... 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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... 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. ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Denholm Speirs-A lexander Ca.pt. John Neil Campbell Denholm, son of the late John Denholm and Mrs. Denholm, of Boatland, Perth, married Sheila Mary Speirs-A lexander, daughter of the late Capt. A. Speirs-A lexander, atid Mrs. Sydney MacDonald, of i, Welbeck House, W., at St. Peter's, V ere Street Browning Evans Capt. John Browning, R.A., son of the ...

... The highway of fashion BY M. E. BROOKE As soon as the warm weather arrives the little frock will come into its own again, as it is so pleasant to relax in at the end of a strenuous day. Swan and Edgar, Piccadilly, are very successfully making a feature of these. Among them is the dress-suit seen above, which is ex pressed in a soft woolly material, pink and blue being represented in the vest. ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Estimate Time Now that we know about the Air Estimates and the announcements made by Sir Archibald Sinclair in introducing them, it is worth recalling that the prelude to the Estimates every year in the past has been a spate of prophecy. It has apparently been thought by the aviation writers that, by predicting with a sufficient air of confidence, every conceivable ...