... . A rehearsal for 11 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is being watched by dancers of the company. Dancers for the Open-Air Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing cooling their feet in the rock-garden pool. THE OPEN-AIR THEATRE SEASON is due to open on Saturday next with Much Ado About Nothing in which Cathleen Nesbitt plays Beatrice to D. A. Clarke- Smith's Benedick. Margaret Vines is Hero Sylvia ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. SEVERAL British anglers have had fine sport in New Zealand, judging by reports in local papers which my friend Dr. Lewis Smith has passed on to me. Mr. W. J. E. Owen, of Cheshire, fishing Fulljames Reach, on the Waitahanui, with Mr. A. J. Nimmo, a well- known Wellington angler, shared the following bag: Eleven trout, 11 lb., 8 lb., 5¾ lb., 5 lb., 4½ lb., and the ...

... LONDON TYPES ASSORTED. These portrait-studies of well-contrasted types to be met with every day in the streets of London have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. The man of action, the man of peace, the talker, and the musician form a well-assorted quartet. BETTER NEWS by Mr. A. S. Bailey. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Ag fa. Exposure 1 -100th second ...

... ANOTHER FILM QUEEN VICTORIA; 1 A DR. LIVINGSTONE AND A STANLEY. W e are used to seeing Queen Victoria on the screen, as she was pre sented as the heroine of two great pictures, Vic toria Regina and Sixty Glorious Years. In THE LITTLE PRINCESS,'' the new SHIRLEY TEMPLE Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor film at the New Gallery, she is intro duced. but as a minor character. Sara Crewe (SHIRLEY ...

... TAKE OUR ADVICE AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE: plays. UNDER YOUR HAT Palace Theatre). Jack Hulbert, a Secret Service Agent in search of a stolen carburettor Cicely Courtneidge, his jealous wife. Plenty of wit tuneful music clever chorus. What more could you ask of an excellent show HERBERT FARJEON'S LITTLE REVUE (Little). As near perfect as revue can be, thanks to his glitter ing wit and deadly aim. ...

... I i* -/vr ¥kfc i 1/m mJ Hulitj Sheer white lisse with an air of youthful romanticism and old-world charm Miss Junior's breath-catching dance dress has frills, furbelows and the rustling gaiety of a billowing taffeta-lined skirt. 1\ Gns. White linen that feels as cool as it looks, for Miss Junior's Summer-line tailored suit. Sturdy and fresh, with a figure-hugging jacket and a graceful ...

... Howard Coster. F.R.S.A. Since his appointment as Under-Secretary of State for Air, in May 1938, Captain Balfour has set a standard which other Ministers will find difficult to follow. He has piloted the Hurricane, the Spitfire, and other modern single-seater fighters, yet his Brevet dates back to 1915. He was awarded the Military Cross and Bar whilst serving with the Royal Flying Corps, ...

... The Royal Academy, 1939 Four Portraits of Famous Men Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, by Oswald Birley The Lord Chancellor by Gerald Kelly, R.A. Lord McGoivan, by Harold Knight, R.A. Hilaire Belloc, by James Gunn The summer exhibi tion of the Royal Academy of Arts was seen by the critics and the press and the chosen few last week, and is now open to the public. The change of the presidency (from Sir ...

... Comings and Goings Journeys' Ends and Lovers' and Others' Meetings Arrival at Waterloo These two film stars arrived in England last week to start work on the film version of French Without Tears, just finishing its record stage run (and why the magnates couldn t use the excellent original stage cast for the film, we can't say J Ray Milland, English Holly wood star and ex-officer in the ...

... The Passing Hour Comments and Asides By Edward Mordant THE Budget is not a matter for decent conversation. Its mention should be made a capital offence, but, alas, like all the other horrors that infest life, nobody can get away from it. I, therefore, like everybody else, in spite of all promises to myself, by alluding to the beastly thing. But that is only as a stepping-stone to the ...

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... By Charles Ward Bystander Air Correspondent IN spite of war and rumours of war, travel and trade by air increase every day. There is still a fair chance that sanity will prevail and the aeroplane be used for its obvious purpose, to promote under standing and goodwill between nations. Our national air transport companies, Imperial and British Airways, are about to develop a Corporation. That ...