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... NOW WE HAVE BEGUN; NOW WE ARE GOING ON! In his speeches the First Lord of the Admiralty has so illuminated and interpreted the fighting determination of the British people that he has become for many of us the symbol of this country's will to destroy the terror that threatens Europe. It was for Hitler to say when the war would begin, but it is not for him or his successors to say when it ...

... By GUARDRAIL WRITING last week on the reduction of costs to owners, particularly in entry fees, the obvious criticism is, Where is the money to come from? Many of the race courses are only just paying their way now, or rather were before the war. The answer is as it always has been, a measure of centralization. In no other field of entertainment or industry is there a monopoly given, ...

... GRACIE AN INVARIABLE AND INVIGORATING TONIC Our Grade as she is to millions of people in this country has never been more welcome as a tonic to jaded ears than when last week she made her first broadcast of the war. In a parish hall somewhere in England before an audience of soldiers and national service workers she sang for half an hour, not war songs but old favourites to take us away from ...

... The auditorium at the Palladium became a milky way of stage stars for the first night of the new Crazy Gang show, The Little Dog Laughed, last week. Dress was very varied, ranging from Frances Day's full evening attire to Claire Luce's work manlike pants. Both these ladies were charming London from the other side of the footlights before the war, for Frances Day was with Vic Oliver the ...

... By GUARDRAIL IN this age of mystery it is gratifying to find that entries for races can be published in the calendar in full without any form of censorship. The Ministry of Informa tion even allows the dates and venues to be published which all goes to show that the sacking of about five hundred officials has caused an instant leakage. Doubtless this will be put right by not allowing the ...

... WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS November Weddings. The engagement is announced, and the marriage will take place on November 25, between Mr. Eric Charles Kendall Sadler, only son of Mr. H. R. Sadler, of 7 Park Place, St. James's Street, S.W.I, and Miss Morva Davies, eldest daughter of Mrs. D. J. Davies and the late Mr. Davies, of Northenden, Hythe, Kent. The marriage arranged between Mr. George H ...

... By GUARDRAIL AT the present moment it seems to be a more or less understood thing that there will be some small pro gramme of racing carried through. This is essential if we are not to destroy the horse- racing industry altogether, one of the few industries on a flourishing footing and one in which until the last few years we held almost a monopoly for export. This industry, for in dustry it ...

... j A GALLERY OF BEi3 vV JTIFUL PORTRAITS I it it MRS. VINCENT PARAVICINI AND HER SON, NICOLAS Yevonde Somerset Maugham's only daughter, the former Miss Lisa Maugham, married H.E. the Swiss Minister's good-looking son in 1936, and the pretty little boy in the picture is now just nineteen months old. He was given the names of Nicolas Vincent Somerset, the last of these perpetuating that of his ...

... By SABRETACHE THE rumour that the Herr Doktor Göbbels-- up till quite recently the leading author of impolite fiction and witch-doctor-in-chief in Naziland-- is to be our next refugee has not yet been officially confirmed. It is, however pretty certain that when this distinguished littérateur does manage to elude the F.-M. Göring, the Herr Himmler, and the Gestapo G-men, he will be at once ...

... A WARTIME GALLERY Of SOCIETY SOME WELL-KNOW OWN PEOPLE IN THE NEWS THE HON. LYDIA NOEL-BUXTON Yevondc In happier times the eldest of Lord and Lady Noel-Buxton's three daughters would have been presented at Court next season, but in these warlike days, when they even go so far as to cancel the Lord Mayor's Show, how can anything be pronounced upon with any certainty When war broke out, Miss ...

... By SABRETACHE THE best war item of the hour is the rumour that the Führer is contemplating taking over command on the Western Front. This sounds too good to be true. If, indeed, Ger many's Little Corporal is proposing to attempt to rival the achievements of that other Little Corporal--of whom no doubt, he is extremely jealous--he will have to do a bit of conjuring. Can we not picture his ...