... THE BABES IN THE WOOD, WITH ADELE DIXON AS ROBIN HOOD. 44 rPHE BABES IN THE WOOD is the pantomime at His Majesty's, with Adelc Dixon as J- a fine, upstanding principal boy, Robin Hood. She sings admirably, looks a dashing Sherwood Forester, and has a lively sense of fun. The comedians in this show are a specially strong team, with Nerv'o and Knox, 44 Monsewer Eddie Gray and Leo Franklyn and ...

... . The duke of kent and his sister, PRIN CESS ALEXANDRA, thoroughly enjoyed a visit to 44 Goody Two-Shoes at the London Coliseum, where they were taken by the Duchess of Kent last week. The nine-year-old Duke made a spectacular catch of a plum-pudding thrown up to the Royal box from the stage at the end of the show, and afterwards they went be hind the scenes with their friends, rode the panto ...

... . LIEUT. E. KENNETH A. BENJ AFIELD MACDONALD, R.N., elder son of the late Mr. Donald Macdonald, married MISS LILITA BLANCO-FOMBONA, at Our Lady of Victories temporarily Assumption Chapel, Kensington Square). The BISHOP OF BLACKBURN centre baptised the TRIPLET SONS of MRS. VARAH (I.) and the REV. E. C. VARAH, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Blackburn. The babies (born on October 19) had eighteen ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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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... - 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 ...