... SIGHTS AND SCENES OF OLD-TIME LONDON Some Outstanding Pictures at the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. 1747 This pen and -wash drawing by Canaletto has been lent by His Majesty the King to the 191st Exhi bition of the Royal Society of British Artists which has just opened its doors at the Suffolk Street Galleries. The picture records the ...

... SUITS ACCESSORIES WITH INTERCHANGEABLE QUICK- CHANGE CHECKS.-- The woman with a limited income must always count a suit and top coat as one o£ its indispensable items. If she is clever about them she will ring countless changes by varying small accessories, and certainly she will find an outfit that can be worn with equal success in town or in the country. I here is, for instance, almost no ...

... LAUNCH OF THE KING GEORGE V Britain's First J\[ew Battleship for Fourteen Tears about to Enter the T yne after being Named by the King; While Mr. Chamberlain was addressing the House of Commons last Tuesday afternoon and telling members how the long period of effort, preparation, and organisation of our defence programme is at last beginning to bear visible fruit, the King, accompanied by ...

... 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C.4 Wednesday, February 22, 1939. THE COST.-- Only the other day the nation gasped to hear that a five-year plan of defence rearmament was perhaps to cost the country £1,500,000,000. The inconceivable figure was gradually digested. This money might be spent between 1937 and 1942. We are now at the beginning of 1939 and by the end of the year we shall have spent just ...

... Britain's Greatest Estate The Story of the Crown Lands How George III Gave Them to the People's Keeping --By^= NOEL THOMPSON CROWN lands are not controlled by the King. The greatest estate in the country provides money for the people. There is a widespread idea that if you have a Crown lease, or are a tenant of Crown lands, you are bound by all sorts of curious restrictions. Before I set out ...

... Wholesome Public Pressure: A.R.P. Makes Strides The Home Gas-Proof Room Makes Way for the Steel Shelter FEBRUARY'S first three weeks of A.R.P. progress bristle with second thoughts. Under wholesome public pressure, half a dozen burning questions in danger of being shelved are squarely faced. Sir John Anderson addresses to his depart ment his own admonition to the citizen:-- Do it now. For ...

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... A LIGHTNING STROKE IN JERUSALEM The Army Completes the First Stage in the Paci fication of Palestine Resistance Quickly Subdued BRITAIN MAKES A FIRM STAND: A British soldier on duty in a deserted Jerusalem street following the occupation of the older part of the Holy City last week when, at one lightning stroke, the army delivered its answer to the Arab leaders who claimed they were masters of ...

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... WHEN THE SILENT SERVICE SPEAKS Lord Stanhope's Unpremeditated Speech in the Ark Royal MAKING THE SPEECH THAT STARTLED THE WORLD: Lord Stanhope, the First Lord of the Admiralty, seen as he addressed his audience in the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal following the dinner given by the Navy to leading members of the film industry to express gratitude for the industry's generosity in supplying films ...

... The Yankee Cupper Arrives: The Giant American Fk Southampton alter a Flight on the Souther! ring Boat Reaches Successful Survey y Atlantic Route I, wm as SAFELY ON HER MOORINGS The 37-ton American flying boat seen on arrival at Biscarosse, near Bordeaux, after completing one of the final stages in her great survey flight from yrar v- i Baltimore, U.S.A., to Foynes, Ireland. The purpose of ...

... HOW fhe THEATRI egoer Reacts to Drab Settings A Subject that is at Present Arousinc Following the Production of Heaver 3 a Fierce Argument in Stage Circles n and Charing Cross at the St. Martin's -On STAGE and SCREEN Reviewed By Philip Page THE question as to whether the public does or does not like plays about drab rooms and their shabby occupants seems to have bobbed up again as a somewhat ...