... HOLLYWOOD'S SHAPELIEST SHADOW-GIRL: WINNER ND RUNNERS-UP in a screen curvilinear contest. iv.a. coloured plate is inserted in tnts issue T T OLLYWOOD recently went on the hunt for the loveliest and most curvilinear feminine silhouette obtainable. It was wanted for the leading woman's part in R.K.O.'s new psychological horror film, 44 The Ghost Ship, in which she is seen only as a shadow ...

... . THE Academy Cinema, closed since the Battle of Britain, ha^ reopened with 44 Heart of a Nation a French film showing the passing of the years 1871-1940 over Paris, with its three attacks by Germany. It was completed three days before the Nazis marched into Paris. The invaders were well- informed by their Fifth Column, and destroyed any film which touched criticism of the Herrenvolk but Paul ...

... P.O.W. CAMP STAGES COWARD WORLD PREMIERE: POST MORTEM. OUR prisoners of war in Germany find play- producing one of the finest pastimes for their hours of enforced leisure. Learning their parts, making costumes and decor stimulate the imagination, and the talent these productions bring to light is universal and amazing. To help the men at Oflag Vll.b, Noel Coward gave them special permission ...

... , Until then How incredible and unreal it will seem when the harbour lights twinkle and shine again and ships can come and go freely Until then, our sailors continue to face the perils of the sea to risk their lives cheerfully. This they do for us for you, and you can express your gratitude in helping to provide hostels, clothes, and sometimes financial assistance. Give and Give Generously on ...

... MRS. DONALD CAMERON and IAIN, wife and son of Lieut. Donald Cameron V.C. R.N.R. Twelve -months -old IAIN with his mother, MRS. CAMERON, and his grandmother MRS. KILPATRICK. IAIN enjoys the sunshine and sea breezes. There is room in his pram /or his favourite friend, Mosken, the retriever. MRS. CAMERON and IAIN are looking at a voter-colour sketch by Lieut. Cameron, I .e.. of one of Mrs. ...

... . Prix au detail. W.A.A.F. OFFICERS study the day's prices chalked on the board at JlI Biar market, icith a view to their A less. Left Section Officer Robertson and F/0. 1 Cnlvenvell help local inhabitants at a near-by nursery to pick chrysanthemums for market. On a shopping expedition outside Algiers are (I. to r.) Section Officer U. A I. Robertson, pre war cookery expert Section Officer J. ...

... A WHO REIGH (I.) and CHARLOTTE LA VALLE provide a fascinating study- in equine and feminine thoroughbred underpinning. Charlotte is a dancer with slender shapely and graceful legs and ankles and Who Reigh a class colt who has been carrying his owner* s colours to victory at Hialeah Park Race Track. Our photograph hails from Coral Gables, Florida. ...

... GOLDILEGS MARLENE, QUEEN OF BAGHDAD DANCERS: THE DIETRICH, GILDED FOR NEW FILM KISMET. /TARLENE DIETRICH has been a movie star for thirteen years, famous for her beauty, her mysterious glamour and her lovely legs, but in spite of the last-named feature she had never been cast as a dancer. This omission is remedied in her new picture, Kismet, in which she appears as what Life, in describing ...

... . This exquisitely-posed picture shotcs WENDY HILLER as Sister Juana of the Cross in 44 The Cradle Song at the Apollo. She is holding the foundling Teresa tchom the Enclosed Dominican nuns have decided to adopt. The baby has been given into her special charge and becomes the reminder and the consolation for the mother hood which she has renounced. John Gi^gud has direcied the revival of the ...

... - HOW often Lord Winterton has heard the cater wauling of an inebriated cockatoo is not certain, but he does not like it, and recently in the House of Commons he sternly compared it with the sounds made by the women radio crooners of the B.B.C., suggesting that its reaction on troops was a matter which should be studied from a scientific point of view. THE Film Stars' annual prize the 44 ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MADAME KOLLONTAY, Russia's envoy in Sweden, for being the only woman Am= bassador in the world, and a maker of history. During her lunch Mme. Kollontay receives an urgent telegram. On the wall are specimens of the newest porcelain products of the Soviet. The Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm likes to arrange the spring- tulips and other flowers herself. Meal-times are not ...

... . SUBADAR LA.LBAHADUR THAPA, 2nd King Edtvard VII.'s Own Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, is the Gurkha oflicer tcho teas awarded the V. C. last year for his exploit of unsurpassed bravery on the night of April 5-6, 1943, during the silent attack on the Rass-el-Zouai feature. He led a small party up a steep guUy and up the cliffs of the arena under withering fire, and his outstanding leadership and ...