... YOUTH AND PEP BY FRED AND PAULETTE. FRED ASTAIRE, the King of Dance has a new Queen in Paramount' s 44 SECOND CHORUS, which is due at the Plaza on April 11. Fred plays college band leader Danny O'Neil, PAULETTE GODDARD is ex-secretary dancer Ellen Miller and in our still they are shown xvith BURGESS MEREDITH (right), who makes his comedy debut in this picture as Hank Taylor. He will be ...

... . When FLIGHT SERGEANT HARRY KING, R.A.F., went to the Investiture to receive his B.E.M. his little son HARRY, came too, in leading strings. When the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, SIR KINGSLEY WOOD. set out for the House on Budget Day, LADY WOOD made sure that the fastenings of the box containing his secrets were secure. j i MR. VINCENT MASSEY presented the Massey Trophy to the captain of the ...

... . CLARK GABLE and HEDY LAMARR have splendid parts in 44 COMRADE X, the Russian spy picture due at the Empire last week. Here they are in a love-scene sequence of this exciting film, full of secret police intrigue, murder blackmail, and escape from the death cell combined with a good spice of romance. ...

... PERSONALITIES- ACTUAL AND PICTORIAL AT THE LAVERY SHOW. MISS FRANCES CLARE and MR. EUGENE DICKERS, the Belgian baritone. MISS THELMA CAZALET, M.P., this year's buyer for the Contemporary Art Society. PAVLOVA AS THE DYING SWAN, 1912; by the late Sir John Lavery, R.A. The DOWAGER LADY SWAYTHLING looks at Sir John Lavery and Shirley Temple 1936. THE COUNTESS OF OXFORD AND ASQUITH, 1932 by the ...

... HOW TO PUT YOUR GAS-MASK ON-- BY THE PREMIER'S DAUGHTER. Position' one put the thumbs under the head-harness. Position two from another angle. Position two mash held up and chin well forward. m Position three how to draw the straps bach over the head. _ ]y[ISS SARAII CHURCHILL, in private life Mrs. Vic. Oliver, second daughter of the Prime Minister and Mrs. Winston Churchill, is here giving a ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME THIS SPRING MANY women, who no longer have time to play games, are finding sports clothes a practical answer to the problem of what to wear for war work out of uniform. Lillywhites, of Piccadilly Circus, have an attractive collection of simple frocks in light-weight woollen materials, including the model above. This has a yoked action back, triangular pocket flaps, and a belt ...

... BREWED BOTTLED BY 'WHITBREAD CO., LTD. BREWED BOTTLED BY 'WHITBREAD CO., LTD., MORE POPULAR THAN EVER I IN the Mess, in Hotels, Restaurants and Bars no less than in the Home the call is for Whitbread s superh P ale Ale. Brewed from British hops and barley; appetising, refreshing, stimu= lating V^hithread s superb Pale Ale is more popular than ever. WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE LONDON, E.C.I. ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- The lorna doone, peacetime pleasure-boat, 1891-1941, now H.M. Paddle Minesweeper, was bombed and machine-gunned by three Dornier 215's recently. She itnmediately attacked them with all her guns one 'plane caught fire and, losing height rapidly, was considered to be destroyed. A second was badly- hit the third machine made off in the haze. Jn the top left photo graph ...

... . In our issue dated April 2 tve published a splendid series of photographs of bomber pilots before and after making a raid over enemy territory. The equally fine pictures in this issue form a pendant, as they illustrate the programme of a fighter pilot's day, and show how these magnificent young men prepare to go up and engage the enemy. Here a pilot is adjusting the all-important parachute ...

... PROGRAMME OF A FIGHTER PILOT'S DAY BEFORE AND AFTER THE COMBAT. In flying kit, and awaiting instructions a group of fighter pilots at readiness. Talking it over after a fight young pilots exchange experiences. PHOTO ...

... V asiliev, Secret Police Chief (OSCAR HOMOLKA), McKinley B. Thompson Mac (CLARK GABLE), and Emil von Hofer (SIG RUMANN) in a tense scene. Mac is playing a dangerous game. Mac (CLARK GABLE) has been forced into trying to induce Theodore (HEDY LAMARR), a convinced Communist who is, however in danger to come to the U.S.A. CLARK GABLE as McKinley B. Thompson known as 44 Mac,** the American ...

... THE KING WITH HIS TROOPS; WEDDINGS; ENGAGEMENT AND NOTABLE PEOPLE A PICTORIAL SURVEY OF WARTIME LIFE. A shell is screaming overhead while GENERAL ALEXANDER, G.O.C. Southern Command points out its flight to the KING and QUEEN at a forward observation post. Her Majesty has stopped her ears to minimise the big bang. Right MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD, Britain's new High Commissioner in Canada, recently ...