... ONE SITTER PRESENTED WITH VARIETY. The infinite variety which the camera-artist can uchieve by means of difference in costume, background and pose is well illustrated by this quartet of photographic studies of a very attractive young sitter, MRS. BUSTER TONGE, the wife of Flight- Lieutenant Tonge, of the Fleet Air Arm. Mrs. Tonge was Miss Bat Barr. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. ...

... BUDGET OF PLEASANT EVENTS: STABLE PEOPLE ON OFF-DUTY OCCASIONS. MAJOR J. P. ARCHER-SHEE, 10th Royal Hussars, son of the late Colonel _ Sir Martin Archer-Shee, married MISS HENRIETTA MARY STAPLE^W^ BRETHERTON, daughter of the late Mai or F. B. Stavleton-Bretherton. a^B Members oj the ANGLO-AMERICAN AMBULANCE UNIT, which is doing splendid service in the bombed areas, have found lime to form ...

... . MISS ETHEL GABAIN (Mrs. John Copley) is here seen at work in her studio on one of the tear pictures which she is making for the Ministry of Information. The still-life group of A.R.P. clothing and gas-masks is carefully arranged. Outside a much-damaged house she talked to Airs. Merritt, who had been bombed out of her home. Left The, artist has made a number of sketches of ruined houses in ...

... . The pose of this lovely model suggests an Eastern idol, but her radiantly fair beauty of ivory and gold is typically English. The camera-study is one of the thirty-two by JASON in his recently published volume Blonde and Brunette. ...

... DOROTHY DICKSON, one of the principals of Farjeon's successful wartime revue Diversion, at Wyndham i, is one of the top numbers in the new edition DIVERSION 2, which is due to-day, January 1, 1941. It will help all who are lucky enough to attend the first performance to greet the New Year with plenty OJ laughter. Miss Dickson's successful songs in the original edition included her now-famous ...

... RINGED IN BY A CIRCLE OF FIRE: ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE MIDST OF THE BLAZING CITY, SUNDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 29 Sunday night, in the words of the official communique, the enemy made a deliberate attempt to set fire to the City of London. In the early hours of the evening thousands of incendiary bombs were dropped over the historic area known as the City. Dramatic damage was done within the ...

... NECESSITY BROUGHT FORTH INVENTION IN THE DESERT: Owing to the pressing need for cover in the exposed stretches of flat desert, all kinds of burrows were invented. Here is a desert Jack-in-the-box with his Bren gun, waiting for an enemy plane which might seek to indulge in a low flying strafe. His camouflaged gun could come into action in an instant THE VARIETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE BRITISH ...

... [THE WAR IN GREECE 'Where the Heroic Struggle Against the Might of Fascist Italy Continues BRITISH HELP FOR GREECE IS INCREASING RAPIDLY The British forces in Greece are now being continuously supplied with bombs, shells, and other munitions from overseas, thanks to our Naval command of the Mediterranean. This official photograph from the Air Ministry shows transport for the R.A.F. being ...

... By Ashley Courtenay BOOKS have been written on inn signs and their story and it is a fascinating subject. There are signs historic and heraldic. Signs which concern trades and professions. Humorous and comic signs. They may be painted on wood, carved in wood, or fashioned from metal. Mostly they are suspended from an upright post or hung from a bracket. Occasionally, one comes across a gallows ...

... By A. Croxton Smith DOGS will accommodate them selves to almost anything it they are taught to do it by constant repetition. I am told that some belonging to West End residents have already become accustomed to the air raid shelter specially provided for them near the public shelters in Kensington Gardens. There, each has a small cubicle or pen under a concrete roof. Readers may see on this ...

... THE determination of the British farmer not to waste any land that might yield corn is exemplified by the action of Mr. Roadnight of Britwell, a village near Watlington, in the Chilterns. He has cleared twenty acres of derelict hill top of thick under growth and scrub, and made it possible for the plough to prepare the recovered land for a spring sowing. Mr. Roadnight's land is in the vicinity ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent IT is true, and it always has been true, that the officers and men of the Fighter Com mand tend to receive more attention than the officers and men of the other Commands and that those of the Bomber Command get the least attention of all. The Coastal Command, I think, gets a little more recognition for its work than the Bomber Command. The reason is partly that the ...