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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 ...
... THE glider pilot is both soldier and airman. He must not only be able to ride the winds: his knowledge of navi gation must be such that he can, with unfailing regularity. Pinpoint the exact position of objectives and land his craft hard by points to be stormed. And his purpose is not restricted to the ferrying of troops. As the glider swoops earthwards in a steep dive to bump and slew to a ...
... way The Conditions our Seamen Endure on the Northern Convoy Routes FOR Britons who can walk to the coast and stand in the next parish to America. who can cross the Thames, Mersey or Clyde and look down on unclosable highways to the world's four corners, it is almost impossible to visualise the position of Russia. This vast country, larger than Canada and Australia together, now has in ...
... IT was a most accurate weapon-- it could land a shell on a dime-- and it speedily put the fort out of action, remarked General Eisenhower of the American infantry mortar as used in the operations at Oran; and one more tribute was paid to a piece of ordnance that has played a leading, albeit an inconspicuous part in every campaign of this war. rirst in German hands across r ranee the mortar ...
... n iiiiiib i rwMwinwrr 1 I' 'T'fTTWIMMr v ^Phe Casualty Clearing Station is the most ad- -L vanced medical post where an operation can be properly performed, though in exceptional cases one may be performed at a Main Dressing Station farther up the line. Casualties are collected by the Regimental Stretcher-Bearers, who administer first aid in the field they are then taken to the Regimental ...