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JEE THEATRE BRITAIN CAN MAKE IT!

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

I's Got Everybody-and Everything!

WARNERS'

62-STAR SMASH OF SMASHES!

"ANDREWS SISTERS, JÄCK BENNY*

JOE E. BROWN☆ EDDIE CANTORA KIITY CARLISLEŁ JACK CARSON & DANE CLARK JOAN CRAWFORD HELMUT DANTINE BETTE DAVIS¿FAYE EMERSON VICTOR FRANČEN¤JOHN GARFIELD SYDNEY GREENSTKEETWALAN · HALEY PAUL HENREID4 ROBERT HUTTON JOAN LESLIE PETER LORREX IDA LUPINO+IRENE MANNINGYJOAN MCCRACKEN DOLORES MORANA DENNIS MORGAN ELEANOR PARKER'

| JOYCE REYNOLDS ROY

ROGERS & TRIGGER S.Z (omus) SAKALL ZACHARY SCOTT ALEXIS SMITH * BARBARA STAÏWICK,

JOSEPH SZIGETI

DONALD WOODS

DJANE WYMAN

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Alson JIMMY DORSEY

AND HIS BAND

CARMEN CAVALLARO

AND ORCHESTRA

"GOLDEN GATE QUARTET OSARIO & ANTONIO & SONS A PIONEERS

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Origend-Borven Mar de Dalmar Devon - Montmal Ponders Crusted & Diriched by Lễ NOV Pusz - Directed by„DELBEER DAVES

SHOWING

TO-DAY

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ET like a jewel in the centre of London's museum-land—

Gathered together at the Victoria and Albert Museum are nearly 6,000 different products which Britain's manufacturers are turning out for world markets-they cover all types of articles for industrial and everyday use. ERNEST HUNTLEY here takes you on a tour of this

in it but not part of it-is one! of the most brilliant exhibitions] over staged in the Metropolis. Nothing less like a museum can be imagined. Though it finds a temporary but friendly home in and Victoria and Albert Museum, the "Britain Can Make it" Ex- hibition, with its spotlighted halls and iridescent displays,' projects the vitality of to-day pans; steel in converted Into golf and to-morrow. "Britain Can clubs.

unusual exhibition.

Make it is exactly the right The searchlights -turn on British title for this exhibition, describ-packing materials that withstood ed by Sir Stafford Cripps, damp and insect pests in tlie Malayan jungle and now enclose film-protected President of the Board of Trade, pienie lunches and "frosted" food as "British industry's first great for the day-aftor-to-morrow's dinner. post-war gesture to the British peoplo and the world."

"Shop Window Street," entered next, looks like silver-tinselled fair-ground under a dark-blue_sky, Opened by His Majesty King Fluorescent daylight is directed on George VI on September 24, the the displays, which set out nearly all Exhibition approaches the question of the main commodities of the exhibit post-war design from the point of ion in suitable Individual surround- view of the consumer-the manings. woman and child of every country Who can benef by the overall

development in amenities which the Quiz Bank

lessons of war have made possible.

Dress, fabrics, household furnish- Ings, articles of sport and leisure-all лге ntaged

in beautiful and appropriate settings to create In facture

and of the fuller grnetuus life of the future.

more

Designs for Everybody IT IS SHOWN HOW British design

THE ENTRANCE to the street is paved with rubber, and here the visitor draws his plastle coins from the "Quiz Bank. Those enable him to various record his preferences for exhibits. Photographs of three coin- parable articles are displayed in quiz boxes in different parts of the hall and under cach nieture is a slot. The visitor can thus register a "vote" for

the design he favours most.

One of the most attractive displays A in the hull is devoted to toys. revolving spiral

In roundabout

and werkmanship have been en- listed for the good of both the wealthy and the less wealthy. There are steel, be-metalled kitchens for aluminium and green and scarlet the home of the big business execufell carries a number of small toys. tive, and kitchens no less functional inkling

attracts nursery music labour-saving

the for miner's cottage.

attention to the toy theatre. Many of The millionaire's baby could be no happier in his the toys are immediately available eaken throne than the clerit's son in for both home, and overseas markets. the new baby-chair which incor Housewife's Dream porates an fronitig-board and step- ladder.

There are new British designs for everybody- streamlined Inwn mower, a pocket suitcase, a foolproof At 2.30, 5.10. -opener invented by a naval captain, hygienic teelhing beads for 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. le saucepans treated by n refractory process used on Spitüre exhaust stubs, and other for individual

IT REVEALS A MAN'S SECRET DESIRES!"

