... Malvern at Blenheim Turned out of their Worcestershire home by the Government, a public school moves across to a ducal palace in Oxfordshire TWO hundred and thirty-six years ago we were at war with all-powerful France over the Spanish succession. Mal brook s'en allait en guerre and drove nail after nail into the coffin of the Bourbon glory-- Blenheim, Oudenarde, Ramillies, Malplaquet-- and ...

... 44 Charley's Big-Hearted Aunt A New Humorist Plays an Old Part Gaumont-British have engaged the newest-arrived comedy team Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch to play in their film version of the great old laughter- maker and record-holder, Charley's Aunt. They have adapted the title to the fame of him who plays the name-part, and called it Charley's Big-Hearted Aunt. It is now in production at G ...

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... By Alan C. Hess THE German is cunning, admittedly, but no one could call him subtle. Thus, I am convinced that it is by the merest fluke that he has hit on the great No-Air-Raid strategy. You see, threats of air raids up and down the country-- raids which have never material ised-- have enforced upon us precautionary black-out mea sures which have exacted a far greater toll of human life than ...

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... WAR WITH THE GLOVES I ON AT THE N.S.C. MR. CHARLES SWEENY, LORD :QUEENSBERRY, COUNT JOHN DE BENDERN AND MRS. PETER HORLICK MR. RICHARD ROWLEY AND LADY SIBELL ROWLEY MR. JOHN HARDINGE (right) AND MR. AND MRS. JACK HYLTON MISS ELSIE RANDOLPH AND MR. VICTOR BURNETT SIR NOEL AND LADY CURTIS-BENNETT FULL OF INTEREST AT THE RING SIDE SIR MATHEW WILSON WITH MISS FRANCES DAY (on right) MR. WILL HAY, ...

... BRITISH DOVE -DANCER Photo*. Bertram Park A novel feature of The Little Dog Laughed, the current Crazy Gang show at the Palladium, is the dove dance per formed by lovely Edna Squire-Brown, who represented England at the Johannesburg Exhibition two years ago. The doves are sacred birds, originating in the Near East, where Miss Squire- Brown bought them on her way back from South Africa. The ...

... HANDS OFF! A CONVOY AND ITS ESCORT IN THE NORTH SEA TEETH BARED AND READY TO BITE Two pictures which vividly illustrate some of the work that the British Navy is doing in the way of keeping our food-supply lines open. Whether the onslaught comes from above or below, the attacker does not find that he has things all his own way. The attacks by enemy aircraft have been a bit costly to the foe, ...

... BUBBLE and SQUEAK THE boat was two days out of New York when the drunk staggered from his state-room for the first time. He lurched to the bar, ordered a drink, and then leaned towards the bar-tender. Shay, buddy, he asked, where am I The bar-tender served him. You 're on board a liner, sir, he replied, and we are in the middle of the ocean. You don't shay! grunted the other. What ocean ...

... A FAMOUS IRISH POET-DRAMATIST-- I VERY MUCH AT HOME All these pictures, at Dunsany Castle, Co. Meath, were taken quite recently. The new grand son of Ireland's famous poet-dramatist and Lady Dunsany arrived after his father, Captain the Hon. Randal Plunkett, who is in a very famous Indian cavairy regiment, had been recalled from leave on the outbreak of war, and this may be the first he will ...

... I I I By W. G. McMINNIES I i I i Lighting the Pedestrian. THE slaughter of pedestrians during the black-out period calls for urgent remedy. That it has assumed such dimensions-- roughly twice the total of the equivalent month in I938-- is no surprise to anyone who has tried to drive either in town or country during black-out hours. Then the only guides to road navigation are the dim lights of ...