... . LADY JULIET DUFF is very busy with war work at her country home Bulbridge House. This beautiful photograph illustrates a pleasant interlude in her scheduled programme. She is receiving a visit from her former butler and chauffeur now both serving with the Forces. The organisation of canteens for soldiers is an important and exacting form of war work. The COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY ...

... . COMING up from the Gold Coast last July a French planter from the Ivory Coast gave me his reserve tube of atabrin pills to hold down my malaria Then he came down with that fever himself. He was as big as a gorilla, with a narrow rim of black beard around his jaw, so that, when he imitated a chimpanzee Unh-Unh-unh hopping about the smoking-room he looked like one. He was celestially tight ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THERE is always the possibility that this passion for pooling things may die down before lubricating oil is pooled in the same manner as petrol. All we have got, so far, from the authorities is an assurance that the specified grades of lubricant will be avail able, even if the different brands cease to exist. The pooling of motor spirit has done no harm to the reputation ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. EVEN making allowance for the falling off in catches from Sept. I to the end of the season on Oct. 15 as a result of the war, the 1939 season on Blagdon was the poorest for nearly ten years. The actual figure of 831 trout is, in fact, the lowest since 1923. Compared with last year, when 124 1 trout were landed, the falling off is very marked, but the aver age ...

... . THERE are a few cities with such strong personali ties that they go into a little cate gory of their own. Munich. from which no amount of Nazi madness can erase the patina of the Wittelsbachs. Marseilles, in the lives of so many men the the point of departure for adventure. Barcelona, which, before the Spanish Civil War, seemed to contain everything that one wanted in a city a lustrous ...

... UJ u MISS PATRICIA LEONARD, leading lady of The Little Dog Laughed, at the London Palladium has a number of excellent numbers, sung with Dan Donovan. These include 44 There's Danger in the Waltz, 44 Girl ff ho Loved a Soldier, and 44 My Secret Love. 44 The Little Dog Laughed, the George Black twice-nightly show with the Crazy Gang, is making a big hit. ...

... MUCH CURIOUSNESS. A.P.C. A LINER ON LAND NO, THE SUEZ CANAL by Mrs. W. W. White. Taken with a Leica camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 1 -100th second at f.9. 44 A DRAUGHTSMAN'S NIGHTMARE by Mr. Alan Popert. Taken with a Dallmeyer Plate Reflex camera. Plates Wellington. Exposures (a) Indoor: 3 min. at f.22 (b) Outdoor l-75th second at f.ll. INSPECTING GIBBET IRONS AT LEICESTER Mr. C. C. Love. Taken ...

... CREATURES- KINGLY, QUAINT AND COMIC.-- A.P.C. THROUGH A WINDSCREEN IN NAIROBI by Mrs. A. Mundy. Taken with a Kodak camera. Film Panatomic. Exposure l-25th second at f.22. ON THE MOMBASA ROAD by Mr. H. K. Coates. Taken with a Contax camera. Film Panatomic. Exposure 1-1 25th second at f.5.6. TIGER, TIGER, BURNING BRIGHT. by Mr. S. Jepson. Taken with a Reflex camera. Film Panatomic. Exposure l ...

... . B The marriage of LADY ANNE HOPE, eldest daughter of His Excellency the Viceroy of India the Marquess of Linlithgow, and the Marchioness of Linlithgow, to LIEUT. P H. J. SOUTHBY, R.N., son of Sir Archibald Southby M.P., and Lady Southby, of Burford Priory, Oxfordshire, took place at the Church of the Redemption, Neiv Delhi. Our photograph shows the bride and bridegroom passing under the ...

... . The National Hunt season was begun in August and stopped on account of the war. Last week it was resumed at Leicester, to the joy of the sporting fraternity, who as t sembled in con- siderable force to enjoy some excellent racing. MRS. FULKE WALWYN, wife of the well- known steeplechase rider is chatting to RICKABY, the flat-race jockey, very smart in his uniform as Flight Sergeant. BUTLER Em ...

... . Right THEIR MAJESTIES KING FARUK and QUEEN FARIDA OF EGYPT jwsed for this photograph with their baby daughter, PRINCESS FERIAL, on her first anniversary November 17. Queen Farida is a daughter of oussef Zulfirar Pasha, and was married in January 1938, when she was seventeen years of age. Ferial, the name of the baby Princess, means 44 Light in Turkish. SIGNORA BAST1ANIN1 is the charming ...

... . JUAREZ, the fine Warner Brothers First National Picture re-creating the tragic drama of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, is due at the Warner Theatre on November 17. BETTE DAVIS plays the part of the Empress Charlotte (Carloto in the film), who lost her reason after her husband's execution in 1H 67, and lived in her native Belgium till her death in 1927. Paul Muni plays Juarez, Brian J ...