... THE HEIR PRESUMPTIVE-- ON OFFICIAL DUTY AND AT A PARTY. HR.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH, who will be twenty years of age this month, carried out the most ambitious official mission which she has as yet undertaken when she went to Ireland to launch H.M.S. 44 Eagle, the new aircraft-carrier, and toured Ulster. Her visit roused immense enthusiasm, and the grace and dignity with which she carried out ...

... . AIR CHIEF-MARSHAL SIR JOHN SLESSOR, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Member of the Air Council for Personnel is posed with LADY SLESSOR, 'and their children PILOT OFFICER JOHN SLESSOR and MISS JULIET HERMIONE SLESSOR. The group was taken shortly before the marriage of Miss Slessor to Lieut. -Colonel Kenrick Jack Price, D.S.O., M.C., 9th Lancers, of Rhiivlas, Bala, Merioneth, only son of the late ...

... . |^HE great annual Hollywood ceremopy of the Oscai band-outs for 1945 took place in Grauman's Chinese Theatre, rhousands filled the streets outside to see the celebrities, and inside, the 2000 seats were filled with men and women in evening dress. Spotlights outshone the Hollywood Boulevard blaze of lights traffic was halted, and the stars received [Continued on right. Continued.] their ...

... HOW THE P.O.W.s PASSED THEIR TIME: THE CAPTIVE HEART. HPHE CAPTIVE 1 HEART, which was due for its world I premiere at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, yesterday, April 2, in aid of the Victory (Ex-Ser vices) Club, reconstructs life in a prisoner-of-war camp, and illustrates the splendid spirit of the men. Michael Redgrave plays the leading role, that of a Czech officer who has taken ...

... . BEFORE 1938 Mrs. Rennie O'Mahony's Cygnet House sub-dej had only to learn how to wear their feathers gallantly to f perfectly equipped for life in a care-free world. When the war came t p school went to North Wales and undertook pre-Service training for t e I W.R.N.S., etc. Now it has returned to London and provides a spei'^ post-school course designed to fit suh-debs to take their place ...

... IN ENGLAND, NOW THAT SPRING _ IS HERE Bright colours are replacing the more 1 sombre tones of wartime. This Nicoll coat is M made in a wide range of colours red with m black lining, blue with navy lining, and green with nigger lining. The contrast lining idea is carried out also in the buttons, which are of corded silk. Nicoll stockists all over the fl country have this coat. Marcus ...

... UP AND DOWN AND ROUND ABOUT BY CAMERA; NEWS SNAPSHOTS OF NOTABLE PEOPLE VISCOUNT and VISCOUNTESS HANWORTH after the christen ing of their infant son and heir, THE HON. DAVID STEPHEN GEOFFREY POLLOCK. Their daughter, THE HON. GILLIAN POLLOCK, came to the ceremony too CAPTAIN LORD GUERNSEY, The Black Watch, elder son of the Earl and Countess of Aylesford, married MISS MARGARET ROSEMARY TYER, ...

... . PORTRAIT STUDIES BY RICHARD N. HAILE, F.I.B.P., P.R.P.S., PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH PHOTOCRAPHERS. SIR DAVID PATRICK MAXWELL FYFE, K.C., M.P., British Prosecutor at Nuremberg, is the man whose brilliant cross-examination, to quote The Times, drew the main threads of 'several aspects of the case together with such crushing directness that Goering1 s nimble wit and deft ...

... THE CHAMPS ELYSEES BALLETS- FOR LONDON NEXT WEEK. 31 n^HE famous BALLETS DES CHAMPS ELYSEES, which have been enjoying a tremendous success in Paris, are due to open their London season of four weeks at the Adelphi J|8 Theatre on April 9. The 1|'l season is under the patron age of H.E. the French [Continued below. I Continued Ambassador, M. Massigli, and several notable new ballets with music ...

... . M ARGOT FONTEYN, prima ballerina of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company and the first great danseuse to be produced by an English company, lives in a charming Regency period house in Chelsea, where these photographs were taken. She has added further to her great reputation by her performances as Princess Aurora at the Sadler's Wells Ballet Covent Garden season, which is proving such a success. ...

... . MME. CHAMOUN is the wife of the first Lebanese Minister to represent his country at the Court of St. James H.E. M. Camille Chamoun, a leading lawyer of the Lebanon and formerly Minister of Finance and of the Interior. She speaks English French and Arabic, is political-minded and played a leading part in the emancipation of women in her country. The dispute which broke out between the French ...

... - MISS KATHLEEN HARRIMAN, for following up her London debut as blit? reporter by a second appearance as diplomatic hostess. MISS KATHLEEN HARRIMAN, daughter of Mr. Averell Harriman, the new U.S. Ambassador in London, will act as his hostess at the Embassy. She made a name for herself in this role in Russia, during his term as U.S. Am bassador in Moscow. Her father likes enter taining and she ...