... - SERGT. MARJORY SMITH, A.T.S., won both the high jump and the long jump at a recent A. -A. Command athletic meeting at Sudbury Hill. General Sir Frederick Pile, G.O.C.-in-C., A. -A. Command, gave away the prizes. MARSHAL JOSIF BROZ (TITO to you), the Yugoslav partisan leader, takes his pet dog Tigar for a dip in a mountain stream when it gets too hot for him (the sun, not the enemy). Tito was ...

... THE FIRST W.A.A.F. GANG SHOW VISITS FRANCE THI 3IRLS, ON THE STAGE, EN ROUTE. AND IN NORMANDY. The first all w.a.a.f*. gang SHOW, produced by S/Ldr. Ralph Reader, has given many performances in this country, and is highly popular. It has now gone over to France to entertain the R.A.F. behind the lines at the First Malcolm Club to be opened in Normandy. This is the seventh of the series of ...

... d/in-up fir/: Q%. 7. tfiwjc ctfalJcenburp JINX FALKENBURG is America's Number One Model and has appeared on more magazine covers and smiled from more billboards than perhaps any other girl. Her first featured screen role was in Columbia's 1 Two Latins from Manhattan and she s currently in 44 Cover Girl. She 's a natural blonde, five foot seven inches tall with huge brown eyes. Born in Spain, ...

... SOME PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: THEIR JOBS AND THEIR ROMANCES. SUBALTERN ELIZABETH JARDINE, elder daughter of Major-General Sir Colin Jardine, C.B., D.S.O., Director of Army Welfare, is Entertainments Officer, A.T.S. She joined in 1939 as a cook. MARLENE DIETRICH and IRVING BERLIN have been entertaining the troops in Italy. Here they are at a Fifth Army Mobile Radio station where they put on a ...

... - THROUGH shell-fire, teller-mines and beach obstacles, CORPORAL G. E. TANDY, R.M., steered his damaged assault craft on D-day for miles, hanging over the stern and guiding the rudder with his foot till he reached the Normandy shore. There was a high sea running, and the small craft, bobbing up and down, fouled the big hook which had lowered her into the water from her parent infantry landing ...

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... WE TAKE OFF-' OUR HAT TO- THAT vivid impersonator FLORENCE DESMOND irresistibly suggests Manet's 44 Barmaid en grande tenue as she shakes a cocktail for a friend while wearing Queen Alexandra's 1904 Court gown. This was prior to the auction of the dress in aid of Mrs. Churchill's Aid to Russia Fund a gift from Jack Hylton. The band leader bought the dress two years ago in aid of the Red Cross, ...

... . he marriage of MISS ESTELLE HORSLEY-CARR, randdaughter of the 9th Lord Belhaven and tenton, to LIEUT. GERALD HERBERT CROSS, jn of Mr. C. N. Cross, of British Columbia, took place in Edinburgh. MISS THELMA LEIGHTON SEAGER, W.R.N.S., is a daughter of Sir Lcighton Seager, President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom and an ex- High Sheriff of Monmouthshire. LADY SEAGER, wife of ...

... HAMLET, AT THE HAYMARKET I THEATRE, WITH JOHN GIELGUD AND PEGGY ASHCROFT. 44 T TAMLET alternates with 44 The Circle and Congreve's 44 Love for Love, at the Haymarket, where John Gielgud and his company recently opened their season. 44 A Midsummer Night's Dream and Webster's masterpiece, 44 The Duchess of Malfi, are to be added to the repertory in the New Year. 44 Hamlet is directed by ...

... SYDNEY'S PRETTIEST GIRL? BOB HOPE'S CHOICE-- AND RIVALS. Right When Bob Hope visited Australia he conferred the title of the jirettiest girl in Sydney on twenty- year-old BETTY DAWES, of Point Piper. Netty, however has rivals. This is twenty -year-old MAIDIE HANN, of BeUevue ill. She's blonde and blue-eyed, works in her mother* s butcher* s shop and does some commercial modelling. Then there ...

... MAESTRO AT HOME IN NEW YORK ARTURO TOSCANINI. WHEN the small and brilliant conductor, ARTURO TOSCANINI, stands before a symphony orchestra he is a furious perfectionist who makes men play music as they play it for no other man. Born at Parma, Italy, in March 1867, the maestro began studying music at the age of nine at the Parma Conservatory of Music. At nineteen* he conducted a performance ...

... TINY LITTLE PROPS MAKE HUGE-SCALE HAVOC SCENES I I THE poignant scenes of war havoc in the official films are, of course, the real thing, shots taken by units with the fighting forces, but iifl many other instances sequences of dramatic effect arc obtained by the skilful use of tiny models, and miniature props. For example, thesfl photographs show the shooting of a scene for the M.-G.-M. film ...