... Bill ISLE ami lSOEEAK Stories from Everywhere ON her way up to bed the maid looked into her mistress's room. The master's locked up for the night, madam, she said. Her mistress looked puzzled. Really, Mary? she said. He must have been very quiet. I didn't even hear him come in. He hasn't, madam, replied the girl. The police station have just phoned. HPhe magistrate looked at the prisoner, ...

... MINISTRY OF THE WEEK'S MITTS 13 We help the war effort if we buy what happens to be plentiful in our own locality. Stocks naturally vary a little in different parts of the country, but here is a plenty list which applies to most places HOME-KILLED MEAT COFFEE POTATOES OATMEAL HOME-GROWN VEGETABLES ON THE KITCHEN FRONT How to Dry Apples We may be short of apples later in the year through ...

... . he National Savings Committee The f nut to 1 r. Smith I've just got the estimate for that job we were going to have done. M s. Smith Not too expensive, I hope I r. Smith: It's very reasonable; but I hate to disappoint you, dear. I've come to the conclusion this is one of those things that ought not to be done in war time. M s. Smith Oh, how depressing And I'd set my heart on it, too. f r. ...

... DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS AT THE WESTMINSTER THEATRE By ALAN BOTT OUTSIDE the spoken words, Mr. Eugene O'Neill asks a lot from any actress playing Abbie in his Desire Under the Elms, which has been licensed at last by the Lord Chamberlain for public performance in this England. Her face, according to the author's direc tions, should express rather gross sensuality; strength and obstinacy ...

... 23L One lhing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis ROMMEL'S trick of leaving H.Q. and dashing into the front line to direct operations in person raises a problem of etiquette which they were arguing in Marlborough's wars, and maybe long before, and which we little Home Guard Napoleons can't settle yet. Namely, should a com mander be what Marshal Saxe contemptu ously called le sergent du bataille ...

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... mi TERRY, A LIGHT FOR TIRED EYES/ JF, fortunately, you own an Anglepoise your eyes have a wonderful ally. It throws its clear gentle beam on the object, not in your eyes. It takes any required angle and holds it. It needs only a 20 or 40 watt bulb. Anglepoise is very scarce today so when fyou see one snap it up! NEW LAMPS FOR OLD fey) Sell Moken HERBERT TERRY A SONS LTD. REDDITCH London. ...

... By QUINTIN GILBEY IN the twenty odd years before September 3, 1939, an owner of racehorses even if his string was composed of half a selling plater which might win a seller at Plumpton, if there weren't too many triers, was a man envied of his fellows, and highly esteemed, no matter in what society he might find himself. We've got the Joneses coming to dinner tonight, so I do hope dear, you ...

... lftf Fcrdittttttti Tuohy WHILE our cinemas gradually assume their new and pre eminent role as temples of uplift, my chief reaction will not be of anger, or resentment, at other people's godliness being directed at uncon sulted Me in the back stalls. Rather shall I glance wistfully back at fascinating personalities of the past, a faithful screen ing of whose lives would collide with standards ...

... Sean Firlding THE Case of Mr. Selden's Fingers has at last been brought to the notice of honourable, gallant and learned mem bers of the House of Commons. This is a matter upon which all concerned may be congratulated-- particularly Mr. Wilson Harris, who is not only an M.P. (Independent, Cambridge U.) but the editor of The Spectator, a journal which may claim to be the (half?) brother of THE ...

... EMMWOOD'S AVIARY: Y0.il Show specimens of this bird are greatly in demand, especially at this season. Many, however, show signs of becoming overbred Lawuntu-imself) ADULT MALE: General colour above flesh- coloured, inclined to be crested with greasy feathers beak predatorily curved, hop coloured body feathers striped in various colours (it is difficult to determinate these colours exactly ...

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