... What Will America Do PaPer Cartoon by Bruce Angrave A few hours before it was iftmounced that French troops had been withdrawn on each side of Paris, the French Premier made a new and final appeal to the President of the United States. He asked, above all, for 44 clouds of aeroplanes. This was just three days after Mr. Roosevelt had delivered his great speech at the University of Virginia, in ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell PARIS has fallen, but Paris can never die. She will rise, as she has always risen, greater and more triumphant than ever. If we are to hold fast to the faith, as we must hold fast and as we do hold fast, that there is a reason for the existence of the universe, then we must know that Paris can never die. She is the centre, the ...

... English Thriller American Romance Diana Wynyard and Ginger Rogers in Two New Films I 44 Gaslight I 44 Primrose Path Father and husband of Ginger Rogers are Homer (Miles Mander once a scholar, now a drunkard, and Ed (Joel McCrea), who runs a petrol station and snack-bar where Ginger goes to ivork before she marries the boss Primrose Path has a low-life setting in an American coastal city. The ...

... Bystander's Review of Weddings Lyall Elliot Major John Lyall R.A., son of the late Claude Lyall, and Mrs. Lyall, of the Hurst Headley Surrey, was married at Chelsea Old Church to Noreen Elliot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Elliot, of 5, Grosvtnor Place, S.W.i Ommanney Stewart Sub-Lt. Cecil John M. Ommanney, R.N.V.R., of 3, Sloane Court, S.W., was married at Chelsea Old Church to Catherine ...

... Rapier on Racing Two-year-olds to look out for Owen Tudor the best as yet Perryman's Harvest at Windsor A Link with Fred Archer IT is perhaps early as yet to think about the coming Ascot meeting. One hardly dares to look very far ahead, in any case, just now. The meeting, however, if and when it comes, will be very welcome in more ways than one. I am thinking particularly of the two-year-olds ...

... CAPTAINS AND REFEREE Left, C. Bicknell West Ham), the Referee, G. Dutton (of Warwick), and right, W. Crook Blackburn Rovers). Bicknell, one of the finest captains the Hammers have ever had, is a War Reserve policeman, j Crook is a sergeant-instructor in the Army. THE WEST HAM GOALKEEPER Herman Conway, challenged by L. Butt, the Rovers' inside- right. Conway is a deputy London A.R.P. chief. ...

... Summer Wedding A WHITE wedding need not be expensive if you consult Harrods, of Knightsbridge, about your frock. They have wedding dresses from 69s. 6d., and can, of course, provide all the accessories, an important point if your plans have to be made in a hurry. The simple frock shown above, in a very attractive flowered lace, costs 4I guineas the skirt falls gracefully into a train at the ...

... Old-Fash ioned Harriers By A. Croxton Smith UNIQUE pack of West Country Harriers wanting a Master for next season. Good guarantee: Apply Miss Aston, Court, Exford, Somerset. This advertisement in the personal columns of The Times caught my eye just before Hitler began his great push. It was obvious that it related to the Quarme Harriers, a pack that has always interested me, because, by ...

... A FEW NOTABLE WEDDINGS OF THE P4ST WEEK Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ryder Leaving Westminster Abbey After Their Wedding The bride was Miss Sarah Bowes-Lyon, and is a second cousin of H.M. the Queen, and Mr. Ryder, is a nephew of Lord Harrowby And Going Away After the Reception The confetti barrage was not quite as heavy as usual but quite adequate The reception after the wedding of the Queen's cousin ...

... Both the Chatham and the Canning Clubs were founded in 1864 by the Hon. Auberon Herbert, and they enjoyed a lusty life up to 1914, when that other German war somewhat overshadowed their existence, and they were only suc cessfully revived last term. The Canning has always been High Tory and the Chatham ostensibly Liberal Tory They chose the right man as one of the guests of honour at this ...

... THIRTY YEARS OF LAUGHTER Leslie Henson Is Still Up And Doing As Mr. Palethorpe in Grape Fruit As Bud Flanagan in Chez Henson 9r As a Pukka Sahib in The Elocutionist The Tatlcrs was the name of the concert party with which Leslie Ilenson made his first stage appearance at Bath thirty years ago to-day, June 5. And to-day The Tatlcr pays tribute to the three decades of fun-making which have ...

... These peaceful and domestic pictures are in vivid contrast to the general framework of bloody-fronted war in which the world is set. They were taken in the royal nursery at the Palace at Haga, Stockholm. The Princess Sibylle of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha, a great-grand child of Queen Victoria, married Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, son of the Crown Prince of Sweden, in Coburg in October 1932, and ...