... - MOUSTACHES are allowed in the Army and the R.A.F. but 110 I beards, except one that owned by WING COMMANDER GASKELL- BLACKBURN, who obtained special I permission to wear it. MISS EVELYN HARMER, who at the age of sixteen has been awarded the British Empire Medal, is a telephone operator who was employed by a South ampton coal company. During an intense daylight air raid she remained on duty. ...

... MISS CLAIRE LUCE led Canadian soldiers in Manning Sherwin's song 44 When Eagles Fly dedicated to the R.A.F.'s Eagle Squadron, when she broadcast to the U.S.A. from the Eagle Club. The HON. AUDREY PAGET, third daughter of Lord Queenborough, is a member of the Mechanised Transport Corps, which is doing such splendid voluntary work in London and the provinces. The engagement of FLIGHT LIEUT. ...

... . LORD OGILVY, son and heir of the Earl of Airlie. wearing Highland dress, gave a Cull den Moor song at the Children's Concert at Cortachy in aid of war-wounded. L r r r rr n -_aa rrrrrrrrrrrnn r r r i I r DR. PATRICK E)ENNIS SPENCE, R.A.F., of Queenstown, South Africa a the well-known lawn-tennis player, married MISS JOYCE VALERIE ROBSON at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Shejfield. ...

... A victorious New Year to us all This is the wish we voice on the first of January 1941 and this joyous and confident young dancer expresses the spirit of freedom and vitality which will help us to win. She is Marjorie Mallin, of the Radio City Music Hall Corps de Ballet America's only resident ballet ensemble. PHOTOGRAPH BY COSMO-SILEO. ...

... I ou can almost hear the cheers, so vivid is this impression of officers and ratings of the Royal Naty in a moment of splendid exhilaration! The picture is one of the fine photographs in the exhibition of pictorial work by the camera by the President of the Royal Photographic Society, F. J. MORTIMER, HON. F.R.P,S F-R S.A., which will remain open at the Society's Gallery, 16, Prince's Gate, S. ...

... T^HE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE'S COMMITTEE have just delivered themselves of their opinion as to which are the twelve stars who have made the greatest contribution to the cinema at crucial points in its history. Ihey are the actors and actresses depicted on this page, and it is interesting to note that although some of them are dead, the majority continue to wield an important influence on the ...

... KATHARINE HEPBURN has been given the annual award of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (com monly known in the film world as an 44 Oscar for the best individual piece of acting of 1940, for her performance in 44 Philadelphia Story. This fdm, which has not yet been seen in England, is based on the play by Philip Barry, in which Miss Hepburn scored such a big success on the New ...

... . These beautiful studies are taken from the fine set of thirty-two pictures by JASON just published by Chapman and Hall in the volume BLONDE AND BRUNETTE. They were made to illustrate the contrast between the typical English type of the blonde models, and the almost Hawaiian and French types of the brunettes. J5KMESiSB mm LIP SERVICE. ELEVENSES. WATER BABY. BEAUTY AT THE PROW. ...

... . MIKI HOOD was one of the artists who appeared at a special slap-up Christmas show organised by young Jimmy Woolf, son of C. M. Woolf for his R.A.F. buddies at a camp in England. In the front row of the stalls a satisfied group j including WING-COM MANDER WARDMAN, AIR MARSHAL BARRETT and AIR COMMODORE COLE- HAMILTON. Right CAROL LYNNE singing at the mike during the performance which ivas ...

... , JEAN FORBES-ROBERTSON in her original idle of Helen Pettigreic, the girl who falls in love with a modern man who has 44 stepped back into the eighteenth century. Helen Pettigrew gazes into the eyes of Peter Standish, and realises that by some strange magic he is a man who has strayed into her life from the future. Mr. Throssel (TARVER PENNA), terrified by the strange stories which Peter ...

... THE RAF. OUT OF THE BLUE AT CAMBRIDGE. 44 OUT OF THE BLUE, in aid of R.A.F. charities at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge. PILOT OFFICER WATERALL better known as Ronnie Waters sang 44 You Should See Me Dance the Polka. with an Edwardian Beauty Chorus. A Ballet Divertissement by A.C.'S IRISH, RAMSEY, THOMPSON, SMITH, WISEMAN and MAYGOTHLING was one of the numbers in the show which was devised ...

... ESCAPE'S COUNTESS AND HER LOVERS-- AMERICAN AND NA7I In Germany, Mark Preysing (ROBERT TAYLOR), son of Emmy Ritter, meets the Countess (NORMA SHEARER), whom he knew in America. Mark, desperately worried over the terrible fate which threatens his mother, finds balm in the company of the charming Countess. The Countess, much attracted by the young American, Mark, risks her whole life in order to ...