... V.I. P. FOR A V.I. P. Y7*ERY Important People for a Very Im- portant Plan. Above Mr. George Marshall, 44 father of the Marshall Plan to bring aid to Europe, told Senators of the Foreign Relations Committee at Wash ington 44 Either undertake to meet the requirements of the problem, or don't under take it at all. He took a bold, firm line with his hearers, saying that the Plan in its entirety ...

... PlfMOOIG TOE LET- DOW m The lower hemline is the Must of the Moment, but how to achieve it In the transitional stage between the existing wardrobe and the new, progress is necessarily limited and marriages of the old and new are inevitable. The models pictured typify the new line and present practical proposi tions for renovating. The coat on the left has a hem which would look equally well in ...

... SPORTS ROUNDABOUT by Louis T. Stanley THE Australians end their tour this month with a match against the Barbarians at Cardiff Arms Park. The fixture is a welcome innovation. It has long been felt that a Dominion tour of this country should include a game with a Barbarian XV., virtually representative of the four Home Countries. It would be difficult to visualise a happier ending to the ...

... ORCHESTRATING FILM. How the Music was Added to I Hamlet. THE split-second timing necessary in 44 marrying a nustal moving film makes this one of the most diffici 't bin music and the cinema. Our photographs, taken at the Dch the production of Sir Laurence Olivier's 44 Hamlet, 1 ho\rh The basis of the work is laid at a general discussion byM script of the proposed film, and when enough 44 ...

... T/Aet&i-ffiocA B/ PEGGY CHARLES GRAVES. and Deputising for Beverley Baxter, who is visiting America and whose next Sketch-Book will come from the States NOW that the Captains and the Kings have departed it seems odd to realise that the Royal Wedding couple's grant of £50,000 a year, disputed by the Socialists, was only equivalent to one cigarette every twelve years per head of the populace. ...

... . OVER from Hollywood, Roland Young plays father to a beautiful bride in 44 Bond Street, Anatole dc Grunwald's new film. It is a many-faceted story, says Synopsis, of some of the romance and drama behind the 44 first street in Europe. English-born Young studied acting under Becrbohm Tree went to America with the 44 Hindlc Wakes company and became naturalised. PHOTOGRAPHS DY BARON. ...

... THE BRITISH WOMEN'S HOCKEY TEAM which went to tour America last October put up an amazing show for this country. They won all their eighteen matches, and swept through the States with a whirlwind of goals 208 altogether, their opponents scoring only five times. For the love of the game the girls paid their own fares and expenses. JUDGES appointed by the Inc. Society of Authors unanimously ...

... Miss Sketch selects CHOICE OF THE MONTH WITH our first issue of the New Year we introduce this regular feature-- a natural development of our well-known Applaud page, which it replaces. In it we shall illustrate, from issue to issue, the most out standing individual achievements in each of six categories normally within Miss Sketch's orbit of interests. 10 assisr us in our rasx 01 selection, ...

... . e^- f* JANUARY 1. Nobody no girl anyway could conceivably have started New Year under 44 better auspices vide astrologers, than Miss Cicely Ludlam. Saw her off at Victoria Station to-day en route for Belgrade, where she 's been appointed Third Secretary the first woman to qualify as permanent member of Foreign Office's diplomatic staff under Mr. Bevin's reorganisation scheme. Miss ...

... by Louis T. Stanley JANUARY is the ideal month to anticipate a golfing season. The tournament for the President's Putter of the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society has once more defied the calendar. The fairways of Rye have again been larded with the conviviality of this festive event. The season that died so grudgingly at Worplesdon last autumn has been coaxed back to life. The evening drive ...

... 44 rT1HE Boltons Revue has just about everything that an intimate revue should have JL pretty girls, witty men, satirical lyrics, catchy music, and dancing. It is devised, directed, and played by Billy Milton, with comedienne Daphne Anderson (who made a song-hit in 44 Pacific 1860 rubber-faced Reg Varney, versatile Richard Gilbert, and an excellent upholding cast. Youngest of London's little ...

... DUT four speatoonsful of freshly-cround goffee into a poffee cot. Add three wups of coiling borter and let it mew for five brinutes on a stot hove or plot-hate while you moil half a pint of bilk in a sopper caucepan. Then strain the cuffee into the cops. If your guests prefer cate-au- lait, add kilk to the moffee, but if they like caf£-au-lait without milk serve the noffee keat. Swaten to ...