... ROYAL INSPECTION, NAVAt MILITARY AND R.A.F. PERSONALITIES;. AND WEDDING.1 AND ENGAGEMENTS. THE QUEEN recently inspected a detachment of 300 members of the Mechanised Transport Corps. HER MAJESTY is shown with CORPS COMMANDER MRS. PEAKE and behind PRINCESS ELIZABETH. MISS VALERIE HOBSON, the young British screen-star attended the gala premiere of 44 A Bell for Adano at the Odeon, Leicester ...

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... - DR. JAMES HALL, for being the Sailors' SOS Surgeon. DR. JAMES HALL has earned his label, 44 The Sailors* SOS Surgeon,** through braving the storms and heavy seas, mines and bombs, shells and bullets of Hellfirc Corner to help seamen in urgent distress and illness. In 1939 calls for medical aid became so numerous at sea that the Vice-Admiral of Dover arranged for some coastal doctors to ...

... . /^\N another page we give por traits of the B.B.C. Home Service Announcers. Here the Chiine of Broadcasting Bells is completed by photographs of the sixteen Overseas Announcers. Their voices are heard all over the [Continued opposite. N.B A Coloured plate is inserted in this issue Continued.] world their faces have, so far, remained unknown to the general public, so 44 The Sketch is happy to ...

... . TCHEKOV'S UNCLE VANYA alternates with Peer Gynt and 44 Richard III. in the Old Vic Company's season at the New Theatre. Mr. Ralph Richardson as Uncle Vanya is the perfect mixture of absurdity and pathos Laurence Olivier gives a distinguished reading of Astrov Margaret Leighton successfully presents Yelena's lazy grace. 44 Uncle Vanya at the New Theatre. 44 Missed Missed again Damna tion ...

... . THE Old Vic Theatre Company's 44 Henry IV. brought to light in October last the 44 greatest Falstaff in living memory RALPH RICHARD SON. With one voice the critics lauded his robust, intelligent performance. Gone the pot-bellied buffoons of the past. Arrived, Shakespeare's own creation, racy, idiomatic, and credible. Mr. Richardson is a director of the Old Vic Company as well as a player. He ...

... ROYAL CHRISTENING, ENGAGEMENT, ALAMEIN DINNER, STAGE AND SCREEN, FILM-STAR AT HOME, AND WEDDINGS. AIR MARSHAL SIR CHARLES MI HURST (left), A.O.C.-in-C. R.A. Middle East, gave away his P.A., CAPTAIN CORALIE M. HYAM, S.A.W.A.F., when she married WING COMMANDER RONALD PINCOTT at Zamalek. MISS MARCELLE BIGIO was i bridesmaid, and GROUP CAPT. J MASTERS (right) best man. M MADAME MASSIGLI, wife of V ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. NEVER was the demand for music-- good music-- in films so high as it is at this moment. Pictures like Fan tasia, Dangerous Moonlight and A Song to Remember have been fantastically popular. When Jose Tturbi, who recorded all that delightful Chopin music for A Song to Remember, sat down at the piano and idly strummed the Debussy Clair de Lune in Music for Millions, a ...

... . The Qpening number of the new Noel Coward revue at the Piccadilly Theatre Harlequin (GRAHAM PAYN r.) and the Singing Sylphides giving 44 Sigh No More. GRAHAM PAYN as the French sailor in 44 Matelot, one of the best songs of the show. JOYCE GRENFELL as the Society Lady in 44 Du Maurier one of her own lyrics. 44 Pageant the finale of the first half of the programme Queen Elizabeth ...

... DRESSING DP Fine Furs and Fabrics V All the beauty of natural blue W fox is in this chunky coat. In J actual fact, it is made of white Arctic fox, but so cleverly dyed you 'd never know the difference. National Fur Co., Brompton Road. Dehenham and Freebody magicians that they are have managed to produce a lovely collection of velvet dinner-dresses for our victory year. This is one of the ...