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... . The women of England sent their pots and pans flying to some purpose in answer to Lord Beaverbrook's appeal for objects wholly or partly made of aluminium for the manufacture of aeroplanes. One hundred tons of the much-needed metal were mobilised on the first day of the campaign. Here a German steel helmet, a relic from the 1914-18 war, is crowning a tower of aluminium kitchen utensils. The ...
... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDO EVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 14. REVUDEVILLE NON TOP REVUE AT THE WINDMILL. GEORGE GRAY and PAT INGRAM in Ballet. f V V \X So I said to him 4 Listen I said. Small talk in the dressing-room. x Right MARGARET and GEORGE GRAY in 44 Shoes. LESLEY OSMOND in her own clever monologue 44 The Question. SONYA and the WINDMILL GIRLS in Shoes. The soubrette, JOAN JAY, ...
... - MRS. NORMAN CARD WELL, wife of a farmer in the North of England, was in her house when one of the farm boys raced up and screamed that the Parachutists were landing. What had happened was that a Junkers 88 bomber had been shot down and the crew of four had baled out. A six-foot-four-inch German was slowly descending to earth on the Cardwells' land. She tried to 'phone for the police^ but was ...
... m .1 VTm Ej r?i FTa VTm M Z,,,ao'd ^The amazing KONERAY looks delightful in real Irish Linen it is equally so in other quality materials, in cluding Checks, Worsteds, Tweeds. Authentic Tartans, Flanneli, and Cream Serge. Never before has a ready- made skirt had graduated knife-edge pleats all round that tapered off into a snug fitting hip line. Never a skirt more graceful or more slenderising ...
... Good work -good whisky Born 1820 still going strong ...
... . ONE effect of the war has been the recall from retirement of many Army officers, who have gone East again to take up duties which they thought they had finished with for ever. Some of them have the consolation, equally unforeseen, of renewing acquaintance with the hard-fighting mahseer, for which all Anglo-Indian anglers have the utmost admiration and respect. One such officer wrote to me ...
... FATHER THAMES HOUSES j THE GIRLS OF ST. STEPHEN'S: j 5 LORD DESBOROUGH'S FAMOUS TAPLOW COURT AS A SCHOOL Enjoying a game in the lovely grounds of TAPLOW COURT. A class held in ideal surroundings on the lawns. my li Schoolgirls at lunch in the dining-room, hung with Old Masters. Making their own beds one of the duties of the girls housed at Taplow Court. The members of the lawn tennis class ...
... SADI FR'S WFIIS PRFSENTS THE PROSPECT BEFORE US. Mile. Theodore (PAMELA MAY) and Monsieur Didelot (ALAN CARTER) with Monsieur Nov err e (FREDERICK ASHTON left). The street scene, icith Mr. O'Reilly (ROBERT HELPMANN) and a Dancer (MARY HONER) behind the model of the derelict Pantheon. Mr. O'Reilly (ROBERT HELPMANN) with a Dancer (MARY HONER). MARGARET DALE dances Cupid in the Grand ...
... ROLLS-ROYCE The Best Car in the. World ,J>£a£g£*iifcgg' This 40/50 H.P. ROLLS-ROYCE Phantom III Limousine de Ville built just prior to the outbreak of war, represents the British Motor Industry at the New York World's Fair 1940. ROLLS-ROYCE LTC 14-15 CONDUIT ST. LONDON. W.I. MAYFAIR 620 Eeep on snapping happg m I There's no need to pack up your J0& hobby. You can take all the pictures SQfij j ...
... - GO TO IT BEVIN, tEe Minister ol Labour, for voicing the spirit of England with such fire and vigour. MR. ERNEST BEVIN, Minister of Labour is in appearance a typical John Bull. He has all the vigour, the tenacity and the courage associated with our race, and he knows hoic to express these essentially British qualities in his fine, fighting speeches. He is heart and soul with his colleague, ...
... I IRENE, the R.K.O. radio version I of the American musical comedy is due in the West End very shortly. It provides MISS ANNA NEAGLE with a part in strong contrast to the character-roles in ichich she made such a name for herself. She played I Queen Victoria in the films Victoria the Great and Sixty Glorious Years/' and teas Nurse Cavell in the recent picture of that heroic icoman's life and ...
... WELL- KNOWNS AT HOME TO REX WHISTLER. OHORTLY before he joined the Welsh Guards as a Lieutenant, Rex Whistler painted these three portraits, which are all on view at the Leicester 08116066' Artists of Fame and of Promise Exhibition. Rex Whistler first gained fame over the mural decora tions for the Refreshment Room at the Tate Gallery since then he has decorated many houses for people in town ...