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Three Scenes from "The Mud- lark"—Top : Constance Smith, as a Windsor Castle housemaid, finds Andrew Ray, as the Mudlark, hiding under a dining table. Above : Alec Guinness as Disraeli, Irene Dunne as Queen Victoria, and Andrew Ray as the Mudlark. Left : The dinner party which is so unexpectedly interrupted by the hidden Mudlark's snores. Queen Victoria, Disraeli and, standing on the left of Queen Victoria, Finlay Currie as John Brown. A MONG the American and British film stars who attended the 1950 event and took part in the stage show (which is always part of the programme) and were afterwards presented to Their Majesties were (alphabetically) : Robert Beatty, Beatrice Campbell, Montgomery Clift, Claudette Colbert, Patricia Dainton, Bebe Daniels, Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns, Jean Kent, Margaret Leighton, Margaret Lockwood, Ben Lyon, John McCallum, John Mills, Anna Neagle, Tyrone Power, Andrew Ray, Michael Redgrave, Janette Scott, Gloria Swanson, Terry Thomas, Richard Todd, Jack Warner. Naunton Wayne, Michael Wilding and Googie Withers. Many others were also among the audience seeing the show. The film shown on this occasion was the 20th Century-Fox British made picture, The Mudlark (a mudlark was the name given to a boy who searched the mud of the Thames salvaging items of doubtful value to sell for coppers to buy food). The mudlark in this story (played by Andrew Ray, son of Ted Ray) created a national incident when he broke into Windsor Castle to see Queen Victoria. He had found in the mud a medallion stamped with her profile and was so fascinated by its kindly expression he became obsessed with the desire' to see her for himself. The year in which the action was set was 1875, when Queen Victoria was fifty- six and Disraeli seventy-one. At this time Queen Victoria was living in retirement, mourn- ing the death of her beloved husband, the Prince Consort. Despite the continuous pleadings of her Prime Minister she refused to appear in public. The film story, founded on a real incident, told that the arrival at Windsor Castle of the mudlark coincided with a visit from Disraeli to try to per- suade the Queen to give her patronage to the opening for a Home for waifs and strays. Again she had refused but Disraeli eventually made her change her mind. He eloquently pleaded the cause of the uncared-for, homeless orphans of whom the mudlark was only one of many. He followed this by an inspired and impassioned speech in the House of Com- mons. The film then showed the thrilling, heart-warming scene of the welcome given the Queen as she drove through the streets of London to perform the ceremony, a symbol of her return to her people. Screen CELEBRATIONS