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... . 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. ...
... BRIDES, BRIDEGROOMS, WAR-WORKERS, ARTISTS: ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF TO-DAY. KEY LARGO, new play by Maxwell Anderson was given its English premiere by the Cambridge A.D.C. MICHAEL BENNETT played the hero, an American volunteer in Spain who deserts when he thinks his cause lost and finds life with courage lost is not worth living. This is Act I., the gambling scene. MISS CHRISTINA CHAN, ...
... EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STATESMEN I LIVE AGAIN ON THE SCREEN ROBERT DONAT AND ROBERT MORLEY AS PITT AND FOX. JOHN MILLS plays William Wilberforce, Pitt's greatest friend and confidant, in The Young Mr. Pitt. Left ROBERT MORLEY as Charles James Fox. His physical resemblance to the famous statesman is remarkable. rtaerted in this issue. The eighteenth century is admirably evoked bf *c etill phvt I ...
... TWO YEARS OLD THIS MONTH THE BEAVER CLUB-- CANADIAN SOLDIERS' LONDON HOME FROM HOME. Canadian soldiers coming down the double staircase of the Beaver Club ichich is decorated in turquoise blue and scarlet. Where business is always brisk the canteen. During Us two years of life, the Beaver Club has served 1 ,266,060 meals and snacks. Boys from Vancouver and Alberta chatting with MRS. VINCENT ...
... . LYNDA GREY was brought from New York to Hollywood from the stage cast of 44 Louisiana Purchase for the screen version, and is remaining at the studio under term contract. ELEANOR STEWART is one of the thirteen front-line show girls directed in dance numbers by Sam Ledner. They were chosen from one thousand candidates. ALAINE BRANDES won a part in 44 Louisiana Purchase and a contract. A ...
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... . HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE VI. of Great Britain Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, is the* central figure of our Empire note fully extended in the greatest struggle we have ever known. He has always been air-minded, and gained his pilot's wings when he was Duke of York. This, his latest portrait, shows him in his uniform of Marshal of ...
... - jV/TISS CAROLINE GOODE was elected Florida's Citrus Queen for 1942, and presided merrily over the orange-bowl in Miami during the cele brations, an occupation which seems to us extremely pleasant. No wonder she is undertaking it with such a happy smile 1V/JISS PATRICIA BRAND is a woman dispatch-rider at the Ministry of Food, where Lord Woolton controls the menu of the country. She acts as a ...
... . Tl R JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, famous supernatural thriller by Robert Louis Stevenson, has once more been made the subject of a film. The new M.-G.-M. version at the Empire has Spencer Tracy in the dual role of the good Doctor and the monster Hyde. Mr. Tracy plays the parts with great subtlety, for he does not make himself up to look like a sub-human monster for the Hyde sequences. He relies on ...