... Gertrude Lawrence Stays in America Her fourth year away from home finds her the star hit of an ordinary comedy Gertrude Lawrence hasn't been on the London stage since she went across the Atlantic with Coward's symposium of playlets, To-night at 8.30, in October 1936. Mo^t of the intervening time she has been act ing in America in October '37 she started her great run in Susan and God in New ...

... The British Ambassador to the United States The Marquess of Lothian at Home in Washington Philip Henry Kerr, eleventh Marquess of Lothian, became Ambassador in Washington just before war broke out, succeeding Sir Ronald Lindsay, who had held the post for nine years. He received a warm welcome from Americans as a known and understanding friend of their country. In their opinion, according to ...

... Pet Registration by Animal Guards is a Side Line of the National Air Raid Precautions for Animals Committee Registration of domestic animals, illustrated here, is one side of the work of the N.A.R.P.A.C. More important is the organisation of the country into regions and districts under veterinary surgeons who would deal with wounded or terrified animals in the event of air raids. Animal Guards ...

... V-^ The Third Film of Kipling's Novel Comes to the Plaza Rudvard Kipling's novel, , has been filmed twice before, but in such early days (1916, 1923) that the new version of it by Paramount is the first one to claim serious attention. Further, Paramount have decided on the unhappy ending which Kipling first wrote but was persuaded by his editor to change, a change upheld by both earlier film ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides A. G. Macdonell THE chief impressions left by the eagerly awaited debate last week on the Hore-Belisha resignation seem to have been admiration for the ex-War Minister's restrained and digni fied statement, a different kind of ad miration for the Prime Minister's deter mined stone-walling, surprise at the Commons' calm acceptance that no explanation ...

... Sanity Fare Douglas Reed The Author of Insanity Fair Covers the War Fronts Within Hitler's Walls I HAVE obtained and absorbedly read two German documents. They show how clearly Hitler's enemies in Germany long ago saw what was coming; in contrast to people here, who are even now in the puzzled, curiouser-and-curiouser state of mind about this war. The first document is an order issued in May ...

... St. George and the Dragon were the chief guests at the Rainbow League party at the Waldorf Hotel last week. Every year Miss Italia Conti gives this party to the youthful cast, recruited in her school, of Where the Rain bow Ends, now in its 29th winter season at the Holborn Empire. Mr. Roger Quilter, who wrote the music for the piece, received the guests; St. George was sixteen-year-old Jack ...

... 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 ...

... Prelude June Brae in Sylphides at Sadler's Wells Lea Sylphides opened the first wartime season of the Vic-Wells ballet comPany thA* fit home last Tuesday. This romantic reverie. best loved of all ballets, should be the hr introduction of every potential balletomane to the art. Listening to the Chopin music, watching the flower-like dancers drifting across the stage or dreamily grouped ...