... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- ACT1NG CHIEF CONTROLLER JEAN KNOX, A.T.S., for being a woman of ideas who has become major= general at thirty=three. MRS. JEAN KNOX entered the A.T.S. as Company Commandant in 1939, before the ivar started. Last March, as Senior Commandant, she was appointed to the new post of ideas woman, to tour the country and lay before the War Office her suggestions for the ...

... : LESLIE HOWARD as the not- so-simple Professor Smith. The Professor looks at one of his treasured classical statues. Von Graum (FRANCIS SULLIVAN), the Gestapo chief is disturbed by the many mysterious escapes from the concentration camps. Left The scarecrow at the concentration camp plays a most impor tant part in the story. Left MARY MORRIS as LudmiUa, daughter of Koslowski a Polish ...

... THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES-- WITH JEAN ARTHUR. Hooper (EDMUND GWENN), the disagreeable manager of the store, upbraids Mary (JEAN ARTHUR) and Merrick (CHARLES COBURN). Complaints made by Merrick fail to impress the store bath-house attendant (FRANK MILLS). Mary at one moment believes Merrick to be a spy. Ifence she 's getting busy with a ski-hoot, the thing for fifth columnists Store-owner ...

... . 44 BLITHE SPIRIT, Noel Coward's new play at the Piccadilly is described by the author as an improbable farce. It is also very funny. Ruth (FAY COMPTON) is telling Madame Arcali. (MAR GARET RUTHERFORD) about Elvira who 44 started laughing helplessly at a R.B.C. musical concert and died of a heart attack Elvira was the first wife of Ruth's husband, Charles, and her spirit, conjured up at a ...

... SUNRAY PLEATING RETURNS I THE MODISH REDINGOTE CLASSIC BLACK FROCKS WOMEN IN WARTIME BLUE and WHITE MARGARET MARKS, Knightsbridge, has not overlooked the fact that summer is far from over. Therefore, she has contributed to this page the altogether charming crepe dress above with sunray pleated skirt finished with white collar and cuffs, the scheme being completed with a narrow belt. There are ...

... The Professor with Ludmilla (MARY MORRIS), David Maxwell (HUGH McDERMOTT), and the band who help him to rescue victims of the Gestapo. Ludmilla Koslowski (MARY MORRIS) is questioned by Von Graum, the vicious and cruel Gestapo chief. Vhe Cambridge professor, Pimpernel Smith, in conversation with the German Gestapo chief, humorless and ponderous Von Graum. Victims of Nazi cruelty tvorking under ...

... . MARLENE DIETRICH'S beauty is enhanced by the elaborate nineteenth-century finery which she tvears as Claire Ledoux, heroine of Rene Clair's netv film, 44 The Flame of Netv Orleans due at the Leicester Square Theatre on July 11. The period is 1841 and Valenciennes lace trimming, ospreys silver tinsel and curls are featured in the wardrobe of the fascinating adventuress who comes over to New ...

... . VISCOUNT NUFFIELD, in his uniform as Hon. Colonel of an anti-aircraft brigade, leaving the Palace after being invested with the G.B.E. MISS PAMELA GIBSON, younger daughter of Sir Kenneth and Lady Gibson, Avington Manor, Hunger- ford, is engaged to Captain R. G. Pollok-McCall the Black Watch. MRS. WELLINGTON K00r wife of the new Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain. She was formerly Countess ...

... PRETTILY PLAY- SUITED ROBERTA. ROBERTA HUBY is well suited by her play-suit made with zipped shorts and a sailor collar. She *s starring opposite to Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch in the Gaumont-British Gainsborough comedy 44 I Thank You. She 's a gifted young actress who will be remembered for her appearance in the second edition of 44 Swinging the Gate, and as principal girl in the ...

... NOT-SO- USUAL NEWS ITEMS. A ducking is imminent for nurse An amusing study of the victor and the vanquished in the slippcry-polc event at a hospital sports day somewhere in England. The audience are registering much pleasure DIANA HARE, daughter of Robertson Hare, was Puck in the Webber-Douglas Brockhill House production of 44 A Midsummer Night's Dream. Screen star CONSTANCE BENNETT recently ...

... ROUND THE CLOCK, BY THE PAY CORPS. The Guard Room a Dream is one of the gay and amusing numbers of ROUND THE CLOCK, the Pay Corps revue. BLONDIE, KITTY and LOIS arc the girls of Three in Harmony a musical number. The Army Pay Corps revue cast has revealed much talent. Here, for instance, are Les Girls. All Bliss and Bcvin Too her last morning before joining the Bevin girls for National ...

... . Chi-chi de 1930. 2. The house of pleasure. 1. Oisive jeunesse. 4. The glamour age DOLORES DEL RIO. 5. The VICOMTESSE DE NOAiy.ES catches the photographer's eye. 6. Significant form. 7. Moroccan flypaper. 8. Contemporary ballet. 9. A summer before the war. 10. Exiles of the war evacuated from the East End. 11. LILY LANGTRY the late Lady de Bathe). 12. Musician LORD BERNERS. The Cecil Beaton ...