... . 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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... . 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 ...

... LITTLER'S LONDON COLISEUM PANTO., GOODY TWO-SHOES. EMIL LITTLER has chosen as his third London panto mime GOODY TWO-SHOES. The plot is a compound of the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe story, and of a tale about two pairs of shoes, one of which insured good behaviour in the wearer, and the other bad. The brilliant cast includes the galvanic Principal Boy, Pat Kirkwood Fred Fmney, at his best ...

... - 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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