... 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 ...

... SPLENDID trade with average prices well in advance of last year's figures is reported from the Reading Cattle Market where the fourth spring show and sale of Dairy Shorthorns organised by the Shorthorn Society was held last week. A number of beef shorthorn bulls were also entered by members of the Southern, Midland and Welsh Shorthorn Breeders' Association. Entries were good though slightly ...

... Current :ilms Stories by Shaw and after Conrad, direction by Hitchcock and the Co-operation of the U.S. Navy, make a lively selection MAJOR BARBARA With a suitable flourish of trumpets the first film premiere for a long long time in fact 44 Major Barbara has come to the Odeon. Like 44 Pygmalion the film has had Shaiv's special care and attention he wrote the scenario and all the dialogue and ...

... Worth-while Easter C*it*ts IN the main, the giving of presents this Easter should be dis couraged, but there is one form of gift-- the gift of money to deserving causes-- that should not be discon tinued, whatever other economies are ractised. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, is in urgent need of funds. Bombed homes, evacuation, and the loss of a parent on active ...

... 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 ...