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... . 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... - 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 ...