... CONTRETEMPS. This immaculate chef looks slightly worried a nasty niggling little doubt has crossed his mind about something. Has he perhaps used sugar instead of salt, or made some other culinary gaffe This problem photograph is on view at the thirty-seventh exhibition of the London Salon of Photography, which opened at the R. W.S. Galleries, Conduit Street, on September 14, and will continue ...

... . J.JEARTY cheering, warm hospitality, sun shine were Mr. Churchill's lot during his holiday in Switzerland. Our pictures show him taking coffee with the President and Ministers of State of the Swiss Federal Council at Ch&teau Lohn during his two days* visit there as guest of the Swiss Government. Mr. Churchill's power and drive were well to the fore, especially during his twenty-five- niinute ...

... . MISS EILEEN JOYCE, only British judge of pianoforte at the International Competition for Musical Performers at Geneva from September 23-October 5, was born in Tasmania. An infant prodigy, she studied under Max Pauer and Teichmuller in Germany, coming to London with an introduction to Albert Coates. She made her public debut with orchestra at a Queen's Hall 44 Prom. She has made many ...

... BRIDE-ELECT DESCENDED FROM THE VICTOR OF BLENHEIM. The engagement of LADY CAROLINE SPENCER-CHURCHILL, second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough to Major Hugo Waterhouse eldest son of Captain the Rt. Hon. Charles Waterhouse M.C., and Mrs. Waterhouse of Middleton Hall, Bakewell Derbyshire /las been announced. Lady Caroline bears an historic name, for she is descended from the first ...

... . HUMPH :EY BOGART is recording his footprint in the stars Hall of Fame the cement of the forecourt of Grauman s Chinese Theatre. LAUREN BACALL (Mrs. Bogart and SID GRAUMAN lend support during the operation. 'J1 5' Y{*iT d MB LEONIDE MASSINE has his first speaking part in A Bullet in the Ballet ,M due to open in Edinburgh on Oct. 1, and after a tour coming to London. He dance, too, in ...

... . HP HE aim of the London Salon of Photography, now holding its thirty- seventh show at the R.W.S. Galleries, Con duit Street, is to exhibit only that class of work in Pictorial Photography in which there is distinct evidence of personal artistic feeling and execution. On our front page we give a striking photograph from the Salon, and here are other ex amples which illustrate the high ...

... . N.B. A Coloured plate is inserted tn this issue. Plctures are enough to make any British stay-at-home grow pale Bvs tl|l cnvy- What a record of joys, by hopeless fancy framed 011 sunlit flake Wcre 'f°r others, during this deplorable summer when our island sea 'ts Kre>' stones. They were taken in Florida's famous 8 ardens in the Highland Lake region, near Winter Haven, where every year a mid ...

... . TNTENSIVE co-operation over detail between artist and craftsmen has gone to the making of the 44 Britain Can Make It Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum which was opened by the King last week. Take, for instance, the case of forty-one of the 44 display figures. First their sculpture in clay by Miss Ethelwyn Baker in her Hampstead studio. Next a waste mould is made from this waste ...

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... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Strange Waters. This is written by the Waters of Babylon-- or, to be quite accurate, by the waters of the Lake of Geneva. They are remarkable waters in several respects. First, there is a great deal more liquid in them than meets the eye. The heavens here have a habit, like the Melancholy Jaques's deer, of weeping into the needless stream, and when they weep, they ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR FiAT TO- AND WE APPLAUD EILEEN HERLIE, for the emotional power and quality of her acting. WITH some recent post-war British sporting failures in his mind, perhaps, NANKERVILLE pulled up his socks and won the 1500-metres race at the recent Allied Forces Track and Field Meeting held at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Second was Bouchemet of France, and Van Wijngaarden of Holland ...

... WITTY, brilliant, original, 44 The Shephard Show opened at Prince's Theatre last week. The star come dians are Arthur Riscoe, Richard Hearne, 44 Mon- sewer Eddie Gray, Douglas Byng. The singer Marie Burke. Dancers Ronald Boyer and Jeanne Ravel. Lively music by Harry Parr Davies is conducted by John Blore with his B.B.C. orchestra. Scenery, costumes, by William Chappell. Pro duction by Wendy ...