... 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 ...

... The Princesses at the bottom of the staircase which leads to their own apartments in the Palace. Princess Elizabeth is wearing a printed flowered chiffon dress with a white ground, while Princess Margaret's frock is in pale shell pink. Princess Elizabeth will be twenty in April, and Princess Margaret sixteen in August Cecil Beaton ...

... James Agate LAST week I described what the old films at the Curzon used to belike by showing what they were not like. Now comes the manage ment to tell us that all the films are to be French, and that presently we are to have something about Berlioz and his Symphonie Fantastique. Well, I remember a film about Beethoven who, in contradiction to received medical opinion, contracted deafness ...

... Q Joan Bennett, as Kitty, plays the most lurid role of her career in Scarlet Street and is certainly a had woman with little to redeem her faults. Playing opposite her as her equally unscrupulous hoy friend, Johnny, is Dan Duryea, and the two of them use the unsuspecting Christopher Cross (Edward G. Kohinson) mercilessly for their own ends. Kitty is murdered by Christopher when he discovers ...

... PRISCILLA in PARIS L'Etat Donne ra L'Example Februarv =^th. icu6. ONE of the results of the strike in the printing world was that when the papers appeared again, they did so-- for one wonderful day-- in the old, familiar, four-page shape. It was quite thrilling to have to stretch one's arms to open them. During the strike the clandestine Press worked overtime, same-like during Occupation. ...

... ala Premiere for French Film Une Fcmme Disparait, with Fran^oise Rosay at the Academy Cinema Mrs. Attlee the wife of the Prime Minister, with one of her three daughters, Miss Felicity Attlee Lady Dashwood, the Canadian-born wife of Sir John Lindsay Dashwood ivho is the Premier Baronet of Great Britain J Mme. Frangoise Rosay came especially over from France to attend the premiere of Une Femme ...

... SADLER'S WELLS RALLET SEASOI 9 Moira Shearer is one of the most outstanding younger stars of the Ballet Season by the Sadler s Wells. She has style, grace, dramatic ability and a dynamic personality. Her greatest chance to show her technical ability will be given her tins season when she is dancing the Princess Aurora for matinees at Covent Garden, having a third share in the part with Margot ...

... GETTING MARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings ,ds, °,a\ s.. ...

... 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 ...