... What Will America Do PaPer Cartoon by Bruce Angrave A few hours before it was iftmounced that French troops had been withdrawn on each side of Paris, the French Premier made a new and final appeal to the President of the United States. He asked, above all, for 44 clouds of aeroplanes. This was just three days after Mr. Roosevelt had delivered his great speech at the University of Virginia, in ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell PARIS has fallen, but Paris can never die. She will rise, as she has always risen, greater and more triumphant than ever. If we are to hold fast to the faith, as we must hold fast and as we do hold fast, that there is a reason for the existence of the universe, then we must know that Paris can never die. She is the centre, the ...

... English Thriller American Romance Diana Wynyard and Ginger Rogers in Two New Films I 44 Gaslight I 44 Primrose Path Father and husband of Ginger Rogers are Homer (Miles Mander once a scholar, now a drunkard, and Ed (Joel McCrea), who runs a petrol station and snack-bar where Ginger goes to ivork before she marries the boss Primrose Path has a low-life setting in an American coastal city. The ...

... Bystander's Review of Weddings Lyall Elliot Major John Lyall R.A., son of the late Claude Lyall, and Mrs. Lyall, of the Hurst Headley Surrey, was married at Chelsea Old Church to Noreen Elliot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Elliot, of 5, Grosvtnor Place, S.W.i Ommanney Stewart Sub-Lt. Cecil John M. Ommanney, R.N.V.R., of 3, Sloane Court, S.W., was married at Chelsea Old Church to Catherine ...

... The Mortal Storm Frank Borzage Has Made an Exciting and Emotional Film Out of Phyllis Bottome's Anti-Nazi Novel Family harmony is broken when politics come under discussion in the early days of Nazi Germany before all Germans learnt that dis cussion was dangerous. Professor Roth and his wife Frank Morgan, Irene Rich are horrified when their daughter's fianct, Fritz Robert Young shakes his fist ...

... This light-studded Transatlantic tower is a symbol of America's distance from the scene of war. While a darkened Europe awaits the mournful sirens, in New York's Radio City the moan of saxophones goes out over the wireless to the homes of a nation still at peace. But if war does come to the great Western democracy, buildings like these will be fortune-makers for retailers in black-out blinds HhU ...

... Corduroy, already well established in the country, has come to town for the winter. At Harrods, Knightsbridge, they have the beautifully designed suit above in soft corduroy bound with petersham. The jacket, which can be worn fastened high or open, follows the new longer line and has two flap pockets. It looks delightful in black, but they also have it in a glowing berry red, in forest brown ...

... f dancers of the Vic-Wells ballet company, has just announced her engagement Pamela May, one of the leading da Marines painton g C(,well> cidcst son of Mr. and Mrs. Painton Cowen. to a young Lieutenant in the J Mr and Mrs R H May, of 53, Lee Terrace, Blackheath. ol Mawchi, Burma. e is _ Pamela May is not giving up her career as a dancer. She is to have They are to be married ^soon ncJ bal,(.t ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell AS I write, the German invasion of Scandinavia has only just begun, and by the time this appears in print almost anything may have happened. Rumours succeed rumours every hour or so. At one moment the Gneisenau has been sunk by coastal batteries in the Oslo Fjord, and five minutes later the Gneisenau is steaming northwards to ...

... The Country Wife Opening Herbert Farjeon's Restoration Season at the Little Iheatre The Pinchicifes are played by Charles Victor, a gruff, stuffy, wooden- headed picture of a jealous husband, and Hermione Baddeley, who makes Margery Pinchwife into the silliest, naughtiest minx imaginable, sometimes to the point of burlesque. The last time Wycherley's comedy was produced in London-- at the Old ...

... Thrills in a Shepherd's Bush Fjord dom covers the Altmark incident 3. The Altmark incident concludes the film. Here Captain Dahl (well guarded tells the British prisoners that Germany will win 4. British prisoners play dominoes on an upturned crate, while the Altmark hugs the Norwegian coast on its way back to the Fatherland A reconstruction of Josing Fjord, where H.M.S. Cossack cornered the ...

... Aintree Outing Some of the People Who Saw Lord Stalhridge's Bo^skar Win the Grand National Lady Alexandra Beasley wife of the jockey, Pat Beasley, and sister of the Earl of Wilton, teas talking to Mrs. Harold Cayzer, Mrs. Nicholas Cayzer and Major Harold Cayzer. Mrs. Nicholas Cayzer Betty Williams that teas is the wife of Sir August Cayzer s heir, and niece by marriage of the Harold Cayzers ...