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... . THERE have been various Question Masters in the Brains Trust on Tuesday nights, but MR. DONALD McCULLOUGH is the one we know, the one who gets the most laughs. A con- a. temporary said that such technique as his might very properly belong to a High Court Judge who has never been called to the Bar, or words to that effect. And sometimes when the Brains Trust team has failed somehow to ...
... . BRIGADIER R. E. LAYCOCK, new Chief of Combined Operations, with the acting rank of Major-General, is thirty-six. He is the son of Brig. -General Sir Joseph Laycock, and in 1935 married Miss Angela Dudley Ward, younger daughter of the Marquise de Casa Maury. He was in April 1941 at the head of a Commando Unit known as the 44 Layforce. Its first operation was a daring raid on Bardia. He was ...
... . The crew unanimously chose 44 BETTY BOOP as the name for this figure, with 44 Lil as second choice. Screen cartoon fans will know Betty well. 44 PLUTO'S AVENGER. This plane replaced a missing machine named Pluto, and has a fierce eagle painted in place of the docile dog. 44 ANY TIME ANNIE is a fanciful nude whose name won the vote of the entire crew of this sky warrior. 44 LADY LUSCIOUS ...
... SADLER'S WELLS OPERA AT THE NEW: HANSEL AND GRETEL THE Sadler's Wells Opera Company opened its autumn season at the New Theatre with a new production of Humper- dinck's 44 Hansel and Gretel, produced by Mr. Powell Lloyd, who also designed the scenery. The symphony written round the adven tures of the two children is conducted by Herbert Menges. The Company has had many difficulties to face ...
... the sierras were transformed FOR FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. B -\mi i l Pi; r (KATINA PAXINOU), telling Maria (INGRID BERGMAN) that i? ...
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... the TOPS OF THE WOMEN'S SERVICES. AIR 'MMANDANT LADY WELSH, Director of the W.A.A.F.. was gazetted early ist month. She is forty-seven, tall, slim and very smart. She has come p to the top through all the stages, and served in the F.A.N. Y. in the l> uar. Her husband is Air Marshal Sir William Laurie Welsh their seventeen-year-old son is at a public school. MRS. B. W. CUTHBERT, O.B.E., wife of ...
... MINISTER OF STATE AT THE AGI OF FORTY-TWO MR. RICHARD LAW AND HIS I IFE AT HOME. THE announcement that MR. RICHARD KIDSTON LAW, vounp been appointed Minister of State was made in September last gave the Prime Minister the opportunity to overhaul the adminifl his work as lieutenant to Mr. Anthony Eden at the Foreign Office. Foreign Office since 1941, and he is continuing in that department i ...
... PEASANT GIRL OF 1906, PRIMA DONNA OF 1914: MARY ELLIS AS MARIE FORET IN ARC DE TRIOMPHE. As Marie Foret, the girl from the Auvergne who comes to Paris to seek her fortune in 1906 MISS MARY ELLIS. ...
... . M. FEODOR GUSIEV is the neiv Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, in succession to M. Maisky now Vice-Commissar for Foreign Affairs. He recently arrived in England and teas welcomed by Mr. Eden, tcho discussed with him the plans for the Moscow conferences. M. Gusiev is a young Ambassador, as he is thirty-nine, and has been only six years in the diplo matic. He was formerly the ...
... . TN 1226 Alexander II. made Stirling Castle a royal residence, and it has been closely associated with Scottish history for hun dreds of years to-day fresh pages are being added to its chronicle of war, for A.T.S. cooks, signal opera tors and clerks are now quartered there and work in offices in the ancient build ing, while the N.A.A.F.I. canteen is installed in the sixteenth-century ...
... . Members of the audience at an Army Rand concert in Algiers were accommodated in tiers of boxes made bv the wall-less rooms in a bombed building. Mareth cub of the Prime Minister's lion Rota teas officially adopted as mascot of the Lion M Bomber Squadron, R.C.A.F., but will remain ai the Zoo. W/CDR. R. S. TURNBULL, D.F.M., is behind the banner (left) W CDR. J. R. GORDON-FINLAYSON, D.S.O., D.F ...