... 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 ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WEARY as I am of films about air planes, destroyers, Commandos, sub marines, Gestapo officers, swastikas, Fifth Columnists, war correspondents and blitzes, I am surprised, as well a delighted, to be able to recommend whole heartedly the new war film at the Leicester Square Theatre, Anthony Asquith's WE DIVE AT DAWN. Mr. Asquith is a director whose work recalls the ...

... STUDENTS WHO HOPE TO GROW INTO STARS: THE YOUNG IDEA AT THE R.A.D.A. Transforming youth temporarily into age Mr. Edmund Gray making one of the students for 44 Women at War. Sir Kenneth Barnes, Principal of the R.A.D.A., and Miss Rose Bruford, a teacher watch first-term students in mime tests. x 44 Lady Scholes in her costume for 44 Women at War, adjusts the helmet of 44 Dunois in the Academy ...

... . GENERAL MONTGOMERY and LADY KILLEARN, wife of H.E. the British Ambassador, sitting icith LADY FREYBERG, wife of General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., at the New Zealand table at the Embassy garden-party. GENERAL MONTGOMERY talking to an Australian, who was one of the repatriated prisoners of war from Italy who were entertained by Lord and Lady Killearn at the British Embassy garden-party. TT ...

... ONLY A DAILY MILLION. THOSE RARE RAZOR BLADES I These steel coils will he transformed into razor blades when the factory is through with them. This girl can drape herself in razor blades without fear of getting cut, as the edges have not been sharpened, hardened or honed. This strip of blades is running on a machine which perforates and stamps to shape 540 a minute. The steel is still soft. ...

... . Brigadier orde CHARLES WIN- GATE, D.S.O., was the leader of the famous wrecking expedition into Northern Burma, one of the most remark able exploits of the war. Everyone knows how he captained his hand of Chindits, as they were called (after the fabulous griffins which guard the Burmese temples), through a three-months* campaign in enemy- occupied territory, and successfully destroyed ...

... CYRIL RITCHARD AND MADGE ELLIOTT- THEMSELVES IN EGG PIE LANE. Two in a woodland setting CYRIL RITCHARD and his wife, MADGE ELLIOTT, in the grounds of their country house. fi. m Apple Trees, Egg Pie Lane the seventeenth-century home of Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott. A keen gardener who has been digging successfully for victory Cyril Ritchard hoes a long row. A stroll through the flourishing ...

... LIVING ROOM AUTHOR IN HER OWN LIVING-ROOM. MRS. ESTHER McCRACKEN'S 44 Living Room has just been produced at the Garrick. She is the author of 44 Quiet Wedding and 44 Quiet Week-end. Her husband Lt.-Col. A. McCracken is serving in North Africa they have two daughters Jane and Heather, and live at Rothley Lake, Hartburn, an interesting house owned by the National Trust. She is reading first ...

... FERRY PILOT ON THE BOARD OF B.O.A.C.-- MISS PAULINE GOWER. rilOTOGRAril BY FAYER. COMMANDER PAULINE MARY DE PEAULY GOWER, F.R.Met. Soc., Commandant of the Women Pilots Air Transport Auxiliary teas recently appointed by the Secretary for Air to the board of British Overseas Airtcays Corporation. Thirty -two-year -old Miss Gower, younger daughter of Sir Robert Gower, is the first woman* to hold ...