... . 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 ...

... . LIEUT. -COLONEL J. T. C. MOORE-BRABAZON, P.C., M.C., M.P., became Minister of Transport iri October. His Free Lifts scheme, under which motorists receive an extra ration of petrol if able to help neighbours by driving them to and from their London offices, has proved a big success. He is a pioneer motorist and aviator, a great Cresta rider, and a golfer. He won the Circuit des Ardennes motor ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- HOW TO BE STARCHY AND HOW TO UNBEND- BY CAROLE LOMBARD AND ROBERT MONTGOMERY. y 1 1 THE SQUADRON COMMANDER on the left of this group of pilots for taking the Christmas cake, for his Messerschmitt hat-trick. LIEUT. DON BRADMAN-- for getting two pips and a duck in the same year. Left MR. KRUGER GRAY for being the designer of the King's own Cross and Medal. Right THESE ...

... PRINCIPAL GIRL FOR MOTHER GOOSE. Q LOIS DAVIS is Jill, the principal girl for Prince Hitler's pantomime, Mother Goose, produced at Streatham Hill on December 26 for a four-weeks season. Stanley Lupino plays the title-rSle, and Hal Bryan is Idle Jack while Jean Carr is Colin and Marian Gerth Gretchen. London's other Pantos, are, Aladdin at the Coliseum, and at Golders Green and Mother Goose ...

... A PICTORIAL RECORD OF GILRERT SULLIVAN OPERAS A PICTORIAL RECORD OF GILRERT SULLIVAN OPERAS iiis 48-page pictorial record of the Gilbert and Sullivan ieras, published by THE SPHERE, deals com. ehensively with the most popular of the famous Operas, il the new stars, as well as the established favour. >es, are featured in their own particidar roles and MANY AGES IN FULL COLOUR SHOWING SCENERY ...

... ONE could not wonder at any rate, nobody did wonder that Cheng should have been smitten by Rosie, since Rosie was a rare item in the London scene. One can go about London all day for a week and seldom see a living creature. Millions of animated phantoms pass along, but only when one of the Rosies flashes by does one realise the meaning of being alive. Rosie was unmistakably alive. She was ...

... HAVE YOU SEEN HER DANCE AS THE HUNGARIAN PEASANT CZARDAS? DEANNA DURBIN OINE OF SPRING PARADE. j DEANNA DURBIN, the young singing star of the screen, produces a new accomplishment in SPRING PARADE, the Universal picture which was due at the JV# a ,ery on .January for in the opening sequences she gives a spirited rendering of the Czardas a well-known Hungarian peasant dance. Here she is ...

... SHEFFIELD'S STARRY CINDERELLA.' CINDERELLA, the panto, at the Sheffield Empire, has a very starry cast. FRED EMNEY as Baron Mumm puts over some topical jokes. I FRED EMNEY'S burlesque dance is one of the laughter-making numbers. JACK BUCHANAN, the well-known actor and film-star, takes the part of Buttons his pantomime debut. The Fairy Godmother (NUALA BARRIE) appearing to the disconsolate ...

... . I he HON. MRS. CLAUDE NICHOLSON ,s the wife of Brigadier Claude Nicholson, commander of the small B.E.F. force which so heroically defended Calais in the dark days of June, when the British Army was in jeopardy after the collapse of Belgium. The Prime Minister described this epic defence in glowing words Brigadier Nicholson, who is now a prisoner of uar in Germany, is forty-two years of age. ...

... . Jenny (ANNE GWYNNE) surprised to learn that, on her first evening in Vienna, the peasant Ilonka (DEANNA DURBIN) has a date with a soldier. C. XX J j DEANNA DURBIN, as Ilonka Tolnay the peasant girl in the lovely dress she wears for the Emperor's ball in Vienna. Ilonka and Jenny, the bakehouse girls, come back to the shop after their evening out in gay Vienna. Ilonka and Laci Teschek the ...