... . Brigadier (acting) JOHN CHARLES CAMPBELL, D.S.O., M.C., Royal Horse Artillery, has been awarded the twenty-seventh V.C. of the war for his most conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Sidi Rezegh on Novem ber 21 and 22, 1941. He has created a remark able record by being awarded the V.C. and D.S.O. and bar within ten months. He also holds the M.C., which he gained in 1919. The first ...

... . MRS. PERCIVAL is the wife of Li exit. -General Arthur Ernest Percival, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., who defended Singapore against the Japanese hordes until lack of water, food and supplies forced him to surrender. She sent a message to the women of Britain through a daily paper saying The duty of wives at home is to go on showing that they are not second in courage to [3 their fighting ...

... THE 44 BRAINS TRUST, or B.B.C. Oracle, which guarantees to provide information and entertainment by answering questions put to it, was founded on a cold and dismal January day in 1911 when London had been taking it through a long winter of almost continuous air raids. As a result of the first session. Professor Joad Commander A. B. Campbell, and Dr. Julian Huxley received fifteen questions. ...

... BLACK i WH ITE BLACK i WH ITE £cofch! V A REAL TREAT To men who have an appreciation for fine whisky, a glass of Black and White is always cl Yectl tYCClt. ...

... . The English production of Lillian Hellman's play 44 WATCH ON THE RHINE,4' chosen by the New York Critics' Circle as the best American native play of 1941 is due at the Aldwych to-night, April 22, with DIANA WYNYARD and ANTON WALBROOKT in the leading roles. The play tells the moving story of an anti-Nazi German who brings his wife and family to the* U.S.A. It is produced in England by Emlyn ...

... T)ABES ON BROADWAY is a gay, lighthcartcd song-and-dance D picture dealing with the theatrical aspirations of a group of New York's talented youngsters who are seeking jobs on Broadway. They think their best hope of success is to produce their own show, and organise one to benefit the Settlement Home for Orphans. They successfully raise the money and get the theatre, only to find the building ...

... LADIES IN RETIREMENT COMES TO THE SCREEN. T ADIF.S IN RETIREMENT, successful crime play by Edward Percy and Reginald Dcnhain, was due for its production in Columbia picture form at the Regal on April 20. Mrs. Fiske, a retired actress, lives at lonely Estuary House with her companion, Ellen Creed. Ellen is devoled to her two mentally-deranged sisters, and induces Mrs. Fiske to invite them to ...

... SALUDOS AMIGOS: DISNEY IN LATIN AMERICA. QALUDOS AMIGOS, Walt Dis- ney's latest picture, distributed by R.K.O. Radio, is the result of a trip which he, accompanied by fifteen of his principal assistants, made to South America. It consists of four episodes animated in Technicolor, welded into an over-all story by live action colour-films of the high lights of the Disney party's trip. In ...

... . The marriage of screen star MICKEY ROONEY to young starlet AVA GARDNER took place the other Jay in a little rustic Presbyterian Church at Ballard, California and was the biggest event ever recorded in the annals of that small farming town. Mickey Rooney has just finished an M.G.M. musical 44 Babes on Broadway with Judy Garland and is at work on a new picture in the inexhaustible Hardy series ...

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... . 41 STINKER MURDOCH, familiar to radio listeners and note an Intelligence Officer is handing the squadron mascot, Thirsty to one of a bomber crew. Thirsty is a veteran who has made many operational flights over enemy territory. Left MISS ELIZABETH C HARRINGTON'S marriage to Major Rollo Hoare, R.A., younger son of Mr. Henry and Lady Geraldine Hoare, is fixed for June 6, Right America has ...

... WEARING THE BADGE OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS-PRINCESS ELIZABETH, COLONEL 4 Last week PRINCESS ELIZABETH inspected the Grenadier Guards, of which she was appointed Colonel last February. This is her first official position and her introduction to the Army and for the first time in its history this famous regiment has a lady for its Colonel. ...