... Dear Brutus (Globe) THERE was more of the atmosphere of the normal first night about the launching of the revival of Dear Brutus (although, of course, it took place in the afternoon) than about any other theatrical occasion since last summer. The stalls were crowded with stage and other celebrities those of them old enough to remem ber the original production of the play in 1917, with ...

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... 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 ...

... Vegetables A REMINDER that the follow ing seeds may now be sown under glass as stated in my article of December 27: Carrots and brussels sprouts in a cold frame; peas in boxes or pots in a heated green house, where they may be grown to maturity or, alternatively trans planted outdoors later. Cabbage and cauliflower for sum mer use, and onions may also be put in where heat is available. All the ...

... Supremacy In the Air A Generation Learning To Fly THE Government's new air training scheme gives 700,000 schoolboys aged between sixteen and eighteen, a chance to join the R.A.F. whether they are at elementary, public or secondary schools. The scheme comes into operation on February 1 with the establishment of an Air Training Corps which will include university air squadrons, squadrons and ...

... Although most of the garden space will be turned over willingly to vegetable growing, there will be many who will draw courage and hope from the cultivation of a few flowers, and this they can do without injury to the national effort. By our Horticultural Correspondent ELABORATE summer bedding schemes this year will have to go by the board, but those with facilities for raising annuals in the ...

... SOIL sterilisation is the gardener's greatest aid to success in the cultivation of plants grown in greenhouses and frames. In few instances is its efficacy more apparent than in melon and cucumber culture, as it is an almost infallible remedy against two diffi cult obstacles which many experienced gar deners have been unable to overcome. I refer to damping off, a fungus disease which causes ...

... ^HATCHING, alas, is a dying art, and many farmers, though willing to pay good money, have not been able to find the men to do the work a hard circumstance, in view of the heavy penalty which the Government imposes for neglect in not covering stacks, etc. Inevitably, machines have to do the work, and while in the pictures above we show men engaged in reed thatching, one of the most beautiful ...