... . HENRY MOORE, Yorkshire-born sculptor and draughtsman, enjoys an international reputation, and his works add volume and prestige to British exports He has been working hard on important sculpture for exhibi tion at his Leicester Galleries show, which is due to open on October 8, and a notable selection of his works will be shown in the New York Museum of Modern Art towards the end of the year ...

... irl: Oln. 67. c5usa/i c^I/auwordi Svelte young SUSAN HAYWARD'S beauty and talents garnish the Universal Technicolor picture of pioneer life, 44 Canyon Passage f which has finished shooting and is due very shortly in London. Here she is as a 1946 bathing girl in a costume quite different from those which she wears in 44 Canyon Passage for the picture is set in Oregon in the year 1856 in the ...

... . Boating party of coryphees in spot less tutus pupils of the Legat school of Russian Ballet pushing their punt into the lake. Bathing-party of student ballerinas; dancers in tutus after a Swan Lake rehearsal, chat to a group of comrades in swimming kit. N.B. A Coloured plate is inserted in this issue. m Three little Swan Princesses WENDY CANADINE, VERONICA FLINT and PAMELA FAWN hold a ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- FRED AST AIRE, for a long period of entertainment culminating in Berlin's //BIue Skies. Fred astaire has announced that his appearance in Irving Berlin's 44 musical gigantic, 44 BLUE SKIES, will be his film swan-song, his very last appearance on the screen. It 's a sad thought that he will do no more exciting dance routines for us, but in the meantime 44 BLUE SKIES ...

... . A H.R.H. PRINCE PHILIP OF GREECE is the only son of Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece, and is a nephew of Viscount Mountbatten (formerly Lord Louis Mountbatten) our great naval commander and former Chief of Combined Operations and Supreme Commander of S.E.A.C. He was born in 1921, and during the war was an officer in the Royal Navy. He served tvith the Mediterranean Fleet and was ...

... MR. ALI STAIR BOYD, LADY HERMIONE STUART, daughter of the Earl of Moray, MISS SHEENA McINTOSH, MISS URSULA LEWIS and MISS ANN HUNTER were members of Lady Margaret Drummond-Hay' s house-party at Seggieden for the Perth Hunt Ball. ^pHE PERTH HUNT BALL, one of the most popular of the classic events of the Scottish season, was revived this year. Held in the County Buildings, Perth, as always, it ...

... . Operation Romance in Night and Day Cole Porter (CARY GRANT) meets Linda Lee (ALEXIS SMITH) for the first time at the Porter Christmas Party in Peru, Indiana 1914. MONTY WOOLLEY (himself), Linda, Grade (JANE WYMAN) and Ward Blackburn (DONALD WOODS) read the tragic news of the sinking of the Lusitania announced on the occasion of Cole Porter's See America First premiere. Right Cole Porter ...

... . MARGHERITA CAROSIO, Italy's leading coloratura soprano, in her third-act costume for 44 La Traviata at Covent Garden. Carosio in her second-act costume for 44 La Traviata ,M a beautiful white dress with green spots perfectly in the period. Carosio as Violetta, in 44 La Traviata in the splendour of her first-act ball dress. PHOTOGRAPHS SPECIALLY TAKEN BY P. A.-RKlTTER. MME. MARGHERITA CAROSIO ...

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... BRITISH DESCENDANT OF THE ROMANOVS WITH HER FIANCE. MISS MYRA WERNHER, younger daughter of Major-General Sir Harold Wernher K.C. V.O. and Lady Zia Wernher O.B.E. is engaged to MAJOR DAVID BUTTER, M.C., Scots Guards son of the late Colonel Charles Butter O.B.E. of Pitlochry. Miss Wernher is a descendant of the House of Romanov as her grandfather was the late Grand Duke Michael of Russia, uncle ...

... THE COUNTRYSIDE: NOTABLE PEOPLE AN[ EVENTS OF THE WEEK. In spite of heavy rain T.M. the KING and QUEEN, PRINCESS ELIZABETH and PRINCESS MARGARET went to the Braemar Highland Gathering. The MARQUESS OF ABERDEEN, Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire (right), is ivith them in our snapshot. LORD GLENTANAR went to the Aboyne Games from Glen Tarn accompanied by his only child, LADY JEAN COATS. MISS Z( ...

... . WH. CARR, north-country jockey who has just I been appointed jockey to his I Majesty the King, is thirty I years of age, and so one of the younger school of riders, and can go to scale at 8 stone. He went to India in 1937 to ride I for H.H Captain the Maharajah of Cooch Behar and plans to return there in October, j [Continued opposite. Continued.] He will also be first jockey for Captain ...