... THE ROYAL MVY THE ROYAL MVY BRITISH WARSHIPS J H.M.S. NELSON, Flagship i of the Home Fleet at the outbreak I of war a fine picture from I British Warships. Completely illustrates and describes The Navy is co-day, as it always has been in our history, the first line of defence of these islands and of that Qreat Empire which was built up by the toil and the enterprise of our fathers. MR ...

... By SABRETACHE FROM the news of the passing hour: King Leopold was yesterday suffering from a complete mental and nervous breakdown. He behaved alternately like a petulant child and a man distraught beyond reason. Why not put the right label on it BY the light of recent events, even a blind man can see what has happened a nice little trap baited with a rat and contrived by the rat, Public ...

... BUBBLE and SQUEAK HERE is a story from across the herring-pond. It was a lovely spring day in New York but the drunk didn't know much about that. He stepped out of a down-town restaurant, looked blearily round him and hailed a taxi. Driver, he said, I wanna go to noth Street, on the Wes' Side. And shee that you drive carefully. The cabby nodded and closed the door. As they passed the 50th ...

... AIR EDDIES By OLIVER STEWART Other Days IT is hard enough, in the present wild and whirling world of aviation, to turn to thoughts of other days; but doing so can be a valuable medicine. After all, there is still such a thing as private flying in some parts of the world, and America preserves for us the days when private aeroplane owners could gather together at some little landing-ground to ...

... bij foi 73*101*7^4* Decorative and practical are the little crepe dresses in the salons of Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street. They are cut on slender and flattering lines, and the colour schemes are delightful. There are colour accents which are a great help it may be a belt or a novel tie at the neck. Then an immense advantage is that they may be slipped into place in a fraction of a ...

... /XT' /ffl f. Immmk lll YOUTHFUL BEAUTY IS NO LONGE MATTER OF AGE.^ only scientific method of skin rejuvenation IF you feel that your natural beauty is on the wane, you should try the famous W-5 treatment. It truly rejuvenates the skin by rebuilding it from within in Nature's own way the only way which restores the skin to the condition of youth, removing its defects and making it smooth ...

... HE BLESSES THE POOR AND THE MEEK, AND THOSE WHO WEEP Ursula Jeans as Mary of Magdala and Fay Compton as Mary the Mother of Jesus in the moving play Family Portrait, which comes to us from America and is the work of Lenore and William Joyce Cowen. This story of the life of Christ, as it may have appeared to his family in Nazareth, has won golden opinions in America, and in the English ...

... WARTIME WEDDINGS One in Scotland Five in London Captain and Mrs. George Brodrick Miss Mhari Gourlay, only daughter of Captain and Mrs. F. Page Gourlay, was married on June 14 at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, to Captain George Brodrick, Irish Guards, son of the late Mr. G. J. Gould, and of Viscountess Dunsford Captain and Mrs. Ian Davy The marriage took place at St. Andrew's ...

... ST. JAMES'S PALACE IS NOW A PARCELS OFFICE FOR OUR PRISONERS OF WAR In the Guardboom Bed Cross and St. John Administration Section In tiie Armoury The Appeals Department Hard at Work Grand Staircase Portrait of Charles II., by Pieter Nason, on the Landing Bicycles Below the Stairs in TnE Portrait Gallery Packing Department of Personal Parcels Henry VIII. Looks On Under the auspices of the ...

... BY WILL ALLEN SO they'd asked me to dinner in the mess. Well, that was nice of them. An old retired fellow like me. I suppose, as I'd given their younger members the use of our tennis court, they felt they ought to do something in return to show their appreciation. Anyway, here I was a guest of the mess on the invitation of the adjutant in what had been the lounge of our local hotel, now taken ...

... The Christening of Ian Archibald George Scott The second son of Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Archibald Craufurd Scott teas christened at Wykeham Abbey York shire. Mrs. Scott (above, right) teas the Hon. Ruth Datcnay before her 1937 marriage is Lord Dotcne's- only sister. Holding the baby is Mrs. Shelling, Mrs. Scott's sister-in-latv. Captain Scott is in the Green Hotcards Miss Rosemary Crichton ...

... I A Thousand Times Neigh A Motor-Car Ballet at the New York Fair The first commercially sponsored ballet has been put on at the Ford Exposition at the New York Fair. Maybe we 're starting something, said Edsel Ford. In order to flourish ballet must be functional, and he thinks commercial sponsoring may bring a revival of ballet as it has of marionette shows and symphony music (his order of ...