... . 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 ...

... BY CAMERA. A CROQUET MATCH AT THE DUKE OF RICHMOND'S CASTLE, in 1867 44 f£te CHAMP£TRE, 1869 A picnic in the Victorian Era. WHISKERED AND TOP-HATTED CHIC A fashionable man in 1858. HUMOUR AND ROMANCE A charade immortalised by camera. Double-breasted jacket and velvet collar A YOUNG MAN in the dress of 1867. BICYCLING BLOOMERS A sporting girl of 1890. A HAT FASHION OF 1861. A LONDON SLUM BOY, ...

... - -BY PAINT-BRUSH. 44 A FAMILY GROUP-- THE CONNOISSEUR; by an Unknown Artist (about 1810). 44 THE COOKE FAMILY; by DAVID HENRY PARRY (1793-1826) from Mr. Sonde's house in Devonshire 44 THE SHOEMAKERS by an early nineteenth- century artist. (This picture represents Edward Pattison's shop, 129, Oxford Street.) 44 MRS. STONE WITH HER DAUGHTER, who married Mr. Morreit, seated in a 4 Chaise 1 ...

... . Young Jonathan Reynolds (ROBERT CUMMINGS) introduces Anne (DEANNA DURBIN) as his fiancee to his dying father (CHARLES LAUGHTON). Dr. Harvey (WALTER CATLETT) is fixing the lamp. This bed thy centre Shooting CHARLES LAUGHTON in his four-poster with ROBERT CUMMINGS and DEANNA DURBIN beside him. The family jewels are handed over to the bogus fiancee. Anne is embarrassed by the gift, and young ...

... in a great tradition You must leave your parents and home as she has done. You must come out of your offices and workrooms, out of highly paid jobs and humble jobs. You must come into the Army and help the men who did not question that they should help their country. It was the common man of the free countries rising in all his glory out of mill, office, factory, mine, farm and shop who ...

... MOSS BROS MOSS BROS Ladies into Uniform We added all that we knew of ladies' tailoring (a great deal) to all that we knew about officers' uniforms (almost everything). The result, though strictly conforming to pattern, is smart and distinguished, with a nice touch of individuality, as you can see from this photograph of a W.A. A.F. officer's greatcoat. We make these Great' coats and uniforms ...

... - 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 ...