... THE OAKELEY ARMS A country hotel in the heart of the Welsh I I TAN-Y BWLPH mountains. Glorious scenery. Fishing, in icumi rrrcTiumr Walking. Within easy reach of Golf Links from NORTH WAIFC and Sea. A place where you can forget the 4 gnS. NORTH WALES war Tel.: Penrhyndeudraeth2l3 IIPTHN HHTFI A *a,t lhrou8h train from Paddington will bring you to the _ _ LUi I UH TIU I CL Lodge Gates of this ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell THE eagerly-awaited changes in the Cabinet turn out to be the old, old story of a mild little game of General Post. The greatest expert on shipping in wartime is again passed over-- this time in favour of Mr. R. S. Hudson-- but then, Sir Arthur Salter is not in the inner ring of the old school cravat. The appointment of Cord ...

... Rnyc Miss Matthews 'has come hack to play on the London stage after six and a half years away from it, and her audiences are delighted with her, just as they always were. From the summer of 1933 till January 1939 she put all her talents into film making, then she and husband Sonnie Hale went touring in a big musical comedy, which was about due in London when war came. They put that temporarily ...

... Films of the Day Another Rasputin Film from France By George Campbell RASPUTIN was a fascinating scoundrel; but haven't we had rather much of him? The Germans did him, with Conrad Veidt wearing his beard and shirt and top-boots with a sinister dis tinction that might well have enchanted the bored, sensation-seeking young ladies of the Imperial Court, only too willing to try almost anything ...

... By Douglas Reed The Author of Insanity Fair Covers the War Fronts Lord, We Beseech Thee AS fronts are stationary and sanity is un fashionable, this sane survey of the fronts is a testing exercise for a writer. The Home Front, with its discarded millions of lunatic gas-masks (can anyone tell me how the population of this country can be gas- attacked?), its chocolate soldiers, its in ...

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... Gielp;ud's 4 4 Kins; Lear A Big First Night at the Old Vic Seventy-four Years at the Old Vic The staff at the Old Vic is as faithful as its patrons. In the box-office Dolly Adams can claim sixteen years' service W. J. Toxcnsend thirty -one, and Mrs. Clark twenty seven Mrs. Gwendolen Jefferson Mrs. Jefferson (left) is an inveterate Gielgud first-nighter. Her first visit to America in 1936 was ...

... This stretch of the Blackwater at Carey's Ville, near Fermoy, Co. Cork, has been fished by many well-known sportsmen, for it is famous the world over for its salmon and trout. It is leased by the Duke of Devonshire whose son, Lord Charles Cavendish, has lovely Lismore Castle overlooking the river not far below. A FINE CATCH FROM THE WYE: Mr. W. Gordon Whittall and Mr. J. A. Whittall, of ...

... By B. Bennison THERE is a growing and undisguised feeling that young men serving with the Forces who in peace time engaged professionally and won distinction in sport, enjoy privileges denied the every-day sailor, soldier and airman; that they are either ensconced in cushy jobs or given leave for the mere asking. My immediate concern is with boxers. They are neither favoured nor pampered. They ...

... MTRN A LOT: Ten years or so ago Myrna Loy was featured in The Sport ing and Dramatic more regularly than she is to-day. Then she was typed as an exotic, a slant-eyed Oriental who vamped her way through countless films and was al ways good still-camera fodder. Now that she is the world's favourite screen wife she makes fewer pictures, but there is another Thin Man on the stocks, and the last ...

... The Battle of the River Plate, by Lord Strabolgi R.N., points out that the moral effect of the victory was far superior to the actual forces engaged. Not only was it a tonic for the Royal Navy and the country, but it proved the oft-suspected idea that Nazi trained Germany will not necessarily fight to the last man. Superior courage, higher intelligence and better seamanship, emphasises the ...

... Flora Robson has recently been in Hollywood, playing Queen Elizabeth for Warners1 The Sea Hawk, and in between the spasms of shooting she knitted helmets for the R.A.F. Comforts Depot in Berkeley Square, London. Warners have evidently got an Elizabethan craze they have only recently 6ent to London their Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Bette Davis as -the Queen. Elizabeth was nothing ...