... PORTRAITS IN PRUT Simon Harcourt-Smith On Feeling Well Again ALL my life, perhaps because I have known so much of it, I have hated and despised illness. I warmly support the theory put forward by Samuel Butler in Erewhon, that the sick should go to prison and the wrongdoers to hospital. You could then talk of how Uncle Alfred was convalescing from his bad attack of embezzlement; but only ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE By Sabretache New Year Now Rooz Hogmanay MAN never is, but always to be! That somewhat unamiable creator of Belinda must have written this, so I feel, round and about the time when the date changes. He was probably staying with Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, that in triguing politician who had a Sabine Farm, and a pack of hounds, at Bucklebury, on the Bath ...

... GETTING HARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Lane A ndrews G/Capt. Reginald J. Lane, D.S.O. D.F.C. and Bar R.C.A .F., son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lane, of Begbie Street, Victoria, British Columbia, married Miss Barbara Andrews daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Andrews, of Sand Hill, Oval, Alwoodley, Leeds at St. John's, Moor Allerton Leeds Ramsay Burley Lt.-Cdr. James Maxwell Ramsay, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...