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... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Mr. Welles's Latest By James Agate SOME of my colleagues have been indignant because with one exception none of the West End cinemas has thought fit to put on the new Orson Welles picture, The Mag nificent Ambersons. The exception is the Astoria, in the Charing Cross Road, where I saw the picture. Let me say at once that I endorse the decision of the managements which ...
... SPOOK LOVE Veronica Lake as a Sorceress in I Married a Witch Reno Clair has chosen another of the late Thorne Smith's spooky stories for his latest production, I Married a Witch released through United Artists and now at the London Pavilion. It is a film of smoky incantations, invisible voices, love potions, witchery and Veronica Lake. For centuries the spirits of sorcerer Daniel (Cecil ...
... The Revival of What Every Woman Knows Gives Barbara Mullen the Part It Has Long Been Her Ambition to Play John Shand is the local railway porter. An intelli gent boy with ambition, he has succeeded in paying- for a year's tuition at Glasgow University. Noiv he continues his studies in an unorthodox manner by stealing into the Wylie home by night and bor rowing from the family bookcase (John ...
... The D.C.I.G.S. Lt.-General R. M. Weeks, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., and His Family Last June, the General Staff was reorganised, and Lieut.-General Ronald M. Weeks became Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff and a member of the Army Council. Educated at Charterhouse, where he was senior scholar, and at Cambridge, a soccer blue and amateur inter national, General Weeks has worked both as a ...
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... I THRASHER'S CREW AND AMERICAN AIRMAN INVESTED WITH HONOURS. LIEUT.-Ct ONEL CHESLEY PETERSON, D.S.C., D.F.C., American Army Air Force, is seen leaving the Palace with MRS. PETERSON, after being invested with the S.O. He was one of four American Air Force officers to be decorated n that occasion, the others receiving the D.F.C. He commanded the 71st gle Squadron and during the 18 months' ...
... . GABRIELLE BRUNE plays Sally in 44 Full Swing, the successful musical come with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge at the Palace Theatre. Her numbtts include 44 Cleo from Rio, 44 Mamma, Buy Me That, 44 Love is Love Anywhere> and 44 Follow My Dancing Feet PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED DANIELS. ...
... . Happy carefree Norway in the summer of 1939 the bride Anna Korstad (ELIZABETH FRASER), cuts the cake at her wedding breakfast. Gunner Korstad (RICHARD DERR) is the bridegroom. The brutal invaders take possession hordes of Nasi soldiers, with ful I equipment, stream into the peaceful Norwegian village to the horror ani astonishment of the inhabitants. A taste of the promised German 44 ...
... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Thaw THE early thaw did as much as anything else to stop the Russian advance after Kharkov, and may be accountable in part for the loss of the city once again. But this turn of events is not a surprise to military experts, and certainly not to the Russian High Com mand. They anticipated that something of this kind might happen. In fact,' the Russians never ...
... You Can't Change Farce Walter Ellis, Most Successful Farcewright of World War I., Produces His Contribution to World War II. 1943: SLEEPING OUT A Little Bit of Fluff ran for 1241 performances at the Criterion Theatre during the last war. Its revival during World War II. at the Ambassador's is an indication of its cunning mastery. Surely no one knows better than Walter Ellis just how to mix ...
... -/4 By Sabretache /I Misunderstood Word THERE is an uncomfortable rumour abroad that Aunt Tabitha is somewhat shocked at what the Commander of the Eighth Army said to his troops anent what he was proposing to do to his adversary. The General up till then, she had considered such a nice man. It may be recalled, purely for purposes of reference, that the General said something about Rommel's ...
... Officers of an Air Engineering Dept. at a Royal Naval Air Station D. R. Sttiart Front row Lts. H. L. Lapage, G. I. L. Corder, A. C. Mahony, Cdr. W. B. Axford, Lts. H. J. Lavers, C. S. Sutherland, H. A. W. Harding. Second row Mr. C. V. Snell, W.A.O.R.N., Sub-Lt. P. E. Mitchell. Lt. S. J. Pratt, Mr. G. J. Stephens, W.A.O.R.N., Sub-Lt. L. A. Houston, Lts. J. Buckley, P. W. C. Halford, Mr. H. L. ...