... . 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 ...

... - TROOPS in the desert can keep up a high standard of smartness, owing to the enter prise of a native tailor, who car ries on his trade in a tent on the edge of a camp. He can mend a tear or run up a new suit of khaki drill as required. THE first prize in the London Balloon Barrage crews' national allotment com petition was won with vege tables grown from seeds sent over by Mrs. Roosevelt and ...

... . The Shakespeare Folio heirloom in the Gill family, presented by MAJOR E. W. B. GILL, Domestic Bursar of Merlon College, and MRS. GILL to the Library of Congress in Washington, was received at the Foreign Office by MR. R. K. LAW, Parliamentary Under-Secretary. The HON. ANNE YOUNGER, daughter of Viscount Younger of Leckie, is engaged to MR. GEOFFREY ALAN GAVIN, 6th Gurkha Rifles, son of Lieut. ...

... . THEIR MAJESTIES the KING and QUEEN drove from Buckingham Palace to No. 10, Downing Street one day last week, to lunch with the PRIME MINISTER and Mrs. Winston Churchill. They ivent alone, without Equerry or Lady-in- Waiting and though the visit had been kept secret, a crowd assembled in Whitehall and cheered them when they arrived. This admirable snapshot of the Sovereign, his Consort, and ...

... RAF. CONTROL ROOM FILM VERSION AND ARTIST'S VIEW. This is 'the CONTROL-ROOM OF AN R.A.F. STATION AS PRESENTED IN THE FILM 44 INTERNATIONAL SQUADRON,*' which was due to open at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, on October 31. A test pilot is supposed to be flying a bomber over to England. A thick fog surrounds the landing-field, and the order from the Control Room, which has kept in touch ...

... HERBERT TERRY SONS LTD. HERBERT TERRY SONS LTD. If you are not as fortunate as this UtUjfoffMSe owner we are sorry -but these fine lamps are now very scarce If you have an Anglepoise Lamp, treasure it, as only by hard searching in the shops will you be able to come across another. They are playing their part elsewhere which explains their scarcity. So we ask for your patience. A Terry's ...

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. 3 LILY ELSIE had London at her feet in 1907 when she appeared at Daly's as Sonia in Franz Lehar's Viennese musical comedy The Merry Widow and her name is always associated with the role. This is what she looks like to-day slender, decorative and youthful. Miss Elsie retired from the stage on her marriage to Ian Bullough in 1911, but returned in 1915, and tvas last ...

... . A.T.S. girls are given skilled instruction in driving, car maintenance and running re pairs to fit them to take the wheel of staff cars, ambu lances, lorries, and other transport. Here a Captain in the R.A.S.C. is giving volunteers instruction in the rule of the road with the aid of a model which looks like the loveliest toy ever in vented. It is complete with roundabouts, pedestrian cross ...

... HEAVENS A MAN, BY HAROLD WILLIAMSON. The 92nd Exhibition of the New English Art Club has just opened at the Suffolk Street Galleries, and is a most attractive show. It is true that it offers neither sensations nor shocks, but it presents a series of pictures of contemporary life rendered in many instances with poetic realism. There are com paratively fe iv war-pictures, some interesting ...

... BEYOND ALL DEMUR ARRESTINGLY GOOD-LOOKING This new portrait of MISS VIVIEN LEIGH, of G.W.T.W.--or Gone with the Wind has just been completed by David Jagger, and is for her husband, Laurence Olivier. Miss Leigh is on tour with the revival of G. B. Shaw's play The Doctor's Dilemma, in which she plays the leading role of Mrs. Dubedat. G.B.S.'s own description of his character, Mrs. Dubedal, ...