... A Piece of Black Velvet Raven-Haired Pat Kirkwood from Manchester One of the most exhilarating things to see and hear in London is still i Pat Kirkwood in Black Velvet, the large-scale revue at the Hippodrome. L It 's worth getting there in time to hear her bubble over in her opening I song. Major hits of the show are all hers 44 Most Gentlemen Don't Like 1 Love and 44 Oh, Johnnie, Oh which ...

... Motoring Commentary In the Toils of the Law By Spare Wheel IT is, I hear, a solicitor who has landed the police in the legal soup in the matter of traffic- sign prosecutions, and there is some quiet humour in the situation. It appears that the gentleman was charged with failing to observe a Halt sign. He pleaded Not guilty, so the police proved that he failed to stop as directed by the law ...

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... After two or three days of attempted reform, the thermometer fell back again below freezing point, and brought a thick snowfall to the frozen war between Germany, France and Britain. So our sol diers were issued as quickly as possible with the white clothing that we have learnt to think typical of the other, hotter war in the sub- Arctic. These pictures were taken behind the Western Front, ...

... The War Minister and His Wife The Rt. Hon. Oliver Stanley and Lady Maureen Stanley at Home in Westminster The new Secretary of State for War went into the last war as a boy of eighteen straight front Eton, and finished his mili tary career as a Gunner Major with an M.C., Croix de Guerre and mention in despatches to his credit. He was called to the Bar in 1919, married the Marquess of ...

... fifilli M; .there's something about a soldier- BRYLCREEM THE PERFECT HAIR DRESSING and there's something about every man who has well cared- for hair. Daily Bryicreem is the only way to achieve that some thing-' Rub in a little every morning. Brylcreem's natural oils control the hair smartly without gumming or starching. Its tonic ingredients penetrate to the roots help your hair to grow ...

... The Bystander Goes Round the Canteens No. 34. A Barn Canteen in a Berkshire Village The canteen is housed in a wonderful four-hundred-year-old tithe barn next to the church at White Waltham, in Berkshire. Outside it Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Creese unload stores from a converted motor-trailer One cow-stall inside the Barn holds a well- thumbed library. Mrs. Ernest Bass is librarian here and her ...

... Spotting Without Tears War Planes is a New Card Game for Teaching Jim Crows How to Tell a Friend from an Enemy Can you tell a Defiant from a Messerschmitt 109, a Hurricane or a Spitfire from a Messerschmitt 110, a Heinkel 111 K from a He. 112, or either from a Hampden or Whitley, or a Junkers 88 or Dornier 215 from a Wellington or Blenheim Probably not. Most people face with the utmost ...

... The Secret Agent's Wife by Olga L. Rosmanith Harry said formally, Sheila, this is Mr. Guise and this is Mr. Hendrikson. Gentlemen, Mrs. Warren my wife. They rose and bowed stiffly. Sit down again, please, she said. Don't mind me. I 've come back for a warmer coat and I 'm going right out again. I think not, said the dark, swarthy one. Adding, as he saw her look of swift anger, I mean I ...

... ut a*. iMJMmmiJiS&mt.mb'zr i Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone Major-General the Earl of Athlone, is the neic Governor- General of Canada and he will leave with Princess Alice Countess of Athlone, shortly. In 1914 he teas about to take the same office when war broke out and he went on active service. The Earl of Athlone was a highly successful Gov ernor-General of South Africa during a ...

... Films of the Day The March of Time By George Campbell BASIL DEAN is a problem. Every time I see a film directed by him, I wonder again how a man with so much intelligence and such dexterity in the theatre can fail so completely to understand the different, but related, art of the screen. It is not merely that his tempo is wrong, that he does not know how to make a moving picture move. There ...