... DICKENS' CHARACTERS BY MARTITA HUNT AND VALERIE HOBSON. As old Miss Havisham's ward Estella, of Dickens' novel 44 Great Expectations VALERIE HOBSON goes skating in a costume of dark-blue wool trimmed with black velvet, velvet bonnet and sable furs. Jilted on her wedding-day, eccentric Miss Havisham (MARTITA HUNT) years later still wears her wedding dress. Her house is dusty, dirty wreathed in ...

... CHARLES DICKENS ON THE SCREEN: GREAT EXPECTATIONS. VALERIE HOBSON'S Estella is jilted, in her turn, by her wealthy fiance, on hearing that she has a convict father. So fully has Estella absorbed the atmosphere created by Miss Havisham (MARTHA HUNT) that this tragedy turns 'her into a near resemblance of her guardian until Pip turns up. The screen version of Dickens's dramatic novel Great ...

... ^Jin up Qiri: OfL. 4-9. Joan (jjawjorct JOAN CRAWFORD is the winner of the 1945 Oscar award by the American Academy of Motion Pictures as the best actress of the year for her performance in Mildred Pierce, a film which has been pictured in The Sketch but not yet shown in this country. She began her career by winning dancing contests in the chorus of a Chicago revue and was then engaged by ...

... QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S BALI ND OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS. Dogs as well as dog-lovers came to the Dumb Friends League Committee Meet ing for the Animals Welfare Dinner Dance I fixed for April 10. Here are Sir Pelham Warner's Simon, Mrs. Calvert Empson's Cirque, and Mrs. C. Porter's Jeep MR. J. BONHAM KIDSTON. of Hazelbury Manor, Box, married the HON. PATRICIA MANNERS, daughter of Lord and Lady Manners, ...

... . f I *HESE portraits by COWAN DOBSON are on view in the exhibition of his recent work which opened to the public on April 2 after a crowded private view, and continues until the first week in May, at Frost and Reed's New Bond Street gallery. Mrs. Cowan Dobson is her husband's favourite model, and this new full-length of her was specially painted as the centre-piece of his show. Countess ...

... . MISS ANNE CONSTABLE-MAXWELL, in the dress which she wore at her coming-out dance which was attended by Princess Elizabeth. A close-up of debutante MISS ANNE CONSTABLE-MAXWELL, daughn °f Wing Commander and Mrs. Gerald Constable- Maxwell. MISS ELIZABETH BUXTON, daughter of Major Anthony and Mrs. Buxton, of Horsey Hall Great Yarmouth. This is the dress which MISS ELIZABETH BUXTON wore at the ...

... . Through a window in the porch of her fine old Berkshire farmhouse MRS. ALEC HAMBRO and six-year-old ROSAMUND were photographed by brother Cecil Beaton. Her husband in the Reconnaissance Corps, was killed in North Africa. Mrs. Hambro has another daughter, aged ten. Her elder sister is Lady Smiley. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

... . The sudden death of VISCOUNT SOUTHWOOD, first Baron, first Viscount, the dis tinguished netcspaper proprietor and publisher, and Chairman and Managing Director of The Illustrated London Neivs and Sketch, Illustrated Newspapers, Odham's Press, and many other important newspapers and periodicals, is not only a great loss to journalism but to the hospitals. Lord Southwood was one of the most ...

... CAT-AND-DOG LIFE: OR IOLLYWOOD STAR-DUST. rnpHE barking and mewing beaux and belles of the Hollywood colony have a whale of a time in that centre of fabulous luxury. On their pets the film-stars lavish their overflow of affection and lots of attention, and, like them, they are trimmed and shampooed, curled and dressed and beautified in the smart dog salons and cat bureaux which have sprung up ...

... . The marriage of LIEUT.-COLONEL R. C. ROSE PRICE, Welsh Guards, elder son of Brig. -General and Mrs. T. Rose Price, to the HON. MAUREEN BUTLER, second daughter of the late Lord Dunboyne and of Lady Dunboyne, took place at St. Mark's, North Audley Street. MR. ANTHONY JAMES, late of the Rifle Brigade, son of Captain and Mrs. P. E. R. James, of Fresco House, Rye, married MISS JOSEPHINE YOUNG, ...

... . LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN and H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER were snapped going down to bathe at Palm Beach, New South Wales. I jgj g T.R.H. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER had a swim at the picnic lunch-party in honour f the Duke's forty-sixth birthday. PRINCE WILLIAM dashed off on some expedition of his own while THE DUCHESS was stooping to help little PRINCE RICHARD. mm ■liMiwa-- w i ...

... PEP AND GRACE OF ZIEGFELD FOLLIES. i 41 ^flEGFELD FOLLIES, new M.G.M. Technicolor production due l-J at the Empire last week, is the gayest, liveliest music-and-dance film imaginable. The programme begins with a review of Ziegfeld's past triumphs given by William Powell and Bunin's Puppets. Then come Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball and Virginia O'Brien in Bring on the Beautiful Girls. There are ...