... . MME. FELIX GOUIN is the wife of the mail who has courageously taken the helm in France in an attempt to steer that distracted country into peaceful economic waters, to fight the Black Market and get some kind of order into the State generally. A week after General de Gaulle's resignation it was announced that M. Felix Gouin (Socialist), formerly President of the Assembly, had succeeded in ...

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. H.H. SARAMAD-I-RAJAHI, MAHARAJA OF JAIPUR, was born in August 1911 succeeded his father in 1922, and assumed full ruling powers in 1931. lie was educated at the Mayo College Lahore, and underwent a course of training at the Royal Military College, Woolwich. This Rajput Chief is a very fine polo player; in 1933 he brought his team over to England and set up a ...

... NEW ZEALAND'S HERO AND GOVERNOR GENERAL DESIGNATE. PHOTOGRAPHS HY. I.ENARE. LIEUT. -GENERAL SIR BERNARD FREYBERG, V.C., K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O. and three Bars, Governor-General-Designate of New Zealand, posed with LADY FREYBERG, O.B.E., for these new portraits taken in their London house. When his appointment as Governor-General was announced, the Neiv Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, spoke ...

... FRANCOISE ROSAY AS FOUR WOMEN IN ONE FILM. A WOMAN DISAPPEARED, new Jacques Feyder film made in Switzerland during the war, was due for its gala premiere last night, February 5, at the Academy in aid of the Save the Children Fund. Fran ...

... Inside STORK HOUSECOAT (photographed above) of light-weight wool in emerald, victory blue, brave red, £8 18s. Harrods. NIGHTDRESS (sketched far left) on Empire lines, of pure silk crepe de Chine, £21 4s. 8d. Debenham and Freebody. NEGLIGE of white lawn with frills round the neck, sleeves and hem-- lovely for a young girl's trousseau-- £14 2s. 9d. Fortnum and Mason. CAMI-KNICKERS of pink ...

... PRINCESS ANNA BONCOMPANI, a ski-ing friend of Miss Sheena Mackintosh, daughter of Lady Jean Mackintosh, is one of the fortunate few enjoying wintersports. The HON. MRS. BATHURST was snapped setting out with skis over her shoulder from her St. Moritz hotel. CAPTAIN BILL BRACKEN, and a most promising pupil, MISS SHEENA MACKINTOSH. She was first among the women competitors in the Mid-Season Cup ...

... - FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN, New C.I.G.S., for being a learner in the snow after having been a great leader in the sand. TJ* IELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT MONT- 1 GOMERY OF ALAMEIN, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from June 26, 1946, arrived recently in Switzerland for a winter- sporting holiday. He took his first walks in deep snow round Saanen-Moser, the Alpine resort near ...

... . ^^lOLETTA PROHOROVA, who is to dance the Blue Bird pas de deux with Harold Turner to-morrow night in the second performance of The Sleeping Beauty, at Covent Garden, by the Sadler's Wells Ballet, is by birth a Russian. She was a coryphee at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, and came to this country as she is the wife of a British architect, Mr. Harold Elvin, son of Mr. A. H. Elvin, I a former ...

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... . HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY, mother of H.M. the King, was, of necessity, absent from London during the war, and her return to Marlborough House and the fact that she is once again taking an active part in the life of the capital are welcomed by every Londoner. Her Majesty was present at the Buckingham Palace reception for U.N.O. delegates, and her recent engagements include visits to the Empire ...

... . H.R.H. PRINCESS MARGARET, younger daughter of T.M. the King and Queen, will be sixteen years of age on August 21 this year. Our new portrait-study shows her wearing an attractive example of 44 teen-age evening dress, very youthful, crisp and dainty. Although, of course, Her Royal Highness does not attend usually grown-up dances and parties, she was present at the Buckingham Palace reception ...