... ike Escapism's the Thing By James Agate THERE, is no point in concealing the fact that the much-praised film at the London Pavilion, Our Town, was a considerable disappointment to this ever- sanguine, ever-eager-to-be-delighted onlooker. I had heard excitsd talk of new technique, new method, wonderful pathos, wonderful acting, primitive strength. What is the new method and technique f Merely ...

... By Oliver Stewart Subbing Season IT would be mad, and criminally mad, to seize the decision to enlarge the Coastal Command and to extend its responsibilities and to make that decision the basis of a fresh Navy-Army-Air Force controversy. Those controversies are very pleasant in time of peace. They do a lot to liven things up, and the spectacle of eminent officers going off the deep-end in ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Hutton Spiller Captain William Bacon Hutton Durham Light Infantry son of the late E. W. Hutton and Mrs. A. H. Habgood, of Calver- ton House Stony Stratford, Bucks., and Bly Mildred Spiller, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Spiller, of Earley Lodge, Reading, Berks., were married at St. Peter's Farley Stewart Churchill Captain ...

... Taking the Water- Jump in the Three Mile Handicap Steeplechase Paladin, the winner of the Three Mile Handicap Steeplechase (No. 1), took the water jump with Roi d'Egypte beside him, and Dominic's Cross just behind. Paladin belongs to Mr. R. A. Holbech, was ridden by Mr. A. Hunter, is trained by J. Hall at Russley Park Potric* TmcN°Si TM S- h lives Major Sir Anthony and Lady Palmer met Mrs. ...

... THE WAY THEY HAVE IN THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE: OFFICERS AND RATINGS WITH THE TRUE NELSON TOUCH. I Hk WOMEN S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, popularly known as the Wrens, is a much-valued branch of the Royal Navy. It is a veteran service, insti tuted in the 1914-18 war, and re-inaugurated in 1939. It releases many thousands of men for service at sea. Its members include telephonists, typists, ...

... . ELIZABETH and GERALD WARD and their pets are perched on a high wall at Park Farm, Chilton Foliot, Hunger ford, their country home, but they won't take a great fall as their mother, MRS. JOHN WARD, is there to watch over them. She is the wife of Captain Eduard John Sutton Ward, Royal Horse Guards, elder son of the late Major the Hon. Sir John Ward and the lion. Lady Ward, and grandson of the ...

... . LADY COURTNEY is the tvife of Air Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., the Air Member for Supply and Organization on the Air Council since 1940. She is a daughter of Mr. G. E. Greensill. Air Marshal Courtney joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1912, served with distinction in the 1914-18 war, and transferred to the R.A.F. in 1918. He has held many important Air Force ...

... KORDA'S GREAT ARABIAN NIGHTS OF THE SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT: GIANT DJINN, FLYING CARPET AND OTHER MARVELS OF THE THIEF OF BAGDAD. ABU, the seventeen-year-old Indian star as Abu, the Thief of Bagdad. Sabu making a desperate attempt to escape from the gigantic foot of the Djinn (REX INGRAM). MARY MORRIS as the beautiful but evil Halima who schemes to separate the lovers. Prince Ahmad and Abu ...

... - MR. CHARLES LAUGHTON --for going to press so deftly with Lincoln's address. CHIEF WARDEN W. H. PRESTON-- for making a ''plane detector out of household junk. MISS BARBARA SIMPSON, A.T.S. (here seen with SERGEANT BECKj for winning first prize in an Aldershot Bathing Beauty Parade. MR. DAVID WRIGHT for being the artist who draws the Services and for doing a New Year's series of Lovelies for ...

... . Like a lot of lis over here just note, MARY MARTIN looks cute playing a man's part. She has just finished Paramount' s 44 Love Thy Neighbour, which shows a proper Yuletide spirit in spite of the film's feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen. Her last film was 44 Rhythm on the River, with Bing Crosby, and you '11 remember she came to fame through her rendering of the song-hit, 44 My Heart ...

... WREN OFFICER AND A MODEL SHIP ASHORE. Standing by the model of H.M.S. Queen Charlotte on a lawn, 2ND OFFICER F. POTTER, W.R.N.S., Officer i/c. Recruiting at Portsmouth, symbolises the war status of women. Junior officers in the Royal Navy are to be released for sea service by officers of the Women's Royal Naval Service, who will replace them in administrative jobs ashore, and for staff' work. ...

... ORIGINAL OF THE GREAT DICTATOR-- AND HIS FATUOUS SMILE. This is not Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hyhkel, the Great Double Cross Dictator, ivith Billy Gilbert as Field Marshal Herring though you might well think so On the contrary, it 's a real, tahen-from-life snapshot of ADOLF HITLER and FELDMARSCHALL GOERING wearing the fatuous smiles of victory induced by the c'ollapse of France. The ...