... 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 ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell THE eagerly-awaited changes in the Cabinet turn out to be the old, old story of a mild little game of General Post. The greatest expert on shipping in wartime is again passed over-- this time in favour of Mr. R. S. Hudson-- but then, Sir Arthur Salter is not in the inner ring of the old school cravat. The appointment of Cord ...

... Rnyc Miss Matthews 'has come hack to play on the London stage after six and a half years away from it, and her audiences are delighted with her, just as they always were. From the summer of 1933 till January 1939 she put all her talents into film making, then she and husband Sonnie Hale went touring in a big musical comedy, which was about due in London when war came. They put that temporarily ...

... Films of the Day Another Rasputin Film from France By George Campbell RASPUTIN was a fascinating scoundrel; but haven't we had rather much of him? The Germans did him, with Conrad Veidt wearing his beard and shirt and top-boots with a sinister dis tinction that might well have enchanted the bored, sensation-seeking young ladies of the Imperial Court, only too willing to try almost anything ...

... By Douglas Reed The Author of Insanity Fair Covers the War Fronts Lord, We Beseech Thee AS fronts are stationary and sanity is un fashionable, this sane survey of the fronts is a testing exercise for a writer. The Home Front, with its discarded millions of lunatic gas-masks (can anyone tell me how the population of this country can be gas- attacked?), its chocolate soldiers, its in ...

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... Gielp;ud's 4 4 Kins; Lear A Big First Night at the Old Vic Seventy-four Years at the Old Vic The staff at the Old Vic is as faithful as its patrons. In the box-office Dolly Adams can claim sixteen years' service W. J. Toxcnsend thirty -one, and Mrs. Clark twenty seven Mrs. Gwendolen Jefferson Mrs. Jefferson (left) is an inveterate Gielgud first-nighter. Her first visit to America in 1936 was ...

... Flora Robson has recently been in Hollywood, playing Queen Elizabeth for Warners1 The Sea Hawk, and in between the spasms of shooting she knitted helmets for the R.A.F. Comforts Depot in Berkeley Square, London. Warners have evidently got an Elizabethan craze they have only recently 6ent to London their Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Bette Davis as -the Queen. Elizabeth was nothing ...