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... . THE first post-war St. Andrew's Day celebrations at Eton took place on Saturday, December 1, technically a day late, under ideal weather conditions. Remarkable to relate, there was neither rain, fog nor mud, and the number of private cars gave everything a near-peace-time flavour. The Wall Game between the Oppidans and the Collegers was disappointing as the Collegers never scored, and never ...
... - MISS RITA SHARPE, for touring the British Isles to get the right tempo before conducting at the Albert Hall. Yorkshire-born miss RITA SHARPE conducted the New British Symphony Orches tra at the Albert Hall on Decem ber 1, during the ninetieth birthday celebrations of the Y.W.C.A. But before doing so, in her enthusiasm she made a tour all over the British Isles, to visit in turn every one of ...
... MISS PULSE-RATE OF 1945 OFF-STAGE. j LAUREN BACALL IN HER NEW YORK SUITE. T^ROM the obscurity of modelling fashions LAUREN B AC ALL shot up straight into the neon-lights with her first film To Have and Have Not. Now her second picture Confidential Agent is due at the Warner Theatre on December 28. Charles Boyer co-stars, and the featured cast includes the distinguished lady of the Greek ...
... chn-ufi Qirl: ^floAt.^ane (flicjl. From a jetty nineteen-year-old JANE NIGH surveys the world she has set out to conquer. She tvas working in a defence plant when her photograph was sent to a Twentieth Century-Fox talent scout. Her film career started from that moment. Jane was called for an interview and a screen test, following which she tvas signed on to a long-term contract. Her first film ...
... ME BRITISH BATTLESHIP KING GEORGE V GOES INTO DRY DOCK IN AUSTRALIA: PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE AIR AS SHE MOVED INTO THE CAPTAIN COOK GRAVING DOCK AT SYDNEY on November 15, for an overhaul which will take several weeks Chief of the many British naval vessels now in Australasian and Pacific waters is our latest and greatest battleship, the 35,000-ton King George V. She has been serving as the ...
... A STRANGE amount of exaggeration and mis statement is getting out of Germany at this juncture. You are told that Berliners are walking ghosts, concerning which I can only say that they must have been different Berliners from the ones I saw, and that our local garrison would characterise the description as largely tripe. You are told to visualise German towns as heaps of ruins, whereas over ...
... DURING THE STRUGGLE Of GENERAL DE GAULLE AGAINST THE COMMUNISTS STUDENTS OF THE PARIS UNIVERSITY marching i THE CHAMPS-ELYSEES WITH BANNERS AND PICTURES, CLAMOURING DE GAULLE AU POUVOIR. This demonstration was the only ont importance during the critical days when de Gaulle was challenging the power of the largest political party in France the students traditionally in the forefront of ...
... THIS week, for the first time in the history of entertainment, there are four major English films showing simultaneously in the West End of London, They are I Know Where I'm Going, Brief Encounter, The Wicked Lady and Latin Quarter. What is more, there are eight other major English films ready to take their place when the time comes. These are Cœsar and Cleopatra, The Rake's Progress, Caravan, ...
... . Born in 1920, the HON. EDWARD CARSON is our youngest M.P. He is Con servative Member for the Isle of Thanet, and is the son of the late famous and brilliant K.C., Lord Carson, by his second marriage, and of Lady Carson. In 1943 he married Miss Heather Sclater, and their baby daughter Patricia Margaret was christened on December 11 in the crypt of the House of Commons. The Archdeacon of ...
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... Bv ASHLEY CDURTENAY FROM time to time I have been asked my opinion of the Imperial Hotel, Exeter. Here it is. The name, to my mind, is a misnomer, it suggests flunkeys and finery. The Manor or the Mansion House Hotel would have been more in keeping, for in actuality the Imperial is somebody's country house converted, modernised and enlarged. What's in a name It is reputation for good, bad or ...
... Major the Viscount Erleigh, M.B.E., M.C., The Queen's Bays, is the only son of the Marquess and Marchioness of Reading and a grandson of the great Rufus Isaacs, first Marquess of Reading. His marriage to Miss Margot Duke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Duke of Heathcroft, Walton-on-the-Hill, took place in 1941, and he and Lady Erleigh have two little boys, the Hon. Simon and the Hon. Anthony ...