... . H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH arranged to act as bridesmaid to her cousin, the Hon. Patricia Mountbatten, at her wedding to Captain Lord Brabourne on Saturday, October 26. The other attendants chosen were Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra of Kent and the Hon. Pamela Mountbatten, and the King and Queen promised to attend the ceremony in Romsey Abbey. Princess Elizabeth will celebrate her ...

... ROYAL LODGE -KEEPER BREWS HIS OWN WINES. A valuable hobby in these dry days is that of ex-Sergeant-Major Hearn. Formerly of the Grenadier Guards and the Welsh Guards, he is now Royal Lodge- keeper at Windsor, where his lovely gardens grow all sorts of plants useful in the production of his home-made wines. His annual output is about 80 gallons, and his sixty-eight varieties of delicious wines ...

... REEK met Scot in Athens on the occasio shown in our top-left photograph. Both arc high aiders; the Greek an Evzone from the mountainous istricts of Northern Greece, with the same trend of d ss and fighting tradition as the Highlander, who, a p- ate of the H.L.I., was one of four invited to Athens to impart Scottish dancing and pipe playing with th- r own. The Scottish kilt as a military ...

... A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH BY ROYAL COMMAND. The King and Queen and the Princesses have arranged to be present at the Royal Command perform ance of 44 A Matter of Life and Death at the Empire on November 1. This British film is half Technicolor half black and white tells how a young Squadron Leader hales out from his bomber, crashes in to the sea, finds himself on trial by a Court of the Other ...

... I In the history of clothes, no single item of dress has proved to have such endearing or such practical qualities as the little black dress. Every wardrobe and every season demands one the simple, adapt able garment which goodnaturedly adjusts itself to every occasion, beginning with lunch and ending at bedtime. The two-piece dress (above) in moss crepe has a cut-away front with two tiers of ...

... iTuTTPj CBY APPOINTMENT Cm DlUilleiS to HM. King Ctorge U I OISTILLERIES LIMITED I 1 1 J 4 aH I logsfc THE ONLY GIN THAT HOLDS THE BLUE SEAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE _ ...

... . LUDMILA TCHERINA danced Marguerite in 44 Mephisto Valse one of the ballets in the repertoire of the Netv Monte Carlo Ballet Company presented during its season at the Cambridge Theatre. This production is a species of triangle ballet drama between Faust Marguerite and the Devil and Tcherina brought a keen sense of the dramatic to her performance as Marguerite. PHOTOGRAPH BY BARON. ...

... . r MISS ROSEMARY COLVILLE. younger daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Colville Governor of Bombay, and Lady Colville, of Braidivood House, Braidwood, Lanark- shirr. She is eighteen has been studying agriculture at Edinburgh University will shortly leave with her mother for Bombay. MISS ADIiLE JULIE BONVILLE-WERE is the only daughter of Major Vivian 1 Nicholas Bonville-Were, the Coldstream ...

... BEATRIX POTTER'S BIOGRAPHER- MARGARET LANE. T TER readers know her as MARGARET LANE, but in private life this author is Lady Huntingdon, wife of the fifteenth Earl of Huntingdon, who succeeded to the title in 1939. Miss Lane has written four novels one, titled 44 Faith, Hope, No Charity, won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse. Another 44 Where 'Helen Lies is shortly to be filmed. She has two ...

... COCHRAN CHOOSES CE'LAISE FOR HIS RIC. REN RRIDE Photograph by Eric Joysmith. Charles B. Cochran, world-famous connois seur of beautiful women and lovely clothes, chose Celanese in staging the costume parade which is the fashion high-light of Act I. in his 125th pro duction Big Ben, now at the Adelphi The atre. The clothes were all made by Therese and worn by Mr. Cochran's young ladies and his ...

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... CAMERA PIECES FROM HE WORLD'S JIGSAW. His Majesty's Judges leaving the House of Lords after the State Opening of Parliament by the King on November 12. Their traditional robes struck a picturesque note in a ceremony not yet restored to its full pageantry. The Cares of a Tired World a striking cartoon head, contrived from cardboard and plaster by Jean Canneel, an artist well knoivn in Belgium, ...