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... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. METRO- GOLDWYN MAYER, who are notoriously not afraid of long pictures, have brought out the first two-part screen bio graphy in the life of Thomas Alva Edison. In the first part Mickey Rooney plays Edison the boy. In the second part Spencer Tracy plays Edison the man. Each picture is complete in itself, and it will not be necessary, although it is obviously helpful, to have ...

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON lo. 21. ONCE A CROOK .COMEDY- REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA 1ELODRAMA AT THE ALDWYCH. _ ONCE A CROOK at the Aldwych, the melodrama enlivened with comedy by Evadne Price and Ken Attiwell, provides the subject for the first of our pictorial and literary reviews of London's wartime theatres, by The Sketch critics team. On these pages are the drawings ly l'el ...

... HIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No. 6 FLYING TRAINING. AIR VICE-MARSHAL LAWRENCE ARTHUR PATTINSON, C.B.. D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C. £s the Air Officer Commanding, Flying Training Command. He teas born in 1890 and teas educated at Rugby, Wesley College, Melbourne. Australia, and Cam bridge. In 1914 he teas a 2nd Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry T F and in the following year was seconded to the R ...

... OUT AND ABOUT j THIS AUTUMN WOMEN IN WARTIME BUYING for the future is now one of the main principles of dress economy, especially in furs, for present prices will soon seem amazingly low. The coat above, in Canadian squirrel, for example, costs only 45 guineas at the City Fur Store, 64, St. Paul's Churchyard. The broad revers and square shoulders give it a young, tailored look, and the skins ...

... Qqedt Ojf l^.ale /vLeLloum.eH iX SnUte doucjuet Ja Y)itL7ictive BY HOST BY GUEST V BY ALL PREFERRED! I London Agents for Grant's Liqueur Scotch Messrs. Hedges Butler, Ltd., Wine Merchants, 153, Regent Street, W.i. 1 u 1 1 L II wmjjk FjTTSV Wi7itwwnM I A FIRM l^r SHAPELY ^BUST IS THE ESSENCE OF IANLY BEAUTY A perfectly moulded figure has more charm than even a beautiful face. Few women, ...

... The most entertaining of all Magazines. ON SALE NOW AT A EE NEWSAGENTS AND BOOKSTAEES STORIES LIKE THESE MAKE LONGER NIGHTS BRIGHTER HEART OF BRITISH OAK Bv PETER B. K.YNE. 0 THE Lancashire Maid was in the dock at Liverpool by ten o'clock that night and Captain Hannay had young Kessler up in N his quarters for a nightcap of whisky-and- soda and stated with genuine regret that in 1 the ...

... the new recruit. If this recruit to the Women s Auxiliary Air Force doesn't find foot comfort in the Service it i con t be the fault of the Quartermistress The attractii%e picture is on view at the recently opened Royal Air Force Exhibition of Photographs at the Building Centre in Netc Bond Street tc here every aspect of life with the R.A.F. is presented in admirable camera-studies. PHOTOGRAPH ...

... . Left LADY CROFTON is demonstrating that strips of linen covered with architects' plans can be brought back to pristine purity and used for nurses' aprons or sur geons' masks. This bright idea emanates from the Thrift Section, W.V.S. These R.A.F. boys are (I. to r.J PILOT OFFICERS HENRY COTTON, the golfer, W. C. POWELL, the Welsh Rugger International Captain, J. V. POWELL, the English ...

... - U.S.A. NEWSPAPER GIRLS VIRGINIA COWLES AND HELEN KIRKPATR1CK, for calmly watching a tremendous air battle over Dover at close range so that America may know the truth. MISS VIRGINIA COWLES. MISS HELEN KIRKPA TRICK. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANGUS MCBEAK. MISS VIRGINIA COWLES, distinguished young American newspaper correspondent of the 14 New York Herald-Tribune, will be remembered as the author of ...

... REVUE SHOWERED WITH STARS: APPLESAUCE I MAX MILLER singing one of his catchy netc numbers, attired in his white Homburg and his gay dressing-gown. MAX MILLER a! the keyboard, wearing immaculate evening dress. Another study of MAX MILLER, with his famous smile, giving one of his new songs. I do it with doves now, by DORIS HARE. THE DOLINOFFS and RAYA SISTERS, Dancing Dollutions in their ...

... TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS MAKES SCREEN DRAMA. ' ...