... . Here is a remarkable wartime photograph of HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, standing in a sandbagged archway in South Africa House, leading to the exhibition hall in this fine building. It was taken ivhen their Majesties last week visited London's Empire Offices, honouring the New Zealand Government Offices, India House and South Africa House. At the last they were received by Mr. Waterson, High ...

... THE WET PLOUGHING LINER AND TRAWLER.-- A.P.C I LOOKING AFT EMPRESS OF JAPAN IN A PACIFIC SWELL by Mr. S. Ramplen Jones. Taken icith a Kodak (Volenda) camera. Film Pan chromatic. Exposure l-25th second at f.16. TOILERS OF THE DEEP by Mr. Wil liam Mackay. T aken with a Rolleijlex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 1 -100th second at f.4.5. L J-' Those vowed to the wet ploughing, to ride the horse of ...

... OCTET OF BRIDES ELECT. MISS LOUISE RIVlfcRE, only daughter of the late Henry Gilbey Riviere, is engaged to Captain the Hon. Richard Ernest Denison- Pender, younger son of Lord and Lady Pender. MISS VALERIE DRAKE-BROCKMAN, daughter of Major Wallace Drake-Brockman, is engaged to I Lieut. Arthur Michael Lee, R.N.V.R. elder son L of Mr. Edward Cornwall Lee. V\Vj MISS EVELYN ELIZABETH EMILE ...

... GATE KENSINGTON GIRLS -WARTIME VERSION. We 're Kensington Girls from Kensington Gore, V.A.D., Farming, whatever we can, Ready to do anything in the war, For the sake of the race in the place of a man. (For the sake of the race and the sake of a man My name is Cora, my father 's a Colonel, 1 evacuate kids by the score. They play in our paddock and bellow and scream Their behaviour to dogs I ...

... . The EARL OF BIRKENHEAD acted as stage manager and introduced MISS BEATRICE LILLIE at the concert for the troops at Banbury. MISS CECILIA COLLEDGE, the famous amateur skater chatted to the soldiers after giving a skating display at Queen s Ice Club. MISS EDYTHE BAKER, the well-known pianist, was one of the artists at the concert at Banbury. MR. DOUGLAS BYNG gave an inimitable performance as a ...

... . MISS EDNA SQUIRE BROWN'S Dove Dance in The Little Dog Laughed at the London Palladium, rouses great enthusiasm. This action study, taken in the studio at l-500th second, shows a bird in flight silhouetted against her head. The doves were bought by Miss Brown s father and are said to be descended from the sacred Basra doves, believed by the congregation to whisper messages from heaven in the ...

... WAR: OUR SEVENTY-FIFTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C. This magnificent study has been awarded the seventy- fifth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It ivas taken by Mr. A. H. Green, with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 4 seconds at f.8. ...

... YOUTH, SPORT AND SUNLIGHT.-- A.P.C. SILHOUETTE AT SUNDOWN by Mr. G. Le G. Peek. Taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera. Film Selo. Exposure l-50th second at f.8. A FINE TOPE by Mr. R. Goode. Taken with an Ikonta camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 1-1 00th second at f.ll. Filter used. A WELCOME REST by Miss Rosamund Hornby. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-50th second at f.8. Green cloud ...

... . Nine o'clock in the sport ing hotel at Arusha, in Tangan yika, and we all pushed back our chairs from the dinner- tables, gathered in a Druidical segment of a circle before the box- that speaks, and put on poker- faces while we heard what was going to happen to us. There was usually a German settler or so eating at that hotel, so, of course, the European news was received by us differently ...

... MISS BRENDA JOYCE, the 20th Century-Fox player is to be launched on her Jgj career of stardom in the picture version of THE RAINS CAME,' Louis Bromfield s dramatic novel about the effects of flood earthquake and other cataclysms on a British colony in India. She takes the part of Fern Simon, the charming level headed daughter of a socially ambitious Memsahih. and [days opposite to George ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. AMONG the many things for which we have to blame Hitler is the holding up of important road works. The Minister of Transport has already, in an interview, explained how he is grouping road works now in progress under the headings A, B, C and D, those labelled A being of vital national importance, and which must therefore be completed without delay. I wonder how many ol our ...

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