... Philip Page on the Current Drama Reviews of the Latest London Theatrical Productions THE farcical comedy, The French for Love, by Marguerite Steen and Derek Patmore, tried out at Richmond and now transferred to the Criterion Theatre, went a good deal more smoothly than its title. There is much in it that the French are supposed to call (but never do) un peu shockeeng, for it is based on the ...

... THE SCHOOL WITHOUT INKPOT! The Boys of Malvern College in Their New Palace Home One of the most astonishing adaptations of great buildings to war uses has been the taking over of Blenheim Palace by Malvern College. The huge palace, designed by Vanbrugh for the great victor of Blenheim, was carried out on such a scale that the cost exceeded the /500.000 voted by a grateful nation. The architect ...

... GENERAL MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE FORWARD AREA as he looked out from the turret of his American-built tank to witness his men pursuing the fleeing Afrika Korps on Wednesday, November 4 This picture was sent by radio from Cairo it was taken a few hours before London and the world received from Middle East Headquarters the dramatic communique which told of ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 167 i, New Oxford Street, W.i. A Grand Job in the Desert.-- We are entitled (fire works on Guy Fawkes Day!) to be proud of our Army in Egypt. Alex ander's Ragtime Band, which the Duce's very latest slogan condemned to be kicked in the pants by the advanc ing Italians, has, under Montgomery, won lasting glory. The boot was on the other foot and the pants on the other ...

... The U.S. Landings in North Africa Where the American Forces Landed; and the Officers in the High Command TTn Sunday last the announcement was made that Allied expeditionary forces had converged on a number of ports and strategic points on the Atlantic and Mediterranean shores of Northern Africa. It is interesting to note that they are all within the Atlas Mountain region, Saffi being the most ...

... BOMBS ON GENOA The Port from which Rommel in North Africa is Reinforced ^enoa is the North Italian port from which supplies and reinforcements are shipped to the Axis forces in North Africa. These official Air Ministry pictures were taken after the raids on the nights of October 22-23 and October 23-24 and this damage has been increased in subsequent raids Most of the damage is due to fire, ...

... GUADALCANAL The Fierce Struggle for the Smallest Theatre of War Xhe big aerodrome on Guadalcanal forms a not inconsider able portion of the small area held by U.S. forces on the island. From east to west this fiercely-contested plot of ground measures but six miles it extends inland to a depth of three miles. On all three land sides, the area is flanked by tropical forest growth and palm ...

... AMERICAN INDUSTRY BECOMES GEARED UP What is Going On in the Vast Industrial Centres of the United States To-day Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE United States has always enjoyed a reputa tion for mass production, but from the latest information received in London it would appear that if Hitler, Göring and Goebbels were taken on a conducted tour of the war factories over there they might, in all ...

... . . (/(tttit t'lt'Ctl t o 4 If these were the piping days of peace this would just be a photograph of a happy little boy. Until then, it is a picture of the unobtainable a banana. But wait Isn't it a symbol of all we are fighting for Not merely that a banana may be a commonplace, but that children can be happy and grow up to live sensible, useful lives with never another war to come grasping ...

... Our News Pictures of the Week JUST AFTER THE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE (476 to 25) The Prime Minister and his daughter back at No. 10, Downing Street from the House of Commons. Sergeant Mary Churchill of the A.T.S. had received seven days leave, which covered her father's return from the U.S. and the debate in Parliament CAPTURED IN LIBYA AND EN ROUTE FOR CANADA Germans of a Panzer Divisioi leaving ...

... WHAT IS AIR SUPERIORITY? Did we Have it in Libya and Did we Use it Correctly? By PATRICK HAMILTON IF the last Libyan campaign is looked at as consisting of two separate phases-- prior to the fall of Bir Hacheim and afterwards-- several rather puzzling features become a little clearer. Particularly does this apply to the air superiority question. Many are asking if we ever in fact had it, ...

... The ESCAPE of the KING of GREECE from CRETE How He was Succoured in the Hill Country by Devoted Mountaineers THE escape of King George of Greece from his residence near Canea makes a stirring narrative. In some of its aspects it recalls passages in Shakespeare, where monarchs have had to flee their palaces and accept the kindly hospitality of peasants or goatherds. The King was in a house ...