... . 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 ...

... FURNITURE DECORATIONS FURNITURE DECORATIONS =MAPLE= =ESS TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD LONDON. W.1. m BIRMINGHAM BOURNEMOUTH BRIGHTON LEEDS ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. New Session.-- With much of the traditional pomp and colour, the King last week opened a new Session of Parliament. With a remarkable absence of party bitterness, and, indeed, with considerable unanimity, Parliament debated the items of the Address and accepted many of the main legislative proposals and agenda as, at any rate, now inevitable. The Government s ...

... IN the gladsome, albeit undiscerning, year 1937, when the movements of the subject were un fettered, the computation was that some 700,000 citizens of the United Kingdom availed themselves of the right to proceed to the Continent on their divers occasions. The overwhelming majority went as holiday-makers and many visited fellow-country- men and women resident abroad. Business and other work, ...

... VJ^hile Lord Killearn has been working at Batavia, Java, as mediator between the Dutch Com mission General and the Indonesian leaders, con ditions in neighbouring Sumatra appear to have deteriorated rapidly, and there have been persistent attacks by the irregular Republican forces on the British Indian and Dutch positions. This has been particularly so in the region of Medan, and the situation ...

... MR. BEVIN FACES THE NEW YORK PRESS Britain's Foreign Secretary seen in the library of the Aquitania answering the local correspondents when he arrived in America for the Big Four Meeting. While Mr. Bevin was giving his views, members of the so-called American League for Free Palestine picketed the dock area, many of them carrying placards intensely hostile to Mr. Bevin's policy. His arrival ...

... THE TREPASSEY SAILS SOUTH nphe Colonial Office has selected twelve young scientists all single, tough and not afraid of loneliness for P two years' Polar research in the region of the Falkland Islands and its dependencies on the fringe of the Antarctic. Most of the men are university graduates, including biologists, weather men, geologists and map-makers, and last week they left London Docks ...