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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 ...
... BRABOURNE-MOUNTBATTEN WEDDING STORY FROM A TO 'EHEARSAL, CEREMONY, RECEPTION, GOING-AWAY. This is the full pictorial story of the wedding of Captain Lord Brabourne, Coldstream Guards, to the Hon. Patricia Mountbatten, elder daughter of Lord and Lady Mountbatten. The ceremony, performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, took place in Romsey Abbey. Their Majesties the King and Queen, the Duchess ...
... AT THE FIRST ROYAL COMMAND FILM SHOW- -AND AT THE ROYAL COMMAND VARIETY SHOW. One of the results of the first Royal Command Film Performance on November 1 was the gathering of the biggest crowds London has known since Victory Hay- Leicester Square (see bottom row of pictures) was thronged when the King and Queen and the Princesses arrived at the Empire Theatre. Our two central photographs show ...
... GROWING OLD BY GREASE-PAINT- MARGARET LOCKWOOD IN HUNGRY HILL In the film version of Hungry Hill star Margaret Lockwood has her first experience of a film maturing. The celluloid years trace their path f across her face and figure from eighteen to fifty from Ireland to Monte Carlo. Two Cities Films are making Daphne du Maurier's story of the two Irish families Brodericks and Donovans, whose ...
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... Royal Academy Beauty MRS. DAVID RAWNSLEY, whose portrait is in this year's Royal Academy, has the pink-and-white colouring of an English rose. The artist has caught all the glamour of her shining hair and satin -soft skin. I use Pond's for my skin, says Mrs. Rawnsley, Pond's Cold Cream for cleansing and keeping the skin soft, Pond's Vanishine Cream as a powder base. Pond's CREAMS THAT'S ...
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