... 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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... THREE OF A -CRAF. rhe lure of writing palls before versatile MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S favourite pastime. Paint-box tubes, brushes travel with him wherever he goes, and this pit-lure shows him recording a view from one of the windows of the Miami Beach Club, Florida, during his Victory vacation. High priority subject with Mr. Churchill is landscape when in Italy last year he and Field-Marshal ...

... , PAMELA MAY will alternate with Margot Fonteyn in the exacting role of Princess Aurora in the revival of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Princess with which Covent Garden Opera House will reopen on February 20. The first night is to be honoured by the presence of the King and Queen. MRS. ARTHUR SEROCOLD, daughter of Mr. Justice and Lady Cohen, is to marry the Hon. Peter Samuel, M.C., second son of ...

... ANN TODD AS AN EDWARDIAN MUSICAL COMEDY STAR: jfcAIETY GEORGE, NEW FILM OF GREAT SHOWMANSHIP. N.B, A Coloured plate is inserted in this issue 44 AIETY GEORGE, Warner Brothers' new picture just VJT completed at Denham, stars Ann Todd as an Edwardian musical comedy leading lady. The story is based on the life and fortunes of that famous theatrical personality, George Edwardes, who reigned ...

... . 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, ...