... . CLAUDETTE COLBERT, here sunning herself by the blue Pacific can only enjoy such relaxation for very short spells. When the snap teas taken she had just finished 44 Arise My Love, and teas having a short holiday before starting on 44 Skylark. 44 Arise My Love is the new Paramount picture which is to follow 44 North- West Mounted Police, at the Carlton. Claudette takes the part of a ...

... - THE Military Medal has been conferred on ACTING- CORPORAL JOAN HEARN-AVIS, W.A.A.F. The London Gazette states that, during an enemy air attack, several heavy bombs fell alongside a block where she was working alone controlling telephones. Every window was blown in, and one of the main walls of two rooms was badly cracked. Throughout, Corporal Hearn-Avis remained at her post in a building ...

... ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS INCLUDING BRIDES, BRIDEGROOMS, WAR-WORKERS, AND THE NEW CHIEF WHIP AND HIS WIFE. Hfti' JL *1 JSJ MISS TINA BURNETT (left) and MISS P. GLYNNE-PERCY, Mechanised Transport Corps drivers serving with the British-American Red Cross ambulances, spent their afternoon off duty at Nottingham Races. Right CAPTAIN the HON. JAMES GRAY STUART, M.V.O., M.C., M.P., has been appointed ...

... THE R.A.S.C.'S OWN PANTO.- ALADDIN AT SOUTHERN COMMAND GARRISON THEATRE. THE Army chose the ever-popular story of 44 ALADDIN for its own panto., produced by the ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS in the Southern Command Garrison Theatre, which they buil t themselves. The scenery was designed by Driver L. G. Piggott, the I architect stage manager, j and painted by an officer who is a peacetime artist, j ...

... SUITS AND THEIR f SWEATERS WOMEN who are doing civilian war work find I that a tailored suit makes a very practical uniform. The I model on the right is made by Aquascutum, 100, Regent Street, in grey Harris tweed, but they will copy it in various materials and colours. The high-buttoned jacket shows the new longer I line, without exaggeration, and the skirt is designed for action. OpHIS year ...

... LADY STANLEY OF ALDERLEY-- EDWARDIAN. Upholstered and braided in baroque Edwardian manner, LADY STANLEY OF ALDERLEY twiddles two carnations as she sits pensively with her Pekingese. The tableau breathes the quiet times of Edward the Peacemaker, and goes back to days when we didn't expect to wake, up to a time- bomb in the village street or H.E. in the neighbourhood. The costume is a period ...

... LONDON'S GAY WOODEN SHOP WINDOWS The plate glass was blitzed out of ihis florist's window, hut it looks decorative with one tiny square of glass and the picture of a bride with her bouquet painted on the boarding. A painted Victorian canopy adorns the wooden I boards which replace the expanse of glass which I teas blown away from the Red Cross shop. j Some shops which still have unshattered ...

... . The HON. PAMELA BERRY and the HON. MRS. LANGTON ILIFFE, formerly Miss Renee Merandon du Plessis. Right MISS DELIA INNES (right) and LADY j MARY CAMBRIDGE were two of the three brides- j maids. They wore scarlet velvet dresses. MRS. ALARIC RUSSELL, MISS VAN RAALTE, the HON. PRISCILLA SCOTT-ELLIS, LADY ANN ELLIOT, and MR. SLESSOR (I. to r.). LADY ROSEMARY JEFFREYS, sister of the i Earl of ...

... r RUINED BEAUTY OF OUR GREAT CITY- AN INDICTMENT OF NAZI METHODS. I CHURCH, SQUARE AND STEEPLE j AS THE FIRE RAIDERS HAVE LEFT THEM. The vicar contemplates the ruin. All that remains of a City church whose west window survived the fire of 1666. View of St. PauVs to-day. Wren's mi nnding amid a waste of destruction. PHOTOGRAPH! i Y ieaton*. It is impossible to contemplate the City of I.ondot ...

... FREEDOM RADIO THE FILM THAT MIGHT WELL BE TRUE. PREEDOM RADIO, one of the most eagerly awaited British films, a Two-Cities Columbia picture directed by Anthony Asquith, comes to the Regal on January 24. It deals with the inception and development of an actual anti-Nazi organisation, the famous German Freedom Radio station, and might well be a true tale of romance, heroism and tragedy. Dr. ...

... T^IANA WYNYARD has the opportunity of appearing in some lovely .7„and becoming period costumes as Irena, the actress heroine of FREEDOM RADIO, the exciting topical Two-Cities Columbia picture due at the Regal on January 24. Irena honestly believes the Nazi regime to be a fine and ideal New Order, and to the horror of her husband°accepts a post as Reich Director of Pageantry. But when her ...

... DO YOU RECOGNISE YOUR OLD FAVOURITES IN BLITZ PRODUCED QUIET WEDDING Janet (MARGARET LOCKWOOD), the bride-elect, seems -dissatisfied with the coming wedding. Her father, Arthur (A. E. MATTHEWS), is trying to find out what *s wrong. Lady Yeldham (MARGARET HALSTON), in her pony trap, stops to chat with the garrulous Florence (JEAN CADELL). The First Little Man (IVOR BARNARD) and Madame Mirelle ...