... SOCIAL ROUND-ABOUT The Tatler in Town and Country By BRIDGET CHETWYND The Ship of State THE above always sounds important, picturesque and familiar, and presumably applies to the House of Commons, where the dining-room offers a National menu as an alternative to the ordinary one. It reads like a complete tour of the kitchen garden, including Herb Corner two tightly printed lines of carrots, ...

... TWO OF THE PREMIER'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS ONE AN ACTRESS, THE OTHER A CHARMING DEBUTANTE Miss Sarah Churchill, in private life Mrs. Vic Oliver, takes her name from the p Prime Minister's great ancestor was winning his brightest bays in the ne o able name for herself on the stage, and her most recent activity is in t bill with her husband in the opening programme of the new C. B. Cochran rai of ...

... June Yorkshire Bride Mrs. Speir was married in June at Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire, to Mr. Michael Speir, second son of Col. and Mrs. Guy Speir, of The Abbey, North Berwick. He is a consulting engineer with the firm of Sir Alex ander Gibb and Partners, engaged on important war work. Mrs. Speir was formerly Miss Mary Baker- Baker, elder daughter of the late Mr. John Baker- Baker, and Mrs. Baker ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By RICHARD KING Chinese Scene ALL around me there creeps stealthily from the horizon the impenetrable mystery of night. How calm it all is! How almost impossible it is to imagine that, maybe within a few hours, most of us may be taking shelter from the danger of falling bombs. The countryside which but a year ago looked as if nothing would ever disturb its quiet loveliness ...

... By SABRETACHE NETT results are the only things which count in peace or in war. What are the proven facts estab lished beyond all question or doubt by certain recent happenings? The answer is an easy one neither in attack nor defence is the Hun as good as we are. Our defence is as air-tight as makes no particular matter: our attack devastating. These are hard facts, not Grimm's fairy-tales. ...

... THE WAY OF THE WAR By FORE-SIGHT Our Resistance ALTHOUGH there have been in the last eight days signs of increas ing tension in the Balkans which may well prove embarrassing to the Axis: all foreign affairs are domin ated by the offensive resistance put up by this country against German air attack. It is true that in German and Italian controlled Europe the truth has not yet made its way in, ...

... LADY BOWHILL, CIPHER OFFICER, W.A.A.F. Hay Wrighlson Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, the husband of the charming lady whose portrait is above, has been Yicar of that large Parish included in the Coastal Command since 1937. Lady Bowhill, a fitting helpmeet for so great a preacher of the doctrine of mind your eye or you'll get it in the neck, is in the same service as her husband and ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. McMINNIES A Mechanical Genius AFTER a long illness Mr. Walter P. Chrysler passed away at the age of sixty-five. His life story is typical of the romance that has been woven round the motor trade, for, starting as a mechanic earning a few pence an hour, Chrysler ended up as the £40,000 a year president of his own company. In the interval he had been superintendent of ...

... Charming the Chickens The hens seem very much at home climbing all over Sally Anne, the daughter of the Puck-like comedian Bobby Howes and his wife, Patricia Malone (Below) Serious Concentration Sally Anne Howes is seen with her friend Jackie Hulbert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hulbert and niece of the ever-delightful Jack Hulbert, who is a near neighbour of the Howes at Essenden, Herts. ...

... LIVING CLOSE TO HIS WORK AN R.A.F. OFFICER AND HIS CHARMING WIFE Flight-Lieutenant the Hon. George and Mrs. Ward at Their Cottage Near His Squadron's Base in Rural England A Charmingly Framed Picture An Off-Duty Moment in the Cottage Garden Kittens Never Have Been Peculiarly Interested in Apples Sic cube Both Lord Dudley's younger twin brothers arc in the R.A.F., though the Hon. Edward Ward ...

... I THE OLD TIMES AND THE VERY NEW LOVELY GREER GARSON'S NEXT PICTURES ARE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND REMEMBER As Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice AND (ON right) IN A VERY MODERN POSE The brilliant versatility of this beautiful young Irish actress, with eyes of the same colour as her country's national emblem, gets every chance in the two films in which she is now engaged. Her opposite ...

... Mrs. Ronald Cross and Her Daughters, Diana, Susanna and Angela T unbridge-Sedgwich The Rt. Hon. Ronald Cross, M.P. Mrs. Ronald Cross Pearl Freeman Before he became Minister of Shipping in June this year the Rt. Hon. Ronald Cross was Minister of Economic Warfare. Both these departments of State will certainly have a big say in the final defeat and disruption of the enemies of our Empire, and ...