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... Engaged the Hon. Priscilla Brett Harlif) The engagement is announced of the Hon. Priscilla Leonie Helen Brett, youngest daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Esher of Wathngton Park. Oxon., to Sir Martyn Beckett. Bt„ Welsh Guards of Kirkdale Manor, Nawton Yorkshire. He is the son of the late Hon. Sir Gervase Beckett 'and of Lady Marjor.e Beckett; succeeded in 19.37 is a cousin of the Earl of ...
... Gunman by choice is Gary Cooper who has a fine collection of pistols and revolvers of all sizes and periods. His passion is big- game hunting, and that 's what he does whenever he has long enough between pictures to go that far. He has just finished work on a new film called 44 Meet John Doe, in which Barbara Stanwyck is the girl friend Gunman by profession on the screen that is is Humphrey ...
... P By Pamela Murray A( Government House THE Duke and Duchess of Windsor saw the New Year in at a dance for war charities at the Jungle Club, which does not live up to its name. The decor is about as savage as the Midland Hotel, Manchester. The Duchess wore a summery white dress, trimmed with her favourite deep blue. In cidentally, she bought it in Paris before the war. The American Press enjoys ...
... By Richard King Ghosts and Their Meaning As one grows older one revises one's scale of sins. Mostly I am not to-day in the least shocked by the kind of conduct which used to send shudders right down my grandmother's back if one so much as approached within a hundred miles of the subject. Though most people, I believe, improve with the years-- and, if they don't, then it is an outrage to live ...
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... Steeplechasinp The Plumpton Meeting near Lewes Roman Chief nearest the camera Peaceful Walter and Fair Outlook take the first fence in the Click- field Handicap Steeplechase the race in which an unfortunate accident occurred. Roman Chief, ridden by S. Mfagee, was close behind Tweedledee II. t winner of the race, when a car crossed the course. Roman Chief crashed into it, broke a leg and had to ...
... -/4 By Sabretache A Great Jockey GENERAL WAVELL has never made a hobby of riding races, but what a great jockey has obviously been denied to the turf! He is a Sam Chifney and a Fred Archer rolled into one. Chifney was the great exponent, and the originator, of the pause, that split second of balance which results in the storage of energy which enables a horse to go just a little bit faster ...
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... By Foresight Admirals at the Helm CONTROL of French affairs is passing more and more into the hands of the Navy. After eight or nine Cabinet changes since Marshal Pétain first formed his Government, Admiral Darlan is found occupying nearly as many ministries as once were held by Mussolini in his Fascist State. Admiral Darlan is now Vice-Premier, Minister of Marine, Foreign Minister and ...
... The Week's Big Fight Bijou v. Little Ned in the Dietrich Film Seven Sinners Seven Sinners puts Marlene Dietrich among the South Sea Islands and its roughs and toughs (mostly with hearts of gold) as a cafe singer with a most remarkable pro pensity for sending men fighting mad. But a fight is no spectator-sport for her she is generally in the middle of it, and has a grand set-L >f her own when a ...
... Laurence Olivier in 44 49th Parallel Laurence Olivier got back from Hollywood a month or so ago and went straight into 49th Parallel the big film being made with Ministry of Information co-operation. The setting is a Canadian one and two units have been out there to shoot sequences in the wilds. Michael Powell is directing, and in the cast are Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook, ...