... hand-picked news pictures OF NOTABLES. PRINCE RICHARD and PRINCE WILLIAM OF GLOUCESTER were held up by t!i- ir nurses to wave good-bye to the mainland when they left Australia in the battleship King George V. for a holiday in Tasmania with their parents. COLONEL FRANK W. CLARKE will act as host to Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill during their stay at Miami Beach, Fla. In this snapshot he is ...

... TN Technicolor, with J- masses of glamour and glitter, a biographical film of the celebrated twins The Dolly Sisters has been made by 20th Cen tury-Fox is due at the Gaumont, Haymarket, and the Marble Arch Pavilion on January 27. Starting from the day when Uncle Latsie (S. Z. Sakall) and the two little girls in Hungarian peasant kit arrive in a New York restaurant fresh from Europe, it ranges ...

... dJin=ujd irl: Ylo.44. Sst/ier dddrnande^ ESTHER FERNANDEZ is the leading star of her native Mexico, and a favourite throughout Latin-America. She went to Hollywood from Mexico to make her debut in an American film as leading-lady for Alan Ladd in Paramount1 s new picture, Two Years Before the Mast, which is having its premiere at the Carlton Theatre on January 31. This will be a gala affair, ...

... . I WING-COMMANDER C. L. SINCLAIR danced I with MME. HUANG, wife of the Chinese I Air Attach Lieut. -Colonel Tang Pao- I Huang at the Government Reception at I Seaford House, to meet representatives of the Allied Air Forces. MRS. CLEMENT ATTLEE, wife of the Prime Minister, had some conversation with MME. WELLINGTON K00, wife of H.E. the Chinese Ambassador, at the Seaford House party. The Air ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET (Odeon, Leicester Square) reminds me of those highly effective spy-stories of Bernard Newman's. By keeping the details factual and their combination free and fanciful, it gives to a purely fictional melodrama the effect of an urgent and authentic document. The film has been made by Louis de Rochemont, veteran producer of 44 The March of Time. It ...

... PEACE CHRISTMAS PANTO.: CINDERELLA AT THE ADELPHI. London for its first post-war Christmas has only two pantomimes 44 CINDERELLA, at the Adelphiy and 44 Aladdin at the Cambridge. 44 Cinderella, presented by j Jack Hylton has Bud Flanagan as producer and chief comedian, and Jean Adrienne and Lois Green as Principal Boy and Girl. The production is gay, j charming and merry, full of good fun ...

... Debenham Freebod Debenham Freebodv ofWIOMOKE ST.. LONDON. W.I A lovely Scarf of Natural Russian Sable ...

... SWISS SNOW SCENE WITH FIGURES- INCLUDING VERY DISTINGUISHED DISPLACED PERSONS. THE INFANTE DON JUAN, Pretender to the Throne of Spain, was snapped at Gstaad. The official reason for his forthcoming visit to Lisbon is to see his in-laws but his repre sentatives will meet those of General Franco. QUEEN VICTORIA EUGfiNIE (formerly Princess Ena of Battenberg), widow of King Alfonso of Spain, ...

... . A T thirteen, Paris violinist BLANCHETTE TARJUS is a great artist. She had a wonderful reception at the Stoll Theatre recently when she played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the London Phil harmonic Orchestra she was recalled seven times, at the end of which she fled from the stage. She has a great sense of rhythm, note accuracy, and a very sweet quality of tone. Her intonation .f is ...

... . ]liot piratical beauty determined to marry money although she is in love with Clint Maroon, goes to iaratoga and meets the millionaire railwayman Bartholomew van Steed (JOHN WARBURTON), who falls for her at once. Beautiful Clio loves the tough Clint Maroon (GARY COOPER), pro fessional gambler and cowboy, but contemplates marriage with Bartholomew van Steed provided that she can bring him to ...

... . T Tiptoe atop the world's higfiest skyscraper the Empire Stqte Building, a BALLET DANCER performs before the new television transmitter erected there, 1250 ft. above the New York streets. She is making one of the first of a series of full-fledged field tests in the metropolitan area before this powerful transmitter, which is designed to study problems involved in the employment of higher ...

... , The marriage of MR. DAVID MICHAEL HODGES, son of Admiral Sir Michael and Lady Hodges, to MISS KATHLEEN MARION COLVILLE, daughter of the late Mr. G. S. E. Colville and of Mrs. Corbett Thompson, took place at St. Peter's, Vere Street. MARSHAL OF THE R.A.F. SIR ARTHUR TEDDER (raised to the peerage in the New Year's Honours List), DR. S. L. SIMPSON, REAR-ADMIRAL R. K. DICKSON and MAJOR A. ...