... 11^-- i Lady Madden who is seen in her roof-top Kensington flat with her baby daughter, Roseann, is the wife of Capt. Sir Charles Madden, R.N., who is serving with the Navy in the Far East. Sir Charles is the second baronet, and succeeded his father, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden, in 1935. He married Lady Madden, who was formerly Miss Olive Robins, in 1942 lirodrick Vernon Ll and Mrs ...

... Front row Capts. J. R. Brierley, M.C., F. H. Hunter, A. W. B. Goode, M.C., D. H. Drewell, Major. B. G. Kiddy, Lt.-Col. T. A. Rotherham, D.S.O., M.C., Majors W. Spencer, H. V. Thomas, D. Jenkins, M.C., Capts. R. J. Evans, D. C. Denne, W. B. Basford. Middle row Lts. A. G. Lawton, P. F. Tetley, M. C. Wilson, M. A. Dix-Peek, Capts. G. W. Lovelace, A. W. L. White, C. N. M. Strugnell, Lts. T. A. D. ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By Elizabeth Bowen A Quest ANN BRIDGE'S novels-- ever since Peking Picnic-- have been saluted for many qualities: not least for the brilliance and variety of their backgrounds. The foreign countries in which Miss Bridge places her groups of characters are much more than painted scenery against which, as on the stage, men and women move: they reflect themselves on to, even ...

... ROYAL INSPECTION, NAVAt MILITARY AND R.A.F. PERSONALITIES;. AND WEDDING.1 AND ENGAGEMENTS. THE QUEEN recently inspected a detachment of 300 members of the Mechanised Transport Corps. HER MAJESTY is shown with CORPS COMMANDER MRS. PEAKE and behind PRINCESS ELIZABETH. MISS VALERIE HOBSON, the young British screen-star attended the gala premiere of 44 A Bell for Adano at the Odeon, Leicester ...

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... FRIDAY. With an air of solid satisfaction the chef holds up a nice fish for the fast-day. This admirable photograph can be seen at the Ninetieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society at I6y Prince's Gate, which closes on October 20. PHOTOGRAPH .BY DR. JULIAN SMITH, HON. F.K.r.S. ...

... . PHOTOGRAPH MY ECU. BKATON. I he colossal Buddha beside which LADY SEYMOUR was photographed stands outside Chungking, Chinas wartime capital where the wife of the British Ambassador to China has worked so hard, ller husband Sir Horace Seymour, K.C.M.G., was appointed Ambassador in 1942, and ever since then Lady Seymour hus been very active indeed working for Lady Cripps's British United Aid ...

... . Hunting-horns are blown in honour of the tiny new 44 Grand Veneur. In the uniform of a Carabinier, with cocks feathers in hat and a pair of gleaming white gloves. The ceremony in which the Manneken was presented with his hunting kit took plart on a snowy winter's day. Last .July, wearing the uniform of a R.S.M. of the Welsh Guards, the Mannel n tooh the. salute at a parade of Allied ...

... . ti- p z+imm IW* Lachlen (EMRYS JONES), mortally wounded blunt Scot, is very desirous of a kilt and trimmings, so patients each contrive to give him an item. Tommy (JERRY VERNO) nresents a eood leather bell 44 Made in Scotland, it savs it *s real Lachlen tries to leave the hospital, resents being helped with his kit-bag by Yank (JOHN MCLAREN) and shows his dour temper. Lachlc wants to marry ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Tiered Transport ONLY an aircraft carrier and a bicycle are needed to add to the Avro York motor car transporter in order to produce a mechanical equivalent of the saying about big fleas having little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em. Or one might liken it to the Chinese boxes. The aircraft carrier would carry the aircraft, the aircraft would carry a motor car ...