... ARNHEM CHIEF FOR BURMA- GENERAL BROWNING. LIEUT.-GENERAL F. A. M. BROWNING recently took leave of survivors of the heroic First Airborne Division which he commanded at Arnhem before taking up his new post in Burma, where he will be Chief of Staff to the Supreme Commander South-East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. This at-home group shows him with his novelist-wife, Daphne du Maurier, 44 ...

... STAR COMEDY PLAYWRIGHT AT HOME- TERENCE RATTIGAN. Over the mantelpiece in the lounge of TERENCE RATTIGAN'S Albany flat hangs a fine portrait of Charles I. Apparently schizophrenic he works on a script while answering the ever-ringing telephone. Fond of chess, Rattigan plays with ivory chessmen on a lacquer board. Successful playwright silhouetted in the light of a lamp built into a Chinese ...

... MRS. BROWNING'S I BUCCANEERING FILM. FRENCHMAN'S CREEK, Paramount's Technicolor version of Daphne du Manner's novel, 44 Frenchman's Creek, was due for its gala premiere at the Plaza on December 21 in aid of Stage Door Canteen. Miss Du Maurier is the wife of General F. A. M. Browning, newly-appointed Chief of Staff to Lord Louis Mountbatten and a photograph of her with her family appears on ...

... GREER GARSON AS AN AMERICAN MATRIARCH: MRS. PARKINGTON --SUPREME IN AGE AND YOUTH. TVTRS. PARKINGTON is M.-G.-M/s film ver sion of Louis Bromfield's best-seller novel, the epic story of a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, worldly and in domitable. Susie Parking- ton (GREER GARSON) first appears, at the age of seventeen, as the daughter of a boarding-house keeper at Leaping ...

... WIPE AND DAUGHTER OF THE BRITISH G.O.C. IN GREECE. MRS. RONALD MACKENZIE SCOBIE and MISS JANE SCOBIE are the wife and daughter of Major-General (Acting Lieut.-General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., the British General Officer Commanding in Greece, who has to carry out the trying and difficult work of restoring order in Athens. In his message to the Greek people on December 1, ...

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... Colette is a pure wool jacket hand- woven by the Loom Art Com pany in all kinds of attractive colour com binations. This one is yellow with blue stripes it has a well-tailored rever collar and buttons high, £8 17s. Id. From Harrods. Angora has been used to make this young-looking pull over the cosiest thing imagin able. It is one of a collection of boldly-striped jumpers at Mar shall and ...

... - GENERAL DE GAULLE/ for hcins France's leader and a man of deeds rather than words. c From the maelstrom of capitulating France in June 1940 rose GENERAL CHARLES ANDRE JOSEPH MARIE DE GAULLE to hoist aloft the banner of his country with continued French resistance. After distinguished service in command of an armoured unit he became Under-Secretary of State for War in Reynaud's Cabinet. When ...

... AS THEY FEEL THE WAR OFFICIAL WAR ARTISTS FILMED IN OUT OF CHAOS. STANLEY SPENCER (resigned A. R.A.J sketches on Clydeside with a .background of ships on the stocks. Well known for bis murals, and crowded canvases sometimes of controversial character. PAUL NASH in action at the vast mound of German ''plane salvage known as the Cowley Dump. Here he painted his famous Totes Afeer, or Dead Sea ...

... ddPin^up cjirl: Cflo. 16. £f)nn Sheridan. ANN SHERIDAN appears as Nora Bayes in 44 Shine On, Harvest Moon the new Warner Brothers picture based on the life of the popular American singer due at the Warner Theatre Leicester Square, on December 22. The picture is a mixture of gay music and fast-paced story, depicting the well-known star's rise from 44 honky-tonks to the glory of a Ziegfeld ...

... . FEAST your eyes on a few of the 3000 Belgian toys shown in the Christmas gifts and toy fair organised by the Belgian Red Cross at 68, New Bond Street. The fair, which was opened by the Belgian Ambassador, will last over the holidays and proceeds will go to Lady Oliphant's Relief Fund for Mothers and Children in Belgium. The toys are realistic and very well made. Look, for instance, at the I ...

... CHRISTMAS PARTIES AND A ROYAL VISIT, WEDDINGS, STARS AND ARTISTS: SOME NOTABLE PEOPLE AND THEIR ACTIVITIES AT HOME AND OVERSEAS. Portrait-painter LIEUT. PHILIP STEEGMAN, R.N.V.R., is on the forecasing of sub marine Sceptre, finishing his picture of the commander, LIEUT. McINTOSH, D.S.O., M.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. Right: MRS. ANTHONY KIMMINS, wife of the broad caster, playwright and author, ...