SHE BROUGHT OUT ALL

THE EVIL IN HIS SOULT

HER FRESH, YOUNG

BEAUTY FASCINATED HIMI

Lana

Spencer Ingrid TRACY BERGMAN-TURNER

In VICTOR FLEMING'S Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production of

DR. JEKYLL AND MR.HYDE

DONALD CRISP · BARTON-MacLANE - JAN HUNTER - C. AUBREY SMITH

A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYOR

NEXT

CHANCE

PICTURE

Robert TAYLOR *

Charles LAUGHTON

Brain DONLEVY in

"STAND BY FOR ACTION"

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THEATRE

COMBINED SERVICES ENTERTAINMENTS

Presents

BLANCHE LITTLER'S COMPANY

IN

"WORM'S EYE VIEW"

A Comedy In Three Acts

By

R. F. DELDERFIELD

Kenneth Mosley

with

Frank Pottitt

Nool Dainton

Kenneth. Thornett Frank Smith

Irene Harley

and

Diana Johnson PRODUCED By

RONALD SHINER

Pater Bayliss James Wallace Eric Pattison Molly Stoll

OPENING MONDAY, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1946

AT 7.30 P.M. ·

Booking opens Friday, 22nd November, 1946

'SHOWING

TO-DAY

12 p.m.-2 p.m.

4 p.m.-6.30 p.m. .. Telephone 58335.

MAJESTIC

ideas too mention.

numerous

The Exhibition is not a Trade Fair, though there are information kiosks where visitors can make contact with Individual manufacturers.

IL has

been organised by the Council of Industrial Design, which came into being two years ago, when the war was at its height. Even then the Board of Trade realised the impor- tance of consolidating victory at the carllest possible moment, and the exhibition, whleh him taken nearly u year to prepare, is the answer.

All exhibits have been selected on merit, Nu

has been sold.

space

PACKAGING MATERIALS exhibit-

ed in the "Dressing the Goods” hall also largely available for home and abroad. They range from cos- metic packs to waterproof lee-cream

A contaliers and brewers' casks. woollen pram rug wrapped in cello- phone can be sent to a lucky child almost anywhere on earth.

"Heat, Light and Power" is the housewife's dream made tangible in the shape of cookers powered by liquid and solid fuel, electricity und gas-by wash boilers and multi-point water heaters, by thermostatically controlled irons and electric kettles, Most of these are 1cndy for home and overseas, and others are promised for the New Year,

Part of the central display in the Fashion Hall of the "Britain Can Make 12" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. whole of the central stand revolves, slowly showing one lovely

The

gown after another.

with wool-colton valance sets exactly the right note of comfort allled with #pace economy; even the radio in miniature.

Office Efficiency

VROM HOME, the Furnished Hooms switch us 10 the nfled. An administrative office is equipped with every conceivable old to emciency, from an intercommunication system with multi-coloured swilchen to tea trolleys for the typists. Next door in the Manager's Office, combining functional lay out with comfort in the

shape

of deep hude-covered drinks trolley, fluorescent int and electric space

heater. Fresh from their wartime periences, the radio and television manufacturers have produced a num

ber of mali and beautifully pro-

nortioned

radio acis.

One portable receiver which can be slung over the shoulder, resembles a hand-camera.

Its design owes much to the lessons learnt when miniature- tonsmitters no bigger inn a discuit-box were being parachuted to the resistance forces of Europe.

Ninety-per cent of the radio exhibits are ready for shope at home and abroad. Television jets appear in new guises; one is tastetully Incorporated in tubular steel con- a.ruction.

Outstanding in its artistic treatment is the main dress display, occupying nearly a quarter of the exhibition. Alcoves round the walls have each been designed by a dilferent artist with settings appropriate to specific groups of aresses-own and country wear, evening and day wear, indvers and out. Landscapes and seis pour- raying Covent Garden and hyde Park make an out background for Use new creation by which brillah designers compete with the world in imaginativeness and orginality.

Men's Fashions

A

MODERN SHOP INTERIOR is the

selling for men's clothes and clothing accessorics; und here the British tailoring tradition, led by Savile Row, is presented in every- thing from a dress sult to a fancy waistcoat.

Travel goods give scope for one of the most amusing sections of the ex- hibition. Every accessory to modern road, rail, air und sea travel; is displayed against the background of railway station littered with

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heaters, washing machines and the to develop his design for the home industrial Design Mens." It shows latest domestic machinery.

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Perhaps the main purpose of this finely pinnned, tinely executed ex- hroition a beat summed up in the small gallery explaining "What

of the future.

how British industrial designers have worked to create beautiful but Britain

make Every room in designed to combine

luxury wor

designs tor mass serviceable aesthetic appeal

true bathroom, with fliments, immediately. with the Some delay is inevitable with many

the ready for home and overseas. Among production, and how the materials Anu production processes have white terrazo influenced their designs. of the beautiful furniture designs and functionalism. that eliminates

A considerable superfluous while avoiding severity is attractions are furnishing fabrics.

This reaction from severity has been floor divided with aluminium strips, furniture of the proportion however, available for export only referred to by Sir Thomas Barlow, combination water-taps, electric sun Rirth of an Egg-cup

Chairman of the Council of Industrial lamp, electric clothes and hair drlers, Design,

and bathroom fre.

