... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WITH due respect to its stars, Claudette Col bert, Ray Milland and Brian Aherne, I would say that SKY LARK (Plaza) owes its chief success to Walter Abel. Come to think of it, a lot of films have owed a lot of their success to Walter Abel. Again and again this clever stage-actor has appeared in character parts that covered weaknesses of plot and lack of distinction in the ...

... FLEET AIR ARM IN ACTION: SHIPS WITH WINGS. Ships with wings, due at the Gaumont, Haymarket, ou November 9, shows us the Fleet Air Arm in action. Many of the scenes were taken on board an aircraft-carrier, and officers and men of the Fleet Air Arm co operated in the thrilling active- service sequences. The controversy over the use of big guns or big 'planes in war provides drama, and the ...

... THE WESTERN DESERT BLOSSOMS WITH LONDON- VARIETIES. AN EXCELLENT programme of vaudeville recently arrived in the Middle East in order to make the desert blossom with entertainment for troops in camp. The show is known as London Varieties of 1941, and is one of the E.N.S.A. companies of the entertainments branch of the N.A.A.F.I. Alice Delysia tops the bill, and numbers are given by many ...

... BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS IN TRAINING A Special New Series Taken During the Tast Few Days at an English Training Centre A visit a few days ago to a Parachute Troop Training Centre has produced the fine set of pictures presented to our readers on this and the following pages. The men are prepared for j 'killed and daring work by instructors of both the Army and the Royal Air Force, and their ...

... OFFICER PRISONERS, SOME IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES WITH IDENTIFICATION PATCHES, being exercised on the battleship s quarter-deck during the voyage !E OF THE CAPTURED ITALIAN SEAMEN, under close guard, parade on the deck for rcise. For these men the war is now over and it does not appear that they resent it LIGHT EXERCISE FOR GERMANS AND ITALIANS Scrubbing wire hawsers on the upper a work to which the ...

... THE ROADS TO MOSCOW AHD THE OIL CENTRES On left It was at Borodino that the Russians checked Napoleon's advance on September 7, 1812. The battle was a desperate one, resulting in huge casualties. The Russians occupied the foreground, being placed on rising ground facing them, and separating General Koutousoff's army from the French, was a deep ravine. The main road from Smolensk to Moscow also ...

... If and When We Invade Enemy Territory, the Role of the R.A.F. will be a Very Important One EVERY day on which the weather is favourable squadrons of the Fighter Command of the R.A.F. fly out on the offensive over France. A year ago the Battle of Britain was drawing to its close-- the Fighter Command had triumphed in defence. Now the R.A.F. is building up a solid foundation of offensive tactics ...

... Shiga With Wings Has The Ark Royal As Star Player hips With Wings is gratefully idicated to H.M.S. Ark Royal, 1 which many of its scenes ere taken, and to the officers rid men of the Fleet Air Arm, hose keen and generous assist- nce made the production pos- ble. Apart from this special terest, the film includes in its ory a spy, an admiral's aughter, a cabaret star, some >ung men in love, ...

... Wedding Doctor Charles Fletcher and the Hon. Louisa Seely Were Married at Winchester Cathedral Little Jane Henley was the only bridesmaid to her godmother. Here she is with her mother, Mrs. Joseph Henley, and a friend. Mrs. Henley was Miss Daphne Wykeham before her 1934 marriage and is a niece of Lord Mottistone Captain the Hon. Patrick Seely, R.A., is Lord Mottistone1 s second son, and the ...

... By Pamela Murray Lord Inverclyde Signals to Hollywood Lord (ALAN) INVERCLYDE, Chairman of the British Sailors' Society, Scottish Branch, recently enlisted your corre spondent as go-between Caledonia and Cali fornia to collect signed photographs of cele brities for auction in the Free Gift Shop which volunteers, convened by Sheila Carlaw, are running at 43, Hope Street, Glasgow, C.2. After ...

... In a Seventeenth Century Setting Mrs. Alfred Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Her Little Girls Major and Mrs. Alfred Tennyson d'Eyn court have given up their home, Bayons Manor, in Lincolnshire, for war purposes, and last year Boyletts, an old timbered cottage near Chobham, became the head quarters of Mrs. Tennyson d'Eyncourt and her children. Major Tennyson d'Eyn court is in the Coldstream Guards, and ...

... By Oliver Stewart Major Mysteries THE war work of fitting square pegs into round holes goes forward with unexampled vigour and with it also the no less (or more) essential work of removing round pegs from round holes and grinding them down to a fine powder. It was gratifying, at this moment of life-and- death struggle, to note that one of the most able and experienced high ranking officers of ...