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... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE ACTORS OF THE BARTER THEATRE AT ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., for trading their drama for a mess of pottage. THE Barter Theatre at Abingdon, Virginia, is one of the strangest theatrical ven tures in the U.S.A. Started by Robert Porter- field in depression years, it is a theatre where you may turn up at the box office for a ticket with 40 cents* worth of turnips, ...
... DONA SOL IN THE SUN. RITA HAYWORTH is Doha Sol, the glamorous, hard-hearted siren in 20th Century-Fox's version of Vincente Blasco Ibanez's best-seller novel, 44 Blood and Sand, due at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on January 26. She has recently come to the top of the tree, and has made successes in contrasted roles that prove her versatility. For instance, she has given good emotional ...
... MILTON'S mask COMUS has provided the Sadler's Wells Com pany with a splendid subject for their latest ballet, just presented at the New Theatre and hailed with delight by all balletomanes. The decor, costumes and masks are by Oliver Messel, and are the first theatrical work he has undertaken since joining the Army. Military camouflage, on which he has been engaged, has not robbed him of his ...
... VIYELLA is warm, and feels like silk when it comes in contact with the skin. It is this material which has been used for the model on the right. The trousers are gathered in at the ankles with elastic, so there is no fear of their riding up. The blouse top is a study in green and white. By the way, women will be interested to learn that in the past over a million sheep had to be sheared each ...
... NOT-SO-USUAL VIEWS OF GINOER ROGERS. ROXIE HART,'* new 20th Century Fox picture, starring GINGER ROGERS, is a murder stbry but what a murder! The crime took place in 1927, when Chicago WAS Chicago, and the action presents Ginger as an aspiring young dancer, Roxie Hart, expert in the Charleston. When a newspaper man suggests that it will help m her career if she confesses to having murdered her ...
... . GRETA GARBO, the mysterious, remote screen star, comes doivn to earth and plays a thoroughly human role in her new and much-discussed picture, 44 TWO- FACED WOMAN, which has just been presented at the Empire. She takes the part of ski instructor Karin, an energetic outdoor girl who marries charming Larry Blake Melvyn Douglas), a New York publisher, and finds that his affections begin to ...
... . VISCOUNTESS ERRINGTON is the wife of Captain Viscount Errington, Grenadier Guards, only son of the Earl and Countess of Cromer, and was the Hon. Esmt Harms- worth. She is the younger daughter of Viscount Rothermere and of Mrs. T. A. Hussey, and was married early in January at the Church of St. Dunstan-in-the- West, Fleet Street. She made a lovely bride, in a white net dress, and a long ...
... ROYAL PANTO.: CINDERELLA! RESENTED BY THE PRINCESSES. The grand finale of CINDERELL A, presented by T.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH and PRINCESS MAR GARET (centre), with supporting cast of officers' daughters, village children and evacuees. Her Majesty gives her daughters some help THE QUEEN running over the script with PRINCESS MARGARET and (r.) PRINCESS ELIZABETH. Invitation to the dance ...
... Film-star VIVIEN LEIGH, tcho has been making a big hit as Mrs. Dubedat in George Bernard Shatv's 44 The Doctor's Dilemma during its provincial tour, is scheduled to come to London on March 4, when the play is due at the Haymarket in succession to 44 No Time for Comedy ichose long run teas announced to finish on January 24. Miss Leigh tcears beautiful period costumes in the production and has ...
... 'Viyella' and 'Clydella Reed. W Reed. C*4r* you.' tji Kit allowance i^well spent on 'Viyella' or 'Clydella' Women's Service >._> Shirts. Their comfort in action, smart ly ness on parade and refusal to yellow in the wash puts them at the top of the list. SERVICE SHIRTS â– hao^cou.i W.R.N.S. white Viyella' Service Shirts, double cuffs, without collars, up to and inch 1 4!' neck, 1 7/1 od. 4 ...
... , Ring out Is Wild Bells. The bells of countless hidden steeples in the shires of our land ring out, not a warning of invasion, but a joyous midnight peal From square Norman towers, from belfries fashioned into unearthly loveliness by the hand of Wren, their gold-tongued voices chime a triumphant clamour. Proclaiming the New Year as they have proclaimed it many a hundred times Ring out the ...
... . The first Royal Pantomime on record in this country was given somewhere in England last month with T.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH, Heir- Presumptive to the Throne and her sister PRINCESS MARGARET, as Principal Boy and Girl. The panto, was 44 Cinderella presented by the Princesses themselves in aid of the Royal Household Wool Fund. This photograph shows Princess Elisabeth as Prince Florixel and ...