... . Left 44 I am Tondelayo HEDY LAMARR as the sultry- half-caste of the African rubber station, finds her way to the bungalow of LANG- FORD, the new overseer, who has been warned against her. Tondelayo marries Langford,' and later determines to get rid of him. The Doctor (FRANK MORGAN) accuses her of poisoning her husband, but the girl flatly denies that the liquid she gives him is poison. ...

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... , PORTRAITS BY BERTRAM PARK AND PAUL TANQUERAY. The engagement of the MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN to MISS ANTONELLA (TONI) NEWLAND has just been announced. Lord Lothian succeeded his kinsman, the eleventh Marquess, British Ambassador to the United States of America, who died in 1940. He is the elder son of the late Captain Andrew William Kerr, R.N., grandson of the seventh Marquess, and of Mrs. Kerr, ...

... . NOEL COWARD started in Edin burgh on a thirty-six weeks* tour before com ing to London with [Continued opposite. Continued.] these three plays two of them new the third, 44 Blithe Spirit. The fortunes of the Gibbons family of This Happy Breed are set against a background of the larger national events of 1919-39. It is in the Coward serious vein, but family parties and quarrels give lots of ...

... 14 A (N)ICE OPENING by the A.T.S. and GUNNERS* CHORUS is the first number in 44 Gunflashes end of the year revue. The A.T.S. and GUNNERS* CHORUS have a professional look in their item 44 Dance Fantasy. CAPTAIN ALMEYDA plays 44 Orange Blossom, one of the original sketches j in this original revue. 44 The South American Way has PRIVATE YVONNE GLOVER, A.T.S., for dancer, with the Boys Band ...

... international intrigue, crime and ROMANCE OF CASABLANCA. In I rich Morocco, 1941 Ugarte (PETER LORRE) is arrested on a charge of m rdering two German couriers and shot when trying to escape. Rick, the gaming-house proprietor, makes no effort to save him. Bribery and black market Ferrari (SYDNEY GREENSTREET) makes a fantastically high offer for the passports which Ugarte entrusted to Rick ...

... fri FT* FT* W 4 w OODBYE to that old bugbear of the placket skirt an ugly, shape-destroying hip bulge. Literally a placket without an opening, the new Gor-ray ZWOW Fastening has no buttons or metal fastenings on the hip to stand out, cause gaping, or pull the material. Smart women everywhere welcome this further addition to the high quality of all Gor-ray Skirts. Good fashion houses ...

... . WE crave the indulgence of the audience, as they used to say in the opera pro grammes, for head ing our list to-day with quite a short film. It is called MALTA. It runs for about twenty minutes. You can see it at the Gaumont. And if you take my tip, you will. Malta was made by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Information, with a commentary spoken by Laurence Olivier. It shows, with ...

... TOUGHENING THE MEN= AMPHIBIAN COMMAND!] THE R.A.F. REGIMENT aining in progress. NEWS from the Western Desert has recently revealed that first time, successfully captured enemy uerodroines, togfj Regiment was instituted in January 1942, as a force designed Ij defensive and offensive tactics and in the following April it defence of all the aerodromes in the country. On these pages the R.A.F. ...

... DANCING INTO A JOB-- AND A ROMANCE ASTAIRE AND HAYWORTH. Y°U WERE NEVER LOVELIER, new Columbia musicals with Fred Astairc and Rita Hayworth, Adolplic Menjou and Xavier Cugat and his orchestra, was due at the Gaumont, Haymarket, on January 24. It s a dancing medley woven roflnd the complicated story of a hotel manager s lovely daughters who must be married off in order of seniority. Maria, ...

... ALFRED LUNT, LYNN FONTANNE-- AND A PIRATE. The lunts, ALFRED LUNT and his wife, LYNN FONTANNE, have not been much on Broadway of late, so their appearance at the Martin Beck Theatre, New York, in 44 The Pirate,'* new comedy by Behrman, has added a joyous offset to the austerity of wartime life. 44 The Pirate is an amusing, satirical comedy set in San Domingo in the nineteenth century. Manuela, ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME 1 PRACTICAL WRAPPERS j GOLD KID FASTENINGS CHEERFUL COLOURS WOMEN are busy planning the spring wardrobe and are discussing coupons rather than money. Swan and Edgar, Piccadilly, advocate the inclusion of a wrapper which may be worn when Service uniform can be discarded. To them must be given the credit of the pretty affair above, a strong point in its favour being that it ...