... A Piece of Black Velvet Raven-Haired Pat Kirkwood from Manchester One of the most exhilarating things to see and hear in London is still i Pat Kirkwood in Black Velvet, the large-scale revue at the Hippodrome. L It 's worth getting there in time to hear her bubble over in her opening I song. Major hits of the show are all hers 44 Most Gentlemen Don't Like 1 Love and 44 Oh, Johnnie, Oh which ...

... Motoring Commentary In the Toils of the Law By Spare Wheel IT is, I hear, a solicitor who has landed the police in the legal soup in the matter of traffic- sign prosecutions, and there is some quiet humour in the situation. It appears that the gentleman was charged with failing to observe a Halt sign. He pleaded Not guilty, so the police proved that he failed to stop as directed by the law ...

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... Films of the Day Three Plain and Two Coloured By George Campbell THE week that brought the invasion of the Low Countries brought, on the screen, a double hanging (of innocent people), a murder, a guillotining, a tale of tough guys double-crossing and bumping each other off, and a dancer's renunciation of the man she loves. If their cheerfulness can win this war, the film producers mean to do ...

... War Relief in Both Senses By Eleanor E. Helme OF the many strange sensations of wartime, few have felt more odd to me personally than to know that there was a first-class competition going on within twenty miles and that I was not there. Equally odd, in all probability, did competitors feel to be playing in such a competition once again. Was the war a nightmare, or the golf a pleasant dream ...

... 44 How now, Cordelia Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes After a long, dark emptiness, due to the war and its attendant complications, the Old Vic reopened three weeks ago with tremendous Shakespearean theatricality. Here is the mainspring of the two- play season John Gielgud, now Lear, and to follow that, Prospero in The Tempest. King Lear, which has still nearly half of ...

... Rebecca Daphne du Maurier's Modern Melodrama at the Queen's The homecoming of the young shy Mrs. de Winter as second wife of the owner of Manderley, beautifully por trayed by Celia Johnson, is overshadowed by the sinister house keeper, Mrs. Danvers. So when she breaks a valuable ornament the bride pathetically hides the pieces for fear of being found out. This is one of the most moving ...

... Home on Leave Lord and Lady Jersey at Osterley Park The Earl of Jersey, now a Second -Lieutenant in the Army, was back at Osterley Park the other day on short leave. He and his pretty American wife went round the house and grounds of this lovely place of theirs just outside London. The park and gardens have now been reopened to the public, but not the superb Adaiu house, whose beauties of ...

... These Clever People No. 8. More Writers and Painters Christopher Sandeman Christopher Sandeman, seen writing on Gardening in Lima for Lady Beatrix Stanley's quarterly, The New Flora and Silva, is a distinguished and witty Edwardian. He entertains in a Kensington flat full of museum pieces and choice pictures. After nine months' travel in South America he published The Forgotten River, ...

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... Local Girl Makes Good Olivia de Havilland The story that the movies so much like, about a girl whose success springs from an off-chance, is abundantly true in the case of Olivia de Havilland. A Californian, living in nearby Saratoga, she had the job of second understudy in the part of Hermia for Max Reinliardt's Hollywood Bowl production of A Midsummer Nieht's Dream. Naturally by film logic, ...