... . This is probably one of the biggest groups of headline names ever assembled together before the camera. Louis B. Mayer, the boss of M.-C.-M., is seated in the centre of the front row, surrounded by his most famous artists. See how many of them you can recognise, and, if in doubt, turn to page 302 for the key. N.B. A Coloured pi* u inserted in this issue ...

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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 ...

... THE LUN.TS RETURN TO-NIGHT: THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT. HPHERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT, the new Robert E. Sherwood play starring those brilliant and accomplished artists, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is due to open in London to-night, December 15, at the Aldwych, after a successful provincial try-out. The scene is set in Greece. Karila Vlachos, brilliant scientist, and his American-born wife are ...

... . JANE EYRE, the famous Victorian romance by Charlotte Bronte, was successfully staged F some time ago, and is now coming to the screen in a 20th Century- Fox production, with Orson Welles as the sinister Mr. Rochester and Joan Fontaine in the title-role. As everyone knows, the story deals with the love affair of the demure governess and [Continued opposite. Jane Eyre and Air. Rochester in ...

... pERHAPS the chief element which contributes to the joyousness of Christmas is giving. Everyone is bent on bringing gladness to others. We would like you to remember the work of JOHN GROOM'S CRIPPLE- AGE, founded by the late John Groom and the great Earl of Shaftesbury. We rely on the public, more than ever, to support the training and maintaining of crippled girls bringing relief and partial ...

... . 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 ...

... LADY KORDA DANCES THE CAN-CAN. MERLE OBERON IN THE LODGER. N.B. A Coloured plate inserted in this iaaue. A/fERLE OBERON, in private life, Lady Korda, the wife of Sir Alexander Korda, the well- known producer, breaks new ground in her latest film, 44 The Lodger, the 20th Cen tury-Fox Film Version of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' well- known mystery-murder novel. She plays the part of a music-hall ...