... . THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED, the new RKO Radio adaptation of the late Sidney Howard'1 s Pulitzer Prize play, comes to the Plaza on January 3. CHARLES LAUGHTON plays Tony, stout, rich, plain and lovable Californian vine-grower. CAROLE LOMBARD is the lovely penurious waitress. She is having a painful scene with her enraged landlady, RICCA ALLEN. Her financial troubles induce her to accept ...

... NEW year needs AT HOME AND OH SERVICE f the h*eW YSfT material f°r H^v>^^S£|Slf SS there should he n one uniform and a- .=e appremate Covent Garden. every detail. and as they lete your King -f iw cut and correct m isingly short can easily pUcation. beautifully cur in a sur d sbirts, y sent on ayp of the women g 5 Eluding g£ *gj prices, v,ould rigblaCArSstrated booklet, 1 outfit. An WOMEN B \N ...

... Air Power Dominafes all the Movements and Strategical Shifts and Turns of the Belligerents, and even Patterns the everyday Life of the Peoples who Live in big Cities under its Shadow By C. Patrick Thompson A FULL harvest moon glowing in a clear night sky lighted the way for the grey -green men moving quietly up to the barges. Their gear was already aboard: light artillery, anti-aircraft and ...

... : i 'Reviewed, by SNoel Jhompson IT is natural, I suppose, that this war becomes a dividing line, a dating line, for histories and autobiographies. How could it be otherwise when the war period itself and anything that may come afterwards must be in a new world from what has gone before. To some people, too, the war has meant the clean break and the enforced change necessary before pen can be ...

... 1 By Louisa Kay Here it is again, the New Year. The time for looking forward, for making plans, plans for what? It depends on one's outlook, whether resolutions are worth while or not. Some say they are not. It is true the vista is obscured. How can we look forward? How make plans, least of all how make resolutions for a future so problematical? Others take the view that the future, being so ...

... mm What lies ahead for your home you how to traee the course of January to December. Remember in the home as elsewhere, it is wise Here is the table of fortune showing: events in the coming: months, from that forewarned is forearmed and, to be ready for everything: that comes AQUARIUS: January 21. Outlook generally overcast. Initiative is at low ebb, but you will be well advised to make an ...

... WITH MO APOLOGIES A f -J!! BJ iniftei What you and I and every woman wants most of all at this moment is a rest from it all. To admit it is far from being guilty of defeatism. It is just true that we yearn for escape from anxiety and trouble. All of us react differently, but it is a pretty safe bet that the average woman, given the chance, would let everything go and relieve her feelings in an ...

... Take your pair to the nearest optician displaying the Ministry of Supply poster. There is one near you. HE IS GIVING HIS SERVICES FREE. OR you can post them to the Binocular Officer, 191 Regent St., London, W.i. Attach a label giving your name and address. If you want to give your binoculars, mark the label Gift. On you alone this man depends he is the skipper of a mine-sweeper and he is ...

... Charles Laughton in a New Film They Knew What They Wanted is the name of Charles Laughton's new film, made in Hollywood by 11 K O under Carson Kamn s direction. Carole Lombard is the girl in the story which is n limit 1 r r (Laughton) who proposes to a pretty young waitress (Lombard) by letter and encloses a photogranh ofhls good-looking hired hand (William Gargan). She marries the fainter, ...

... ttLuintiL Charlie's Great Mistake By James Agate IT is an open secret that The Great Dictator has not been an unqualified success in America. This is a wonderful world, and perhaps the most wonderful thing in it at the moment is the fact that America's objections to the Chaplin film have been largely aesthetic. It is urged that what has been a work of art is, at the end, forcibly turned into ...

... Control By Pamela Murray THAT future shipments of war relief com modities will be controlled according to the demand is excellent news for those who only want us to get what we need as quickly as possible, but it has caused con sternation among socialites who were working mainly for réclame. Their rival pet causes will come under this central control, which has already made it known that ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Courage Green Maurice Vandeleur Courage of the Malt House Chipping Warden, Oxon, son of Lieut. -Colonel and Mrs. Miles Courage, of Preston House, Basingstoke, and lone Betty Green of 4, Por Chester Gate, W. 2, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Green were married at Chelsea Old Church W illis T ennant Captain J. H. Willis, M ...