... IANE BAXTER'S new stage assignment, The Holly and the Ivy at the Lyric, J Hammersmith, gives her the role of eldest daughter of a country parson, played by Herbert Lomas. The plot exploits the emotional storms and complications of Christmas-time on his family and home the character being based upon his own father by the playwright, Wynyard Browne. In private life Miss Baxter is Mrs. Arthur ...

... THE numerous engagements of her Royal Highness have recently included her first official visit to Lancashire, when she opened new premises for the Warrington Boys' Club (see pic ture on left). The Princess was at Aintree for the Grand National, where she is seen (above) with the Duchess of Kent. In the pic ture on the right her Royal High ness smilingly acknowledges the welcome she received at ...

... LONDON'S great teaching centre of the fine arts is the Slade School of Art, University College, founded in 1871. It owes its existence to Felix Slade, wealthy connoisseur of the arts, who died in 1868, leaving £35,000 for the endow ment of professorships at Oxford, Cambridge, and University College, London. Among its most famous inhabitants was the late Professor Henry Tonks, who forsook his ...

... and PREVIEWS /*^ENE TIERNEY will be seen in Night and the City, the 20th Century-Fox u i'?1 which is due *or re,ease this summer. In this drama of London night life she takes the part of a dance hostess at a night club and girl friend of a gangster, played by Richard Widmark. Googie Withers also has an important part as the night club's proprietress. ...

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... now in the new Terence Rattigan play, Who is Sylvia?, at the Criterion, scored a personal success here and in America in The Chiltern Hundreds (Photographed by Baron) ...

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... 5. -DR. VLADIMIR VELEBIT The World's Envoys to the Council Queen Elizabeth (Ambassador from Yugoslavia NINE years ago, warring Londoners saw a tall, strikingly handsome, well-built colonel in foreign uniform, of a kind never previously known in this country, walking about in the West End. The wearer was Marshal Tito's first Head of Mission to Mr. Churchill Lieut-Colonel Vladimir Velebit. When ...

... Lady George Montagu-Douglas-Scott with her son. seven-year-old David Henry George. Lord George Scott is a brother of the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Bucdeuch and Queensberry. As Molly Bishop, Lady George Montagu-Douglas-Scott is a well-known portrait artist and her son recently won an award in the Royal Drawing Society's Children's Academy. Lady Milverton with her son, the Hon. ...

... Glen Byam Shaw (above) is co-director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford- upon-Avon. where the 1953 season opened last week (March 17th) with The Merchant of Venice. Since the other co-director, Anthony Quayle, is now touring New Zealand and Australia with one Stratford Company, the responsibility for the Memorial Theatre's thirty-three-week Coronation season rests with Mr. Shaw, ...

... QUEENS REGNANT OF ENGLAND:1 KOM ELIZABETH I. TO ELIZABETH II. ELIZABETH I. This pen and wash portrait is the work 1558-1603 of Isaac Oliver (1556-1617). It is in brown ink and grey wash. ANNE. John Riley's portrait of Queen Anne was painted (1702-1714) in 1687, fifteen years before her accession. MARY II. Oil on canvas portrait of Mary II., wife of (1633-1694) William of Orange, painted by ...

... Lovely Virginia McKenna, talented daughter of talented mother Anne de Nys, pianist and composer, plays the part of Julie Hallam in The Cruel Sea, to be premiered at the Leicester Square Theatre to-morrow (March 26th). Miss McKenna was born in London, and was educated in Cape Town, where she made her first stage appearance in ballet in 1943, later returning to London to attend the Central ...