... . Television s new announcer actress GILLIAN WEBB took over the coveted job last week from Jasmine Bligh, who resigned. Miss Webb is twenty, tall and slim fair-haired, brown-eyed has all the self-possession and poise which is required from television announcers who have to face all sorts of unexpected emergencies and talk their way out of them. While a student at the Royal Aeademy of Dramatic ...

... - MRS. CLARE BOOTHE LUCE, for a timely conversion. American Congresswoman, author playwright CLARE BOOTHE LUCE likes us a little bit after all. Strongly supporting the U.S. loan to Britain during the debate in the House of Representatives, she said Any stranger watching this debate would think u e were considering granting a loan to a treacherous enemy we had recently defeated rather than our ...

... HOME OF A SCULPTC- -CLARE SHERIDAN AT BRE[f LACE. T) REDE PLACE, Sussex, lovely Tudor home A MRS. CLARE SHERIDAN, sculptor, author, J traveller, is one of the show places in the county. j| is set in a hollow, has beautiful ancient gardens, a. legend has it that an underground passage leads frjiL the house to the church, the greater part of a m stunt. Here Mrs. Sheridan carves portrait-heads ...

... NEW YORK THEATRE BALLETS AT COVENT GARDEN. BIG BEN STRIKES AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE. SPECIALLY TAKEN FOR THE SKETCH Helen of Troy. A bouffant version of the Greek myth showing how Paris accom plished his flight with Helen of Troy. Above Paris (ANDRfi EGLEVSKY) plays with his pet lamb (BARBARA FALLIS). Will IIP-- II 1MH I 111 II II ii Helen (DIANA ADAMS), wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta, away ...

... fnn-up irl: CVo.57. TPUlis Blonde PHYLLIS ROBINS stars as Althea die Roman in Noel Langley1 s dramatisation of his own best-seller 44 Cage Me a Peacock a musical now on tour before coming to London It is the first straight part to be played by this star of radio and variety. The musix is by Norman Smith. Phyllis ran her own farm in Cumberland during the war. Her two fascinating and ...

... HCONOMY is best served by selecting suitings that after long use show little signs of wear. A suit of such cloth made by an expert tailor is astonishing in distinction of excellence throughout a long life. A long life is very desirable to-day. The more reason then that the suit is one that will please and neither tire nor annoy its owner in any way. Texture, pattern and particu larly fitting ...

... THE FIRST POST-WAR , SiJwo KJlait/(j' Fundamental principles of engineering perfection are part of the Rolls-Royce tradition. They have been faithfully adhered to in every detail of the Silver Wraith. In 'addition, not a little of the pleasure of driving this latest Rolls-Royce is attributable to the experience gained by Rolls-Royce in these recent years. Chassis price £1835 Vhf Urol Cai in ...

... PLAYBOY PLAYWRIGHT NEVER GROWS OLD: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IS NINETY. TN two days* time, July 26, 1946, MR. GEORGE^ brated by the publication of a volume of essays* great dramatist's life and work. Tbis satirical Social George Carr Shaw, who, says 44 Encyclopaedia Britann^' what in England would have been called the middkj literary life in London in the 1890's, and started hfl political work was ...

... FRUIT, FLOWERS AM) FEATHERS VT Ov more severity, no more austerity these are the guiding principles of the new hats designed by members of the Associated Millinery Designers of London, shown at the Saville Theatre recently and now being distributed throughout the big stores in London and the provinces. Flowers, fruit, feathers, veiling all are lavishly made use of for one purpose to emphasise ...

... The two daughters of Lord and Lady Louis Mounthatten PATRICIA aged twenty -two, lately demobilised from the W.R.N.S., and PAMELA aged seventeen, accompanied their father and mother to the Mansion House recently, when Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander S.E.A.C., received the Freedom of the City and a token of the coveted Sword of Honour, which itself is still in the hands ...

... ETON v. HARROW AT LORD'S AGAIN E TEAMS BROUGHT THEIR FAMILIES. Brilliant printed crepe- A de Chines, vivid A ostrich feathered, flowered and veiled head-dresses were paraded on the green last week when after a seven- years' lapse the Eton v. Harrow cricket match came into its own again at Lord's. There [Continued opposite. LORD and LADY SCAR- BROUGH went to see the match with the LADIES MARY, ...

... BACK TO GLYNDEBOURNE THE SOCIAL SIDE. In the most glittering stretch of high summer we have had for years Mr. John Christie's Glyndebourne opera house reopened with British opera Benjamin Britten's 44 Rape of Lucrelia. With thirsty expectation opera-lovers in full evening dress crowded down to Lewes strolled among the flowers and trees of the lovely grounds during intervals and after dinner. ...