... PORTRAITS II PRINT Simon Harcourt-Smith 77 ig old order changeth, yielding place to new And God fulfils himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world'' -ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Twelfth Night I AM inclined to regret that the modern emphasis on Christmas and New Year's Eve has driven Twelfth Night out of English fashion. In France, and particularly in Belgium, it is still the ...

... Flanagan and Allen are on the top of their inimitable form in this light hearted comedy about two newspaper men, who get in and out of innumerable difficulties trying to expose a corrupt newspaper magnate. The film starts with Bud and Ches wearily plodding over the desert. However, Bud does not think this sort of journey really necessary so they devise a new plot for the film and hence the ...

... YOUNG ASPIRANTS FOR STARDOM Learn Their Trade at the Aida Foster School in London The stage as a career is the dream of almost every little girl and quite a few small boys as well. Schools where stagecraft in all its many aspects is taught, combined with general education, are very popular. The Aida Foster school is among the foremost institutions of this kind. Founded in 1929, it has a ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE By Sabretache Keyes of Zeebrugge EVERYONE who knew the late Lord Keyes realises in full measure the loss which his Service and the nation have sustained. If it ever were true to say of anyone that he was without fear and without reproach, it was so where he was concerned. In and out of the Navy he inspired genuine affection and an abiding admiration. He was that unhappily ...

... Capt. R. F. Hickey, U.S. Navy Air Attache, Col. A. IHecksher, Brazilian Air. Attache, and Col. Milton Turner, U.S. Army Air Attache Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Arthur Tedder, who has been created a baron in the New Year's Honours, with Lady Tedder, and the Under-Secretary for Air, Mr. Strachey, and Mrs. Strachey w- ._i. i mmmmtm i Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal of Hungerford and Air Cdr. ...

... This happy photograph of H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth was taken just before the Christinas holiday which Their Majesties the King and Queen arranged to spend at Sandringham with their daughters, H.M. Queen Mary and H'.R.H. the Duchess of Kent and her children. Princess Elizabeth enjoyed a round of social engagements during the weeks just before the holiday. She went several times to the theatre, ...

... Peter Glenville as Stephen Cass in 44 Duet for Two Hands Peter Glenville is appearing in the Mary Hayley Bell play Duet for Two Hands, at the Lyric Theatre. He took over the part of Stephen Cass from John Mills, and gives a very fine performance as the tortured young poet who is possessed of a pair of hands that arc not his own. Mr. Glenville is preparing a production of the first Saroyan play ...

... Mr. and Mrs. Bertioli were at a table for four with S/Ldr. and Mrs. Bergen. The dance at Grosvenor House was one of London's pre-Christmas parties and was, as is always the case with the famous series of Queen Charlotte's Hospital Balls, a big gathering of young people Miss Daphne Fawcett wore a spray of carna tions on her shimmering evening dress. She danced with Capt. Nigel Spicer, R.H.A. Lt ...

... AN ACTOR AND HIS ACTRESS WIFE With Their Young Family at Their Thames Bank Home MICHAEL REDGRAVE lives with his attractive actress wife and young family at a beautiful old period house on the Thames near Chiswick. Both he and his wife are at present appearing together in Lovers' Meeting, Michael Balcon's prisoner-of-war film. While he was working at the Riverside Studios, where he is starring ...

... A Family Party in the Garden Family Portrait in a Mirror Mrs. Michael Redgrave with Vanessa Lynn and Corin Michael Redgrave Gives His Son a Piano Lesson Photographs by Pictorial Press ...

... PR1SCIHA in PARIS 44 OF COIRSE, THE AUDIENCE WORKS HARD TOO Paris, December 10 th. THE requirements of early posting for Christmas, together with the happy-go- lucky methods of the French P.T.T. (read, Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones), make it quite impossible for me to guess whether you will get this while you are still somnolent from Christmas fare-- I hope you will have had the ...

... A Mother and Daughter Penelope Ward and Her Daughter Tracy Pelissier Penelope Ward is at present appearing in that record-breaking success Blithe Spirit, at the Duchess Theatre, which reached its 1,918th performance on December 29. The only record it still has to beat is that of the great last-war success, Chu Chin Chow. Miss Ward, who joined the cast in June 1944, is the third Elvira in the ...