... By SABRETACHE OUR Foreign Secretary, as we know, has no need to be told how efficient are our, L.D.V., for he was held up by one of them quite recently, and it was of no use Lord Halifax's chauffeur trying to explain, because all the answer he got was: Oh, are yer? And I'm Lord Nuffield! You can t get to wind ard of the real old sweat. And here is another perfectly true yarn I was there ...

... FUTURE BOXING CHAMPIONS? OR THEY MIGHT BE GREAT CRICKETERS If the sons of the Duke of Hamilton and his youngest brother, Lord David Douglas- Hamilton, do not develop into either first- class boxers, super bats or people who fly over Everest, it will upset all the theories of heredity. Lord David, who, like his brother, is a very good amateur boxer, married Miss Prunella Stack, leader of th$ ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By RICHARD KING The Irish Theatre QUITE apart from the human tragedy which overshadows all other effects of war, war's insufferable infliction lies in the well-nigh mortal wound it gives to that side of only true civilisation which matters in the long run-- the cultural side of everyday life. Whatever the outcome, civilisation, in its truest and highest human sense, recedes ...

... Principal Boy The part of a gorgeous and resplendent Principal Boy of circa 1900 is superbly burlesqued by Frank Pcttingell, who has many successful numbers in this really excellent Revue Somewhere in England Reuben (Frank Pettingcll), Phoebe (Nadine March), Wrild (Hugh Latimer) and Garge (Wilfred Ilydc White) arc first seen in the local inn during the summer of 1939, very inarticulate, ...

... ANN SHERIDAN IN IT ALL CAME TRUE In this new Louis Bromfield film-story, which comes to the Warner Theatre on the 19th, that very glamorous young lady, Ann Sheridan, plays the part of a wayward wench who is an entertainer at a night-club and gets the sack for speaking out of her turn and comes home to her old mother (Una O'Connor), who is one of the two old servants who had been left a ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By RICHARD KING Bygone Gossip I ALWAYS consider that unmoral people, if at the same time they be witty and intelligent, and especially if also they are kindly, bring with them their own forgiveness-- if forgiveness for sins be ever really necessary on our part, who have a whole collection, though maybe of another variety, of our own. Probably, as one grows older, saints and ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. McMINNIES On Making Suggestions I WONDER how many suggestions for outwitting the enemy are submitted to the authorities every day. I sent one in recently, and was quite surprised to have a polite acknowledg ment which stated, after suitable thanks, that the said suggestion was not new and did not add to present knowledge on the subject. A more sensitive person might ...

... (Below) Major and Mrs. H. R. H. Da vies Miss Helen Greg, only daughter of Major and Mrs. John Greg, of 59, Egerton Crescent, was married at the Guards' Chapel, Welling ton Barracks, to Major Henry Rodolph Hugh Davies, Grenadier Guards, eldest son of General Sir Francis and Lady Davies, of Elmley Castle, Pershore, Worcestershire Wedding at Chelsea Old Church A beautiful bouquet of orchids was ...

... By SABRETACHE IN a most excellent General Instruction, which is headed What Do I Do? (if an invasion should happen), this is one of the injunctions to the civilian population: I remember that this is the moment to act like a soldier. I do not get panicky. Of course, no one excepting the Fifth Columnist (verbose description of a traitor) is going to do anything of the kind; but I think a ...

... COUNTRY HOMES IN WARTIME No. 7 HANFORD HOUSE, BLANDFORD, NOW A SCHOOL BILLET Some of toe Little Pupils at Net-Ball on the Hanford House Lawn Monkey Cottage, Which Was Built for Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Lister s Daughter, Rosamond (On Left) The Dining-Room, Now A Senior Class Room. Miss Taylor, Mistress, in Charge Waiting for a Cls- op-Form Girls L. to r. Shirley Cole, Lucy Grogan, Giiry: and Anne ...

... By SABRETACHE HISTORY has a quaint way of repeating itself. This has been remarked upon many previous occa sions all down the ages. I make so bold, however, as to suggest that in the due course of things we may see this proved in an even more pronounced manner than ever before. A quite recent instance of repetition is Dunkirk but we are now deal ing with something much more important than an ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. McMINNIES Locked Cars Are Now Compulsory IT is now an offence to leave a car unattended without first removing the ignition key and locking the doors. After lighting-up time, not only must these precautions be adopted, but, in the event of the car being left outside, a vital part of the mechanism, such as the distributor arm, must be removed, a locking device applied to ...