... Believe It Or Not Desire Under the Elms (Westminster 8.0) O HOW I wish again I was in Michigan, Down on the farm, sang Miss Beatrice Lillie in a revue during the last war. The farm which is the scene of Eugene O'Neill's grim play, Desire Under the Elms, is in New England, not in Michigan. But I could not imagine anyone who had had a taste of it wishing to be there again. I trust, for the ...

... By Highwayman THIS foot-candle business of the Home Office needs to be shown up. I am afraid it has a great deal to do with the appalling way the road accidents have increased. Thank goodness, the Government have decided to bring in Summer-time much earlier; it will be trying for the dairy farmers, but will save a lot of lives at the other end of the day, because the time of the perilous drive ...

... Weather Permitting D ATHER like a civilian uniform, with its UUW (tuu 1U1UCU pCclK, LXXIS 5>LXLCXXCU cLXXgUX d cap is exactly right for the uncertain weather of the next few months. Woodrow, of Piccadilly, have it in almost all colours. A matching scarf completes the set, which costs 42/-. Another cap, this spring's version of the b£ret, is made in speckled tweed, with woollen trimming. ...

... INCLEMENT weather (if it is not high treason to mention that it has been a bit cold this winter) has been put down as the cause of the early decease, after a short and not very glorious life, of at least half-a-dozen pro ductions within the past week or two. All ol tnese nave Deen would-be funny trivialities, and if their failure means a sad disappoint ment to those who have written, produced, ...

... MARLENE DIETRICH has got herself a new producer. Joe Pasternak, who has made his name as the man behind Deanna Durbin, has dressed Marlene up in frills and feathers as of old, and allowed her to show plenty of those famous legs. For a change, however, he has thrown her into the fiercest feminine scrap which has occurred on the screen yet, including the one which Paulette Goddard and ...

... By A. Croxton Smith IN one of his speeches a few months ago Hitler sneered at the English and Americans because of their love for animals. No doubt the gentler sentiments have no place in the Nazi philosophy, and a full hooded Aryan cannot be expected to have any sympathy with those who consider that they have some re ponsibility towards the animals that re put under their charge. If we go ...

... TROOPER BRUCE HOBBS joined up on the first day of war and is now serving with the Yeomanry in the Northern Command. He had special leave to ride at Windsor recently, and it is hoped that his military duties will allow him to ride his second Grand National winner at Aintree on April 5th. His first victory was on Battleship in 1938 when he was only seventeen. Hobbs comes of a famous family of ...

... LIGHTEST IN THE SHOW: F. Durr, a 4-st. 3-lb. boy from R. Day's stable at Newmarket, being examined by the doctor before the fight and ready to go into the ring. He was the lightest boy in the programme and gave an exhibition of shadow-boxing, for his opponent did not materialise. ONE ROUND: W. Foskett (left), who was knocked out in the first round by R. E. Moore (right). At present these two ...

... By A. Croxton Smith TWO Alsatians are rendering valuable services at the Sheffield station of the London and North Eastern Railway. One of them is illustrated on this page to-day. They have proved themselves more useful than ever since the black-out regulations set in, their job being to guard property left in trucks on railway sidings. Accompanying officers on patrol, they work storage sheds, ...

... MOVING OFF Hounds met at Guestling Green, 3 J miles north-east of Hastings. A number of evacuee children turned up and enjoyed themselves immensely. It was the first meet on horseback that this pack had had since the freeze-up, but Lord Burghley and one or two other enthusiasts, including Air. A. E. Porritt, have had a day or two on foot and have had good sport. For a famous runner like Lord ...

... Spring Service A PRACTICAL way of sending your photo graph to someone on service is to slip it into this leather frame combined with a mirror. The whole thing costs 12s. 6d. from Rivoli, Knights- bridge, and folds up quite flat to go in a pocket. THERE is a tradition behind the making of uniforms, for the art of combining regulation requirements with an individually perfect fit cannot be ...

... By Ashley Courtenay IN a room which was once given over to beer-barrels and saw dust I came to the Lounge of my journey's end. Restful chairs and chesterfields, subdued lighting and oak panelling completed the per manent background, whilst daffodils, up-to-date periodicals, and a goodly centre table of cakes indicated the year, the season-- and the hour. A little later I talked with Captain F. ...