... . KING PETER and QUEEN ALEXANDRA OF YUGOSLAVIA are looking with delight and admiration at their baby' son, who teas born in London on July 17. King Peters marriage to Princess Alexandra of Greece look place in London on March 20, 1944. In reply to Marshal Tito's recent appeal for a Republican form of Government in Yugoslavia, King Peter has, in a Proclamation issued on August 9, withdrawn ...

... IN LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN-- ISABEL JEANS. T ADY WINDERMERE'S FAN, due to open yesterday at the Haymarket, is the first Wilde play in which ISABEL JEANS has taken part. Cecil Beaton has done the decor and the dresses, and the production is by John Gielgud, whose connection with the Haymarket Theatre remains unbroken while he is touring India entertaining the Forces with 44 Blithe Spirit and ...

... ^ THE Brussels Manniken, a bronze statuette made by the elder Jerome Duquesnoy in 1619, is known as 44 the oldest citizen of Brussels, and is its most famous monument. He possesses a private income and a large wardrobe of suits and uniforms. Louis XV. gave him an embroidered coat and a decoration during the Revolution he wore the Red Cap of Liberty Napoleon conferred on him a chamberlain's ...

... ENGLISH GRAND OPERETTE: SWEET YESTERDAY. 4 Edouard, make a dash for it Sir John Mander (REGINALD TATE) fights off Carrochcr (RUPERT WHITE I.) and his men to allow Labouchere (WEBSTER BOOTH) and Louise (ANNE ZIEGLER r.) to escape. 44 Captain Labouchere, you are under arrest Louise (ANNE ZIEGLER), Capt. Labouchere (WEBSTER BOOTH), Sir John Mander (REGINALD TATE), Mme. Sans-Gene (DORIS HARE), De ...

... THIRTY YEARS OF MR. SKEFFINGTON BY BETTE DAVIS. The lovely Fanny Trellis (BETTE DAVIS) sets her cap at the ivealthy stockbroker Job Skeffington (CLAUDE RAINS), in 1914. In 44 Youth's proud livery so gazed on now BETTE DAVIS as the lovely Fanny surrounded by admirers. The years will not be denied Fanny realises she is old after a serious illness caught sailing with Johnny Mitchell. Fanny is to ...

... f fin- up fijirl: Cflo.32. Qinger >yv ers. GINGER ROGERS was born in Missouri, and made her first public appearance at the age of fourteen in a Charleston contest, which she icon. She made a career as a vaudeville song-and-dance artist, then had a success as a musical-comedy star. Hollywood followed, and she won fame as a screen musical top-notcher. But what she really wanted to be was a ...

... . MME. CAMILLE CHAMOUN has the distinction of being the wife of the first diplomatic representative ever appointed by the little republic of Lebanon. For eighteen years M. Chamoun practised as a lawyer in Beirut in 1943 he became involved in the trouble there was arrested one morning by the French military authorities and with other Lebanese leaders he spent twelve days in gaol, returning to ...

... WIFE OF THE TURKISH AMBASSADOR: H.E. MME. UNAYDIN. c MADAME RUSEN ESREF ONAYDIN is the wife of the Turkish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Before coming to London in April 1944 His Excellency was Ambassador in Rome, and previous to that Minister in Athens and Budapest. He is well known as an author and pod as well as a diplomat. Madame Unaydin speaks German, French and English, takes a ...

... OUR RULERS- ELECTED BY THE GREAT MAJORITY: New Foreign Secretary: MR. ERNEST BEVIN (Wands worth formerly Minister of Labour and National Service. Started work as a farm boy, aged ten. General secretary, Transport and General Workers Union for eighteen years. MR. H. MORRISON, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House. Was Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security. Chose E. ...

... . Sigh No More the new Coward revue, having gone from Manchester to Liverpool, is due to open at the Piccadilly Theatre on August 22. CYRIL RITCHARDS with his quick-fire clarity and wife MADGE ELLIOTT of vocal appeal are stars of this song-and-dance show in which unlike previous Coward revues and operettas, Noel has collaborators. Richard Addinsell contributes a 44 Blithe Spirit ballet and ...

... FINNISH COMPOSER A1 HOME IN JARVENPAA: M. JEAN SIBELIU WITH HIS WIFE. ONE of the world's famous composers, JEAN SIBELIUS is spend ing his old age in the war- torn town of Jarvenpaa, in Finland. In his big country house 44 Ainola. he lives alone with his wife, also a musician who comes of a famous musical family and is a daughter of General A. Jarnefelt. With her Sibelius discusses all his ...

... H.R.H. EMIR FAISAL IBN ABDUL AZIZ, the second son of the King of Saudi Arabia is President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs. As Chairman of the Saudi Arabian delegation to the San Francisco Conference he ivas a signatory to the World Security Charter, in June, and at the final session of the United Nations Conference, he said Let us practise and preserve the principles we have ...