... Theatre Personalities at Home and Overseas News of Stage and Screen Stars from London, New York, Cape Cod and The Rock Major Anatole Litvak? the Russian-born Hollywood film director who made 44 Mayerling and 44 This Above All, has just arrived in London from Morocco. His latest film, a documentary called 44 Prelude to War is now being shown in this country. Major Litvak is serving with the ...

... Murder for Fun Unlimited Arsenic and Old Lace Twists an Orgy of Corpses into a Riot of Laughter Murder is a Virtue, Insanity a Grace This American comedy by John Kesselring, presented by Firth Shephard at the Strand, is still running in New York, after two years. No wonder, for it is the cutest, craziest joke ever woven ropnd the theme of murder as a gentle art. By the time the saintly ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Dawborn Royal 2nd Officer R. Dauiborn Merchant Navy f&fer son of Mr. atid Mrs. Ronald Dawborn, of Latchmere Road, Kingston, married Lillian Royal, daughter of Mr. atui Mrs. F. Royal, of Burnham Drive, Worcester Park, at St. Philip's Church Worcester Park Drew Lambert Arthur Drew son of the late Arthur Drew, ami Mrs. Drew, of 41, Ennerdale Road, ...

... THE COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH TROOPS IN NORTH AFRICA LIEUT. -GENERAL K. A. N. ANDERSON, in the armoured car in which he travelled whilst directing recent operations of the First Army in the Tunisia fighting yyhen British troops landed on the North Africa coast, the supreme command of military operations was vested in Lieut.-General Dwight Eisenhower, of the U.S. Army and the First Army, ...

... HOW THE JAPANESE STRONG-POINTS ON THE NORTHERN STRIP OF NEW GUINEA ARE CONSTRUCTED A star-shaped machine-gun post at the edge of the jungle, wit! snipers concealed in the branches of the trees above a favourite enemy device- Drawing by W. C. Whitoker The Japs in the Buna-Gona triangle of Papua have only been able to survive so long owing to the terrain, which is particularly suited to their ...

... The French Colonial troops who were in occupation of Central Tunisia soon began to develop operations against the Axis after the adherence of French North Africa to the Allied cause. The chief area of their activity was based on the central foothills of the Atlas range and the points of contact with the enemy stretched from Pont du Fahs, in the north, to west of Sfax and Gabes, on the south. ...

... From Sicily to Tripoli, and from Sicily to Bizerta and Tunis, is the big gap controlled by the Luftwaffe. All shipping bound for Malta from the west must pass through this gap-- the Sicilian Channel, or Bomb Alley, as the merchantmen call it. There is no way of avoiding this dangerous area, no way round-- except by the Cape, many. many thousands of miles round. bo long as this Channel is ...

... In New U.S. Aircraft and in New British Bombs I. Focke-Wulf F.W. 190H.-- This has proved to be Germany's best single-motor fighter; but in action it has been outclassed by our own Spitfire. It should, therefore, not prove very formidable against our newest and improved Spitfire! The Focke-Wulf is a low-wing monoplane, powered by an air- cooled B.M.W. power unit: this is a 14-cylinder. two-row ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Warning SEVERAL Ministers have been at pains to warn us that 1943 will be a grim year. Some prophesy that we shall break in on Europe, others forecast greater hardships, and Lord Woolton hints at the possibility of bread rationing. Obviously this is a new policy line to offset increasing optimism. The Government cannot afford to allow any slackening of the war ...

... This Time an Exciting Melodrama Sans Crosby and Sans Hope against a Background of Spies and Refugees in Casablanca Victor Laszlo Paul llenreid head of the vast underground movement in Europe arrives in Casablanca with his wife Ilsa Ingrid Bergman) hoping to obtain visas for Lisbon. His plans are frustrated by Captain Heinrich Strasser of the 'hird Reich (Conrad Veidt) and Captain Louis Renault ...

... You Have Been Warned The Drunkard, by the Arts Theatre Club, Paints the Evils of Drink in the Lurid Colours of Victorian Melodrama Double Exposure to Temptation The photographer emphasises the dangers of drink by double exposure. The hero (Wilfred Fletcher) by now in [the final stages of degradation, is unable to resist the temptation of draining the bottle to the last drop The Proposal The ...

... lCL' :Y//''he\ the pe°ple °f London Courtaulds a house destined offered asylum to the to be known for the beauty of its Huguenots nearly three centuries silks and later, for its rayon yarns ago, there was little reason to and fabrics, suppose that this act of hospitality A n£ National Service would have far-reaching effects first but when the war is ?he worfd C thrOUgh°Ut over, Courtaulds ...