... 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 ...

... Where The Big Shows Are Created Robert Nesbitt Tbe Man Wbo Does It In a room on top of a big building in Shaftesbury Avenue, London's theatre street, sits the man who dreams in terms of masses of girls, masses of dresses, soft lights and sweet music and masses of glamour. He is Robert Nesbitt, one of the foremost producers of today. Such shows as Happy and Glorious. The Night and the Music and ...

... Marriage of the Earl of Bessborough's Daughter Lady Moyra and Mr. Denis Browne, Guests and Attendants at the Reception The marriage of Lady Moyra Ponsonby, only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Bcssborough, to Mr. Denis John Browne, the distinguished surgeon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Browne, was an important social function, and the guests at the ceremony in Grosvenor Chapel, and the ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Money and Motors WHEN an individual is in low water financially, he stops borrowing and tries to save; when a nation is in low water it seems that it starts borrowing and begins to spend on every conceivable social and other service at record speed. In all the talk that went on about the American loan, this central fact about the behaviour of Britain now escaped ...

... Throughout five years of war Mrs. A. V. Alexander never failed, whatever the difficulties, to hold her Christmas Party for Allied Children at Admiralty House, and this year the gathering was once again one of the best children's parties of the season. The amusements included the roundabout generously lent by Mr. Butlin, and the Sparks Marionettes. Among the guests were the daughter of Mme. ...

... Mr. M. Gaisford, Irish Guards took the floor with Miss Mary Brock- Edwards, daughter of Lady Chesham This supper-table group consists of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Templeton, Mr. Michael Parkes, Miss Joanna Littleton Mr. Peter Kapff, the Hon. Sheila Portman, the Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, elder son of Lord Stansgate, Miss Charmian Allsopp, Miss Rose Anne Templeton and Lt. Angus Cadder R.A.N. V.R. ...