... 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 ...

... Are There Stil! Too Many Dogs? Asks A. Croxton Smith WE are exhorted to dig for victory, produce for victory, and, one might add, we can also save for victory. I do not mean in the sense that we should put money into one of the several Government securities that have the direct purpose of raising money, but that we should economise in daily matters with the object of helping out the food ...

... /GENTLEMAN, foxhunter and friend was how the Premier described xJ Lord Halifax, and the phrase has vastly intrigued the American Press, as has the Ambassador's own statement that he would rather be a Master of Foxhounds than Prime Minister. Lord Halifax was, in fact, Joint-Master of the Middleton from 1932 until 1938, when affairs of State compelled him to give up his favourite sport. It is ...

... [By Ourj Horticultural Correspondent DIG for victory is now a pretty well worn slogan. I am in complete agree ment with the Editor when he suggests that we might do more thinking for victory. There is plenty of room for it in connection with our efforts to grow more food. t is very easy to get into a rut and I for one plead guilty. I have been misusing a nice little piece of good growing ...

... ARTIST Ronald Lampitt left London recently there to spend the time left to him before his c£ stirred so violently as this 1 he says. Our village, spot under the sun. Now the little place fairly F evacuees and the Home Guard, the military in 1 lis home in the west of England, the R.A.F. Never before has spring instance it used to be the sleepiest tcs with excitement, what with the lig House and ...

... Two Big Fights ltuon-Berg Disappointment Lazar's Fine Win Over Crowley By 16. Bciuiison THE Eric Boon-Kid Berg fight at the London Coliseum produced a woeful anti-climax, Boon being ruled out in the second round for driving a left hook below the belt; and properly so, for as I saw the punch it was inexcusably low. Unintentional, of course: Boon is not the kind to kick over the traces. ...

... Don't Worry Trust the Air Force! By our Flying Correspondent AT the time of the gravest reverses I have always pointed out one thing which, as I see it, pervades the entire strategy of modern war. It is that air power is all-power, and that, provided a country can retain air supremacy, it still has long-term control over even the worst ground situations. So during those tragic days which led ...

... Round the slew Shows Farce to the Fore Women Aren't Angels (Strand) PLAYED by a poor, or even a mediocre company, this farce, which has returned to town, whence it was blitzed last autumn, would quite possibly be rather tedious stuff. There is nothing intrinsically amusing in people changing clothes with each other and in a husband donning his wife's skirt. And although a man losing his ...