... . IN a spirit of adventure a year or so ago an old farm in Kent was taken over by Lady Charnwood, Miss Carola Cochrane, and Princess Georges Cantacuzene. With great en thusiasm and considerable skill each partner undertakes respon sibility for her own section of the work on this mixed farm. Lady Charnwood is responsible for the livestock and agricul ture generally Miss Cochrane, who has ...

... . IAN HUNTER, MARGARET LOCKWOOD, BARRY K. BARNES and ANNE CRAWFORD, stars of the new John Corfield production, Bedelia were photo graphed with MR. and MRS. ROY HOOD at the reception given in the Falstaff, Fleet Street. 4 MISS ROSEMARY JUDITH VIVIEN CROTCH, only daughter of Mr. P. C. Crotch, is engaged to Group Captain W. G. Wells eldest son of Mr. William Wells, Antofagasta, Chile. LEADING ...

... Red Riding Hood and the Wolf: RICHARD ELLIS and JUNE LEICHTON. The White Cat in full state MARGARET DALE. The Fairy of the Song-Birds PAULINE CLAYDEN. Puss-in-Boots and the White Cat STANLEY HOLDEN and MARGARET DALE. The Blue Birds ALEXIS RASSINE and VIOLETTA PROHOROVA. PHOTOGRAPHS BY EDWARD MANDINIAN. rPHE Fairy-Tale characters who attend the wedding of Princess Aurora and Prince Florimund ...

... . Bv :ie-woogie with a difference the way in which Eric Victor gives a well-known dance. T hough the dancer has freed himself, he has not thrown away the rope and, to his horror it winds itself round his neck. The splits in mid-air Eric Victor is apparently untrammelled by the laws of gravity. The macabre end of Folly by a dancing tour de force Eric Victor gives the effect of death by hanging. ...

... THE GRANTA COMES BACK I TO CAMBRIDGE. n IV ;9dM Photographed at King's College, the editorial staff of the new Granta prepare for their first re-issue of the famous Cambridge University magazine. Left to right are PETER HARRIS (King's), KENNETH McCULLOCH (Pembroke), PETER WEEKS, Sports Editor (Jesus), BILL KINCH, Assistant Editor (Pembroke), MICHAEL JAFFE, Editor (King's), in conference. ...

... . BENJAMIN BRITTEN, young British composer, is an important figure in the world of music. His opera Peter Grimes, produced last May at Sadler's Wells, is a feature of the present season of opera there. It is due for its first American production under Dr. Serge Koussevitsky at the Berkshire Music Festival, and performances are planned later in New York, and in Swedish in Stockholm, in Flemish ...

... HpHE GUINEA-PIG, by -L Warren Chetham Strode, at the Criterion is a sympathetic and witty comedy on the subject of the future of the public schools, based on the Fleming Report. Read, son of a small tobacconist and former sergeant-major, goes to historic Saintbury School. His career there is, naturally, fraught with diffi culty, and the hide-bound house master Lloyd Hartley fails dis mally ...

... cnn- up Qirl: Oflo.47. Qfllaria (Yfjordej. Latin- American screen-star MARIA MONTEZ was born in Dominica of a Spanish father and a mother of Dutch descent. She went to a convent school at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands and as a child and in teen-age she travelled a great deal largely in Europe. Her beauty as a model was found to be enchanting by the late McClelland Barclay of New ...

... . Here 's a green-room portrait of PRIMA BALLERINA MARGOT FONTEYN adjusting her coronet before appearing as Princess Aurora, leading role of The Sleeping Beauty She danced the part on the opening night of The Sadler's Wells Ballet season at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, before their Majesties the King and Queen, Queen Mary, and the Princesses, and an audience which included Cabinet Ministers ...

... PROFESSOR CHARLES SELTMAN, M.A., Director of the Exhibition of Greek Art at the R.A., and Asst. Director MRS. JACQUELINE CHITTEN DEN, M.A., with some of the exhibits. Mrs. Chittenden lectured on the exhibition at Birkbeck College last week and Professor Seltman arranged to speak there on 44 El Greco tc-day, March 6. H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT wore a lovely ostrich-feather -trimmed hat at the ...

... . HISTORY, it seems, is just as repetitious in the world of the theatre as it is outside it. It was in 1921 that Diaghilev first brought the shining crown of the Russian ballet to London, for a run at the Alhambra. And now, as we shake our selves out of another bout of martial shabbiness, here is The Sleeping Princess again, now called THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, happily naturalised now, but ...

... : ERIC VICTOR is not only a fine dancer, but has devised a scries of original witty and sometimes macabre divertissements, each one of which tell a storv. He can be gay, witty and sensational, and sometimes drives his point! home with dashing showmanship. His Folly number, showing a virll' young man liberating himself from bonds, but neglecting to cast them fror him, and finally entangling ...