... WOMEN IN WARTIME Home Command SffiK W 4 1 SMALL women naturally prefer clothes designed especially for them to cut-down versions of average fashions. They will be interested in the department at Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, which specialises in individual models planned at all points to flatter the small figure. One of their outfits is shown above, in softly blended shades of pink ...

... FANCIED AS AMERICA'S No. 1 GIRL i FOR 1941. 1 A JINX FALKENBURG is the leading candidate for the title of America's No. 1 Girl for 1941. In retrospect one can list up 44 No. 1 Girls in the U.S.A. as far back as the days of Jenny Lind, but only within the last five years has a No. 1 Girl emerged as an annual phenomenon, never deliberately chosen, but appearing through a spontaneous canonisation ...

... . The figures a-top the barren rock are an ESCAPED GERMAN U-BOAT CREW in Canada. The rock will look more remote and craggy when seen on the screen. 44 Grasp the phone like this snatch it frantically. There 's a man menacing you with a bayonet DIRECTOR MICHAEL POWELL acts his instructions. Author EINERICH PRESSBURGER has a chat with leading-man LAURENCE OLIVIER on the set during the shooting of ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. IMMORTAL EASE is the story of a femme fatale who did not enjoy her rôle. Victoria Rising was a poet and a very beautiful woman. She married two men and tired of them; a third, after a short time spent in her society, painted her portrait in a novel called The Ice- Cold Heart, and then com mitted suicide; but the fourth, Lloyd, the man who was in her life from the start, ...

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... RAPIER OJV RACING Horses into Dollars Plans for Hie Derby and Ascot Lincoln Opens a IVew Season I AM quite prepared, with the publication on the frontispiece of this issue of Nearco's dug-out, to hear of much indignation. There has been another outbreak in the Press denouncing racing, in view of the food-shortage and, since the majority of the writers have no idea of what they are talking ...

... The Percheron A Breed in Demand at Home and Abroad THE British Percheron Horse Society's Spring Show and Sale at Histon, Cam bridge, emphasised that in terest in Percherons, as with Suffolks, is fnlly maintained and even stimulated by the war. All classes were will filled, there was a large attendance, and prices at the sale exceeded expectations. There was a good turn out of old stallions, ...

... W WW ]VT O one can deny that ice-skating is flourishing. Maybe the influx of the Canadian soldiers has something to do with it. When The Sporting and Dramatic looked in at Queen's it was packed with the Services and their girl friends. Most rinks make a reduction for the Forces in fact, at one recent period the Imperial Rink at Purley admitted men in uniform free and in any case, unless you ...

... Up and l>own the Land MODERN warfare in many ways is a war fare of chemicals, and one of the im portant functions of the blockade is to deprive the enemy of the many vital chemicals he needs for his factories, his food-producing units ani his farms. To what extent we have succeeded in keeping him short is not as yet apparent, but let it be remembered that there are few he can do without. It is ...

... A WELL-UTILISED DOUBLE FRAME Seedlings and plants hardening off are from left to right and back to front) culinary peas (two varieties), sweet peas, lettuce, begonia corms, calceolarias, scarlet salvias (in seed box, and after pricking out), onions, mustard, cress, tomatoes. BROAD BEANS groxving to maturity in the cold frame. A good means of ensuring an early supply where plenty of frame room ...

... THE Greater London borough of Southgate has taken a bold step to rid its parks of wood-pigeons which are destroying crops on local allotments. Some forty citizens have been issued with special permits to shoot these birds between daylight and S.30 a.m. and 6 p.m. and dusk, and these selected guns have already collected some useful bags. Squirrels which prey upon insect-eating birds are also ...

... IN spite of the fact that the number of boys over sixteen is only twenty-five, St. George's, Harpenden, the co-educational school, set a high standard for their rugby football team. Two years ago they had one of the finest sides in the country. They won all ten School matches for an aggregate of 220 points against 35, and beat Clifton in the final of the first Public Schools Seven- a-Side ...