... TT is strange that two memorials to a great German should come into the news last week. Round the Albert Memorial the ground is being dug ready for vegetables at Sydenham the second of the great twin towers of the Crystal Palace was blown up for the iron and steel to make shells and guns. Some will regret that it was not vice versa, the Albert Memorial being too much of a good thing. Others ...

... Wresting Food from the Flood Engineers' Unceasing Fight in the Fens CATCHMENT BOARDS were set up in England by Act of Par liament in 1930 to deal with the drainage of various river systems which, until that time, had been suffering from great neglect. There are now over forty of these bodies and the writer recently saw something of the activities of one of the larger ones, the River Great Ouse ...

... THE amount of useful material and food which can be produced on an ordinary farm with a little forethought and care is much more considerable than might be supposed. Two main factors are concerned-- one being the difficulties of labour or implement shortage, and the other, which is really part of it, is the question of time. Under war conditions the question of cost is of secondary importance ...

... 41 THE GHOST OF ST. MICHAEL'S Hilary Tisdaile, the very odd games-master (Claude Hulbert), and Will Lamb, a most unscientific professor of science (Will Hay), hear the phantom piper of St. Dunbain Castle and the ghostly pipes usually herald another murder. Charles Hawtrey (left), so bril liant as the beautiful woman spy in 44 New Faces, is becoming a 44 regular in Will Hay films. Here he is a ...

... (_ ^acLttuh to Port HE: Yes, beautiful, I learned what was right at my mother's knee. She Well, you're not going to iearn what's wrong at mine. Is Martin effeminate Yes, the big sissy carries a whisky glass with his bottle. Two Tommies, billeted in a remote village went into the village hall for a game of snooker. All the balls looked the same colour, and one of them picked up a ball and ...

... Tod'!; Mr,s- Nleel Tangyc in private life, is now the mother of two attractive children. David her son by her first husband, Victor Malcolm, is a sturdy young gentleman ot lour. Her daughter, Ann Francesca Tangye, was born last September. She and her husband, now Squadron-Leader Tangye. R.A.F.O., met when she was acting in and he was aeronautical adviser for the Wells-Korda film, Things to ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country By Bridget Chetwynd Wedding THERE was lovely hot lobster at the Hyde Park Hotel after the wedding of Mr. Mark Culme-Seymour and Lady Mitchell-Cotts. She was Princess Helene de la Tremouille, and wore blue, blue foxes and orchids. The bridegroom's sister, Lady Kinross, couldn't get leave to come-- she is in the W.A.A.F. Mr. Donald Maclean was best ...

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... , , Treatment YOUR FACE All intelligent men and women realize the importance of the facial appearance. It is a well- known medical fact, that to feel one's best the face must be .free from Facial Blemishes such as Nothing disfigures the face more than pouches pouches and loose skin under and under the eyes and upper lids, as shown in the t r r photograph above above the eyes, loss of facial ...

... %/Ot/ f/ //4 Bringing Home the Bacon By Foresight RATHER more than a month after his departure from Tokyo on a high-hopes tour of Europe, Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, has returned to his capital amid the acclamations of his bellicose admirers. When he left in mid- March the Japanese Press, apprehensive lest in the heady atmosphere of foreign hospitality he might undertake ...

... Claire Luce As Nora in The Doll's House Claire Luce has been playing in serious drama lately, up in Scotland. Acting wtth the Perth and Dundee Repertory Companies, she has appeared as Nora in Ibsen's The Doll's and]; ft!'1? Chstie m Eugene O'Neill's play of that name, fnsltfd J °f The Shrew, for which she insisted on wearing her own blonde hair. On April 21 she relief* fund Sh 'h GlafSow ...

... Scientist and Author Dr. Julian Huxley, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London The Head of the Zoo with a Portrait of His Grandfather And with Meng, a Baby Gorilla Photographs by Tunbridge- Sedgwick 44 Head of the Zoo to a large section of the public since his appointment to the Secretaryship of the Zoological Society of London, Dr. Julian Huxley, grandson of the great Thomas Henry ...