... 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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... THIS is a time when new twists are being given with some frequency to the British Occupation of Germany. A definite enough milestone was reached in August, which saw the end of the good old days --spell during which Montgomery's famous army largely dissolved amid the farewell-party spirit-- and marked the entry of a more staid and permanent note, a new and more sober and serious buckling ...

... HOW THE EARTH WOULD APPEAR TO A TRAVELLER ALIGHTING ON THE MOON It would present a surface ten times as large as the moon presents to us, and the earthlight would appear ten times brighter than moonlight. This artist's impression is supposed to be taken from the crater of Copernicus, one of the great natural features of the moon which has been observed constantly by astronomers. French ...

... While the prisoners of Nuremberg awaited the verdict of the court they were permitted to receive their wives and children, and many of the relatives came in haste to the court-house at Nuremberg as soon as they heard the news. Among the first to arrive was Frau Goering, who in the days following the capitulation denounced her husband, but who has since adopted a wise reserve. She has made her ...

... Ousted from their ancestral homes among the palm-trees of Bikini Atoll to make way for Admiral Blandy's atom bomb experiment, the Bikinians had no reason for satisfaction, but the Ameri- i can Navy has sought to put matters right for them hv j building a new and better j village amid the palm-trees I of Rongerik. The building work has been done by th j Naval Construction Bat talions, and, in ...

... To-day in Britain coal is one of our most precious assets and, with coal production falling, every ton saved will play its part during the winter months when industry's needs are greatest. Assisting notably in this saving are the British railways, and their new plan to convert 1,200 heavy-duty railway engines from coal to oil will save roughly 1,440,000 tons of coal a year. 1 he change-over, ...

... THE psychological effect of the Britain Can Make It Exhibi tion at the Victoria and Albert Museum will be fascinating to study as time goes on and more and more people see what they cannot buy. The immediate effect on the citizens is a dumb, glazed look about the eyes. Theirs, indeed, is the Britain Can Take It expression. except ior rue iew cnuaren who see tne toys, and whose desire to ...