... MOST MOVING FILM-STEINBECK'S THE MOON IS DOWN. The unsuspecting Norwegian villagers are picnicking when the Germans arrive. The tiny militia troop is wiped out by Nazi machine-gunners. At the moment when Alex Morden is facing the German firing-squad a bullet crashes through the window of the Mayor's house, and wounds one of the Germans who are occupying it. More bloodshed and reprisals follow ...

... TWO- YEAR- OLD GAY GHOST KAY HAMMOND. ENCHANTING ghost-wife of Noel Coward's frivolously, spiritualist Blithe Spirit at the Duchess, KAY HAMMOND cele brated what we might call her second spiritual anniversary on July 2. This successful play opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1941, moved on to the St. James's in June 1942, and to the Duchess in October that year. Kay's frailly- ethereal ...

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... CHINA'S FIRST LADY- MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK. MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK, wife of China's Generalissimo, has arrived hack in Chungking from her long visit to America and Canada, where she put the case for more aid to China in lucid and eloquent English. Resides being an inspiration to her countrymen, China's First Ladv is very chic in appearance and wears her clothes elegantly like a Farisienne ...

... . AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY was celebrated in Moscow. A concert of con temporary U.S.A. music was given in the big hall of the Moscow Conserva toire by the Soviet State Orchestra conducted by Honoured Artist of the U.S.S.R. Nathan Rachlin. Right LADY YULE'S film company, British National, have averaged eight pictures yearly since the war. These include 44 One of Our Air craft is Missing The ...

... WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF THE LONGSTOP HILL V.C. MRS. ANDERSON is the wife of Lieut. (Temp. Captain Acting Major) Jx>hn Thompson McKellar Anderson D.S.O., the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who has won the V.C. for gallantry in Tunisia. On April 23, St. George s Day, Major Anderson, with four officers and fewer than forty men, captured the famous enemy stronghold, 44 Longstop Hill. Further at ...

... SPITFIRE VIEW OF A CHERRY PICKER A Spitfire pilot might perhaps have glimpsed a vietv like ihis when flying over the Garden of England, for the Kentish cherry crop has been a record one this year. Gathering in the harvest from a cherry orchard calls for a lot of energy and a certain amount of daring so no wonder the little girl tcho has been left grounded while her mother climbs aloft is ...

... CHURCHILL'S GUILDHALL SPEECH ILLUSTRATED-- 150 YEARS AGO! COPYRIGHT RESERVED FOR THE OWNER. Mr. Churchill's stirring description of the British Commonwealth and Empire in his Guildhall speech is perfectly illustrated by this allegorical drawing by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg R.A., made 150 years before the speech ivas delivered for Loutherbourg was born in 1780 and died in 1812. The ...

... Dr. David Blake (PHILIP CUNNINGHAM) and Molly Benton (JANE BAXTER), young Medical Officer of Health and medical student are in love. LOUISE HAMPTON as Miss Vicky Benton one of the spinster sisters whose slender means are derived from slum property. Miss Vicky Benton (LOUISE HAMPTON) and her sister. Miss Deborah Benion (NELLIE BOWMAN), look out old things for a jumble sale. Miss Vicky Benion is ...

... . HERMIONE GINGOLD, star of Sweet and Low at the Ambassadors, has just moved into an attractive house in Kinnerton Street, Knightsbridge, so the celebration party she recently gave in honour of the success of the new show was also a house-warming. Miss Gingold writes a good deal of the material that she puts over so brilliantly, and is responsible for the amusing burlesque Arsenic and Old ...

... REGENCY FILM THE MAN IN GREY. Clarissa Marchioness of Rohan (PHYLLIS CALVERT; right J, finding her old schoolfellow Hester (MARGARET LOCKWOOD^ touring in a third rate repertory company, takes her back to London to stay with her Lady Rohan makes friends with her husband's new librarian Peter Rokeby (STEWART GRANGER), to whom she once gave a lift in her coach i chen he was a poor strolling ...

... MONTGOMERY'S LET'S FACE IT THEATRE FACE. During his visit to London in May undertaken in order to discuss matters of high importance GENERAL MONTGOMERY found time to go more than once to the theatre. He saw 44 Arsenic and Old Lace at the Strand and also went to the London Hippodrome where Bobby Howes was then appearing in 44 Let ys Face It. From our series of photographs of the General, ...