... 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, ...

... . 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 ...

... PINOCCHIO, puppet-boy hero of WALT DISNEY'S second full-length film due at the New Gallery Regent Street, on March 18, is the netc boy in the Disney school. Here he is depicted as getting the once-over from his seniors, the other Disney creations. They lean out of their frames to inspect the boy, who, it *s rumoured, may steal their thunder as film celebrities and put them in the shade. The ...

... INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS* ANNUAL DINNER BY MEL A large assembly of members of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers and their guests attended the Institution's Annual Dinner at the Savoy Hotel recently. The chief guest of the evening was the Minister of Transport, Captain the Rt. Hon. Euan Wallace, P.C., M.P. In the unfortunate absence, through indisposition, of the President of ...

... SERVICE UNITS-- No. 23 AN R.A.F. FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL- -BY MEL This gallery of very gallant gentlemen was collected at a place where they are not taught how to bomb and machine-gun defenceless non-combatants, but how to show the despicable and very cowardly foe to fight without trying to get a verdict on a foul. In the last war the German air forces fought with a more or less chivalrous ...