... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Launching of H.M.S. Duke of York NEWS that Mr. Churchill made his Atlantic crossing in our newest battleship, H.M.S. Duke of York, brought a reminiscent thrill to the hearts of several hundred privileged people who saw the great ship launched into the Clyde during the first month of the war. It was a cold, raw, Scottish day when the King and Queen ...

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... Stories from Everywhere THE pilot had taken great pains to explain all about his machine to the pretty young visitor at the airport-- its mechanical features, purpose of this and that, what pilots did to meet actual flying conditions, etc. He looked at the girl and smiled: Now you understand, don t you? All but one thing, replied the girl. And what is that? he asked. What makes the thing stay ...

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... . 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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... Lady Patricia llihherl is tin* only sister of Major the Marl of Ineheape. who succeeded his father in 1939. In 1938 she married Major Washington Hugh Hibbert of the (Queen's Hays, a nephew of Sir .lames Hope Nelson. Lady Patricia is doing her war work as a driver in the F.A.N.Y.s, She has a half-brother, the Hon. Simon Brooke Maekay, and a half-sister, Lady Rosemary Mackav, children of her ...

... Captains of the Clouds James Capney in a Film Tribute to The Royal Canadian Air Force Captains of the Clouds a Technicolor film directed bv Michael Curtiz, which will be presented by arners in London, New York and Ottawa simultaneously on February 12, is dedicated to the Royal Canadian Air Force, and particularly to those in the Service known as the Bush Pilots. These last are the men who fly ...

... Practice Makes Perfect. Celia Lipton, 18-Year-01d Star of Get a Load of This, at the London Hippodrome Celia Lipton is the 18-year-old daughter of dance-band leader Sidney Lipton. She first broad cast with her father's band at the age of 15. Later, her bril liant impersonation on the air of Judy Garland in the radio version of Strike Up the Band led to her first great chance when she took ...

... President Roosevelt s Birthday Celebrated in London An afternoon party in honour of President Roosevelt's sixtieth birthday teas held at Grosvenor House for representatives of the twenty-six nations which signed the Declaration of Solidarity in Washington last month. Admiral Sir Edward Evans presided. He is seen on the right, while his wife. Lady Evans, cuts the birtlulay cake. Between them ...

... Lady Irene Crawfurd, Lord Camden's elder daughter, married Charles Claud Crawfurd, Coldstream Guards, a nephew of Sir Robert Pigot, in 1937. Their only child, Peter Roderic, was born in 1938. Lady Irene was one of the three guests present at the very quiet wedding, which took place recently at Marylebonc Register Office, of her brother, Captain the Earl of Brecknock, Scots Guards, and Mrs. ...

... Leopardstown Racing The Favourite Falls at the Last Fence in the Red Cross 'Chase Mrs. Joe McGrath Leads In the Winner Durbar, the 100 to 6 winner of the Red Cross 9 Chase at Leopards- town, Dublin, Willie O'Grady up, was led in by his owner Mrs. Joe McGrath. Her husband, Mr. Joe McGrath, works hard to promote these races to swell the Red Cross funds. Mr. J. V. Rank's Prince ^Byraa Regent a ...