... 6- uJ 0^ /)*y A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Anniversary Parade DURING the early days of the war, when Her Majesty the Queen became Com mandant-in-Chief of the three women's Services, she decided that she would not wear uniform even for formal parades. Accordingly, when she took the salute at the march past of the W.R.N.S. at Buckingham Palace on the fourth anniversary of the rebirth ...

... 4' 4 What a Performance! Sid Field, London's Latest, Loudest, Longest Laugh, Reaches a New High in the Craziest, Cleanest Comedy Act in Town Twenty-seven years ago a small boy aged twelve i debut in a Birmingham music-hall. His name was Sit a Birmingham boy born on April 1st, 1904. None family were theatrical people, and Sid's initial success spectacular. Recalling the occasion, Mr. Field ...

... AIR EDDIES By OLIVER STEWART Double Error. FEW things are more delightful than pointing out other people's mistakes. Sometimes I think that people read the newspapers almost entirely with this object in view. Anyhow, a lot of people have been writing to me lately about a caption to a picture which appeared with one of my articles recently. This caption described a group of R.A.F. officers, ...

... athedral and Village Church, Schoolroom and Theatre, the Pilgrim Players Find Their Stage t Soon after the outbreak of war, the Pilgrim Players were founded by producer Martin Browne, under the auspices of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. They took the name of Pilgrim Players because they originally set off from Canterbury. The object of the Players is to bring the best ...

... Colonel the Rt. Hon. Oliver Stanley, M.C., M.P. The Earl of Derby's Son is Secretary of State for the Colonies In November 1942, Colonel Oliver Stanley succeeded Viscount Cranborne as Colonial Secretary. Conservative M.P. for Westmorland since 1924, his first ministerial appointment was as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Home Office in 1931, since when he has occupied the posts of ...

... 1 lie latler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Richardson Williams Major W Nigel Richardson, R.A., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. IV. R. Richardson, of Woodbury, Humbridge, Harrogate, married Clare Nesta Nightingale Williams, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W Humphrey Williams, of Chippenham House, Monmouth, at St. Mary's, Monmouth Evans, Monmouth Youngs Osborn- Jenkyn Major William Raul Youngs, ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Transnort and Tvnhoonerv TO subordinate all other matters to the winning of the war is the only sane course at the present moment. Yet there are one or two ways in which war-winning activities minister to peace-winning activities. (In speaking of winning the peace I use the current jargon which carries with it the unfortunate implication that the coming of peace ...

... THE WAY OF THE WAR By FORE-SIGHT Our Resistance ALTHOUGH there have been in the last eight days signs of increas ing tension in the Balkans which may well prove embarrassing to the Axis: all foreign affairs are domin ated by the offensive resistance put up by this country against German air attack. It is true that in German and Italian controlled Europe the truth has not yet made its way in, ...

... The Hon. Mrs. George Ward, formerly Miss Ann Capel, married the younger of the Earl of Dudley's twin brothers in 1940. She is the elder daughter of the late Captain Arthur Edward Capel, C.B.E., and the Countess of Westmorland. Her husband, like his twin, is in the R.A.F., and was recently promoted a Group Captain. The Wards have two children. Georgina born in 1941, and Anthony, aged one ti The ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Announcing the Dilysians By James Agate An extract from a letter: On Thursday afternoon I went to see the Noel Coward film. Isn't it both trivial and horrid? Absolute lack of imagination in hand ling, and no drama at all. Cavalcade all over again. Very cheap and very nasty. Any sausage manufacturer could have done it as well: not a single solitary ha'porth of artistry. ...

... From the Family Album General Alexander, His Wife and Children General Alexander in the Desert Brian is Given His First Lesson in Strategy by His Famous Father Lady Alexander, With Rose and Shaune The Pony Shares in the Family Celebrations General the Hon. Sir Harold Alexander has proved himself one of the greatest living strategists of modern warfare. With General Sir Bernard Montgomery, he ...

... 0 /)>jy A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Gifts for the Red Cross GIFTS given by the King and Queen and other members of the Royal Family are being sold by auction to-day and to morrow at Derby House, in aid of the Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross Fund. The Queen her self will probably be making some purchases, for when she visited the depot recently she remarked on a number of pieces, ...