... . LADY DAVID DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, formerly Miss Prunella Stack, is the director of the Women's League of Health and Beauty founded by her mother, the late Mrs. Bagot Stack. She is at the moment busy with the arrangements for the big Rally which the League is holding at Wembley on June 1, when over 1500 members will take part in the display. She is also a member of the Kensington Borough Council, ...

... . MISS DIANA WYNYARD is due to appear at the Piccadilly Theatre to-night, May 29, as Tanis, the wicked-widow heroine of 44 Portrait in Black, the American murder 44 thriller which has had a try-out run in the provinces before coming to London. She plays opposite to Hugh Williams, and the cast also includes Ronald Squire. Our portrait of Miss Wynyard shows her 44 as herself in her London flat ...

... . ^[0 ROOM AT THE INN, by Joan Temple, was originally produced at the -LN Embassy, Swiss Cottage, and has now come to the Winter Garden Theatre. It is a modern tragedy set in the early days of the war when children were evacuated to safe areas and billeted hurriedly and often unsuitably. A party of girls and one boy are put in the care of Mrs. Voray, a drunken slut and virago. She is found ...

... . 44 HP HE THRACIAN HORSES, at the Lyric, Hammersmith, is a new interpretation of the story of Alcestis, the Queen who died in place of her husband, and was brought back from the underworld by the valour of that bumptious success-story Man of Action Heracles (Hercules). The author, Maurice J. Valency, tells the story with merry satirical wit, and somewhat 44 debunks Alcestis4 claim to rank as ...

... . This new Cecil Beaton portrait of H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH shows her wearing full evening dress a sparkling model in net embroidered ivith sequins, and made with little puff sleeves. In common with other young girls in the country, H.R.H. is now able to enjoy more social pleasures than were possible in the austere years of war work and discipline. She has been to a number of theatres in ...

... ONE OF THE I GREATEST HEROINES OF THE WAR. rpHE story of MLLE. ANDREE DE JONGH'S A exploits in helping many Allied personnel stranded in enemy-occupied territory during 1941-43 is an epic of sustained and unwavering courage, unsurpassed by any heroic story in the history of the world. Her work was no haphazard under taking it was a masterpiece of careful planning. Each of her many journeys ...

... I BRITAIN'S TOP-OF-THE-POLL I SCREEN-STAR. JAMES MASON for the second time heads the annual Motion Picture Herald's British Poll of money-making stars. His pictures include 44 Seventh Veil, 44 The Wicked Lady and 44 They Were Sisters, and now that he and his wife are back from a six-months troop-entertaining Continental tour, he will start on 44 The Upturned Glass, from a story by Captain ...

... OLIVER MESSEL'S SLEEPING BEAUTY SETS FOR COVENT GARDEN. SADLER'S WELLS BALLET SEASON opens at Covent Garden to-night, Feb. 20, with a new production of 44 La Belle au Bois Dormant, ballet arranged by Petipa to Tchai kovsky's music after Perrault's story, now given under the name of 44 The Sleeping Beauty. The ballet was produced at the [Continued below, left. Continued.] Maryinsky Theatre, ...

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... MADAME MARTA LEGUIZAMON-PONDAL is the wife of the new Argentine Ambassador to Canada. Her gift for designing her own hats and dresses is quite a feather in her cap, and the all-ostrich frond model she wears in this portrait-study is one of her most brilliant inspirations. She is tall and slim, with dark honey-coloured hair, and her wonderful wardrobe has set all Ottawa femininity agog with ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MME. MARTA LEGUIZAMON- PONDAL, for makins Herself HisH Hat but charming too. EVERY hat that she wears on this page, and each dress, was designed by MME. MARTA LEGUIZAMON-PONDAL herself, besides the ostrich-feather creation on our front page. The wife of the Argentine Ambassador to Canada, like most women of the Latin- American countries, is very chic, but in her case it ...