... When Away from Work Theatrical Personages Off Duty ■^■Dl ill IflLH Comedian Lionized Vic Oliver, star of Black Velvet and a wit from across the water, has adopted Jane, the Zoo's tico- month-old lion cub, for the duration. Sarah Churchill, who in private life is Mrs. Vic Oliver, holds the netv addition to the family. Another cub, June, has been adopted by Vic Oliver's sister Miss Phyllis ...

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... Our Homes and Their Home The King and Queen Visited Devastated Areas in London and Then Buckingham Palace was Bombed On Monday the King Went to East London While fires still smouldered and the inhabitants of the neivly-devastated areas in East and South-East London were still stunned and bewildered by the havoc made overnight of their homes and sometimes of their family lilies, the King ...

... Down on a Sixteenth Century Sussex Farm The Hon. Mrs. Drogo Montagu and Her Children at Traeardie Lord Beaverbrook's only daughter has been living for the past two years down in Sussex, Jjusying her self with her two children, her garden and, particu larly since the war, with her scientifically-run farm. Not long ago she organised a big party and fete in the beautiful garden at Traeardie, in ...

... lur is going to our heads this autumn, however sparingly it may he used on coats. At Gorringcs, in the Bueking- ham Palace Road, they have an attractive collection using many different skins. The model on the right above, this autumms version of the sweeping hcret. has strips of Persian lamb on its black felt hack- ground. Another, worn well for ward, is just a ring of mink held by a formal ...

... Tiie Ducal Party Arriving at Woodstock Church The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Lord Blandford, the nurse and the baby and Lady Rosemary Spencer- Churchill, their Graces' youngest daughter Lady Caroline and Lady Sarah Spencer-Ciiurciiill The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough's two elder daughters. Their new little brother was given the names of Charles George William. He is the Premier's ...

... SOCIAL ROUND-ABOUT The Taller in Town and Country By BRIDGET CHETWYND Luncheon THE big luncheon at the Dorchester to Mr. Anthony Eden has been written about fairly freely. But here is some more. Mr. Eden administered some mild jokes with his grave remarks. (Remain prepared inva sion threat not past bombing to continue, etc. also a sort of general-knowledge paper about Trafalgar and Waterloo ...

... /I COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO I PHYLLIS STANLEY IN C. B. COCHRAN'S RADIO REVUE I Phyllis Stanley will take a leading role in the new B.B.C. scries of Radio Revue which C. B. Cochran is planning under the name of Cock-a-Doodle-Doo a title suggested by A. P. Herbert, who will write some of the sketches for this new form of entertainment. The first Cochran production in which Phyllis Stanley appeared was ...

... By SABRETACHE THE War in two nutshells: (a) Once and for all we must do away with the absurd state of affairs that one nation is in a position at its own sweet will to blockade an entire continent.-- HITLER; and (b) lne road to victory may not be so long as we expect, but we have no right to count on this. Be it long or short, rough or smooth, we mean to reach our journey's end. The Premier. ...

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