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... . Th Duchess of Grafton was Miss Rita Carr-Ellison, daughter of th> late Mr. J. S. Carr-Ellison, member of a very old and dis til) zuished Northumbrian family. Her marriage to the tenth Duke of Grafton took place in 1944, and their home is the fine old country mansion of Euston Hall outside Thetford, Norfolk. Th Duchess is President of the Suffolk branch of the British Red Cress Society and an ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SCHOOL FOR SECRETS, the new piece about radar at the Odeon, Leicester Square, is the sort of thing that the British film people, when they put their minds to it, can do remarkably well. It lies midway between drama and docu mentary; it deals in facts, seen from the point of view of fiction. It is more about radar than any thing else; but it is less about radar than about ...

... LITERARY LIGHTS AT THE UNlj OXFORD'S ISIS; SITIES THE TERM'S STAFFS FOR CAMBRIDGE'S GRANTA. Oxford's 44 Isis and Cambridge's 44 Granta were both reborn tliisj year after an enforced retirement during the war. The editorship °j| both papers is usually held to be an indication of a brilliant future 1 N.B. A Coloured A j!ul roany famous men have been contributors in the past. These diversity ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- AND WE APPLAUD RAY MILLAND, winner of Hollywood's Oscar as best male actor for 1946, for his performance in Lost Week- End, was also awarded for that film the Grand Prix du Cinéma at the recent Cannes Inter national Film Festival-- a double decision which stamps his merit. France's Premier, M. Georges Bidault, is seen in the picture handing him his prize, with U.S. ...

... . Bv means of a new high-speed flash-lamp, the cameraman has 44 frozen incidents in ice-hockey, the fastest game in the world, never successfully photographed before owing to its terrific speed. For danger, speed and fight the fame ha- hardly its equal. Ice-hockey is played in a series of short dashes dodging, shifting, side-stepping and even hurdling being parts of the puck-chasers* routine. ...

... . 44 The Life and Ad ventures of Nicholas Nickleby Dickens' immortal classic is in production at Ealing Studios; producer: Michael Balcon director Cavalcanti. All the well-remem bered characters are there the Crummleses, the Mantalinis, the Squeers and their appalling institution, Dotheboys Hall the lovable Cheeryble Brothers Newman Noggs, Smike, miserly Uncle Ralph; the Nickleby family with ...

... ROYAL 'PICTURES, ROYALTY, ART AND HEROISM. SIR KENNETH CLARK, MR. CHAUNCEY McCORMICK, MRS. McCORMICK and LORD INVERCHAPEL, British Ambassador to the U.S.A. are having a learned discussion on Constable's The Hay Wain at the Loan Exhibition of works by Constable. Hogarth and Turner at the Chicago Art Institute. ELEONORE PUCCINI, granddaughter of the composer, is a well-known dr ...

... GREER GARSON beautiful red-headed M.-G.-M. star, whose performance as Mrs. Miniver won her the Academy Award in 1942, has a long list of big-hits to her credit Her new films are A Woman of My Own, and The Chimes of Bruges. She is also scheduled for The Nutmeg-Tree. Miss Garson is Irish by birth, was educated at the London University and the University of Grenoble with the idea of teaching ...

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... back to the stage- in CLUTTERBUCK. NAUNTON WAYNE and BASIL RADFORD will make a welcome return to the West End stage in Benn W. Levy's comedy Clulterbuck, which is due at Wyndham's on August 14. Here they are-- literally back to the stage-- after a series of sue- cessful screen and radio engagements. The comedy, which is set on a pleasure- cruise liner and in a South American island in the ...

... . The Duchess of Marlborough is here posed with four of her five children. They are the LADIES CAROLINE and ROSEMARY SPENCER-CHURCHILL, the MARQUESS OF BLANDFORD, and LORD CHARLES SPENCER-CHURCHILL. Her eldest daughter, Lady Sarah Russell, is not in the group. Lady Caroline's engagement to Major Hugo If' aterhouse, eldest son of Captain Charles Waterhouse, is announced. The name of Churchill ...