... . 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 ...

... HUSBAND AND WIFE IN ONE ANOTHER'S SHOES I TURNABOUT, due at the Gaumont Haymarket on September 27, is a comedy presenting a husband and wife who change personalities temporarily as the result of magic. Sally (CAROLE LANDIS) here wears the trousers with grace, but Tim (JOHN HUBBARD) looks gloomy in feminine attire. Sally, in Tim's manly body, does a good deal of harm to his business, and Tim ...

... THUMBS UP- WE CAN TAKE IT! CHURCHILL IN THE BLITZKRIEGED CITY. MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL has twice visited the bombed areas of the City, and seen for himself the splendid courage with which Londoners are facing their severe ordeal. When he asked the assembled crowds Are we down hearted the answer No was roared back, and every man, woman and child gave the Thumbs up signal, as seen in our lower ...

... BY DAY AND BY NIGHT SUITS AND HOUSECOATS I WOMEN IN WARTIME THE English tradition of dressing, for dinner is surviving wartime difficulties in a modified but very attractive form. Women now wear gaily-coloured housecoats, specially designed for evenings at home. Walpole, New Bond Street, have a collec tion to brighten the black-out, including the model above. This is made in a soft woollen ...

... - SQUADRON LEADER EDWARD PEARCE, seen with MRS. PEARCE, who is an officer in the W.R.N.S. teas awarded the O.B.E. PILOT OFFICER REGINALD TAYLOR, the Essex cricketer here seen with MRS. TAYLOR, received the D.F.C. SQUADRON LEADER OLIVER, awarded the D.S.O. and also the D.F.C. SQUADRON LEADER L. A. STRANGE, with MISS SUSAN STRANGE (r.) and MRS. HARCOURT PAINE (I.), was I awarded a Bar to 1 the D ...

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... . THE GREAT DICTATOR, long-awaited picture in which CHARLIE CHAPLIN exploits his resemblunce to the Fiihrer in order to satirise Totalitarian States and all their ways is due for U.S.A. release this month. Here the Double Cross Dictator has been double-crossed, for the Jewish barber who so closely resembles him is addressing a meeting and reversing till the Double Cross principles. Other ...

... BY OLIVER MESSEL FROM JEAN COCTEAU LEUEEN McGRATH'S SPHINX. I PHOTOGRAPH BY ANGUS MCBEAN. LEUEEN McGRATH is to play the Sphinx in Jean Cocteau's 44 The Infernal Machine due at the Arts Theatre Club to-morrow, September 5. The chief character is an old actress, based on Rtjane, treated brilliantly and very wittily, though not in Cocteau's surrealist manner. Oliver Messel, who note has ,a ...