... , ARE dictators so inspiring? They have in cessantly told us poor freemen that theirs alone is the effective modern method of rulership --swift to decide, sure in stroke, smashing in action. It sounded over aweing, once. But now that we have seen their swift, smashing stroke in action what? Well, from the very fine working-model of the fool-that-rushed-in-where- democracies-feared-to-tread ...

... THE WAR-WEDDING RUSH CONTINUES p BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS IN TOW|\ A £vND COUNTRY. MR. ARTHUR HERBERT MONTGOMERY, son of Mr. H. E. Montgomery- married MISS JANE BAXTER, the well-known actress (Mrs. Feodora Dunfee), at St. George's, Hanover Square. The marriage of MR. HUGH RICHARD STIRLING, son of Mr. H. W. Stirling to MISS ZIA CAREW, daughter of Sir Thomas Palk Carew, Bt., and Mrs. H. B. C. ...

... THE 1914 SILENT FILM -VERSION OF AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME. An object-lesson in the fate of villadom if the Germans reached England the inmates of An Englishman's Home arrested by the invaders. Just after the deed for which he ivas shot as an armed civilian John Brown jubilant at shooting a German in the defence of his home. Our children would be treated as those of the Belgians have been Brown' ...

... MISS MARY MAGUIRE plays the part of Betty Brown, the heroine of the new Aldwych film production of Guy du Mauriers famous stage pre-1914 war play AN ENGLISHMAN S HOME, which was due at the London Pavilion on Monday October 2. This thrilling picture presents a typical English family, the Browns, involved in an enemy attempt to use their house as a wireless beam station to direct hostile ...

... , 32, ST. BRIDE ST., LONDON, E.C.4 THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN INSIDE KNOWLEDGE A large number of the informative dia- interesting sectional drawings are reproduced grammatic drawings, chiefly by that well-known as panoramas, EACH MEASURING OVER THREE artist G. H. Davis, which have been published FEET WIDE. They show British warship types from time to time in THE ILLUSTRATED a ...

... THE OLD SOLDIER NEVER DIES NOR DOES HE FADE AWAY! Here 's a portrait of one of the men who are going to win the war against Nazi-ism. He typifies the British spirit which keeps on keeping on, smiling, humorous and resourceful, until his goal is reached. There 's nothing he doesn't know about scrounging, and he has all the old soldier's tricks at his fingers' ends. He 's tough as they make 'em ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING, ALTHOUGH river-banks are quiet, so many anglers being engaged on other matters than ang ling at the present, the first weeks of the war have by no means closed down fishing activities altogether. The trout season is practic ally over, but I hear that eight rods on the Houghton Club water, on the Test, killed 12% brace of trout, weighing 42% lb., last week. Also on ...

... . CHINESE PERSPECTIVE by CHIN SAN LONG. FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH ON VIEW AT THE THIRTIETH EXHIBITION OF THE LONDON SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY. ...

... . AMIDST THE CLOUDS by CHIN SAN LONG. FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH ON VIEW AT THE THIRTIETH EXHIBITION OF THE LONDON SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY. ...

... . SPIRIT OF YOUTH by the MARQUESS OF ELY. FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH ON VIEW AT THE THIRTIETH EXHIBITION OF THE LONDON SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY. ...

... . The American Women's Lawn Tennis Championship final at Forest Hills was a duel between MISS HELEN JACOBS and MISS ALICE MARBLE, who won the Wimbledon title. Miss Marble was victorious, 6 0. 8 10. 6 4. MISS HERMIONE BADDELEY, who is starring in the Little Non-Stop Revue at the Little Theatre, has taken to the push-bike and finds it a boon in petrol-rationed England. Her spaniel likes the idea ...

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. THE news that Sir Henry Wood is to begin his first wartime concert with a per formance of Elgar's Polonia-- the themes of which include Poland's National Air, with folk-songs and quota tions from Chopin and Paderewski-- is enough excuse, if such is needed, for a brief reference to Polish music generally. Owing to the eclipse of Poland from the date of the ...