... C^ocldcii /i tc Port I'VE used up my fat ration this week, so I can't make any more cakes. That's all right. After all, you can't make bricks without straw First Actress Yes, when I came out the audience simply sat there open-mouthed. Another Nonsense They never yawn all at once The Tommy was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Any excuse asked the C.O. I got into bad company, Sir. What ...

... GIVE UP your binocular every pair is needed for National Service Kershaw's all-British prismatic Binoculars will again be available when the emergency has passed SO H O LTD., 37/41 MORTIMER STREET, LONDON, W.I ...

... Playbill Looks at the Shows The Morning Star (Globe) This play has been proclaimed (though not, I think, by its progenitors) as the first stage representation of the air raids on London. That is not so. We had, some months ago, a well-intentioned but lament ably boring and depressing dose of much the same medicine at the Comedy Theatre, followed by alleged fun in an air-raid shelter at the ...

... MOSS BROS MOSS BROS Naval Mili ary R.A.F. and General Outfitters. COVENT GARDEN Corner of King St. and Bedford St., W.C.2. TEMple Bar 4477. Also 3-5 Upper Union St., Aldershot 76 Park St., Bristol; 5 St. Ann's St/., ManchestaA 13 The Hard, Portsmouth. And Boscomhc, Camberley, Dorking, Droxtwich, Hey sham, Hove, J Salisbury, Shoreham, Shrivcnhatn and York. Need we give up our RIDING habits Even ...

... A year ago a bomb fell on the pavement outside a private hotel in Kensington Gardens Square. To-day that crater is a flourishing little garden. There was good soil beneath the paving-stones, and since It had been well stirred a guest at the hotel set about planting it. The proprietress is now picking tomatoes. Runner-beans climb up the walls and portico there are marrows too, to come, and ...

... ALREADY considerable numbers of airmen turned out by the 100 British Commonwealth air training schools in Canada are fighting with our Forces. Many more are in training. These photo graphs, taken at an establishment in Ontario, show something of the con centrated work necessary to make a pilot, air gunner, wireless operator, or observer. Rotund and jovial Instructor H. A. Hardie is giving last ...

... A Paying Crop By Our Horticultural Correspondent RUNNER beans should now occupy attention. They can be sown outdoors from now onwards, but plants raised in the green house should not be put out for another week or two, and still further delay is advisable if the cold north-east winds continue. Nothing is more damaging to newly transplanted plants than the conditions experienced in the last few ...

... AND^rAMATIcSr Go To It IVlth TjtMpleK T and Get I here! Friday, april a, 1941. (j$ The Illustrated SPORTING and DRAMATIC News SPORT COUNTRY ...

... By Ashley Courtenay TRAVELLING on that slowest of trains, the Tivvy express, which seems to invariably start late from Exeter and dawdle its way up the Exe Valley, I got into conversation with a parson from Kent, who enquired tenderly after the fishing prospects in the Exe and the Barle, and from fish the subject naturally drifted to hotels. He asked about the Carnarvon Arms at Dulverton and ...

... The Army's Agriculture cheme THERE is a popular idea that the Army authorities are encouraging the troops to establish pig farms, to help in the harvests and, in their spare time, to cultivate little garden plots. This is so, but what is not generally realised is that, for some time past, the military have been creating an organisation designed to achieve a serious food-producing effort. This ...

... CONSIDERABLE areas of land are, of course, already being farmed by War Agricultural Executive Committees, and the scope of their work is being extended every day. One wonders, in fact, where it is all going to end. The answer, we suggest, is that appropriate action should soon be taken by the Government to take over and farm some of the larger areas permanently, that is, after the war. It is ...

... Stocking thi Tool Shed By Our Horticultuil Correspondent TO completely stock the tool shed with every implement and every item of equipment which one may require at some future date may cost as much as the value of the produce in the first season. A good many people therefore adopt the very sensible plan of buying the tools required for immediate use, adding others as their use becomes ...