... AT THE CROWDED PREMIERE OF A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE i TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' great American success A Street car Named Desire was brought to the Aldwych Theatre, October 12, by Laurence Olivier moved the audience by the spectacle of Blanche Du Bois, worthless, faded, lovely, the daughter of a decayed Southern house, who is haunted to the end by her earlier promiscuous love-life and her tragic ...

... SKETCH DATE- BOOK J (Being Our Social Diary.) OCT. 7.. From Drum- lanrig Castle, Dumfries, jj where she stayed with the Duke and Duchess of jj Buccleuch, Princess Mw- garet attended Inter national Gun-dog Lea, ut trials, at Langholm Moor', is seen negotiating wire fence. On left is Lady f| Caroline Scott. OCT. 7-- At the Dor chester. Guest of honour at Foyle's Literary Lun cheon to-day was ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO AND WE APPLAUD Ayl R. A. HAY, Secretary of the Stoke Rochford (Lines) Golf Club, just didn't know what his next move was when he played a pitch shot and his ball impaled itself on a barbed-wire fence surrounding the green 3 ft. 6 in. from the ground. DAUL MONCH, German engineer, plans to start at the year's end on a round-the- world trip, over land and ocean, in his self ...

... Photographed by ANGUS McBEAN. THIS young and talented Swedish actress came to England in 1946 speaking no English to play the title-role in the film version of Frieda. She iearned the language quickly, and last year scored a great success as the little girl Hedwig in Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the St. Martin's. Now, with a cast of the first quality, she is playing Nina in Tchehov's The Seagull, ...

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... TT is time for overlong skirts to be shortened, plunging necklines to be buttoned up, pared-down silhouettes to emerge in narrow classic clothes like these. Frills and flounces are forbidden. Opposite, in the eyes of the law, Dereta's suit in smooth, honest tricotine is straightforward no nonsense tailoring but could it be that the design is stolen from the constable's uniform Two highlights ...

... THE FINEST CAR OF ITS CLASS J N THE WORLD THE finest CAR OF ITS CLASS J N THE WORLD xfaauat century Gatehouse, Charlccote Park, Stratford-on-Avon. At 5 or 95 m.p.h. the 3J litre Jaguar heralds its approach with the merest whisper, and in the deep-seated comfort of its soft leather upholstery the driver has the magnificent feeling that he could steer this car through the eye of a needle. The 2 ...

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... BLACK IS PERENKIAL In wool or silk, whether tailored or softly draped, the black dress is perennial and for ever practical. Henri's black wool from Dickins and Jones is trimmed with stitched faille at neck and waist and has a long, floating, full-length back panel from neck to hemline. (Inset). A softly- draped silk jersey by the same designer is at Marshall and Snelgrove, London FASHION PAGE ...

... Luxurious coat, vviue and enveloping, in beautiiully shaded beaver £1,175 Three-quarter coat of dyed Canadian squirrel, for day or evening wear £225 Furs first fioor OP K N I G H T S E3 R I D G E Inrvey Nichols Co. Ltd., Knightsbridfie, London S.W.I. Sloane 3440 ...

... The uTatler's Register of ENGAGEMENTS Lieut Frederick Henry Loivry- Carry R.N. and the Hon. Rosemary Diana Lavinia Plurner are to marry. The Hon. Rosemary Plumer is the youngest daughter of the late Viscount Plumer, and of Viscountess Plumer of Brompton Square S.W.3 and Lieutenant Frederick Lowry-Corry R.N. is f/ie son of Lieutenant-Colonel II. Lowry-Corry. \I.C. and Mrs. Lowry-Corry o/ ...