... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- All I ask of life, said Lady B., when I met her on the Cliff Path yesterday afternoon, is an onion. Cinderella, your wish is granted, For we in the garden onions planted, I said, waving my stick like a wand, and execut ing a few graceful pirouettes. Several Evacuees on a seat, whom I hadn't noticed before, craned forward to get a better view, and Lady B. ...

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... Fresh playgrounds for city children 44 East End Evacuees in Cookham Woods. The start of a strange wartime adventure 44 Evacuation of Children from Southend ...

... . By OSMAR E. WHITE. RIMER stood up and flexed his muscles nervously, eyeing the wall. The narrow sliver of light across the faulty black out of the basement window had vanished half an hour ago, but the water-pipe was still dimly outlined by the reflected rays of a blue street-lamp. He must hurry. One needed to be young for these quick jobs, thought Rimer. In the old days with the travelling ...

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... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. New Deal. The chief charm of New Year is that it is a new deal. Three hundred and sixty-five cards face downwards on the table, and as you pick them up there is always that thrill of excited speculation about their contents and distribu tion, that mingling of hope and resignation which makes the charm of every hand of cards. If you had nothing but rags last time, ...

... I'll say this, Carruthers, the wife is no sissy. DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... . Tn May last ETHEL GABAIN (Mrs. John Copley), whose work The Bride attracted attention at the Royal Academy last year, was chosen by the Ministry of Information to make some pictures of war subjects. She arranged to do various lithographs of the Women's Voluntary Service Work and has completed an interesting and attractive series illustrating our children's great wartime adventure, the move ...

... JOHN ,iO JAMESON j Not fl drop Is sold i A A till It's 7 years o/d WHISKEY THE ARETHUSA IS STILL HELPING POOR BOYS TO BECOME COOD SAILORS Many Arethusa boys are now officers in the Royal and Merchant Navies IMMEDIATE FINANCIAL HELP VITALLY NEEDED THE SHAFTESBURY HOMES ARETHUSA TRAINING SHIP (Founded 1843 164, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON, W.C.2 President H.R.H. THE DUKE OF KENT, K.G. ...

... (moss BROS V company limited J GREAT COATS for all the Services READY -TO WEAR Said a Dominion pilot who came in to us the other day Maybe it's because it's such a little island, hut we find the Old Country very draughty in the Winter. Could you fit me out very quickly with a greatcoat? He had his greatcoat within the next five minutes for the Moss Bros, range of greatcoats for officers in ...

... . Our armies in Egypt have already captured a good quota of Italian prisoners, but, of course, you can't have loo much of a good thing, and here 's a W. Heath Robinson suggestion for roping in a few more Wops by means of the Oasis Trap. This natty device is guaranteed as infallible for securing thirsty detachments of Blackshirls in the desert. DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...

... 44 KRAKOWIAK one of the series of dances from different districts in 44 Cracow Wedding A POLISH ARTIST VIEWS THE ANGLO- POLISH BALLET. Topolski, the brilliant Polish artist, had this week what must have been a very congenial subject for his page of wartime London sketches as he illustrated the ANGLO -POLISH BALLET at the Apollo Theatre. The ballet is under the direction of Alicja Halama and ...