... AT THE PICTURES JAMES AGATE A Word to the Cur: on THE Curzon, that most superior purzon among cinemas, is to re-open. I remem ber the shock of that first opening and how everybody was struck with the beauty of the decoration. No plush, no palms, no gold fish! The beauty of the decoration consisted in the fact that there wasn't any. The Marquis de Casa Maury, or somebody, told us at the ...

... Film Premiere of 4 4 Two Years Before the Mast In Aid of the Navy League's Sea Corps Cadet Appeal H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, who attended the premiere, with Sir Bernard Docker, the deputy chairman of the Navy League Executive. On the right are H.E. the Brazilian Ambassador and Mme. De Aragao V ice-Admiral C. E. Morg an, C.B., D.S.O., and Mrs. Morgan with Lady Prudence Loudon youngest sister ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Facilities I HAVE pointed out before that the nations which were united in war are being divided in peace by the restrictions on free travel. These restrictions get in the way of air transport development. So it is good to see that the Provisional Civil Aviation Organi zation is looking into the matter. A technical group ot the organization lias Deen study ing a ...

... Picture of the W eek The Duchess of Kent explaining the programme to her nine-year-old daughter. Princess Alexandra, at the Ernest Read Orchestral Concert for Children at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert included a Handel Organ Concerto, the last movement of the Mozart Violin Concerto in G, and the Cesar Franck Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra but the performance enjoyed most by ...

... Murder And Mystery In The Early 1900s: The Spiral Staircase' Dorothy McGuire adds yet another fine character role to those she played in Claudia and The Enchanted Cottage as the mute servant, Helen, in this story of mystery and maniacal murder, The Spiral Staircase. With her in a distinguished cast are George Brent, Ethel Barrvmore and Elsa Lanchester. The story starts in the year 1906, and ...

... M , one of the most fashionable social events of the city and county in pre-war days, was revived this year, when leading members of the Hunt and friends assembled at Epperstone Manor, the residence of Mrs. Stanley Bourne. The long drive to the house was covered with a green-and-white awning, and the hall and several of the rooms were thrown open for dancing, with a buffet in the billiards ...

... 'PJetruschka is one of the most colour- X ful ballets ever created, and better than any other, shows the true Russian spirit. The first performance was given in 191 1 in Russia, and the four biggest names in the Russian Ballet were its creators-- Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Fokine and Benois (the costume designer). Recently the Royal Opera in Stockholm staged a very successful produc tion of the ...

... 0 Joseph MacLeod, one of the B.B.C.'s most popular wartime announcers, is going into the film business as managing director of Scottish National Film Studios. He has had a varied career. Called to the Bar in 1928, he did not make law his living, but worked at various times as a book-reviewer, private tutor, actor, pro ducer and lecturer in theatrical history. In 1937 he made a tour of theatres ...

... TWO ARTISTS All Il f, II! WIVES Mr. James Proudfoot, R.O.I., and His Wife, Ellen Pollock, the Actress Mr. and Mrs. Cowan Dobson- at Their Kensington Home Mr. James Proudfoot, the portrait and land scape painter, and his talented actress-wife, Ellen Pollock, make their home in a roof-top maisonette in South Kensington, though Mr. Proudfoot is to be more often found hard at work in his studio in ...

... GETTING HARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Harvey Morris Major H. C. Harvey The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Harvey of Botesdale Suffolk married Miss Jessie Morris youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Morris, of Gildersome, near Leeds, at St. Peter's Gildersome Kent Monahan Lt. Gerald Kent R.N.V.R., of Peter sfield, Hampshire married ...

... m The Festival of English Drama now running at the Arts Theatre, London, has proved to be the biggest success this theatre has had since it came under the direction >f Alec Clunes in 1942. Highlight of the Festival, which includes five plays from Shakespeare to Shaw, Is Alec Clunes' Hamlet, produced by Judith Furse. The other four plays in the cycle are George Farquhar's Restoration comedy ...

... PRI.WILM in PARIS These little things are great to little man Goldsmith January 28 th. MANY of the good wishes I received at the beginning of January were couched in the optimistic strain of Well, '46 can't be worse than '45! I am now making the most of the few days that remain to us before the price of postage goes up again, and am returning these cards to their senders with the bitter ...