... DARK BRILLIANCE OF THE PHCENIX: PH UM INCANDESCENCE AT THE LYRIC. E. JESSIE MATTHEWS, dark-haired brown-eyed, vivacious star, is making yet another big hit in COME OUT TO PLAY the new song, dance and comedy show in which she appears at the Phcenix I heatre with her husband, Sonnie Hale. Gaumont-British films have made her one of the most popular screen actresses, and to theatre-goers' ...

... SAINT JOAN FOR THE RED CROSS WISE RA1NER. UISE RAINER as Joan of Arc seeking to inspire the Dauphin icith a sense of the great part he must play. The Maid of Orleans on trial. A poignant study of LUISE RAINER as the Saint when accused of witchcraft. Saint Joan, swayed by fear of death at the stake, signs the recantation presented to her by the monk. The Maid prefers death at the stake to ...

... FACING THE BATTERY FEARLESSLY I Though JERRY WARNICK is facing the battery fearlessly in this snapshot it takes us right away from the tear angle as it shows amateur photographers gathering round her to get some good close-ups during the pre-vietv of a Beauty parade at Long Beach California U.S.A. ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. ONE does not expect, when serving with the B.E.F., to be able to carry out road- tests of 1940 models. Yet our Army and Air Force are so well equipped with the latest type of car that, as often as not, one finds oneself at the wheel of a machine one has long wanted to try. Not so lone aeo I paid tribute to the stamina and performance of a Hillman Hawk saloon which had given ...

... . L. to r. MRS. MORGAN JONES, SIR GERARD FULLER, and CAPTAIN MORGAN JONES made three of the large crowd at the Windsor Boxing Day jumping meeting. MISS BARBARA DUNNE was out with her are MR. TIMOTHY TUFNELL (left) and MR. ROBIN WEATHERLEY. LADY ROSEMARY GRESHAM, sister of the Earl of Erroll, with CAPTAIN GRESHAM. CAPTAIN and MRS. SKENE were there. The going was dead but runners were plentiful. ...

... HEIL, CINDERELLA REHEARSING AT |r WILTON M HOUSE, SALISBURY j A CECIL BEATON PRODUCTION FOR i COMFORTS A FOR THE 1 TROOPS. u 1 WILTON HOUSE, Lord Pembroke's magnificent place, teas an ant-heap of industry during rehearsals of the Wilton House Company for their Grand Topical Christmas Pantomime, Heil, Cinderella by Cecil Beaton and John Sutro. It teas performed at the Michael Herbert Hall, ...

... The Naty is in the news again with this splendid photograph of a British battleship winner of the eighty-fourth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. George Taylor with a Leica camera. Film Agfa Isopan. Exposure l-100th second at f.6.3. ...

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... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. This ruined amphitheatre is all that the Luftwaffe have left of the QUEEN S HALL, London's most famous concert hall the home of the Proms., and the building where great conductors, including the incomparable Toscanini, have given concerts to closely packed audiences, and to listeners-in all over the world. The building was opened in 1893 with a concert by the ...

... SIR COLENSO RIDGEON-- BY RAYMOND MASSEY. RAYMOND MASSEY wears this immaculate morning coat and grey topper as the fashionable specialist. Sir Colenso Ridgeon, in The Doctor's Dilemma, ivhich has been revived by Katharine Cornell at the Shubert Theatre, Neto York. It will be remembered that in this play George Bernard Shaiv turns himself loose on the medical profession and presents a group of ...