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THE GETIKA MAIL TUESDAY DECEMBER SAISON TI

¦ HELD/

OVER

QUEENS ALHAMBRA

HELD

The Moment Millions Hoard

OVER

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30–5.15—7.20—9.30 P.M.

This is the story of FIAT Forryls Women

and the Ebrao men why were such

Loals beat her!

ANOTHER BIG M-G-M TECHNICOLOR PRODUCTION

TREOL

GREEB

WALTER

FLYNN GARSON PIDGEON

ROBERT

YOUNG

"THAT FORSYTE WOMAN”

TECHNICOLOR

EXEDRICHS

☆ OPENS TO-MORROW ✯

QUEEN'S

"SCENE OF THE

CRIME"

Van Johnson Arlene Dahl

ALHAMBRA

"TENSIO N”

with

Richard Baschart Audrey Tottor

Gracie Rounds Off Variety's

Century

ROXY

AIR-CONDITIONED

It Storms Across The

Screen!

FINAL SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

WILL JAMES'

SANDE

Color by TECHNICOLOR

Mark STEVENS Coleen GRAY · Rory CALHOUN

with CHARLEY GRAPEWIN

Diced by LOUIS KING Praded by ROBERT BASSLER.

ADDED ATTRACTION: "PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S SPEECH IN SAN FRANCISCO ON A FREE WORLD'S FIGHT AGAINST AGGRESSION."

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

Gono TIERNEY Dana ANDREWS

in

66 LAURA 99

A 20th Century-Fox Picture

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED

Take Any Eastorn Tram Car or Happy Valloy Bus Final Showing To-day: 2.30-5.30-7.30 & 9.30 P.M. Errol Flynn's New Hit! It's the kind you love!

WARNER BROS:

ON THE

TECHNICOLOR

ERROL FLYNN ALEXIS SMITH

Commencing To-morrow: "The International Burlosque"

BROADWAY

AIR CONDITIONED ●

SHOWING TO-DAY AT

2.30, 5.30, 730 & 9.30 p.m.

Most Thrilling Picture Of The Last War!

RICHARD.CONTE PRESTON FOSTER LLOYD NOLAN in

“GUADALCANAL DIARY"

A 20th Century. Fox......›

STAR WHO WANTS TO BE ALONE GIVES PARIS NIGHTSPOTS A MISS

Deanna Durbin finds happiness

THERE is a Hollywood in a 3-room flat

film star in Paris who,

From SAM VAITE: Peris,

during her eight months here, has never entered fl fashionable cocktail bar or night club, dined at

or Maxims, or ordered clothes has lived from one of the leading in a three-roomed £7-a-week At 28 Deanma, though alight-

Paris dress houses.

This will be David's marriage,

Ever since she arrived sho owns a cottage.

quietly with her her third four-year-old daughter Jessica first.

with

fatlet in a Paris suburb. Her ly taller, slightly plumper, still

servants

the I present Deanna Durbin in only

Jessica's recalls are a role no Hollywood actress nursemaid and a daily "chor." teen-aged film has ever played convincingly Deanna came to Paris

star of "Three before that of a star who har fiance, 44-year-old French Smart Girls." really "wants to be alone." film director Charles David. They plan to marry some time towards the end of this year or early next year in a small Alsace

where villago

David

To find Miss Durbin in Paris It is no use loaking through the guest lista of luxury hotels.

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8 Exclude

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11 Worth

12 Tuke in sall

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10 Strong

18 Crockery

20 Consume

22 Carry ca

23 Found agreeable

25 Pigment

20 Put from memory

27 Denude

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DOWN

1 Naval officers

2 Seep

3 First man

4 Church screen

Fish

@ Spoaks

7 Pluck

14 Upright.

15 Menaco

16 Dsseminate 17. Advantage

19 Joln up 21 Fold

24' Drug:

MONDAY'S CROSSWORD.—ACTORS: 1.Culled, & Anvil,' B Vend, Rustic, 11 Holot, 12 Painée, 14 Rile, 10 Eager, 18 Unite, 1b Edge, 20 Trebio, 24 Fence, 25 Create, 28 Rite, 27 Laden, 28 Swings, Down; 1 Curt, 2 Lisy, 8 Evil, 4 Decade, B Adhered, 0 Village, 7 Lottery, 10 Taelt; 13 Hurtful, 14 Ripened, 15 Lectern, 17 Agile, 19 Ejects, 21, Brow, 22 Earn, 23 Fees.

FERDINAND

Bawl-Bearings

WANT

She dreases simply her Paris clothes are bought "off the peg"—and shuns hats and jewellery.

Deanna

came a star at

14.

