... Matrimonial Cocktail Kay Hammond and John Clements in Private Lives a Coward Conceit Amanda Give me one, for God's sake Amanda on the first night of her honeymoon with husband No. 2; finds first husband Elyol staying at the same hotel. Elyot, who has also just married for the second time, has taken the adjoining balcony room (John Clements, Kay Hammond Amanda 11 Big, romantic stuff, darling ...

... - BETTY WARREN, for switching from light comedy to light craft. THE shipbuilding business surprisingly and voluntarily begun by light-comedy actress BETTY WARREN has developed into a serious enterprise, which gets orders from the Admiralty, and turns out twelve lifeboats, five whalers, 1500 rafts, and some 2000 masts every month. After Dunkirk, when a barge she owned was commandeered to help ...

... MRS. MARY MATHEW, who received the M.B.E. in the New Year's Honours, is Founder and Chairman of the Officers' Kit Replacement Organisation. She is the wife of Lieut. -General George Mathew Royal Marines. MRS. CHARLES SWEENY attended the first night of the new Terence Rattigan play, Love in Idleness, in which the Lunts are starring. She is with COLONEL HAMMOND. LADY BARON, wife of Sir Edward ...

... .THEIR EXCELLENCIES OF8 ENGAL AND BOMBAY. MRS. CASEY is the wife of the Rt. Hon. R. G. Casey, P C D.S.O., M.C., the first Australian Governor of Bengal. She was Miss Ethel Marian Sumner, daughter of the late Major-General Sir Charles Ryan, K.B.E., before her marriage to Mr. Casey in 1926. They have a son and a daughter. Mrs. Casey is seen with her dachshund in one of the rooms of Government ...

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... WAV OF THE WAR By Foresight Grim ALL along the Western Front, as in Budapest, the Germans are fighting grimly. By every sign and every effort they are demonstrating that they recognize that this is, for them, the final stage. Their main object on the Western Front is to pin down the Allied armies, and to prevent them launching a strong offensive at any one point. I he light amid the ruins ot ...

... Gielgud the Man and the Actor Camera Studies at Home and in the Theatre John Gielgud is a great actor. An eminent critic of the theatre has described him as 44 our leading actor, and, as such, Mr. Gielgud accepts his responsibilities seriously. At the moment he is devoting his thought j and time to repertory, and during their season at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, he and his company are ...

... BUBBLE A SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere IN a film a Doughboy fishing with rod and line in mid-Atlantic caught a submarine. That beats all the fishing stories! chuckled the man in the next seat. Actually, it doesn't. A former British Ambassador to U.S.A. used to tell of an Englishman who asked the head-keeper Yellowstone National Park if there were any big fish in the lake. A few, admitted ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Foe and Flight THE term blind flying has led some people into the error of thinking that aircraft are also capable of blind taking-off and blind landing. And it is true that blind take-offs and blind landings have been made successfully. But, as yet, blind landings are not practical as an ordinary air line procedure. There comes a moment when all the ...

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... 0 UJ Cli A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country In the Country ONE of the gayest of the Royal Christmas festivities was the dance given on Boxing Night by the Royal Household Canteen Recreation Committee, attended by the King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. A dance band from a famous R.A.F. station played, and some 400 guests, including many members of the Household ...

... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis WAVING its long furry ears gently to and fro, the citizenry will observe with mild surprise that by way of a change from nagging it to do its duty, the National Savings publicity boys have now gone in for flattery of the most delicious kind. You're magnificent! is their new cry, in effect. You 're splendid Thank you ever so much, sweethearts, and ...