... Mt would be so unlike Christmas without THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER of THE BYSTANDER for all in the house to enjoy. The next time you visit your bookstall or regular newsagent, ask for a copy to be reserved for you and we have no doubt he will gladly deliver it to your home. A heavy demand is anticipated, so we venture to suggest that you act early. If your news agent is on the phone, why not ring ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell THE danger in the Low Countries seems to have abated a little (though of course, by the time this reaches you it may have flared up again). There is undoubtedly something in the German argument that they have so many troops that they must put them somewhere, and that it would be madness to concen trate them in a great mass behind ...

... 1 The War Week by Week War to Begin War SINCE the war to end war ended, half-a-dozen countries have fallen victim to the new kind of war-- undeclared war. Either by the threat or making of war they were taken, but war was never declared, and was even indignantly denied to be intended or in progress. Thus, for years, wars were made without being declared. We have invented something new we have ...

... Three Dramatic Schools in One Sadler's Wells Takes on the Training of Actors and Actresses ^/HATEVER the war has done in splitting np Europe, it has unified a section of the dramatic instruction of London. Early in October it was announced that the Old Vic Dramatic School, the London Studio and the London Mask Theatre School would join forces and continue as the Sadler's Wells School of Acting ...

... Social Register War Work, Weddings, Outdoors Lady Milbanke, Mrs. Koch de Gooreynd, Miss Kenyon-Slaney Lady Milbanke is second-in- command at Lavington Park, the Euan Wallaces' home, which has been turned into a wartime maternity hospital, and is run by eleven professional and seven j auxiliary nurses. Two of the latter are Mrs. Gerard Koch de j Gooreynd and Jane Kenyon- Slaney, whose sister is ...

... Ballet Party To Bid Farewell to Tamara Grigorieva Harold Rubin (right) gave a party at the Arts Theatre Club as a farewell to Tamara Grigorieva see below), who is listening here to his speech with Serge Ruanine. Mr. Rubin also announced the inauguration of a new ballet centre at the Arts Theatre which he has just acquired a centre for dancers, teachers, students, musicians and designers, and ...

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... Charities at Christmas Some Deserving National Causes FIRST among the Christmas charities at home that we urgently recommend you not to forget, however troubled the farther horizons, is Dr. Barnardo's Homes. Under their Charter No destitute child ever refused admission, Dr. Barnardo's have in seventy-four years given a home to over 124,000 destitute children, and since the outbreak of war ...

... By Peter Traill MR. GIBSON'S woman-who-did-for- him came into his bedroom, or, rather, she advanced into it, because once she had made up her mind where her duty lay, she did it with a reckless abandon that is the mark of the brave, if foolhardy, company commander. Mr. Gibson, lying in his narrow bed, had marked her progress down the passage from the moment when she had banged his breakfast ...

... The Snow Maiden High Above Europe's Clashes, She Laughs Meerkamper ...

... Christmas Tales The Ballet Takes and Transforms the Children of its Sister, Pantomime Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Jean Bedells and Frank Staff in The Sleeping Princess The White Cat and Puss-in-Boots Molly Brown and Frederick Ashton in The Sleeping Princess Photographs by Anthony Columbine, lovely and wayward, and the darting, mischievous Harlequin have mimed and prinked and danced their way ...

... 44 Faun in Manhattan Walter Crisham and Gabrielle Brune Every revue these days must have its bit of ballet, or its hit at ballet. The Gate Revue makes its contri bution to this fashion extremely well with a gentle parody of transformation to a Manhattan roof garden, of U Apres-midi d'un Faune. Walter Crisham, naturally faun-like, naturally a dancer, becomes a white-waist- coated Lichine before ...