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including fine specimens of English timbered dining tables and chairs,

From the items submitted, totalling Room Displays

"It is a reaction," he said, "from the severity and enforced simplicity of wartime. Not that there is any tendency towards vulgarity or over- decoration, but there is plenty of evidence of a healthy regard for freshness and colour."

about 20,000, nearly 6,000 were chosen for display by twenty selection

THE MOST FAS

certainly committees, including design experts, PERHAPS

CINATING, and prominent retall buyers, architects, the must comprehensive, and representatives of public laste.

of all the galleries is that devoted to Rooms. Here, in the glow of stage- Considerably more than forty per cent of the things shown are already lighting, all the things of the Ex

hibition are seen in their home rullitarian reported available for export, with ice settings. The underlying motif | kitchen equipment and so forth-march-mallow beater, potato peeler, for all

further twenty per cent becoming so by the end of the year,

----As part of-the-export-drive, the the British people are forgoing many

THE THEME is vividly illustrated in uminated panels describing The possessor night also own the kitchen devised for "the managing "The Birth of an Egg-cup." The hen director of an engineering works, is partly responsible: nil bowls of all with University education; his wife egg-cups must conform to the shape lived in America for some years." of her egg. The designer's job (in This kitchen includes among Its consultation with the factory manage amenities a food-preparing machine, ment, engineers and salesmen) is to for export, equipped with accide the proportions, colour, texture butter and sponge and decoration of the egg-cup.

And what goes for egg-cups gors whisks, dough hook,

munifuld objects in this

und challenging hibition. To the qualities of design mentioned above, the factories have. ueu fine materials and sound work manship.

The assembly lines are full. Britain

Sir Thomas said he was especially ready interested to see this development in mixing-bowl.

goods, beaters, two

Articles-metal

15 that new materials, minufacturing, processes and new in appearance. designs all mean changes for the better in the home, office or school.

and two ausage funnels.

Most of the room designers belongAt the other end of the scale is the the younger school of British bedroom in a small house occupied of these comforts and luxuries for KRchens can be pleasant places when to the time being; some thirty-six per equipped with time and energy savers architects. Each was given a typical by the family of a railway engineer cent of the exhibits ein now be like easily-cleaned cookers, water real life family group around which on night work. A handy 4-ft. divan Can Make It. obtained in the home shops in limited quantities, and the figure may rinc to fifty per cent by Christmas..

Meanwhile, many overseas visitors from the Empire, Europe, and North und South America have already made the trip through the kaleldo

third of a scople passage-ways, n mile in length,

signposted by mechanical guides. At every turn there is a new surprise.

War to Peace

SURPRISE NUMBER ONE occurs in the first display--"From War to Peace." From dim background

B

of bomb-shuttered Londen, penctu-or light pick out new post-war inven- their derived from tlons directly wartime counterparts. The alumin- jum

the Ammunition-tox from Hurricane aircraft is translated intoj all-aluminium perambulators, sult- cases and saucepans.

Plastic gun-turrets are sublimated into dainty feminine shoes, outo mobile dashboards and radios; the featherweight wood Mosquito wing takes the aime strains in a peacetime yachi: magnesium makes pots and

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson.)

decinrers the ace. East returned the heart four; In a great many cases must rely on favourable breaks, but South ducked, and West won with the in a deal like to-day's it is merely a nine, West continued hearis, laying down the queen, which he was per- quesilon of correct technique.

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NEW ANTI-GAS of taking the no trump out to twa

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A new chemical compound, developed during the war as a protection against gas poisoning, has been found to be a powerful) antidote against arsenic and poisoning, reports

mercury

At 2.30, 5.20, United Press.

7.20 G 9.20

P.M.

M-G-M'S MILLION-THRILL MUSICAL HIT!

Du Barry Was A Lady"

IN TECHNICOLOR Starring

Red SKELTON * Lucillo BALL * Gano KELLY. TOMMY DORSEY and his orchestra

The compound known us Britlah anti-Lewiste, or bal, was developed he Rudal A. Poor, Profarent nt Bio-chemistry at Oxford University, from results of experiments made in fundamental bio-chemmleal research,

The-compound, which hay a sul- nhur bene, man nhen be used in the

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clubs, which should be done only with a weak hand,

Unfortunately, Soull's play was not on a par with the bidding. West pened the diamond four; dummy played low, and East went in with

NANCY

HOW DO YOU LIKE THESE QUICK SKETCHES

I MADE?

Now the club king was called, followed by the ace and queen, but West showed out. South knew that if he gave up a club trick, to clear the sult, East would win (in all) one club, three hearts and the diamonti ace, so rather than concede defeat, South entered his hand with a mond and tried to finesse to the spade Jock. When East pounced on this trick with the queen, he cashed his club Jack and another heart, for a two-trick penalty,

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One slight change in declarer's technique would have made quite a difference! It was obvious that East had started with four hearts and no more than two diamonds. Thus, after taking the third round of hearts, South should have cashed one high diamond, to extract that suit from East if he sill had a alapond, then thrown East in with the fourth heart He would have to return

club or a spade, and by letting the lead ride to dummy, South would be assured of four club tricks or three spades, tuner of which would round out the contract.

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