... RclCUl^' 111 Ireland I Steeplechasing at Leopardstown Lieut. Patrick Stokes son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stokes of Raheen Grey stones, Co. Wicklow while on leave from his regiment Hodsons Horse went racing at Leopardstown with his wife. Airs. Stokes is the younger daughter of the late Mr. John Boyd Dunlop, of Dalkey, Co. Dublin. Her grandfather invented the pneumatic tyre Lady Murphy, who hunts ...

... SOMETHING TO REMEMBER HITLER BY I One of Ihe noble monuments of the ruined Great Hall of Guildhall, showing damaged figures. I Nelson s monument in Guildhall, with he chief recumbent figure decapitated but Britannia and the lion untouched. * ...

... . Ballet divertissement on a threshing- machine A LONDON DANCER, working on a Gloucestershire farm entertains her colleagues. I -K/g/if The HON. LORNA V. HARMS- WORTH, elder daughter of Viscount Rothermere, is engaged to Mr. Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key, Irish Guards. P INCESS ALY KHAN, daughter-in-law of the Aga Khan, is working packing comforts j J or the tree French Troops on service in the ...

... . GABRIELLE BRUNE is the principal boy in ALADDIN, Prince Littler's pantomime at Golder's Green. It 's an excellent show, with Douglas Byng as the Widow Twankey, Harry Welchman and Richard Hearne as Abanazar and a Laundryman respectively, and Rubina Gilchrist as the Emperor's lovely daughter. Miss Brune who makes a sprightly Aladdin, is having a busy time, as she is also singing at the Cafe ...

... H.L.S. says. Here's fireside comfort all dag ong Sizes and half- sizes each in slim, medium and broad fittings, k mean that you get your right ^^size in both jkj^k length fine quality tan or black^^**^ n 'j Send a postcard for free illustrated booklet Footwear since the World began, also name of local stockists, to the manufacturers, JOHN SHORILANO LTD. (Dept. S) IrtlilinoboroiiQli. ...

... By A. Croxton Smith MR. BLANK presents his com pliments and asks if you will collect a present for Brutus when you go on duty to morrow. To-morrow was Christmas Day and duty meant a four-hour attendance at the local A.R.P. Post for the lady who had been adopted by Brutus as his own particular goddess. Neatly tied up in brown paper was the gift that was duly opened on Christmas Day a ...

... DON b RAD MAN has joined the Australian Army School of Physical Training J] [as a student instructor. t S. R. PAYNE Oxford University boxing captain in ig37> an Ordinary Signaller in the Navy. ...

... REPAIRS Sometimes the ancient system has a temporary relapse. THE WELL In the arid wastes of the Libyan desert, where there are no natural water ways and little rains, the Arabs, using the same methods of irrigation as the Romans, contrive to grow many fruits and vegetables. They water their gardens from wells of the kind shown in this picture. The goat-skin receptacle, which is lowered and ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent ONE of the curiosities of the air war is the way it alters values. Before it was raided many Londoners loathed London. They made no bones about it, but were always ready to abuse their city and to compare it unfavourably with any other capital in the world. Then came the terrific assault with high explosive bombs on the evening of September 7. Immediately there was ...

... : Pi-ismnticg. Please The King's Classic Entries for IOCS II. Programmes A TASK long overdue is that of appealing to owners of race glasses to give or sell them to the Government for the use of the Services. It is not often that one is given such a pleasant job; I know that my request will get into the hands of the right people and I know that they will respond to it. Prismatics are wanted in ...

... FOOT AND MOUTH stopped hunting round and about Cirencester but the V.W.H. (Earl Bathurst's) were on parade at Cecily Hill and a big crowd turned out to see them. JOHN A. GILBERT the jockey seen on the left with his bride Sheila Wing, daughter of Mornington Wing, the famous Irish jockey, after their marriage at St. Joseph's, Epsom. HOLIDAYS AFLOAT Amid the grim work of salvage, pleasant ...

... An Army Sideline Eastern Command's Experiment in Pig-keeping MEN at an Infantry Training Centre in the Eastern Command are keeping pigs as a spare-time occupation. They have between 60 and 70 and by permission of the Officer Command ing all profits from the sale of them go towards the provision of comforts. To many of the men pig-keeping is a new experience, but they are fortunate in having ...