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THE B.E.F.'s OWN GRACIE
... . i GRACIE FIELDS has abandoned the sunshine of Capri for France, in order to sing to the men of the B.E.F. A series of concerts had been arranged lip to and including the New Year. Her Christmas Day songs were a real wow, and she proved her artistry by charming her audience with pieces so different as Fred Fannakapan and Gounod's Ave Maria. ...
WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING
... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. FROM Sept. 6 to Sept. 9 teams representing the British Empire, Bel gium, France, the United States of America, and Cuba would have been fishing hard for supremacy in the International Tuna Contest off Nova Scotia had not the war intervened, causing the cancellation of the contest. No other course was pos sible in the circumstances, but had things been other wise ...
ANOTHER CAPRA PICTURE: MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
... ANOTHER CAPRA PICTURE: MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. The new Columbia picture at the Regal, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, directed by Frank Mr. Deeds J Capra, is the story of a young, idealistic, altruistic U.S. Senator, Jefferson Smith (JAMES STEWART), who becomes entangled in, and fights, the corrupt practices of party machinery Saunders (JEAN ARTHUR) tells Jeff how to put a Bill through ...
FOR R.A.F. COMFORTS: THE AUDIENCE AT THE SHAFTESBURY
... . L. to r. SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, Air Minister LADY MAUREEN STANLEY and the HON. OLIVER STANLEY were at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Also present were MRS. S. F. WYNNE-EYTON, Assistant Director W.A.A.F. AIR MARSHAL W. L. WELCH, C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C., Air Member for Supply and Organisation MISS J. H. TREFUSIS FORBES, Director, W.A.A.F. SIR EDWARD CAMPBELL, Secretary of State for Air SERGT. PILOT ...
SOCIALITE SCULPTURE: THE WORK OF NICOLAUS KONI
... I_ _ _ _ _ . PRINCESS IRMA WEIKERSHEIM, in common with many lovely and well known women, has had her portrait done by the young Hungarian sculptor Nicolaus Koni who is having a very busy time of it in his London studio. Koni is fond of the long, flowing line of El Greco paintings, and you can see something of it in this bust of LADY ORANMORE AND BROWNE. A charming portrait-bust of PRINCESS ...
THE FOOD OF LOVE
... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. IT so happened that one of the last concerts I attended before Christmas was that of two-piano music given at the National Gallery by Myra Hess and Irene Scharrer. Also, some of the ballets that have been perform ing for our delec tation have been accompanied on two pianos. The two circumstances have combined to bring the subject of this kind ...
ON DUTY--ON LEAVE--AT HOME
... ON DUTY-- ON LEAVE AT HOME WITH cold weather still to come and possible night alarms, warm dressing-gowns are as important as ever. Burberry, in the Hay- market, have these tailored models. The check one is in camel cloth with a cashmere finish, cut with raglan sleeves and edged with corded braid. The other also has a braid edging, but is buttoned up to a Peter Pan collar. Children will love ...
MOTOR DICTA
... . By H. E. SYMONS. THE motor taxation returns for this quarter will make interesting reading. When it was first announced that, in order to help meet the enormous expenditure on defensive armaments, the horse-power tax would be increased from 15s. to 25s. per h.p., it was fore cast that the number of large cars in use would fall to a mere fraction of its normal figure. The few optimists who ...
SOLDIERS AND OTHERS AT WINDSOR 'CHASES
... . 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 WILTON HOUSE, SALISBURY A CECIL BEATON PRODUCTION FOR COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS
... 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, ...
H.M.S. REVENGE: OUR EIGHTY-FOURTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C
... 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. ...