... The ESCAPE of the KING of GREECE from CRETE How He was Succoured in the Hill Country by Devoted Mountaineers THE escape of King George of Greece from his residence near Canea makes a stirring narrative. In some of its aspects it recalls passages in Shakespeare, where monarchs have had to flee their palaces and accept the kindly hospitality of peasants or goatherds. The King was in a house ...

... HOW THE BATTLE-CRUISER HOOD MET HER END The Danger of the Plunging Shell to the Vulnerable Turrets of the Washington Treaty Type of Warship THE tragic end of H.M.S. Hood has drawn attention, once again to a very serious weakness in the construction of certain vessels which were built under political considerations which it is not necessary to discuss here. The Hood was very frequently ...

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... Facing Up To F ame Hollywood's New Stars and how Luck came their way in Films By Margaret C h ute J A LINE of new faces is weaving its way across the screens of the world; Facing up to Fame. Each year brings its new crop of names and personalities;, this year, more than ever, the big studios are offering for our entertainment a list of new names that should leave a permanent imprint in our ...

... W bo Goes X here I Old Frontiers are Gone. The JVill to Good and the JVill to Evil is all that now Divides By I. A. R. Wylie THE young man in the shabby polo coat glanced at his wrist watch. What he saw startled him. He must have slept or passed out for a bit. They should be seeing the lights of the Hamburg aerodrome and he couldn't even see the wing light nearest him. But he could see faces ...

... On Duty -and Off I WONDER if the queer assortment of general knowledge we have acquired lately will be in any way useful to us after the war. Perhaps the fact that you are able to discuss with assured intelligence such subjects as blast, the antics of incendiaries and the intricacies of Government forms will prove an asset at the post-war dinner table, but I doubt it. Meantime, our out look on ...

... loutitvMotrage Uvwnide By Sylvia Page The Luftwaffe had worked up to a very spiteful mood before I could bring myself to leave the comfort of my centrally heated London home for the country. I like soft living. I like it so much that it took persuasion in the shape of fifteen hundred pounds of explosive on our front doorstep to move me. I did move then, rather hastily, but with very little ...

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... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. This ruined amphitheatre is all that the Luftwaffe have left of the QUEEN S HALL, London's most famous concert hall the home of the Proms., and the building where great conductors, including the incomparable Toscanini, have given concerts to closely packed audiences, and to listeners-in all over the world. The building was opened in 1893 with a concert by the ...

... SIR COLENSO RIDGEON-- BY RAYMOND MASSEY. RAYMOND MASSEY wears this immaculate morning coat and grey topper as the fashionable specialist. Sir Colenso Ridgeon, in The Doctor's Dilemma, ivhich has been revived by Katharine Cornell at the Shubert Theatre, Neto York. It will be remembered that in this play George Bernard Shaiv turns himself loose on the medical profession and presents a group of ...

... THE DIETRICH-- DIRECTED BY RENE CLAIR. Working for an ideal camera angle DIRECTOR RENE CLAIR, the battery of cameras, and STAR MARLENE DIETRICH making a scene in Universalis new picture, THE FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS. This Joe Pasternak production is the first American picture directed by Rene Clair, who was making films in Paris when France collapsed and caught the last boat to America. The Light ...

... BETTE DAVIS AS A MAUGHAM MURDERESS- THE LETTER. UHHr 1 Leslie Crosbie (BETTE DAVIS), trembling but determined, goes out to buy the incriminating letter. Acquitted but guilty! Leslie and Howard Joyce (JAMES STEPHENSON; right tell Robert Crosbie (HERBERT MARSHALL) the truth. Murder by moonlight Leslie pours shots into the dead body of Jeoffrey Hammond. ■■■■V J* Mrs. Hammond (GALE SONDERGAARD), ...