... The Bystander Bookshelf Little Jappy Soldier V. S. Pritchett WHEN this war started there was a good deal of publicity done about escape literature. People would not want to read about war, it was said, but would want an escape from the miserable reality, to things which were kinder to the mind. This, I think, like so. much that was written and said about the war just as it was beginning, ...

... Spare Wheel SINCE January 22nd the new headlamp rule has been in force, and as there is widespread misunderstanding about it, I think it well to set it out clearly-- the more so since a Metro politan Police notice issued with the new car licences is itself apt to be misleading. The official headlamp mask is not compulsory, but any headlamp used during the black-out hours must comply with ...

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... . . Has your good name gone into it TO pool or not to pool, became a question of vital importance to the community. In a trice the motorist was invited to forget all he knew about his favourite branded juice, and every town and village pump bade him take to Pool Here was an example of standardization which everybody agrees is fully justified. Fortunately, the early months of this strange war ...

... TO protect the interest of the islanders and to guard against imitations of spurious origin the Harris Tweed Trade Mark has been registered by order of the Board of Trade. All Tweed which bears the Harris Tweed Trade Mark is made to-day in exactly the same way as before the war. The mark, stamped on the cloth itself, is a definite nssiiranre thnt tlip twoprt Tins tipp„ ,-np/ln entirely in the ...

... Red Cross Candidates in Dublin Will Miss Paget Bring Off the Double Hopes for the Flat Racing Season Sport at Windsor and Fontwell Park AN unusual position has arisen as a result of the postponement, until to-morrow, of the Leopardstown meeting arranged for last Saturday. Nearly all the English-trained horses which were to run in the Red Cross 'Chase and also in the Leopardstown Hurdle are ...

... A Try-out for the British Army Team Grand Football at Selhurst Park ON Sunday, February n, the British Army are to meet the French Army in Paris, and last Saturday at Selhurst Park an Army side played an England XI as a trial game before the big occasion in France. Saturday's match in aid of the Red Cross Fund attracted 10,057 people, and brought £558 to the fund. It was a grand match, a ...

... YESTERDAY at Thurston's, Leicester Square, a remarkable exhibition of old billiard tables, famous cues of champions of the past, and other records of the game was opened in aid of the Lord Mayor's Red Cross Fund. The exhibition is open from u to 5 cn week days, and ri to 1 on Saturdays. The purchase of a catalogue, which is a history of the game andits influence during the past 120 years, ...

... The Double-Handed Grip is Worth Trying T. C. Harvey Driving AMONG many students of the game there is a feeling that a double-handed grip that is, a grip although held in the fingers is neither of the interlocking or overlapping variety is unortho dox. In this series of T. G. Harvey, the Oxford secretary last season, using the double-handed grip, the swing is quite orthodox the stance perhaps ...

... LADY GLORIA FISHER AND HER DAUGHTER Lord and Lady Lisburne's elder daughter married Second Lieutenant Nigel Fisher in 1935 and Amanda Gloria Morryth, the other lady in the above picture, is of more or less recent arrival. Mr. Fisher is the son of the late Commander Sir Thomas Fisher, K.C.B., R.N. Lord Lisburne was in the Brigade of Guards and Lady Lisburne is a daughter of Don Julio ...

... TRÈS CHER-- I have had my quota of thrills this week! Having been informed that it would no doubt be possible for me to get leave to go up to a certain British base in order to be present at some of the N.A.A.F.I. entertainments I immediately got in touch with the commissaire of Police for my district in order to obtain the permis necessary for the journey to the zone des armées. Upstairs and ...

... HEIL, CINDERELLA THE WILTON PANTOMIME FOR THE TROOPS LADY PEMBROKE (THE QUEEN) AND MISS BETTY STREET (THE COURT ENTERTAINER) MR. CECIL BEATON AND MISS OLGA LYNN (THE UGLY SISTERS), THE HON. DAVID HERBERT (BUTTONS), AND THE CHORUS MISS PAMELA GIBSON (FAIRY GODMOTHER) WAITING IN THE WINGS THE UGLY SISTERS AGAIN MR. CECIL BEATON AND MISS OLGA LYNN THE HON. DAVID HERBERT AS BUTTONS That old ...