... - MLLE. MARCELLE CHOISNET, for the gallantry and grit which made her France's No, 1 Glider Girl. IN 1944, after six months' intensive training in a glider, Parisian dressmaker MARCELLE CHOISNET set out to beat records. She now has four French glider records to her credit and two held hitherto by Russian women pilots. On April 22, 1945, she won the Frenchwomen's duration record by staying in ...

... . LADY MARY CAMBRIDGE, only daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Cambridge, is a great-niece of H.M. Queen Mary. She was born in 1924 and is thus one of the younger members of the Royal Family circle. During the ivar she nursed in Poplar Hospital. Lord Cambridge, who is the second marquess, succeeded his father in 1927. He married Miss Dorothy Hastings, second daughter of the late ...

... ROYAL, SPORTING AND SOCIAL OCCASIONS notable people and their doings. Domestic angle on THE LUNTS. ALFRED is waiting for last- minute instructions before going out with the shopping-bag, and LYNN FONTANNE is handling the carpet sweeper. Their latest vehicle is 44 Oh, Mistress Mine playing in New York. LADY ELIZABETH SCOTT, elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, is engaged to the ...

... . This the latest portrait of H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF KENT, is one of the loveliest ever taken. Her Royal Highness is kept very busy not only with her public engage ments, but also by her three children, who are being brought up in the tradition of good horsemanship. The Duchess lives at Coppins Tver Bucks, where, at a recent local children s gymkhana Princess Alexandra, her second child, rode ...

... : Swing in the Spring CLAUDIA PETRE, only daughter of Captain and Mrs. JR. Petre. Striking camera picture CAPTAIN PETRE with WATERS, a carter who has been on farm work for forty -five years. Famous gentleman rider and his family CAPTAIN and MRS. PETRE, CHA; IE, ROBERT and CLAUDIA. Consultation with his private trainer CAPTAIN PETRE and MR. A. HEMSWORTH. CAPTAIN R. PETRE AND HIS FAMILY. Posed ...

... c/irt: Ola. 51. (S)7°enda (foyee. With summer in mind Universal's popular screen player BRENDA JOYCE slips on a light-hearted white confection, and with flower on head and sandals afoot she is ready for anything. Brenda will be seen at the Leicester Square Theatre on May 6 in the new Bud Abbott Lou Costello film On the Carpet the story of which is briefly indicated in our Cinema Cameos page. ...

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... THE BRONTE SISTERS AS SC El IEROINES IN DEVOTION: PASSIONATE GENIUS F>C YORKSHIRE PARSONAGE. T^vEVOTION is the title under which Warner Broth s hi made a film which seeks to re-create the life a 1 p sonalities of those famous early Victorians, Charlotte, Ei ly Anne Bronte, literary geniuses of fire and passion who spran iron country parsonage in the wild and dreary V orkshire moorla s, had, ...

... THE BALLET DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES IN ACTION. HERE are excerpts of action photographs taken during perfon-.ances from the repertoire of the Ballet des Champs-Elysees, which is riving London balletomanes a taste of its talent at the Adelphi Theatre in four- weeks season. M. Boris Kochno is the ait director of this young co lpany of French dancers, of whom several show brilliance and accomplis ment. ...

... . KEi H LESTER, JOAN JAY and the Corps de Ballet of the Wii mill Theatre taken by high-speed photography in one of the dances of the new Revudeville No. 193. Sixteen-year-old starlet of the new Revudeville red-headed WHTA D'RAY in one of her numbers at the Windmill Theatre, which never closed during the war. Doctor and patient in an amusing sketch from Revudeville No. 193, the new Vivian Van ...

... * Minding their P's Q's In the colourful days of early com mercial expansion the forerunner of the modern change was the coffee shop (from which sprang Lloyds) and the bars dispensing punch, In the the wily merchant not only to latter it became the custom watch his bargaining but to to chalk up each merchant's keep an eye on the tavern score for final settlement, keeper to see that he was not ...

... f RE-ENTER THE GIRM GIRL Night and day signs of the revival of Edwardian ease and elegance are strikingly evident in the Paris collections. Here Pierre Balmain's afternoon-into- evening ensemble gives an idea of what the smart Parisienne will be wearing at Longchamp and on summer evenings at the restaurants in the wooded gardens of the Champs Elysees. The tiny boater, the demure striped shirt ...