... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- CHIEF PETTY OFFICER GEORGE COCK, of H.M. Destroyer HARDY, of the first attack on Narvik, for being unsinkable. Digging for victory when at home, so that the spuds will be ready for his next leave Believe it or not, the special jumper sent for Tubby proved TOO BIG Recounting his great adventures to friends in the local. _J i Thumbs up after the epic adventure of Narvik ...

... FILM, RUGGER AND RESTAURA WARTII jlrs THE CAMERA LOOKS ROUND Ion. CADET G. B. HORSBRUGH London Scottish and Scotland the Army for ward is here seen with MRS. HORSBRUGH before the Army v. Great Britain Rugger match. The Army won by 23 points to 15. Right: CAPTAIN R. H. O'BRIEN went to the Army v. Great Britain Rugger match with MISS JOAN FRYER, V.A.D. Right The EARL OF EUSTON, elder son of the ...

... DARK BRILLIANCE OF THE PHCENIX: PH UM INCANDESCENCE AT THE LYRIC. E. JESSIE MATTHEWS, dark-haired brown-eyed, vivacious star, is making yet another big hit in COME OUT TO PLAY the new song, dance and comedy show in which she appears at the Phcenix I heatre with her husband, Sonnie Hale. Gaumont-British films have made her one of the most popular screen actresses, and to theatre-goers' ...

... SAINT JOAN FOR THE RED CROSS WISE RA1NER. UISE RAINER as Joan of Arc seeking to inspire the Dauphin icith a sense of the great part he must play. The Maid of Orleans on trial. A poignant study of LUISE RAINER as the Saint when accused of witchcraft. Saint Joan, swayed by fear of death at the stake, signs the recantation presented to her by the monk. The Maid prefers death at the stake to ...

... FACING THE BATTERY FEARLESSLY I Though JERRY WARNICK is facing the battery fearlessly in this snapshot it takes us right away from the tear angle as it shows amateur photographers gathering round her to get some good close-ups during the pre-vietv of a Beauty parade at Long Beach California U.S.A. ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. ONE does not expect, when serving with the B.E.F., to be able to carry out road- tests of 1940 models. Yet our Army and Air Force are so well equipped with the latest type of car that, as often as not, one finds oneself at the wheel of a machine one has long wanted to try. Not so lone aeo I paid tribute to the stamina and performance of a Hillman Hawk saloon which had given ...

... artist wife of an author. LADY KINROSS, who has just had the first exhibition of her paintings at the Matthiesen Gallery, is the wife of Lord Kinross, formerly the Hon. Patrick Balfour, the well-known journalist and author. She teas Miss Angela Culme-Seymour, is n daughter of the late Captain George Culme-Seymour, and married Lord Kinross, then the Hon. Patrick Balfour, in 1938. PHOTOGRAPH BY ...

... MAY DAY i MODERNISED fcaS \adb„t it cfdecor^oa eNns^g ^s*ss K';f -:fi(? sSo'MSis 'S.i ^ud°r oo-^ lVvey e. \)ri^NV° e vo^tse good ldc s? L 'iss^^ 6te? tot t^etf vtite EVERY year in France, on the first of May, people send each other sprays of lily-of-the-valley as tokens of good luck. It is a charming idea, and perhaps the good luck would last longer if, as well as the flowers, you sent ...

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: PHYLLIS STANLEY tells them one in the wings. 'A A Nobleman and a Bustled Beauty of the Gay 'Nineties in An Old Dance Hall EVELYN LAYE as Prince Charming waiting in the icings. PHYLLIS PEARCE as a Principal Dancer in A Day in the Life of a Mr. Cochran Young Lady. I didn't really never oughter 'ave went DORIS HARE as the evacuee. No. 3. ...

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. YESTERDAY-- April 30 Franz Léhar celebrated his seventieth birthday. Exactly a week later, next Tuesday, Tchaikovsky would have been a hundred if he had lived. In case some highbrow music-lover might feel tempted to pro test at my bracket ing two musicians whose title to fame is derived from different worlds, I would remind them that the creators of Viennese ...

... THE WISE VIRGINS DANCE TO BACH. Frederick Ashton's new ballet, THE WISE VIRGINS, was given for the first time last week by the Vic- Wells Ballet at Sadler's Wells. It is danced to music by Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by Constant Lambert orchestrated by William Walton, and with decor and costumes of baroque flavour by Rex Whistler. The theme of the ballet is the Biblical parable of the ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. IN some respects conger- fishing is a branch of the sport which appeals only to a somewhat limited though extremely enthusiastic section of the angling public. No doubt conger- fishers experience great ex hilaration in pitting their strength against these powerful brutes, and ex citement, too, when gaffing one about 6 ft. in length and reducing it to inac tivity ...