... SUPREME COMMANDER, S.-E. ASIA- LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. In his uniform as full Admiral this portrait of LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, 44 triphibian Commander-in-Chief S.-E. Asia Command, was taken just before he left for Delhi to take up his appointment. After brief preliminary consultations with the C.-in-C.t India, General Auchinleck, he flew to Chungking, where his ...

... rT,HE DEMI-PARADISE premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on Thursday, November 18, is in aid of Lady Cripps's Aid to China Fund, and will be a big social occasion, which Mrs. Churchill has promised to attend. The film, which takes its name from the well-known quotation from John of Gaunt's dying speech about England in 44 King Richard II., is a story of this country as seen through the ...

... The FREDDIE CARPENTER DANCERS add glamour to stcing in their admirable numbers. Peedles the Butler (HARRY HILLIARD) prostrated by the Visitor (HUGH MORTON). CAROL RAYE as the glamour-girl film-star Jane Denver in one of her numbers. ARTHUR ASKEY and PEGGY CARLISLE as Tony Merrick and Bonnie Drew in So Much to Remember ROY ROYSTON and VALERIE TANDY as Jimmy Blake and his wifet Minnie Master. ...

... CTzwiotLd fu*i C tualikj y t C Snub:'* t A final point in our favour This A.T.S. officer is not only warm (as well as elegant) in her greatcoat, but she is also rain-proofed. For, like all Moss Bros, khaki cloths, the material is specially proofed against rain. A small point but coming on top of the many good reasons for buying uniforms for the women's Services at Moss Bros, it has before now ...

... WORK AND PLAY, A WEDDING AND A W.A.A.F, SHOl PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. These BEACH UMBRELLAS were designed for dolce far niente days, HE but they now shade welders at work on plates for the 225th ship built IE in the yards of the California Shipbuilding Corp. now called Calship Beach. CORPORAL IDA BROOK, W.A.A.F., is posed with a doll in W.A.A.F. uniform, exhibited at the W.A.A.F. Arts ...

... N.Z. ITEMS FROM THE ALLIED GET TOGETHER CONCERT IN CAIRO. THESE two excellent New Zealander items were among the turns given at an Allied get together Command per formance in that very social centre of the Allied Forces Cairo. British and American troops of both sexes formed both audience and performers, and the occasion was one of a number of Middle East meetings arranged to bring Americans ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- CAPTAIN CLARK GABLE, for modestly hoping to drop publicity for the duration by entering this country as plain Captain Gable. CAPTA- CLARK GABLE, fully kitted-up, inspects his Flying Fortress somewhere in England. As gunnery instructor the star points out an important detail of the machine-gun sighting to a couple of compatriots. That celebrated screen smile with its ...

... : 44 Arsenic and Old Plays HERMIONE GINGOLD as Lilian Braithwaite, EDNA WOOD as Grete, MARY IRWIN as Nanette and BRENDA BRUCE as Mary Jerrold. Lilian finds 44 The Dancing Years and 44 No, No, Nanette in the chest and says 44 These aren't our revivals. Run away and come back in about ten years. 44 Sea Piece WALTER CRISHAM as a disgruntled mariner, tchoi has been long at sea. 44 I had a ...

... HI-DE-HI BEAUTY AND BURLESQUE. y Tales of the Vienna Woods** with the Ballet and GWEN CATLEY as the Singer. J Want to be a Dancer MEDLOCK and MARLOWE combine crazy knockabout with grace m a brilliant exhibition. MONSEWER EDDIE GRAY, the ventriloquist, finds it more difficult to control the dummy than to manage the voice 44 MONSEWER EDDIE GRAY juggles ex pertly while letting off a stream of ...

... . Everything points to an important film career for eighteen-year-old OONA O'NEILL CHAPLIN. The daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, she recently married world-famous film star Charles Spencer Chaplin, who in 1918 founded the Charlie Chaplin Film Corporation and built his otvn Hollywood studios, where many famous pictures have been produced. Mrs. Chaplin made her acting debut in a road ...

... - LIEUT.-COLONEL CASS S. HOUGH, D.S.O., U.S. Air Force, recently made a vertical dive in a 'plane at 780 miles an hour, beating the velocity of sound by twenty feet a second. His knees shook as the speed indicator passed 750 miles an hour. He made the test to discover the controllability of aircraft in high-speed dives, and to establish a recovery technique which can be taught. His speed was ...

... DECORATIVE MODERN MURAL3 AT AN R.A.F. STATION LANDSCAPE, MYTHOLOGY ANC PORTRAITURE. THESE spirited murals decorate the Officers' Mess at an R.A.F. Station in England. They arc the work of A.C.2 WINSLADE, and include a| landscape with 'planes grounded and taking off, and heroic figures of pilots, I and a seascape with 'planes in (light, and the Winged Victory a Jolly Bacchuil calling all ranks ...