... QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S BALI ND OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS. Dogs as well as dog-lovers came to the Dumb Friends League Committee Meet ing for the Animals Welfare Dinner Dance I fixed for April 10. Here are Sir Pelham Warner's Simon, Mrs. Calvert Empson's Cirque, and Mrs. C. Porter's Jeep MR. J. BONHAM KIDSTON. of Hazelbury Manor, Box, married the HON. PATRICIA MANNERS, daughter of Lord and Lady Manners, ...

... . f I *HESE portraits by COWAN DOBSON are on view in the exhibition of his recent work which opened to the public on April 2 after a crowded private view, and continues until the first week in May, at Frost and Reed's New Bond Street gallery. Mrs. Cowan Dobson is her husband's favourite model, and this new full-length of her was specially painted as the centre-piece of his show. Countess ...

... . MISS ANNE CONSTABLE-MAXWELL, in the dress which she wore at her coming-out dance which was attended by Princess Elizabeth. A close-up of debutante MISS ANNE CONSTABLE-MAXWELL, daughn °f Wing Commander and Mrs. Gerald Constable- Maxwell. MISS ELIZABETH BUXTON, daughter of Major Anthony and Mrs. Buxton, of Horsey Hall Great Yarmouth. This is the dress which MISS ELIZABETH BUXTON wore at the ...

... 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 ...

... . Through a window in the porch of her fine old Berkshire farmhouse MRS. ALEC HAMBRO and six-year-old ROSAMUND were photographed by brother Cecil Beaton. Her husband in the Reconnaissance Corps, was killed in North Africa. Mrs. Hambro has another daughter, aged ten. Her elder sister is Lady Smiley. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

... . The sudden death of VISCOUNT SOUTHWOOD, first Baron, first Viscount, the dis tinguished netcspaper proprietor and publisher, and Chairman and Managing Director of The Illustrated London Neivs and Sketch, Illustrated Newspapers, Odham's Press, and many other important newspapers and periodicals, is not only a great loss to journalism but to the hospitals. Lord Southwood was one of the most ...

... CAT-AND-DOG LIFE: OR IOLLYWOOD STAR-DUST. rnpHE barking and mewing beaux and belles of the Hollywood colony have a whale of a time in that centre of fabulous luxury. On their pets the film-stars lavish their overflow of affection and lots of attention, and, like them, they are trimmed and shampooed, curled and dressed and beautified in the smart dog salons and cat bureaux which have sprung up ...