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... . T OOKING uncommonly like a pin-up girl, ANN CURTIS arrived home in San Francisco recently, from a Kansas swimming meet, with a triumph of eight national championships to her credit the greatest girl swimmer of the year. To welcome her a horde of 1500 fans crowded round the Fleischhacker Pool to watch the eighteen-year-old Ann demonstrate the powerful stroke that won her the 100-metre, 400 ...
... HOLLYWOOD HIGH-LIGHTS AS THEY ARE IN PRIVATE LIFE: ALL THE STARS AT A VICTORY CELEBRATION PARTY. jp^LSA MAXWELL, America's No. 1 Party Hostess, recently excelled herself by throwing a Victory Party to celebrate the Liberation of Paris. It took place on September 9, though Paris was freed on August 24 but the point is that Elsa sent out her invitations when the Allies were in Brittany, on Mid ...
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... . H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER is here posed with her sons, three-yeat old PRINCE WILLIAM, and baby PRINCE RICHARD, born on August 26 last year. H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, younger brother of the King, was recently promoted to the rank of General in the Army and Air Chief-Marshal in the Royal Air Force and will shortly take up his duties as Governor- General of the Commonwealth of ...
... THE CAMERA NEVER LIES OR DOES IT? You may. blink, but night blindness had nothing to do with this picture. It is just an ordinary negative converted to a positive, then printed normally. Trick printing stretched reality here. Instead of being printed on sensitised paper laid flat, light passing through the negative falls on a curved surface. mmam^ramrm'--- mw JMHfr Cunning use of light and ...
... OLIVIA BROWN IN WESTMINSTER AND WEST KENSINGTON: THE LUNTS RETURN TO TOWN IN LOVE IN IDLENESS. 44 If that telephone rings again I shall go mad Sir John Fletcher (ALFRED LUNT) tries to dictate to Miss Dell (PEGGIE DEAR) while Olivia (LYNN FONT ANNE) makes lunch dates with talkative friends. â– Hill-- 'I HI-- Mil I j 44 Please, Lady Fletcher, swallow your pride and confront her Michael Brown ...
... -awJmmL ifl Tony (BRENDA MARSHALL r.) returns home after running away with Fritz. Lewis Dodd (CHARLES BOYER) and her sisters, Paula (JOYCE REYNOLDS) and, Tessa (JOAN FONTAINE), welcome her back. Florence (ALEXIS SMITH), conventional Society woman, has married Lewis Dodd, but realises that he is in love with Tessa. She has a stormy scene with the girl. Fritz Bercovy (PETER LORRE), hearing of ...
... . SEE HOW THEY RUN, at the Comedy, is a merry farce of misunder standing. It all starts with a re hearsal of 44 Private Lives being inter rupted by a virtuous spinster of the parish. For various excellent farcical reasons, L/Cpl. Clive Widd has to borrow the Rev. Lionel Toop's clerical kit, and the Rev. Lionel is robbed of his by an escaped German prisoner. The Bishop mistakes the soldier for ...
... . A This photograph will puzzle most readers. It shows a girl worker with her arm through a steel shield, loading a fuze detonator cup with deadly lead azide. A small oblong window in the shield allows her sufficient field of vision. Lead azide and mercury fulminate, used in primers are the most tricky and dangerous of all explosives. Their handling in production at the Picatinny Arsenal, U.S ...
... THUNDERHEAD-- THE PIN-UP HORSE. Hollywood's highest-paid animal actor, the Glamour Horse Thunderhcad, has just been signed up for a long-term contract with a S5000-a-week salary. His first contribution to the screen is to he the Technicolor picture, Thunderhead, Son of Flicka.' Our off-the-sel picture of Thunderhead shows him on a hill overlooking ISavajo Lake, near Cedar City, where most of ...
... . H.E. the Viceroy of India, Field-Marshal Viscount Wavell, held a notable investi ture at Imphal in December, when he invested four British Army commanders with Orders of Knighthood. They were Lieut.-General W. J. Slim, Commander of the Fourteenth Army, who received the K.C.B., and Lieut.-General Scoones, Lieut.-General Christison, and Lieut.-General Stopford, who were invested with the K.B.E ...