter of the fourth Earl of Onslow, and was married in 1909. She and Lord Halifax have two surviving sons (their second boy was ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THESE GENTLEMEN, for being the ten handsomest men in America. CARY GRANT, film-star, Bristol-born. RAYMOND MASSEY, stage and film-star, Canadian-born. REAR-ADMIRAL R. E. BYRD. U.S.N. Polar explorer. PHILIP MERIVALE, actor husband of Gladys Cooper. GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, U.S. five-star General. GARY COOPER, film-star. FREDRIC MARCH, film-star. GREGOR PIATIGORSKY, ...

... . PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, daughter of the Prince Regent, is the leading woman in u The First Gentleman, and much of the drama deals with her marriage to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. Princess Charlotte died in childbirth in 1817, and her widower was the IJncle Leopold whose sage counsel was such a support to Queen Victoria. The Prince Regent's sisters also appear in the play, which closes in ...

... c tfln-ufi irl: Olo. 31 (jdan (^aiitHeld JOAN CAULFIELD is a blue-eyed blonde. She was born in Neic Jersey in 1922, and from her earliest days aspired to be an actress. While at Columbia University she began work as a Canova model. When she decided to take up a stage career she won an interview with producer George Abbott and got a small role in his musical, Beat the Band. Then she was given ...

... C^JaaaM^ i White suede with tan calf is choice for a light summer court shoe but don't make it your choice until you know which styles your retailer has in stock. There are others which will please you. 1 of Street have retailers in nearly every town. Please choose from the styles you find available. C^L-IoaMS: ...

... MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL AT THE GREAT VICTORY PARADE IN BERLIN IN THE UPPER PICTURE, GUNS OF THE THIRD REGIMENT, ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY, HAVE JUST FIRED THE VICTORY SALUTE AS MR. CHURCHILL ARRIVED BACK AT THE SALUTING BASE AFTER INSPECTING THE RANKS BEFORE THE PARADE. IN THE LOWER PICTURE, THE PRIME MINISTER IS SEEN ON THE STAND IN THE TIERGARTEN with him are Field-Marshal Montgomery, Field ...

... When war came in 1939, the Queen Elizabeth was lying unfinished in the Clyde. Under Admiralty orders, work on the world s largest liner was hurried forward and, early in 1940, she slipped down-river out of Greenock. In March 1940 she was safe in New York Harbour. Thereafter she disappeared from the public gaze. It has now been disclosed that she made thirty-six wartime crossings of the ...

... AFTER a year of frus tration and many set-backs, the army in China started to wage war upon the enemy in real earnest. Hitherto they had been fighting defensive actions, but at the end of May the Japan ese were attacked and driven out of Nanning, the capital of Kwangsi, the most southerly province in China. The Chinese advanced to wards Liuchow, the former American air- hase which had hppn ...

... JUST BEFORE THE PRIME MINISTER LEFT HENDAYE FOR THE BERLIN CONFERENCE WITH MRS. CHURCHILL, HE POSES FOR HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON THE BEACH, wearing his famous siren suit and with bare legs. He arrived in Berlin by air on July 15 The Prime Minister's pre-Conference holiday at the Chateau de Bordaberry, near Hendaye, came to an end on Sunday last. On that day he flew to Berlin straight from the South ...

... FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY WITH THE TWO RUSSIAN MARSHALS HE DECORATED IN BERLIN On the left is Marshal Rokossovsky, invested with the K.C.B., on the right is Marshal Zhukov, invested with the G.C.B. On Thursday of last week, the two leading commanders of the Red Army Marshals Zhukov and Rokossovsky and two other Russian generals, were decorated by Field-Marshal Montgomery on the orders of the ...

... The pictures reproduced I here were taken a few da\i I ago from an Allied aircraft I flying over the centre of Ber- 1 lin. They show in a manner I hitherto not attempted tk I great devastation caused bj I the big Allied air raids ct I the German capital durinr I the closing stages of l£ I European War. All observer! I agree that, whereas the re- I moter suburbs escaped sen- I ous damage, the ...

... Wednesday, July 4, 1945, was a remarkable day for j North Rhine Province of Germany, inasmuch as fromti date the people of this large part of Germany rectij the first civilian representative Government since 1 advent of Nazi dictatorship. At 1 1 a.m. a meeting held in Dusseldoif at Military Government H.Q., Colonel J. A Barraclough, Commander of the Militi Government of the North Rhine ...