... How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn's Best Seller of 1940 on the Screen Director John Ford, who won the 1935 Academy Award for the finest directing of the year with The Informer has again been honoured for his direction of How Green Wan My Valley which is classed as the out standing picture of the year. He has converted Richard Llewellyn's heroic story of a family of Welsh coal miners, ...

... After Pearl Harbour Film Premiere in Blacked-Out Hollywood World premiere of Sundown took place in Hollywood on December 8tli, twenty- four hours after America's declaration of war. It marked the end of a day tense with excitement. That morning all schools in Los Angeles had been closed down. A rigid black-out order was enforced. Many well-known film stars, among them Clark Gable, Ronald ...

... The Earl of Jersey married in 1937, as his second wife, Miss Virginia CherrilJ, daughter of Mr. James Cherrill, of Hollywood, U.S.A. She was formerly Mrs. Carv Grant, and made her name in films as leading lady in Charlie Chaplin's first talkie. City Lights. Lord Jersey, who succeeded to the title in 1923 on the death of his father, was first married to Miss Patricia Richards, by whom he has a ...

... ■^4 By Sabretache The Butcher Boys THE Butcher Boy Jockey is the maladroit artist, who makes every post, excepting the only one that counts, the winning- post. He is no judge at all of pace, or distance, always a very inferior horseman, with, of course, hands as heavy as a leg of mutton. He has splendid fun while it lasts, but it never does last, and when he comes back to the unsaddling ...

... BY M. E. BROOKE Colour does make a difference, and no one can cavil at the statement that Margaret Marks, Knightshridge, is an artist in the blending of the same. It is very noticeable in the lace evening dress portrayed, which is a study in lizard and beetle-wing shades lightened with thread. The long sleeves ter minate in points, an epaulette effect being introduced on the shoulders, the ...

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... QUEEN MARY'S LETTERS FOR SALVAGE Old letters, records and files are being turned out at Marlborough House for salvage, and here is Mr. M. J. Richards, one of the secretaries (left) and Mr. E. Varley Jowett, who has been a Queen's Messenger for 40 years, with a sackful of old letters for salvage ...

... i Great Coat for the Man at Sea COR weather, for warmth, for life protection or for sheer style on shore, the Vitabuoy is the one great-coat for every Officer of the Navy or the Merchant Navy, j The Vitabuoy is Waterproof Gale-proof the Tropal inter- k lining has been rendered completely flame-proof and it is four times warmer than any woollen coat and a quarter of the 1 weight. It has six ...

... Meals on Wheels for Farm Workers Cash and Carry System Extended to the Royal Estates THE hitherto unknown luxury of hot midday meals is being brought to agricultural workers in this country through the widely dispersed fleet of nearly 450 mobile food-units of the Ford Emergency Food Vans Trust. This magnificent fleet of mercy vehicles was brought into existence through the generosity of Mr. ...

... A LITTLE rowing still goes on at the Univer sities, which is all to the good, for it is grand training in endurance and physical fit ness. Reading University have just brought off their annual head- of the- river race, in which five crews took part. Transport difficulties were too great except for a Trinity crew which came from Cambridge none the less it was a pleasant after noon. Also afloat, ...

... FASHIONS FOR THE COUNTRY COUPONS CAN'T LIMIT LINE AND COLOUR MARGARET MARKS, Knightsbridge, has succeeded in assembling in her salons fashions that are simple, practical and distinctive. All elaboration is eliminated-- their innate charm is dependent on line. She realises that good materials save coupons. Pictured on this page is a warm, nevertheless light, coat. It is of a fancy woollen ...

... The late Captain Guy Dollman An Appreciation /-APTAIN GUY DOLLMAN, who died Vrf on March 21 at the age of 56, was a man of rare gifts and generosity of heart. He had a considerable name in the zoological and artistic world, and in both will leave a gap which will be hard to fill. As a zoologist he had worked in the British Museum, Natural History (mammal) department, since 1907. His work ...