... The Body Was Well Nourished Diana Churchill and Barry K. Barnes are practically the whole show in this comedy-thriller by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Launder and Gilliat were the authors of those two very amusing films The Lady Vanishes and Flight Train to Munich. Nearly the hour when the time-bomb is due to explode and they can't find it. Diana Churchill, George Cross and Barry K. ...

... Sportsman or Thiet or Both By A. Croxton Smith IS the poacher a sportsman, thief, or a mixture of both? My country friends who go to a lot of expense in rearing and preserving game will have only one answer to the question. He who takes what isn hisun, When he's cotched should go to prison. In these days, I believe, poaching is sometimes organised on com mercial lines, and those who indulge in ...

... BREEDERS and race horse owners went in numbers to Messrs. Tatter- sall's Sales at Newmarket if not to buy or sell, at least to talk things over. A num ber of yearlings changed hands for nominal figures, but some of the better ones did not reach their reserves and were withdrawn. The universal question was when are we to have racing at Headquarters again Owners are willing to race elsewhere if ...

... ON THE WAT UP through The Gorge, a deep cleft which affords the shortest means of access to the summit. ABOVE: Looking over Table Bay from the northern face, which rises pre cipitously to a height of over 3500 feet. I LEFT: Reading the names on the plate set upon a rock which constitutes the Climbers' Memorial. ONCE a year a large party of men and women n: ike Mountain for the Climbers' ...

... SPEEDSTERS' BIG DAT America's crack speedboat racers were at Northport, Long Island, for the 37th Gold Cup Championship, and in this picture My Sin leads as the craft roar over the course in the first of the three 30-mile heats. Hotsy Tolsy III, the winner, is not in the picture. THEY UPSET THE CHAMPIONS Hotsy Totsy III was a rank out sider piloted by its novice owner Sidney Allen who is seen ...

... Slap Bang, Here We Are Again BLITZ-DRIVEN from pillar to post, Ridgeway's Late Joys, the Victorian cabaret, with a fine dis regard for the incongruous, have made their home at the one-time El Morocco night club, in Albemarle Street, and there they play nightly to an audience which usually remains to sleep. El Morocco's most un Victorian trappings were transformed in no tithe for a fiver. ...

... B R ITIS II W A R S H I P S The Navy is to-day, as it always has been in our history, Aircraft-Carrier and Cruiser in the British Navy, the first line of defence of these islands and of that Great Empire p n as well as illustrations ot every type ot Destroyer, which was built up by the toil and the enterprise of our fathers. j j i j Mr. Neville Chamberlain, on the 31st of January, 1940. ...

... Wartime Show Gardening By j our Horticultural Correspondent. THE Thames Valley and the sur rounding country has long been famed for its beautiful private estates and gardens, and the owners of them have made a full contribution in the campaign to increase food pro duction. That a greater output has not been achieved at the expense of the quality of the vegetables was seen at the recent Reading ...

... HARROWS XV. continued on its winning way with a victory by 16 points to nil over a strong Rossi vn Park Colts side on the Sixth Form ground. In spite of difficult weather conditions the Harrow backs were in splendid form D. C. H. McLean, the full-back, now in his third season, joined in one passing movement to score a try, and B. I. Stratton-Ferrier, on the left wing, scored the best try of ...

... Sf >rting People in the News ATHLETICS AT IFF LET ROAD: The field after the first lap of the mile at the Oxford Seniors' and Fresh men's sports which were concluded on Saturday. This race was won by R. Rhodes- James (Queen's). A notable performance was H. T. Harvey's victory in the Freshmen's i oo yards in 10.4 sec. to beat R. B. Martin B.N.C. last season's London University champion, by a ...

... By A. Croxton Smith FAR distant may be the millennium in which the Lion will he down with the lamb, but for all that examples are constantly occurring in animal life of the strong befriending the weak. Dogs notoriously exhibit altruistic instincts towards those that they seem to know instinctively are in need of protection. Young children and puppies, the more helpless of their own kind, fall ...

... ElementaryTactics for Parashooters A WEEK ago we gave some elementary instructions on how to handje a rifle by cadets in the Officers' Training Corps of the Imperial Service College, Windsor, and this week the boys have co-operated in a further i demonstration. This time by showing very clearly the right and wrong way to do things, they give an example of rudimentary tactics which may be of ...