... -ORINA IN A MULTI-STAR FILM. Paramount' s 44 Star-Spangled Rhythm staggers the mind tcith the largest battalion of stars ever gathered together on one reel. VERA ZORINA is the star leader of the ballet and 44 Black Magic v one of her musical numbers. The extravaganza plot centres round the Paramount Studios and each star plays a real-life role. Here are a fete names from the stellar list ...

... . TT OLLYWOOD'S STAGE DOOR CAN- TEEN, run on the lines of the successful Stage Door Canteen of the American Theatre Wing in New York, proved a smash-hit as soon as it was opened. Bette Davis is the president, and the staff comes from every rank in the movie colony, from studio hands to producers, and includes hundreds of celebrated actors and actresses. The canteen's capacity is 600 uniformed ...

... . r\NCE UPON A HONEY- V-7 MOON, new R.K.O. Radio picture, is due at the Odeon on February 26. It 's an international spy thriller, with Ginger as the golden- haired Baroness, formerly U.S.A. dancer Katie O'Hara. She discovers the Baron to be a Nazi agent and, after many narrow shaves, escapes with newspaper man Pat O'Toole, but returns to the Baron to do some contrespionage work. This ...

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. A Few Kind Words. Pursuant to my policy of New Year Hate, which has been greatly exacerbated by recent communications from H.M. Inspector of Taxes, I wish to say a few spiteful words to the medical profession. Looking at the state of the nation to-day-- looking round even among their own patients-- they ought to feel a sense of deep shame. I hear a good deal of ...

... PICTORIAL ROUNDABOUT OF ENGAGEMENT, WEDDINC CHRISTENING, ART, RADIO AND OTHER TOPICAL NEWS. BARBARA BURNHAM (standing), producer of the B.B.C. version of Tolstoy's War and Peace (broadcast in eight parts), with the cast: Natasha (CELIA MRS. W. J. LORRIMER, of the M.T.C., looking at her portrait by Cathleen Vaiu (the Marchioness of Queensberry at the Lefevre Galleries. JOHNSON), Pierre (LES LIE ...

... FAMOUS SOVIET AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST, ILYA EHREN8URG. TLYA EHRENBURG'S 44 The Fall of Paris has been published by Hutchin son in an English translation by Gerard Shelley, and is proving a best-seller. It is a thoughtful and realistic analysis of the reasons for the debacle of France. Ehrenburg lived for many years in France, and was in Paris when the city surrendered, so he writes with ...

... HARROWING MELODRAMA REVIVED THE STREETS OF LONDON. ■y ICT OR IAN melodrama, with a villain to hiss, a hero to applaud, and a damsel I n distress to weep over, makes an appeal to modern playgoers, so it's not Surprising that Maxwell Wray's revival of Dion Boucicault's The Streets of London ■hould come on to the Cambridge Theatre, where it is due to-morrow, January 28, o r its run at the ...

... THE CAMERA VIEWS ART, DUTY A 'OMANCE ON THE ALLIED FRONTS. Eats and drinks tasted twice as good to representatives of the Allied Nations at the 44 Store Door Canteen New York when SERVED BY FAMOUS BEAUTIES. THE CONOVER COVER GIRLS. MAJOR DAVID NIVEN, Rifle Brigade, the film star, and MRS. NIVEN, formerly Miss Primula Rollo, are admiring their three-weeks-old baby. THESE RUSSIAN WOMEN are ...

... - AUalnALlAiN-DUnIN wlINlr COM MANDER HUGH I. EDWARDS has won the three highest medals held by an officer of the R.A.F. in this war the V.C., DJ*.C. and recently the D.S.O. THE Q.A.I.M.N.S. SISTERS shown arrived in Benghazi after its reoccqpation by British troops. They are seen talking to N.Z. engineers on repair work in the harbour. T IEUT.-COLONEL V. B. TURNER, V.C., Rifle Brigade, won the ...

... .I Surprising discovery in the aunts' house Mortimer Brewster (NAUNTON Wayne) finds a corpse in the chest. Unwelcome visitor Martha (MARY JERROLD), Abby (LILIAN BRAITHWAITE), Elaine (EILEEN BENNETT), the crazy Jonathan (EDMUND WILLARD) and Dr. Einstein (MARTIN MILLER). Death by the slow method for Mortimer Brewster Jonathan Brewster prepares to begin his horrible operation under the terrified ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME TWEED TAILORED SUITS BECOMING FUR WRAPS SIMPLE FELT HATS L IT is splendid news that Peter Robinson, Oxford Street, have been fortunate enough to secure a consignment of tweeds which they have made up into suits, one of which is illustrated above. There are manv variations on this theme, including Harris, Cumberland, Orkney, Munro, Scotch and Galadale tweeds the last-mentioned ...

... - GENERAL EISENHOWER, for beins one of the finest men the Premier has cvei* met. An up-to-date portrait of GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa. A treasured family album snapshot shows DWIGHT D. EISi HOWER lower-right at the age of two. With him areih, of his brothers ARTHUR (lop-left), EDGAR top-right andR 2ND LIEUT. EISENHOWER married MISS ...