... TAKE OUR ADVICE AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE: V PLAYS. UNDER YOUR HAT (Palace Theatre). Jack Hulbert, a Secret Service agent in search of a stolen carburettor; Cicely Court neidge, his jealous wife. Plenty of wit; tuneful music; clever chorus. What more could you ask of an excellent show? THEY WALK ALONE (Shaftesbury). Macabre, tense- portrait of homicidal maniac by Beatrix Lehmann with a farm ...

... LIEUT. -COLONEL SIR JOHN AIRD and Lady Priscilla Willoughby, whose engagement was announced recently, photographed at Pillerton Priors in the Warwickshire country. Lady Priscilla Willoughby, a daughter of the Earl and Countess of Ancaster, is a pioneer of women's polo, and to her efforts and those of Lady Margaret Drummond-Hay must be attributed much of the progress which ladies' polo has made ...

... The Boat Race of 1939, which all the critics thought to be safe in Oxford's keeping, was stolen by Cambridge, who slipped away from their rivals with a rare burst of speed at the start, and established such a lead as gave them all the best of the course, and the tide, and made re covery impossible for any but a really great crew. And Oxford were not that, though in the early part of their ...

... By B. Bennison OUR amateur boxing championships remain unexampled. And after 55 years! There is nothing comparable to them in any country, whether as a magnificent parade of youth, or sport for sport's sake. They teach the world: they are open to the world. An A.B.A. title is the most coveted of all the prizes to be won in the amateur ring. Some thirteen hours had gone before the last punch ...

... Idiot's Delight Shearer and Gable in the Film of Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize Play When Harry Van and Irene first meet in Omaha they are small-time vaudeville artistes, he a mind-reader' s assistant, she a trapeze artist who swings by her teeth. Robert Sherwood him self wrote the script, giving the first two reels of the film to flashbacks of incidents in the early life of Irene and ...

... WHEN THE SILENT SERVICE SPEAKS Lord Stanhope's Unpremeditated Speech in the Ark Royal MAKING THE SPEECH THAT STARTLED THE WORLD: Lord Stanhope, the First Lord of the Admiralty, seen as he addressed his audience in the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal following the dinner given by the Navy to leading members of the film industry to express gratitude for the industry's generosity in supplying films ...

... The Yankee Cupper Arrives: The Giant American Fk Southampton alter a Flight on the Souther! ring Boat Reaches Successful Survey y Atlantic Route I, wm as SAFELY ON HER MOORINGS The 37-ton American flying boat seen on arrival at Biscarosse, near Bordeaux, after completing one of the final stages in her great survey flight from yrar v- i Baltimore, U.S.A., to Foynes, Ireland. The purpose of ...

... HOW fhe THEATRI egoer Reacts to Drab Settings A Subject that is at Present Arousinc Following the Production of Heaver 3 a Fierce Argument in Stage Circles n and Charing Cross at the St. Martin's -On STAGE and SCREEN Reviewed By Philip Page THE question as to whether the public does or does not like plays about drab rooms and their shabby occupants seems to have bobbed up again as a somewhat ...

... Feeling Runs High in New York Disruption of Czechoslovakia WITH APPLAUDING SPECTATORS lining the route, 50,000 New Yorkers, carrying big banners and numberless small flags, recently marched through the city in a Stop Hitler parade sponsored by the American Council to Combat Nazi Invasion. The parade took place immediately following Hitler's disruption of Czechoslovakia, and among the ...

... Merciless Prose Marfha Dodd's Strong Views on Nazi Germany Reviewed by VERNON FANE MISS MARTHA DODD spent four years, from 1933 to 1937, in Germany and most of it in Berlin, since her father was at that time American ambassador there. When she left Chicago with the rest of her family for their new life she was expectant, open-minded, eager to learn the language and ways of a people for whom ...

... NOT SO GOOD THIS MORNING: Meng, the London Zoo's baby gorilla, puts out his tongue. After six months at the Zoo he has doubled his weight, but he has a long way to go yet before he attains the massive poundage of the full-grown gorilla MENG SHOWS HIS PACES WITH THE BAR-BELLS Above and below-- These two pictures reveal what a wonderful specimen he is becoming, but it will be a pity when he ...

... AN ENCHANTED KINGDOM The Always New V/onders of the IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION IF press agents dream, surely their wildest fancies cannot outstrip the colour and the variety that actually exist at the Ideal Home Exhibition this year. For years this has been going on. You wonder how a show, moulded about one theme, can repeat itself so often and so successfully. It proves that there is practically ...