... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Announcing the Dilysians By James Agate An extract from a letter: On Thursday afternoon I went to see the Noel Coward film. Isn't it both trivial and horrid? Absolute lack of imagination in hand ling, and no drama at all. Cavalcade all over again. Very cheap and very nasty. Any sausage manufacturer could have done it as well: not a single solitary ha'porth of artistry. ...

... From the Family Album General Alexander, His Wife and Children General Alexander in the Desert Brian is Given His First Lesson in Strategy by His Famous Father Lady Alexander, With Rose and Shaune The Pony Shares in the Family Celebrations General the Hon. Sir Harold Alexander has proved himself one of the greatest living strategists of modern warfare. With General Sir Bernard Montgomery, he ...

... 0 /)>jy A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Gifts for the Red Cross GIFTS given by the King and Queen and other members of the Royal Family are being sold by auction to-day and to morrow at Derby House, in aid of the Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross Fund. The Queen her self will probably be making some purchases, for when she visited the depot recently she remarked on a number of pieces, ...

... Week -End With ie Frank Lawtons Evelyn Laye and Her Sold Husband Spend Forty-Eight Hours' Leave at Ayre's Cot] B Their Home in Harpenden Evelyn Laye's love of the sea, of ships and of men who sail in them is shown in the background she has chosen. It was painted for her by one of her oldest friends, the late Charles Dixon, R.I. Charles must belong to a circus family, Miss Laye says. He walks ...

... A Popular Canadian Air Marshal Bishop, V.C. Bertram Park Air Marshal 44 Billy Bishop, V.C., the famous Canadian airman, came to England two months ago, to inspect Royal Canadian Air Force units over here. As Director of Air Force Recruiting in Canada, he told of the enormous success of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, which should prove one of the deciding factors of the war. Air Marshal ...

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... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Legitimate Crow TOTAL allied air power now totals to a greater total than totalitarian air power in toto. The fact has been made known officially and unoffici ally and there has been as a result a spate of self- congratulation. Ministers have been telling us that the output for October, 1942 (or any other month), is so much per cent greater than October, 1941, ...

... . COUNTESS WANDA OSTROWSKA, between H.E. the POLISH AMBASSADOR (I.) and H.E. the PORTUGUESE AMBASSADOR, at the Leger Galleries. The latter opened her shoic of icater-colours of Portugal. EDWARD G. ROBINSON, star of This Man Reuter visited Renter's H.Q. He is at the neivs-desh with MR. COLE, News Manager MR. CARTER, secretary and MR. J. CHANCELLOR, joint general manager. LT. LYUDMILA ...

... - MR. PETER DE POLNAy, here seen with MRS. DE POLNAy For havins lived dangerously as a pro=English inhabitant of German=occupied Paris, and writins a bestseller about it. PETER DE POLNAY is the author of DEATH AND TO-MORROW, one of the books which everyone is reading. He is Hungarian by birth English by tongue and education, and hai two novels, 44 Angry Man's Tale and 44 Children, My Children ...

... BASEBALL PLAYER'S DRAMA THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES. A 'anor (TERESA WRIGHT) is delighted to hear from sports-writer Blake 'WALTER BRENNAN) that Lou (GARY COOPER) is to play for New York's most famous team. The visit to the hospital Lou has given up a possible career as an engineer to become a professional athlete in order to raise money to pay for his mother's operation. Falling in love with a ...

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