Last year

her contruct with Universal Films expired, and shc fused to renew

it.

re-

"Why? for one very good reason Hol- lywood refused to let me grow

she sald.. And she added:

You

up

can

describe me as A refugee from Hollywood's conception of myself.

saw me ag

"Hollywood

the eternal bobby-oxer. The fact that i had grown up, married, a child, had nothing to do with it as far as they were con cerned."

had

David, grey-haired, bird-like, interjected: "I met Deanna when I was working in Hollywood. I realised that unicas, sho took drastic steps, Hollywood would

Arst see her a grandmother in the flesh rather than let her play the part of an adult woman on the screen."

DEANNA DURBIN A "refugea."

over.

They came from all over Britain to.oclebrata: 100 FORER... of British muslo-hall at the Palladium, London, Most of them travelled all. Baturday night to be there.............The Bhow Is On, here. With Gracie Fields at the microphone. At a table-behind the Water Est insignia—sita comedian Ted Ray, 1050's King Rat. On his loft-bis 1951 sucocesor, Bud Flanagan, Wes Georgie Wood and Albert Whelan are two täbles to the lefs of them. And around and about are, no- presentative members of the Grand Order, of Water Bats and Lady Ratlings, the variety artlats" chartly organisation.

'ASSU THE

VERY BUSY

OCTOPUS'

INDEED

The Army and Air Force work in very close co-operation these days, the Air Force often doing work that in former times was done by the Cavalry or the Gunners, such as scouting and bombarding enemy con- centrations. To do this there must be an effective link. between the two forces, and this is supplied by the Air Support Signals units (ASSU).

ASSU provide the wire tillary shoots when the gunners Deanna does less communication neces- want to talk to an aircraft tow- not consider

Ing a target for light and heavy her aim carcerary within an Army Group anti-aircraft practice. It is used She can to enable the land forces to for crash reports on friendly afford to wait. all upon the supporting air aircraft, for weather reports, She is wealthy forces for all types of cortical broadest situation re-

offensive backing.

Here a simple example of the work done. A formation in the leld find a target which they cannot deal with using their

with

property

In Hollywood, and her money carefully in- vested by her Lancashire - born parents.

ID

ports and a hundred and one other things,

Taken by and large the ASSU are pretty busy people.

own resources. They immediate. ROBES READY

ly hand in a demand for air Paris support to an ASSU "tentacle,"

Deanna divides her tween

This is the term used for the FOR TEDDER.

branches of ASSU extending to

time bc-

singing the various units.

Lord Tedder, wewly-elected practice, French The demand is then trans-Chancellor of Cambridge Un- mitted to the ASSU at Army versity, is more farhanate than Headquarters the body of the most of his predecessors. He will octopus: If it is accepted it le not have to buy a set of Chan- re-transmitted in two directions, cellor's robes.

lessons and sightseeing" have never been happler she said.

-(London press Service)

Forward, to the demanding for- Before the war. the cost of mation felling them the exact these rich garments, heavily Ex-time when the aircraft will be embroidered with gold silk, was over the target. Backwards, to well over £100. Now, the the Air Force formation who materials could be bought, the will carry out the work telling price might be anything up to them how, where, and when

£500.

They'll Soon Farm In This Desert

they

will perform the task.

The work of the signallers | * In 1948, the present Earl has to be very quick and ac- Baldwin, presented his Inther's. curate,

as otherwise the Air set of Chancellor's robes to the Force may, arrive too late, or University. They were worn. by in the wrong place and bomb General Smuts, Now the Uni their own troops.

versity Marshal, who looks after ASSU spreads its tentacles them, will have them altered for everywhere. It is used for ar-Lord Tedder.

For the first timo in 50,000 years, the huge Grand Coulco Canyon, a dried-up watercourse of, the Columbia River in the Pacific Coast State of Washington, will shortly start filling up with wator. When it is full, it SIDE GLANCES will bocomo a lake 27 miles long, two to fiva milos wida, |and 90. foot-deep, in places,

The new lake will irrigate the arid Big Bend country of Washington-an area 85 miles long, by 65 wide.

One day 14,000 families will be farming in a region where to day there is not much more than sagebrush and crumbled lava

But for technical reasons, the original scheme proved too com- plicated...

Science: instead worked out a -mearts touchlëve irrigation not

by diversion of the

higher upstream, but by building the present dam, where electric po wer produced by the river will pump its waters 370ft. higher The idea was born more than up, and so all the canyon.. half a century ago. “

rock.

Even before irrigation has bo- It was originally planned to gun, the Grand Coulee Dam has. divert the Columbia River into already changed the face of the the Grand Coulee Canyon, a entire Northwestern USA, It 1,000ft, high walled gorge which is the world's largest electric the river cut in the Ico Ago power plant, and part of a five- when glaciers jammed it. State electricity pool.

By Mik

By Galbraith

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