... PORTRAITS II PRINT Simon Harcourt-Smith 77 ig old order changeth, yielding place to new And God fulfils himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world'' -ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Twelfth Night I AM inclined to regret that the modern emphasis on Christmas and New Year's Eve has driven Twelfth Night out of English fashion. In France, and particularly in Belgium, it is still the ...

... Flanagan and Allen are on the top of their inimitable form in this light hearted comedy about two newspaper men, who get in and out of innumerable difficulties trying to expose a corrupt newspaper magnate. The film starts with Bud and Ches wearily plodding over the desert. However, Bud does not think this sort of journey really necessary so they devise a new plot for the film and hence the ...

... YOUNG ASPIRANTS FOR STARDOM Learn Their Trade at the Aida Foster School in London The stage as a career is the dream of almost every little girl and quite a few small boys as well. Schools where stagecraft in all its many aspects is taught, combined with general education, are very popular. The Aida Foster school is among the foremost institutions of this kind. Founded in 1929, it has a ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE By Sabretache Keyes of Zeebrugge EVERYONE who knew the late Lord Keyes realises in full measure the loss which his Service and the nation have sustained. If it ever were true to say of anyone that he was without fear and without reproach, it was so where he was concerned. In and out of the Navy he inspired genuine affection and an abiding admiration. He was that unhappily ...

... Capt. R. F. Hickey, U.S. Navy Air Attache, Col. A. IHecksher, Brazilian Air. Attache, and Col. Milton Turner, U.S. Army Air Attache Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Arthur Tedder, who has been created a baron in the New Year's Honours, with Lady Tedder, and the Under-Secretary for Air, Mr. Strachey, and Mrs. Strachey w- ._i. i mmmmtm i Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal of Hungerford and Air Cdr. ...

... THE DAILY TOLL ON THE ROADS OF JAVA A TYPICAL AMBUSH LAID] BY INDONESIAN INSURGENTS ON ONE OF THE MAIK ROADS LEADING OUT OF BATAVIA. Every day casualties are reported among the British troops on the island, owing tc incidents such as this Drawing by G. Lambert This drawing indicates one of the many dangers under which the British forces in Java have beei operating. Ambushes are to be expected ...

... 1 The Christian aspect of the situation in Palestine is apt to be overlooked in the clash of arms and arguments between Arabs and Jews. The whole of this section of the Near East is full of historic sites connected with the life of Christ and the Apostles. Around Jerusalem and Bethlehem are the cradles of Christianity surrounded to-day by many stately buildings put up by British effort since ...

... THE BUSINESS END OF THE PAPER BALLOONS SENT OVER AMERICA DURING THE WAR BY THE JAPS This part of the Japanese balloon, with which the Japs hoped to destroy areas in the U.S., carries the bomb-load. The bombs are attached to this chandelier, which is equipped with an automatic release and is hinged to the balloon itself by nineteen shroud-lmes. The exploding fuse which released a sandbag as ...

... On left Air Vice-Marshal Donald Bennett, who formed and led the K.A.F. S famous Path finder Force, celebrated the transfer of Heath Row Aero drome from military to civil control by taking-off in the Lancastrian air liner Star light on a survey flight to South America on January 1 Heath Row is to be Britain s main air junction it is estimated officially to have cost about £20,000,000. At ...

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... . I WING-COMMANDER C. L. SINCLAIR danced I with MME. HUANG, wife of the Chinese I Air Attach Lieut. -Colonel Tang Pao- I Huang at the Government Reception at I Seaford House, to meet representatives of the Allied Air Forces. MRS. CLEMENT ATTLEE, wife of the Prime Minister, had some conversation with MME. WELLINGTON K00, wife of H.E. the Chinese Ambassador, at the Seaford House party. The Air ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET (Odeon, Leicester Square) reminds me of those highly effective spy-stories of Bernard Newman's. By keeping the details factual and their combination free and fanciful, it gives to a purely fictional melodrama the effect of an urgent and authentic document. The film has been made by Louis de Rochemont, veteran producer of 44 The March of Time. It ...