... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES French, English and American By James Agate IT was really very naughty of Studio One to put L'Homme Qui Cherche La Verité in the same programme as the revival of The Man in Grey. This is one of those pieces of Regency twaddle in which the English film shows itself at its very worst. I think there are two reasons for this. First, the lesser English actors have never ...

... Anne Crawford whose latest screen performance as the beauty oj l he trio in the Gainsborough film version of Dorothy Whipple' s novel They Were Sisters is likely to prove an outstanding landmark in her career is now in North West Europe. She is 0:1 a long Ensa tour which is to include visits to front line Ailing units of the Allied Armies in France and Belgium Beryl Davis, twenty-year-old ...

... C UJ A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country En Route for Australia Now that the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are well on their way to Australia, the well-kept secret of their de parture from London last month can be revealed. Both Their Majesties and the Duchess of Kent came to Euston Station on the Saturday morning when the Royal travellers left in a special train on the first stage of ...

... Maid of all Work Fire, lire, are you going to be cross this morning, too E Men may come and men may go, but there is always Cinderella. Her annual visit is as necessary, to us as the coming of Spring. This year she is at St. James's Theatre very charmingly portrayed by eighteen-year-old Audrey Hcsketh in a fairy-tale written by Herbert and Eleanor Farjeon called The Glass Slipper. Her visit, ...

... The New Primate the Rt. Hon. the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, D.D. Howard Coster, F.R.S.A. Little more than twelve years after his consecration as a Bishop, Dr. Fisher has been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury at the age of fifty-seven. The son of the late Rev. H. Fisher, of Nuneaton, Dr. Fisher has never himself held a benefice. Educated at Marlborough and Exeter College, Oxford where ...

... ^4 By Sabretache JVew Universities The kindly and witty Scotsman who broad casts to us upon Mice and Men north of the Tweed has told us that a suggestion for the cure of the alleged backwardness in educa tion in his country takes the form of a proposal for the establishment of a University of Futba' (Anglice football). Why not? And, further, why stop here? Why exclude Racing (many jockeys have ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE Ruridecanal Conference was at lunch, and a discussion had arisen as to the duties of the laity in country parishes. The activities of the laywoman, said an authori tative voice, must be definitely organized. What is a laywoman. precisely? someone asked. The Rural Dean's sixteen-year-old daughter, bieaking a long and brilliant silence: A hen! An armed ...

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... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere BULL-FIGHTING doesn't appeal very much to English men but soldiers stationed at Gibraltar some times visit La Linea, just outside the fortress, to see what this Soanish soort is like. A party of them were in the crowd at the bullring there one day, when the matador was not in very good form. Twice he failed to kill his bull and there was a good deal of ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Publish THOSE who think that a strong but silent Air force can exist 111 any cuu.u.y in which votes decide political issues are wrong. In communist and in fascist countries air forces do not have to win popular support in order to exist and to develop. But in voting countries they do. Now the Royal Air Force does prepare and issue a number of publications. But they ...

... Lure of the Lunts At Their Brilliant Best in Rattigan's Love in Idleness Olivia No, you 're far too useful making tanks, and any way, that would make me a sort of femme fatale, and I 'm much too in love with you to want to be that Sir John Fletcher offers to resign from the Cabinet and ask his wife to divorce him so that he can marry Olivia Brown Sir John 44 You 've told him nothing whatever ...

... Naval Personnel at a R.N. Air Station Sitting 3rd/0. D. Payne, 2nd/0. E. Cowell Cdr. H S. Pugh O.B.E., R N erd/O. M. G. Sweeny 3rd/0. K. M. Pntchard. Standing 3id/Os J. Hinton, G. M. S. Thomson, J. I. Pynsent, P. N. Chadhorn D R stuart Officers of a (R.M.) Commando, S.E.A.C. Front row Capt. C. A. Watkins, Capt. K. P. Parish, Major G. H. Stockley the Command ing Officer, Major H. G. S. Saunders ...