... . 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 ...

... . THERE have been various Question Masters in the Brains Trust on Tuesday nights, but MR. DONALD McCULLOUGH is the one we know, the one who gets the most laughs. A con- a. temporary said that such technique as his might very properly belong to a High Court Judge who has never been called to the Bar, or words to that effect. And sometimes when the Brains Trust team has failed somehow to ...

... . SPECIALLY TAKEN* FOR THE SKETCH BY GERMAIN'E KANOVA. April 7 we took off our hat W to YEHUDI MENUHIN for coming over from New York to give a series of concerts and making £20,000 in box-office re ceipts, all for charities. The sum later rose to nearly £30,000. His admirers have presented him with a silver salver inscribed 44 To ^chudi Mcnuhin as a mark of gratitude and appreciation for ...

... WAR, WORK, PLAY AN[ IOMANCE PEOPLE OF THE WEEK, The ROYAL ACADEMY SELECTION COMMITTEE were snapped at work deciding the fate of pictures submitted for this year's show. They are (I. to r.) SIR WALTER LAMB, Secretary R. O. DUNLOP, A.R.A. S. J. LAMORNA BIRCH, R.A. H. .RUSHBURG, R.A. W. RUSSELL FLINT, R.A. L. CAMPBELL TAYLOR, R.A. SIR EDWIN LUTYENS G. F. KELLY, R.A. S. ANDERSON, R.A. W. CURTIS ...

... piVITIES. IN THE FRONT-PAGE NEW JFTHE WEEK: NOTABLE PEOPLE AND THE! MARIAN PRESTON, youngest probationer at Northlands Nursery, G Harwood presented a rag doll 44 Pinocchio to the DUCHESS OF GLOUCES! for Prince William. MATRON and the CHAIRMAN are in the m The TWIN DAUGHTERS of FLT. LIEUT. HAROLD and MRS. HI came to church to see their grandfather the REV. R. J. PEYTC BURBERY, christen their ...

... I Swift silent and deadly a motor torpedo-boat speeding over the grey seas behind her own protective smoke-screen, which hides her from the enemy and helps her to elude danger. LIEUT. P. G. DICKENS, M.B.E., R.N., grandson of the famous novelist, is 44 king of an M.T.B. Flotilla. He 's a grand leader, daring and brilliant. Except for a little spray, there is no sign of bursting depth-charges. ...

... FOREVER AND A DAY -FILM SAGA OF A HOUSE AND ITS INHABITANTS FROM 1804 TILL 1943. Old Admiral Trimble (C. AUBREY SMITH), who builds the house five miles from London in 1804 which provides the setting for the saga of his descendants The marriage of Bill Trimble son of the Admiral (RAY MILLAND), and Susan (ANNA NEAGLE). Bill is killed at Trafalgar, but leaves a son. Susan and Mrs. Trimble (DAME ...

... the woman who went on a BOMBING RAID. Photographer MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE teas in one of the United States aero planes which bombed Tunis and is seen standing on a machine which no doubt in compliment to her bears the name of 44 Peggy. She stated on her return to Miami Fla from North Africa that the main Tunis airfield was jammed with transports, fighters and Junkers 88's and that the American ...

... PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF THE WEEK ieroes, a leader, weddings, ENGAGEMENl! ARTISTS. Here 's a peep behind the scenes showing how the PUPPET LADY PLAYS THE PIANO at the Belgian Exhibition recently opened at Messrs. Thos. Cook's in Berkeley Street. BABY KEITH GOULD wearing the Victoria Cross with which his father, PETTY OFFICER T. GOULD, has been invested. Gould and Lieut. P. S. W. Roberts are the V ...