... PORTRAITS IN PRINT Simon Harcourt-Smith Bernhardt To our most eminent authority upon the theatre in general, and Sarah Bernhardt in particular, I owe the solitary gleam of hope and gaiety I have known this week. A fortnight ago when I dared to speak in these columns with some slight levity of the Bernhardt, I mentioned my expectation of wrath from my elders. My expectation has been justified, ...

... Death of a Rat A Play Based on Scientific Research The play opens in a laboratory of the Amsterdam Institute of Cancer Research February 1940. Wilts (Robert Harris and Karels (Terry Morgan) are engrossed in a post-mortem. Their work is stopped by an air raid rehearsal tn a flashback Wilts is shown as a young man. He is living with his Professor (Alastair Sim), both of them absorbed in the girl ...

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL JENNIFER writes SKATING AT SANDRINGHAM FROST and ice put an end to any hope of organised shooting at Sandringham for several days. In spite of this, however, the small Royal Party managed to enjoy them selves enormously, as the lake near the house, where His Majesty has often played that swiftest and, most exciting of all games, ice hockey, froze over hard enough to skate on ...

... PRISCIIU PARIS CA NE TOURNE PAS ROND! say the man, woman and child in the street-- not to a mention the baby under the rose-bush-- and when I open the daily papers, which only arrive by what is known here as the First Post, long after breakfast is forgotten, I heartily sympathise. When I have read a dozen contradictory editorials, I realise that indeed the wheels are not turning smoothly in ...

... The Temperature Registered 37° Most People Wrapped Up Warmly Against It. These Tatler Pictures Show the Interesting (and Ingenious) Variety of Clothing Lady Irwin and Mrs. George Lambton wore leather coats lined with lambswool to keep out the cold Capt. Elsey wore a thick overcoat while Capt. Boyd-Rochforl kept the wind out with a proofed hooded flying jacket Miss 44 Babs Lewis tops a heavy ...

... AIR EDIHES By Oliver Stewart The Customer IN the world to which we are now being introduced, the customer is always wrong and the official is always right. Rarely does the customer receive any notice at all. Consequently it was a pleasant change when Sir Frederick Handley Page, speaking after Lord Winster at a meeting of the Royal Empire Society, urged that the creature comforts of the air ...

... Margot Fonteyn Who Will Again Appear as the Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty Photographs by Gordon Anthony ...

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... Two Years Before The Mast Hollywood's Film of Richard Henry Dana's Famous Book Barry Fitzgerald as the Irish cook, Dooley Brian Donlevy as Dana finds Alan Ladd, as Stewart eating filched chicken Rosa Rey playing Mercedes is too sea-sick to eat Two Years Before the Mast is the film of Dana's famous book, which exposed the conditions in which Merchant Navy men went to sea in 1825, and did much ...

... COVENT GARDEN, opening again as a theatre for the first time in nearly seven years the third week in February, is to offer us as its first presentation a revival of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Princess. With an entirely new decor by Oliver Messel, and an orchestra of seventy, the ballet will be danced by the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, the most internationally famous British theatri cal company, ...

... Sir Francis Rose Painter, Illustrator, Designer and Author During the next few months we shall be hearing a lot of Sir Francis Rose several books of which he is the author, part-author or illustrator are due for publication. In addition, there are to be two one-man shows of his paintings one in San Francisco in April, the other in Edinburgh.' Sir Francis Rose succeeded his father, Sir Cyril ...

... Lady Elizabeth Charteris is the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wemyss and granddaughter of Lady Violet Benson by her firsl marriage to Captain Lord Elcho, son of the 11th Earl Wemyss who was killed in the first World War. Lady Elizabeth was born in Johannesburg in July, 1941. Her mother, the Countess of Wemyss, is the former Miss Mavis Gordon Murray, daughter of Mr. E. E. Murray of ...