... To mark the jubilee year of the G.O.W.R. a luncheon was given in honour of Fred Russell on Friday at the Hotel Splendide. Mr. Russell is King Rat for 1939 and also holds the Offices of Preceptor and Councillor of the Order ...

... Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer, Agnes Moorehead and Charles Laughton in Don Juan in Hell, at the Manchester Palace ...

... . No. 4 was Stanley Holloway. Here's a noted raconteur and concert party favourite, with a style as easy as the solution of this should be! Who? ...

... Greatrex Newman, of the Fol-de-Rols, leading figure in concert party entertainments, is, with Jack Buchanan, chairman of that Section for the Entertainments National Service Association ...

... Ronald Brandon and Dickie Pounds's Out of the Blue (Cromer) company. In addition to Mr. Brandon and Miss Pounds the party include Lucas Bassett, Cecelia Harvey, Harry Turner, Cal and Nona Kay, Jean Neville, Joanpe Davison, Jessamy Lodge, and Leslie James ...

... The scene shows the meeting for the first time of Rudi Kleber at the piano (Ivor Novello) and Maria Zeigler (Mary Ellis) outside the Blumenhutte ...

... Terence Rattigan has followed his lively light comedy, French without Tears with a play mostly of serious interest in After the Dance, which was produced at the New, Oxford, on Monday, and will be presented at the St. James's on Wednesday ...

... Jimmy Jewel (left) and Ben Warriss are busy most days at Blackpool learning to skate for their first ice panto at Wembley Pool this Christmas. Helping them to master the outside glide and put an inside edge on their bladework is skater Anne Storer. ...

... Joan Heal in her dressing-room at the Cafe de Paris, where she opened in cabaret on Monday last ...

... END OF THIRTY-THIRD SEASON AT BRISTOL Peggy Ann Wood as Clarissa, Alice Fraser as Gilberte and Pster Jeffrey as Maurice in the Rapier Players' production of The Springtime of Others, by Jean-Jacques Bernard, directed by Ronald Russell at Bristol Little. The Rapier Players open their thirty-fourth season on July 30 ...

... Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, seen here with Paul Scofield and Peter Brook, return to the London stage, after an extended tour abroad, at the Phoenix on June 7, when they will appear at Amy and Or. Warburton in a revival of T. I. Eliot's The Family Reunion. Mr. Scofield is to play Harry, and Mr. Brook dierects. Others prominent in the cast will be Gwen Ftrangcon-Davies, David Home, Cyril ...

... Alastair Sim, who plays the title-role in the revival of James Bridie's Mr. Bolfry, at the Aldwych. In the original London production of the play in 1943 he appeared as the Minister, a part now being played by Duncan Macrae ...