... . MRS. ROBERT LAYCOCK is the wife of Major-General Robert E. Lay cock, D.S.O., who last month was appointed to succeed Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as Chief of Combined Operations, and is herself working at Combined Operations H.Q. on the Commando Benevolent Fund. She was Mi&s Angela Dudley Ward is the younger daughter of the Marquise de Casa Maury and of Mr W Dudley Ward, and sister [o ...

... . 44 /CLAUDIA, 20th Century Fox Film version of the successful comedy by I Rose Franken which has been running at the St. Martin's Theatre I for two years, was due I at the Odeon, Leicester I Square on December 10. I Dorothy McGuire plays the child-wife Claudia, the girl who won't I grow up. She adores I her mother, and has I a little-girl attitude I towards everything, I from her chickens to ...

... HERBERT TERRY SONS LTD HERBERT TERRY SONS LTD., m.. 'it COM/ wait Today the general public cannot buy a Terry Anglepoise Lamp. But when it can it will have been well worth waiting for. The Anglepoise is a lamp of iooi angles that holds any position, makes work a pleasure and reading a joy, saves eyestrain and electric current and folds up small when out of use. No wonder thousands of people ...

... . LADY ANNE SOUTHBY, elder daughter of the former Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, married Lieutenant Patrick H. J. Southby, R.N. younger son of Sir Archibald Southby, M.P. and Lady Southby in Delhi in 1939. Their small son, RICHARD HENRY ALEXANDER, is just two years old. Lord Linlithgow recently returned from India, where he held the Viceroyalty for a second term in all, seven years. ...

... GIRLS OF THE MERCHANT AIR SERVICE: BRITAIN'S FLYING N STEWARDESSES IN ACTION. /^NE of the latest jobs for women is the newly instituted one of stewardesses for the Merchant Air Service, the Government- owned concern operated by British Overseas Airways, which is keeping open the Empire air communications in wartime, just as the Merchant Navy keeps them open by sea and covers air routes which ...

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... When MR# ANTHONY EDEN, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs delivered his important speech on the recent Conferences, he described it as a message of cheer. He invited the Members of the House of Commons to take their seats with him on the magic carpet, and fly round the Middle East visiting Cairo for the first Conference, Teheran for the second, and Cairo once more for the third. He ...

... OUT OF THE BLUE ALADDIN BY THE RAF. FOR £3. The grand finale of ALADDIN, the R.A.F. panto., produced in a Berkshire village by the 44 Out of the Blue company for the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund. Six-foot-three-inch-taU S/LDR. L. SMITH as the Widow, looks for the Slave of the Ring, five-foot- three-inch-taU W/0. GEORGE DONALDSON. Aladdin rescues the Magic Lamp from the drugged Abanazar, the ...

... . DR. EDUARD BENES, President of the Czechoslovak Republic since July 21, 1940, and President of the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia since 1939, is one of the great Czech leaders. During the last tear he tcorked with Professor Masaryk to establish an independent Czech state, and later held many important posts in its Government. He has just signed, in Moscow, the treaty of friendship, ...

... . The Roll of Honour of the Battle of Britain which will he placed in the R.A.F. Memorial Chapel in Westminster Abbey is a gift from a Londoner who served in France in the last war and won the M.C. It is now in course of preparation, and our photograph shows the artist, MISS DAISY ALCOCK, A.T.D., N.R.D., F.R.S.A., A.R.C.A., a well-known illuminator at work on the Roll. It has long been in ...

... U.S. ARMY SMASH-HIT, THIS IS THE ARMY- FILM VERSION. 44 We are the Ladies of the Chorus a riotous scene from the Warner Brothers screen version of the Irving Berlin shotc with Sgt. McGhee (ALAN HALE) as the somewhat unglamorous centre-piece. The chorus are all G.I.s Government Issues the term for U.S. soldiers). 44 How About a Cheer for the Navy the entire company in a grand finale of the ...

... . CAPTAIN R. EDWARDS MOSS, Scots Guards married MISS BRIDGET DOREEN COKE, daughter of Major the Hon. Richard Coke, at the Guards' Chapel. Left CAROLE LYNNE is the Cinder ella for the panto, at His Majesty's. She made a hit in Rise Above It'' and sang opposite to Tauber in 44 Old Chelsea. GLYNIS JOHNS is this year's Peter Pan for the Cambridge Theatre production. Here she is making a trial ...