... hand-picked news pictures OF NOTABLES. PRINCE RICHARD and PRINCE WILLIAM OF GLOUCESTER were held up by t!i- ir nurses to wave good-bye to the mainland when they left Australia in the battleship King George V. for a holiday in Tasmania with their parents. COLONEL FRANK W. CLARKE will act as host to Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill during their stay at Miami Beach, Fla. In this snapshot he is ...

... TN Technicolor, with J- masses of glamour and glitter, a biographical film of the celebrated twins The Dolly Sisters has been made by 20th Cen tury-Fox is due at the Gaumont, Haymarket, and the Marble Arch Pavilion on January 27. Starting from the day when Uncle Latsie (S. Z. Sakall) and the two little girls in Hungarian peasant kit arrive in a New York restaurant fresh from Europe, it ranges ...

... dJin=ujd irl: Ylo.44. Sst/ier dddrnande^ ESTHER FERNANDEZ is the leading star of her native Mexico, and a favourite throughout Latin-America. She went to Hollywood from Mexico to make her debut in an American film as leading-lady for Alan Ladd in Paramount1 s new picture, Two Years Before the Mast, which is having its premiere at the Carlton Theatre on January 31. This will be a gala affair, ...

... SWISS SNOW SCENE WITH FIGURES- INCLUDING VERY DISTINGUISHED DISPLACED PERSONS. THE INFANTE DON JUAN, Pretender to the Throne of Spain, was snapped at Gstaad. The official reason for his forthcoming visit to Lisbon is to see his in-laws but his repre sentatives will meet those of General Franco. QUEEN VICTORIA EUGfiNIE (formerly Princess Ena of Battenberg), widow of King Alfonso of Spain, ...

... . A T thirteen, Paris violinist BLANCHETTE TARJUS is a great artist. She had a wonderful reception at the Stoll Theatre recently when she played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the London Phil harmonic Orchestra she was recalled seven times, at the end of which she fled from the stage. She has a great sense of rhythm, note accuracy, and a very sweet quality of tone. Her intonation .f is ...

... . ]liot piratical beauty determined to marry money although she is in love with Clint Maroon, goes to iaratoga and meets the millionaire railwayman Bartholomew van Steed (JOHN WARBURTON), who falls for her at once. Beautiful Clio loves the tough Clint Maroon (GARY COOPER), pro fessional gambler and cowboy, but contemplates marriage with Bartholomew van Steed provided that she can bring him to ...

... The return to the tragic house in New Orleans Clio Dulaine (INGRID BERGMAN) kneels by the stain of her father's blood, watched by her servants mulatto Angelique (FLORA ROBSON) and dwarf Cupidon (JERRY AUSTIN). Clio, Angelique and Cupidon stand by the tomb of Clio s mother, Rita, who was ostracised and outlawed by the Dulaine family, though beloved by her father, the late Nicholas Dulaine, who ...

... . I Playing the title-role in Lady Windermere's Fan at the Haymarket DOROTHY HYSON wears with great charm and dignity the elaborate dresses of Wilde's day. Unaware of her identity, Lady Windermere is foolishly suspicious of her own mother who however saves her daughter's reputation in the end. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

... THE FEMININE SIDE OF THE GREATEST GET-TOGETHER PARTY: NOTABLE WOMEN AND GIFTED GIRLS OF U.N.O. The feminine side of the United Nations Organisation the greatest get-together party in the history of the globe includes not only world-famous women such as Mme. Genevieve Tabouis, the French journalist ivhose pre war political prophecies were so remarkably accurate Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, widow ...

... . Christening party at Cardney, Dunkeld In front (I. to r.) Aulin Baird, Mrs. Macgregor of Cardney, Ceanan Baird, Mrs. Dochie Macgregor and baby Randal Bruce Alistair Renalda Baird, Mrs. Findamus Macgregor, Alpin Macgregor and Hildred Carlisle and back row) W/Cdr. G. Briggs, D.F.C., the Hon. Mrs. Greville Baird, Lieut. Gregor Macgregor, Scots Guards, Mrs. MacGruder, M.B.E., Mr. Macgregor of ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- CAPTAIN WIKNER, for buyinS a family bomber as transport to Australia. CAPTAIN GEOFFREY N. WIKNER, of Romsey, Hants., has bought a Halifax bomber to fly him, bis wife and two children 13,000 miles to see his mother in Australia. Rather than wait a year for passages, this forty-one-year-old air- craft-designer applied to the Ministry of Aircraft Production, promising if ...

... . THE HON. ROSEMARY ANN PORTAL, twenty-two-year-old W.A.A.F. officer, may become a peeress in her own right. When Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal of Hungerford (formerly Chief of the Air Staff) was introduced into the House of Lords last November, the letters patent read indicated that in default of male issue there was special remainder to Miss Portal with the style of Baroness Portal of ...