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... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON*. H. G. WELLS, seventy-five-y car-old author, has had an amazingly prolific literary cur err and is still going strong. Since his first books 44 Select Conversations With an Uncle, 44 The Time Machine, 44 The Stolen Bacillus and Other Stories, were published in 1895, he has put forth a steady stream of stimu luting and controversial writings, many of them ...

... REAL-LIFE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS STORY-- WITHOUT GLAMOUR! HERE 'S to-day s real life South Seas island story, with out glamour, but with plenty of courage about it. In December Nazi raiders landed several hundred people, among them seventy seven women and children, on the tiny island of Emiru, in the South Pacific. They were survivors from ships sunk by the raider's guns. Aided by natives they put ...

... . MR. WATERSON, High Commissioner for S. Africa, MRS. WATERSON and MRS. MIDDLETON, wife of the Joint-Master of the Enfield Hunt toast the mobile canteen presented by a S.A. Ladies 9 Hockey Union. COLONEL SYMONDS, Chief Technical I Officer, Fire Prevention Executive, shoics I MISS MURIEL PAVLOW the latest type of incendiary bomb. AIR-RAID WARDEN MISS J. AUCUTT giving a demonstration of how to ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO-- THE LUPINOS, for fcd„3 th Royal Family of C,.sp^ and in four hundred years travelling from the stocks to the stars. LUPINOS AND LANES AND BRITANNIA HOXTON TRADITION. Traditional clown JOSEPH GRIMALDI, Drury Lane, 1795. Tradition carried on GEORGE LUPINO as a clown, Drury Lane, 1912. Seventeenth-century French Punchinello, which, as a puppet show, was brought to England ...

... WEDDINGS, ENGAGEMENTS, RACING, AND U.S.A. AID TO THE ALLIES The HON. JEAN WILLIAMSON, only daughter of Lord and Lady Forres of Gleno- gil Lodge, Angus, is engaged to Fit. Lieut. Longmore, son of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. FLT. LT. W. J. LONGMORE, R.A.F., son of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, C.-in-C. R.A.F., Middle East is engaged to the Hon. Jean Williamson. Right LADY ...

... . FRED ASTAIRE, famous screen dancer, has a home in Beverly Hills, but spends much of each year at Aiken, S.C., where his wife's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Worthington Bull, own a large and charming estate. Here Fred Astaire plotted his routines for his forthcoming picture, 44 Second Chorus, and recently repeated them and gave some new ones for the benefit of Life's photographer, ...

... THE MAN I MARRIED WITH JOAN BENNETT AND FRANCIS LEDERER. Carol (JOAN BENNETT) and Eric (FRANCIS LEDERER) arrive in Germany with their son, Rickey (JOHNNY RUSSELL). Eric is a German-American revisiting his old country. Frieda (ANNA STEN), the Nazi girl, provokes a quarrel between Eric and Carol. Carol seeks counsel and help from the American Embassy and meets Kenneth Delane (LLOYD NOLAN). ...

... . MRS. RONALD CROSS, wife of the Minister of Shipping, had the excellent idea of organising a show of British-designed hats at the Ritz Hotel in aid of the Comforts Fund for the Merchant Navy. Half the price of each hat sold was devoted to the cause. MISS JACQUELINE CRAVEN wearing a royal blue coque-feather toque, with a chiffon shawl scarf to match. Left LADY MARGUERITE STRICKLAND adjusting ...

... . BETTY GRABLE plays Lily Blanc in 20th Century- Fox's new picture, Tin Pan Alley. ALICE FAYE takes the part of Katie Blane in Tin Pan Alley ichich tvas due at the Regal on February 3. _ Tin Pan Alley, new 20th Century-Fox Picture, with Jack Oakic, John Payne, Betty Grable and Alice Faye, was due on Monday last at the Regal. It 's a gay, light-hearted musical picture which offers, to quote ...

... . JESSIE MATTHEWS is Birmingham's principal boy, and plays the title-role in Emile Littler's Aladdin, at the Prince of Wales's Theatre of that city, with grace, gaiety and humour. She 's a delightful dancer and puts her songs over in real pantomime manner. Sonnie Hale is the Widotc Twankey, and the production is both spectacular and full of good fun in classic panto, stvle. PHOTOGRAPH BY H. J ...

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