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... Monsieur Didelot (ALAN CARTER) dancing icith MUe. Theodore (PAMELA MAY), in The Prospect Before Us. Right ALAN CARTER as Didelot in The Prospect Before Us. JUNE BRAE and ROBERT HELP MANN as two of the Children of Evil in Dante Sonata to Liszt music. A general view oj Sadler s w ells from the back of the dress circle. ALAN CARTER as M. Didelot, in The Prospect Before Us or, Pity the Poor ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO-- MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON, American champion of the Allied cause, for saying that there are no neutral hearts except those that have stopped heating. Whatever may be the views of the majority of Americans, there is one valiant champion of our cause in the U.S.A. in the person of that talented political commentator, MISS DOROTHY THOMP SON. Her stirring broadcast on the ...

... PARIS REFUGEE MISS SHIRLEY BAIN-MARAIS. PHOTOGRAPH BY YSYOMDS. The daughter of Colonel Colin Bain-Marais, South African Minister to France, MISS SHIRLEY BAIN-MARAIS, with her father and mother, the British Ambassador and the Canadian Minister, had the thrill of an escape from France when the armistice with Germany was signed Boarding a small sardine-boat at Bordeaux, they put out to sea hoping ...

... . MISS MARY CHURCHILL, youngest daughter of the Prime Minister, distributed the prizes at the Hillsbrow School annual sports. Young autograph hunters queued up around her. Right MISS MARGARET CLARKE, only daughter of 'Lr Basil Clarke, works in the War Office. She is the venth child of a seventh child (Lady Clarke), teas born ■:n the seventh day of the seventh month, and is twenty-one. ese ...

... The boats are lowered as the attacking Nazis machine-gun the East Dudgeon crew. As the crew draw away from the East Dudgeon she is bombed and sunk by the raiders. Lightning the tortoise, is the mascot of the crew of the East Dudgeon. Getting ready to fire the distress gun, the only weapon ichich lightships carry. Fred lies in the scuppers and tcatches the raid. The part is played by Mr. C. ...

... 4 August 7, 1940 Sensible, informative reading for Sensible people Here is an extract from a story of an old Commander and a battered ship. He refused to be left out of the War. A Gift to the Nation By R. H. Watkins. On the filmy edge of the fog was the sub marine, black with menace, a steel thing devoid of human life. It was swinging fast. And instantly Mr. Hall got it. She was swinging to ...

... Woman in Office Florence Horsbrugh One of the few members of Mr. Chamberlain's Government to keep their job unchanged through successive re-shuffles and into Mr. Churchill's Ministry, Miss Florence Horsbrugh, C.B.E., was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health a year ago, and has played a leading part in the immense re-organisation of the Ministry's work which war has ...

... Striking a Stage Note Pothunter Binnie Hale, leading lady of the Saville's uproarious revue, 44 Up And Doing, is not content icith raking all the aluminium out of her home and dressing-room to provide material for a 44 Spiff re. She is at the same time whipping round to collect £6,000 to buy one Dart-thrower Dame Clara Novello Davies had one pretty near the bull when she tried her hand at a ...

... Film in the Making Alfred Hitchcock Directs His Second Hollywood Picture Alfred Hitchcock, summed up by Hollywood as England's best and biggest director (he weighs some where around 17 stone), went across the Atlantic last year to make Daphne du Manner's Rebecca into a film for United Artists. The result was a record- breaking success in America, has been a fair success in London. Hitch's ...

... A QUEEN TO HER PEOPLE IN 1585 Flora Robson, Queen Elizabeth in Fire Over England, has the same role in The Sea Hawk. The film (more pictures are on page 201) is set in 1585, when Philip of Spain threatened to invade an undefended England. At the launching of the new ships Elizabeth spoke these stirring words to her people My loyal subjects, a grave duty confronts us all to prepare our nation ...

... VERSATILE ANNA;. NEAGLE QUEEN VICTORIA IS NOW DANCING IN IRENE Irene seen in London twenty years ago at the Empire, when it ran tor 399 perform ances, with Edith Day in the name part, had then already won its spurs in America in 1919, and now as a film, with beautiful Anna Neagle as the principal star in an absolute coruscation of talent, it is repeating its sijccess at the New Gallery, ...