... By Our Special Correspondent HOW many people, when they see a loaf of bread on their table, ever stop to think of the long chain of complicated steps which are in volved in its pro duction or the scientific control work which is responsible for its satisfactory quality? Not only nave tne various types of wheats to be grown and harvested, but the grain has to be handled, stored and distributed. ...

... Up and Down the Land If You are Thinking cf Week-end Work on a Farm ONE thing is certain about the Govern ment's food production campaign; more labour will be wanted. The War has given impetus to the greater use of machines, but there is a limit to the extent to which farmers can dispense with labour, and the great increase in the area under the plough necessarily means a larger demand for ...

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... By Ashley Courtenay THERE are some people who, no matter what time of year they take their holiday, must be in sight and sound of water. In winter time there is a good deal to be said for the river, as opposed to the sea, for the latter can be grey and bleak, whilst a river such as the Dart, sheltered by steep valleys, is often tranquil and soothing and always colourful. I have recently been ...

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... . LIEUT. -COLONEL J. T. C. MOORE-BRABAZON, P.C., M.C., M.P., became Minister of Transport iri October. His Free Lifts scheme, under which motorists receive an extra ration of petrol if able to help neighbours by driving them to and from their London offices, has proved a big success. He is a pioneer motorist and aviator, a great Cresta rider, and a golfer. He won the Circuit des Ardennes motor ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- HOW TO BE STARCHY AND HOW TO UNBEND- BY CAROLE LOMBARD AND ROBERT MONTGOMERY. y 1 1 THE SQUADRON COMMANDER on the left of this group of pilots for taking the Christmas cake, for his Messerschmitt hat-trick. LIEUT. DON BRADMAN-- for getting two pips and a duck in the same year. Left MR. KRUGER GRAY for being the designer of the King's own Cross and Medal. Right THESE ...

... PRINCIPAL GIRL FOR MOTHER GOOSE. Q LOIS DAVIS is Jill, the principal girl for Prince Hitler's pantomime, Mother Goose, produced at Streatham Hill on December 26 for a four-weeks season. Stanley Lupino plays the title-rSle, and Hal Bryan is Idle Jack while Jean Carr is Colin and Marian Gerth Gretchen. London's other Pantos, are, Aladdin at the Coliseum, and at Golders Green and Mother Goose ...

... A PICTORIAL RECORD OF GILRERT SULLIVAN OPERAS A PICTORIAL RECORD OF GILRERT SULLIVAN OPERAS iiis 48-page pictorial record of the Gilbert and Sullivan ieras, published by THE SPHERE, deals com. ehensively with the most popular of the famous Operas, il the new stars, as well as the established favour. >es, are featured in their own particidar roles and MANY AGES IN FULL COLOUR SHOWING SCENERY ...

... ONE could not wonder at any rate, nobody did wonder that Cheng should have been smitten by Rosie, since Rosie was a rare item in the London scene. One can go about London all day for a week and seldom see a living creature. Millions of animated phantoms pass along, but only when one of the Rosies flashes by does one realise the meaning of being alive. Rosie was unmistakably alive. She was ...

... NEARLY 100,000 ITALIANS OUT OF ACTION ALREADY IN LIBYA: TYPES OF THE SOLDIERS NOW TAKEN PRISONER yN^fter the evacuation of Dunkirk and all the heavy fighting involved in that operation, it was estimated that some 44,000 British soldiers had been made prisoner by the Germans. But in Libya alone since the present struggle began on December 9, fully 70,000 Italians have actually been captured and ...