... Mggg-- At Long Last Uniforms are Issued to the Royal Observer Corns By Wing Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler Wing Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler The Royal Observer Corps, the eyes and cars of Fighter Command, has been in existence since 1918, when it was started by Maior- Leneral Ashmore, R.A., with a few posts around London. In 1929 the organisation was handed over to the Air Ministry Air Com ...

... : Lord Milford trains with Jack Jarvis at Newmarket Eph Smith is the stable jockey. Although his colours are not familiar on the Turf in England, Lord Dillon is a keen racegoer and a good judge of bloodstock. George 'Blackwell, Jr is now serving in the R.A. he is the son of the veteran Newmarket trainer, George Blackwell. P. Maker, now in the R.A.F., won the May Plate at Nottingham on the ...

... GALA AT MAXIM'S The gay Paris of the 'nineties, when Maxim's was Mecca and the can-can all the rage, is re-created in the new cabaret at Grosvenor House. Those on leave from France will probably find less of the Paris they have been brought up to imagine in the blued-out, half-shut-down city of to-day than in the bar of Maxim's as presented at Grosvenor House, with Paddy Browne as the Belle, ...

... AND THEN THE SOLDIER. NO. 5. Our hardened, nimble and alert Army knows how to be gay as well as grim. These drawings by Sherriffs record some of the brighter angles of modern military life somewhere in England to-day. CARICATURES BY SHERRIFFS. ...

... . THESE caricatures of five of our most distinguished exponents in the various arts are on view at Osbert Lancaster's show at the Redfern Gallery; illustrate the excellence of his observation, the sharpness of his wit. Illl III! The Lord Berners grappling wi'.h his muse. Miss Frey'd Stark explaining to a relatively- unsophisticated audience the genius of Mr. Norman Hartnell Mr. Ardixxone ...

... . Mr. W. Heath Robinson's revelations of Naval devices calculated to irritate the gentle Nazis until their peace-loving dispositions become quite fierce include the inventions on this page These netc notions for arming our merchantmen with depth-charges and other anti-submarine equipment are not more fantastic than some of the ideas ichich the German Press has seriously attributed to the First ...

... THE ROOF- RAISING DEFENCE TO DEFEAT DIVE-BOMBERS. W. Heath Robinson's latest device to defeat the dive-bombers is a roof-raising story By means of an ingenious system of cogs balloons and other lifting machinery, he believes that it will be possible completely to upset the dive-bomber pilots' calculations as to their height from the ground. DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...

... . The battleship, holding a bone in its front teeth, has seated robots for turrets an admiral for control lower, and a bird- like aeroplane about to take off from a gigantic hand. Right A bellowing fighter plane roars down with clenched fists on a grinning bomber. The shoulders represent engine cowlings and the eyes are pilots. Everyone who has followed the march of mechanised armies across ...

... . A Scrap of Paper had historic importance in 1914-- every scrap of paper now has material value for waste paper, cartons, letters, card board, cards and boxes are all essential for the war effort. They must be neither hoarded nor wasted. The £10,000 Prize Waste Paper Drive inaugurated by the Waste Paper Recovery Association for May, June and July will add further incentive to the energy with ...

... THE fine exhibition of photographs by Barbara Morgan, arran of notable camera-studies of dances symbolising episodes ai pages. Many of them express fierce and tragic emotion, while 01 in 4t shaking out sin, are gay and amusing, but they are all The technique of double exposure is used in a most successful everyone else who has seen these photographs agree that they are s San Francisco to ...

... ORSON, THE BEAR AMONG THE STARS (ORSON WELLES) SUMMARILY DEALT WITH BY SHERRIFFS D ...

... CHOCLIKS DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH! THIS AIN'T BENGHAZI! DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...