... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...