... MUSICAL Listening to the music at the National Gallery REVERIE where lunch-time concerts are taking place daily for the benefit of office workers. Many famous orchestras and musicians appear there A STUDY IN Closing of concert halls owing to the war has caused EXPRESSIONS niany music lovers to attend the performances at the National Gallery where the daily concerts are given in an auditorium ...

... DANGER IN THE DARKNESS Double the Number of Killed and Injured on the Roads is the Legacy of the Black-out By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. (C/erk of the Coune, Brooklands) OUR expectations have unhappily materialised, for the casualties on the road during the month of September have increased by 100 per cent. It looks as if the cure was almost as bad as the disease which it was ...

... -V I X. THE RUSSO-FINLAND The situation was very tense during the past DISPUTE week end, Finland not being disposed to give way on vital points. The Finnish frontier only measures some 35 miles as the crow flies On left-- WHERE THE AMERICAN VESSEL CITY OF FLINT PUT IN DURING LAST WEEK-END Haugesund, the small Norwegian port where the City of Flint put in and where the German prize crew was ...

... BEAUTIFUL STRASBOURG-- Lonely 5t,oo^„n of 1,5 T he Bustling Crowd has Gone from Deserted Streets which Still Show their Flower Boxes at the Windows SECOND ONLY TO COLOGNE: THE CATHEDRAL O; TRASBOURG The tower of the cathedral is famous both for its height and the delicacy of the stonework through which staircases climb. The summit of the steeple was damaged by a German shell in 1870 THE ...

... TUNING FOR ECONOMY Tinkering with the Carburettor Jet Will Produce More M.P.G. By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.MBCh.E. (C lerk of the Course, Brooklands) WHEN really enthusiastic motorists gathered together in peace-time, sooner or later the conversation led towards the speeds of their respective cars. When any two or more drove the same make and model of car, arguments would crop up as ...

... FRANCES DAY IN MANCHESTER The famous revue artiste and Billy Bennett during their show in the North. These two stars are appearing at the Manchester Palace and are giving much of their spare time to the entertainment of the Forces THE STATION STAFF ENTERTAIN THE TROOPS At Waterloo Station, the staff give a concert for the benefit of the troops in the Y.M.C.A. canteen FAMOUS RADIO STARS WITH ...

... IN DEFENCE OF GREAT BRITAIN A Gun Crew at their Post, Ready for Action with their Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun Not yet has Britain actually been put to the test which will decide how good are her anti-aircraft defences. Behind the veil of secrecy which naturally covers the country's defence measures, however, it is known that our resources are terrifically strong searchlights, guns, fighter ...

... Hidden Amid the Haystacks and Farms of France BRITISH TROOPS WAITING &T THE CROSS-ROADS FOR iHE SIGNAL TO PROCEED iK yfiu. 11% y'ssfr At nearly every cross-roads there is a military traffic policeman who has somehow learnt the way to every where in a week or so. Apart from these one notices a few soldiers standing in a village street, a sentry marching up and down a station platform while ...

... THE STORY OF BRITISH MOBILISATION How the Army Prepared for War A Study in Organisation Described by NOEL THOMPSON WHEN the full history of this war comes to be written, I hope that someone with the pen of an artist in words will devote at least three chapters to the mobilisation of the British Army and to its transport across to France. I can deal with it only in a sketchy way, for many facts ...

... . GOVERN MENTS make the best neutrals; children are the worst. In between there ain't no such animal. The most candid sight 1 've seen in Scandin avia was the urchins of Bergen mimicking some 200 Japs as they followed them down the streets Japanese who had fled from Berlin after the signature of the Russo-German Treaty. As I left Bergen before the Russo-Jap pact was signed (and the Japanese ...

... ROMANCE OF STEAM RULERS OF THE SEA RULERS OF THE SEA, the new Paramount Picture due at the Plaza on Friday last, November 17, is a fine dramatic film dealing with the romance of steam, and tells the story of the first ship to cross the Atlantic under her own power. Here Captain Oliver (GEORGE BANCROFT) and Gillespie, the Mate (DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JNR.), see rough weather ahead for their ...

... These animal studies have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. The evacuated mice have a highly topical flavour. The monkey in the pumpkin is described by his owners as our little friend, the seven years old South American monkey child, and the baby and the collie provide a conversation piece of purely British charm. WHERE IS THE TOWN MOUSE GOING by Mr. D. ...