... Happy Families On Three Fronts France The British Commander-in- Chief General Lord Gort and his staff walked briskly along on a trip up the line to inspect Allied positions, met an official photographer by the side of their path. Behind Lord Gort second from right walks Major- General the Duke of Windsor Turkey Glasses of champagne were lifted by the signatories and assistants after the ...

... Prntpptivp Pnlnnrintr Civilised warfare forces man to coPy A V C> V^\JlJLlJ__Lllg) small animals in the art of inconspicuity IMW.KiMWOIIW UMPOTP WTWI1 nW4VltnMl ..OW ,F, IW> n!M4.I >*1 v*U I WJ .(WMVrtiW* Fear not, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane and now a wood comes towards Dunsinane. Arm arm, and out Replacing, say, the Forest of Warndt and Saarbruecken for Birnam Wood and Dunsinane in ...

... 44 1 Am the Very Model The latest portrait-study of the Prime Minister was made not from life, but from the wax model at Madame Tussaud's. The model itself was made in 1936, when Mr. Chamberlain was still Chancellor of the Exchequer, but already the chosen successor to Mr. Baldwin. Like all Tussaud models, it was constructed from photographs, and cost between £60 and £70. Three more topical ...

... I Am the Very Model Three Dictators portrayed by the Artists of Mme. Tussaud's, photographed by Gordon Anthony for the '-Bystander Adolf Hitler of Germany Joseph Stalin of Russia Wr w I l^-- Benito Mussolini of Italy Hitler in wax was made in 1933, and a comparison between it and to-day's photographs shows how six years of power have lined the face of Nazi Germany's Fiihrer. At that time fti ...

... M. Erkko Finland's Foreign Minister, who has born the brunt of the long- drawn-out, typically Krcmlinesque negotiations between Helsinki and Moscow, is a large man of forty-four. He has reached his present position in the remarkably short time of seventeen years, for he did not pass his law finals from Helsinki University until he was twenty-seven. But he never practised, went straight into ...

... Evacuees in Dungarees Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra Photographs of children are good, photographs of Royal children are better, pictures of the little Kents are always irresistible. Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra, like some hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries, are in the country 44 somewhere in England, They posed happily for their first war photographs in the cleanest ...

... ' vj So say the Br iys C. R. W. Nevinson, who was official war artist to iritisli and Canadian Governments twenty-two years ago Tn the last war, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson became an official war artist in 1917, and considers that round about that time we had the finest propaganda machine the world has ever seen because it contained the best literary and artistic brains in the country. ...

... The Hon. Dorothy Berry Dorothy Berry is engaged to Dennis Douglas Pilkington Smyly, younger son of the late Major and Mrs. R. J. Smyly, of Sweethay Court, Trull. She is the third of the five daughters of the late Lord Buckland brother of Lord Camrose and Lord Kemsley) and Lady Buckland, of Woolton House, Newbury, Berks. Her fiance s brother married Diana Mills in July Harlip Miss Cordelia Mary ...

... Snow Fall When flowers and leaves are fallen, winter covers the earth with a new white blooming The sun sets over Davos valley and the hamlet of Monstein Heerkamper We would never have dreamt of having Christmas without snow in those days/' says Lady Addle of Eigg in her further memoirs (p. 8), but this light-headed grande dame says little more of the winter's loveliest feature, her concern ...

... News Reel Portraits and Presentations The Queen Presents a Cross to Polish Guides When the Queen paid a visit to the headquarters of the Girl Guides' Associa tion in Buckingham Palace Road last Wednesday, she had presented to her Mme. Malkoicska, the founder of the Polish Guides, who hopes to start schools and training centres for refugee Polish children here. For the great gallantry and ...

... In Paris, Too The Theatres are Reopening Mireille, a bride in trousers, heads this page of pictures taken during rehearsals for the first important first night of wartime Paris. She was acting in Fausse Alerte, one of the short Guitry plays of the programme. Paris theatres, like London, are reacting against le bleu (blackout), after a first retreat, with considerable activity Sacha Guitry ...

... Miss Louise Rivi&re Vivienne Louise Riviere is engaged to Captain the Hon. Richard Denison- Pender, younger son of Lord and Lady Pender, of 65, Eaton Place, S.W.I. She is the only daughter of the late Henry Gilbey Riviere and Mrs. Riviere, of 17, Ovington Court, S.W.3, and Middle Cottage, Sandwich Bay. She is on the stage, played Jane Baxter's part in George and Margaret on tour, teas in ...