... By LT.-COL. C. B. COSTIN-NIAN, M.C. THE power of Alexander and Caesar, and the success of our own Empire sprang from the tolerance shown for differences. We have not blamed the humble gourd for not bearing melons, nor the plutocratic grape vine for not bearing bastard blackberries. The Nazi doctrine on the other hand, seems deter mined to reduce different complexions and make-ups to one very ...

... VERA ZORINA: Famous Norwegian Dancer in Louisiana Purchase, Broadway's Most Successful Musical Comedy Louisiana Purchase is having a colossal success at the Imperial Theatre, New York, as is also B. G. de Sylva's other production, Dubarry Was a Lady. There is a strong cast which includes Zorina, who plays the part of the most dazzling temp tress, using her wiles to divert a strait-laced ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By PETER TRAILL Reading To-Day IN these days, when many of us, un accustomed to find ourselves con fronted by fundamental issues, have suddenly become aware that there are a great number of people in this world who are trying to raze to the foundations the structure of civilisation which has been built at the price of such human sacrifice, we are drawn irresistibly back to ...

... MAN AND SUPERMAN Three Portraits of Bernard Shaw with Pungent Comments by Himself The criticisms under each of these portraits bear the mark of a hand which has never yet lost its cunning and are as amusing as they are terse. They are published with the great author's permission, and to add one word might savour of trying to gild refined gold. Mr. Bernard Shaw was eighty-four on July 26, and ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. McMINNIES On Camouflage for Cars THERE is some chit-chat about the possibility of private cars being camouflaged. As I pointed out recently the avowed object is said to be the making of our roads less conspicuous from the air, for it appears that the chromium-plated parts, windscreens, and even the polished cellulose body panels reflect the light and draw airmen's ...

... AIR EDDIES By OLIVER STEWART Freedom lor the Forces THIS is still-- if I may judge from the complaints of my friends in the Royal Air Force-- the bore war. It is not that periods of frightful activity do not occur all too frequently; periods when large numbers of air craft engage in air battles which are more destruc tive than any other kind of battles conceived or conceivable. It is not even ...

... 9Ae QJUAAU)71 By M. E. BROOKE WOMEN all the world over like to own a suit which bears the name of Braemar, created by Innes Henderson, of Hawick. They are sold by outfitters of prestige. The coat and skirt above are of jacquard botany wool, while the pullover is of cashmere. Important features of the coat are the padded shoulders, and step revers. There are also turn suits and cardigans ANEW ...

... THE ROYAL XAVY BRITISH WARSHIPS Completely illustrates and describes The Navy is to-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. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, on the 31st of January. 1940. This sums up in a few words the supreme part played by the Royal Navy in the ...

... SHAVIAN SATIRE ROBERT DONAT IN THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE 99 Roger Livesey and Rosamund John Roger Livesey acts Anthony Anderson, the clergyman who turns soldier to save The Devil's Disciple, Dick Dudgeon (Robert Donat), who, on a sudden heroic impulse, is going to the gallows in his place, with Rosamund John as Judith Anderson, his young puritanical wife, who hated Dick for his evil ways, but, ...

... By SABRETACHE THAT we are at last beginning to get busy about this war is made amply manifest by a notice which has been put up in a somewhat well-known Service club calling upon its over age members to form a unit of musket eers for home service. It says that it is desirable that anyone intending to join should have a knowledge of firearms. r-pHIS was shown to a civilian member of -I- our ...

... .POLO IN THE LIGHTER VEIN Somewhere in England The Army of Both Sexes in a Combined Attack Foiling the Enemy Onslaught Mr. J. B. Traill, son of the famous Mr. Jack Traill, on the ball, with (left) Captain D. M. Patchett, who is in a very famous polo-playing cavalry regiment vL. v.. L -,v A Part of the Audience The gallery at these polo games was not quite as large as at an Inter-Regimental ...

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