... . MISS E. C. BATHER (formerly Group Officer W.A.A.F.) Scotland Yard's first Chief Inspector of Women Police, chatted with CANON SPENCER LEESON, Headmaster of Winchester, at the Royal Hampshire Hospital Ball. I THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE was recently produced for a run of four performances by the I West Wickham Amateur Operatic Society at the Lecture Hall, West Wickham. The Pirate King (MR. CYRIL ...

... THE MEN WHO MAKE THE STARS: I FILM PUNDITS IN THEIR OFFICES. PRESTON STURGES directs the stories he writes and writes the pictures he directs. He fought in the 1914-18 war and then succeeded as playwright and actor, and with films. He went to Hollywood in 1932. Darryl F. Zanuck is Vice-President in charge of production for 20th Century-Fox. He was the first producer to win the Irving G. ...

... ACTRESS-AUTHOR SATIRIC GALVANIC HERMIONE AT HOME. Right Looking quite neo- Georgion Hermione sits thought fully under a portrait of a Victorian child. v e Deanna Durbin she can't stop singing. Or it might be a morning yawn. Mote the heavily-fringed draperies behind the bed, the spotted wall-paper, the elaborate chiffon nightie. She has a Victorian background. Looped tartan curtains surmount ...

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... . By JOHN RUSSELL. THEATRICALLY this has been a meagre, mitigated Christmas, with few of those costly exuberances which, under the generic name of pantomime, formerly expressed the whole richness and generosity of the season. For several kinds of performer the season of pantomime was the natural harvest of the year, the fullest, ripest expression of talents carefully tended during the other ...

... 'air '4i - MLLE. ANTOINETTE MEYER, for giving good practical ski-ing tips photographically. 'TLm Z:,\ V VI HPHE Swiss slopes are open again; and the British Minister an his wife and other members of the Diplomatic Corps are enjoying a resh the thrills of ski-ing. Twent\ -one hotels at St. Moritz are now opei and the Cresta Run will soon be cady again. While nothing can tak; the place of the ...

... HEAD OF THE V. A. MR. LEIGH ASHTON. MR. ARTHUR LEIGH ASHTON, appointed Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum last year, is one of the best-known connoisseurs in the country. While his special field is Oriental art, his interests cover a wide range of European fine and applied art. He is perhaps best known to the public as having arranged the great Chinese Exhibition at Burlington House in ...

... . MR.SELZNICK is respon sible for making 44 Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, 44 Since You Went Away, and countless famous films. He won the 44 Oscar for the best production in 1939 and 1940, and the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award for most persistent high quality of production in 1939. Mr. Goldwyn was born in 1884 in Warsaw, and raised as an orphan. He emigrated to the U.S.A. when he was eleven, ...