... Are You Being Served? The Bystander Goes Round the Canteens No. 1. The Y.M.C.A. Canteen at Euston More amateurs are cooking and serving meals and washing-up plates and mugs these days than at any time since the last war. Canteen workers develop a jealous loyalty to the place of their labours, compare notes eagerly or prices and methods with their rivals. In this new Bystander series we cover ...

... Films of the Day An American Tragedy Of Mice and Men liy George Campbell PERHAPS you read Of Mice and Men in book form, or saw the play. If so, I need only tell you that the film does justice to a story of extra ordinary originality and power. The pro duction by Hal Roach, the former slap stick king, sacrifices none of the original's realism, and makes no concessions to sentimentality or the ...

... Tennis Next week tennis clubs will be opening again, for whatever happens to the tournaments there will be plenty of private play. Lillywhites are ready for the new season at their Piccadilly Circus and Knights- bridge branches. Many players now prefer skirts to shorts, and they certainly look better on nearly everybody from all angles. The model on the left, 37s. 6d., is in Tennis cord, a ...

... Sanity Fare By Douglas Reed The Author of Insanity Fair Covers the War Fronts ReDrieve IF anybody should discern an unwontedly sober tone in this survey, the reason is that the time is too grave for caustic comments. Writing a week ago, with the news of the German swoop on Denmark and Norway just coming through on the tape, I felt that we had one foot on the scaffold and the noose around our ...

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... THE ILLUSTRATED MIMIO.X NEWS. THE ILLUSTRATED MENTION' NEWS, THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN INSIDE KNOWLEDGE A large number of the informative dia- interesting sectional drawings are reproduced grammatic drawings, chiefly by that well-known as panoramas, EACH MEASURING OVER artist G. H. Davis which have been published THREE FEET WIDE. They show British from time to time in THE ...

... THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF NORWAY'S GEOGRAPHY: To the south lies an area over which no modern army could advance but whoever holds the port and town of Narvik holds the west to east communications towards Kiruna and the iron ore supplies of Sweden THE IRON ORE REGION OF KIRUNA, THE RICHEST AREA OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD; and the principal region from which the enemy can secure her vital ores ...

... 116 SPECIAL SPHERE SECTION The SEARCHLIGHT by SEA and LAND (Continued from previous pa&e) too rapid feeding, the arc length tends to become too great, an electrical control speeds up or retards the speed at which the negative carbon is fed inwards. Such a process, if otherwise uncontrolled, would sooner or later result in the trans ference of the positive crater from the focus in which it has ...

... THE CONVOYS ARE STILL COMING SAFELY TO PORT Some Striking 7\[ew Pictures THE NAVAL ESCORT VESSEL KEEPS WATCH OVER HER FLOCK OF ASSORTED MERCHANTMEN AT SEA mWSSSkM. v i sini A ON BOARD AN ESCORTING VESSEL-- HIGH-ANGLE GUNS AND GUN CREW READY FOR INSTANT ACTIOh The North Sea has not been a cheerful place during the past winter months of intense cold and drivinr snowstorms but the work of ...

... moured Corps to be One of the Smartest and cjent Bodies of Men in the Army By NOEL THOMPSON (With Special Illustrations) training to be wireless operators, studying instruments and sending messages. On an average, Phase I men have twenty lectures a week, and I should add to these lec tures a really admirable idea, that is, voluntary lectures in spare time at night. These are popular, and men ...