... The Unknown Torridge By Ashley Courtenay THROUGH high-hedged, winding Devon lanes I threaded my way from Dulverton to South Molton, and on to the three Torringtons. There is much unknown Devon about the Torridge Valley, and the centre of operations from the sportsman's standpoint is the Half Moon-- a fisherman's hotel, if ever there was one-- situated in the square of the village of ...

... Playbill Looks at the Shows Gilbert and Sullivan Again IT is a good many years since Savoy opera has been seen and heard at the Savoy. I little thought that I should ever attend a performance of The Gondoliers and overhear during the interval a conversa tion in which the fact that the theatre is many feet underground was mentioned as an additional reason for supporting Gilbert and Sullivan. ...

... Hero and heroine of Come Live with Me are no passionate shepherd and his love (see Christopher Marlowe), but a young writer called Bill Smith (James Stewart) and a beautiful alien called Johanna Janns (Hedy Lamarr) who changes her name to Johnny Jones and marries Bill Smith when she's in danger of being deported, and this although she is in love with and being financially supported by a ...

... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis WHILE the cry More tanks! waxes ever louder, we were glad to hear from an officer of the Royal Tank Corps last week that the conversation of that admirable body is also soaring to a higher level. You may recollect that Lawrence of Arabia, that strange tortured genius if you have read his letters edited by David Gar- nett was revolted by the ...

... An Artist and a Dancer A Visit to Robin Guthrie's Studio Deborah Dering has recently been posing for Robin Guthrie, who was working in the photograph above on his crayon sketch of her. On the right she tried out another position against a background of Guthrie portraits. Algernon Newton, A.R.A., and Margarelta Scott, the actress, can be seen behind Miss Dering On the right Guthrie works at his ...

... Charity Tennis A Party at Roehampton Club in Aid of the Red Cross Miss Gem Hoahing, the Chinese Lenglen winner of the Junior Championships in 1936, was with Mr. S. C. Hellings, the new secretary of Queen's Club. Gem Hoahing does A.R.P. work, and plays in many matches for the Red Cross To raise funds for the Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross and St. John Fund, a number of tennis parties with ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Queen's Messenger By Bridget Chetwynd A PICTURESQUE sounding thing, which one vaguely pictures as someone in a plumed hat and flowing cloak, about to gallop about the country on a specially splendid horse, with the cloak flying out behind him. Actually, of course, it means a very special kind of mobile canteen service, perpetually on call to race to ...

... A Canteen at Chippenham The Hon. Mrs. Piers Legh Runs a Y.M.C.A. Tea Car in Wiltshire Y.M.C.A. Tea Car No. 531 The Hon. Mrs. Piers Legh is the American wife of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Piers Legh, second son of Lord Newton, and an Equerry-in- Waiting to the King. She stands beside the mobile tea car ivhich she is running in Wiltshire. With her are her daughter, Lady Grenfell, and two friends, Lady ...

... Lively and Interesting By Richard King I BELONG alas! to a generation which was only just ceasing to regard life not only in deadly seriousness, but grimly. Not so grimly, of course, as the Victorians, but definitely as a kind of divine cross which we all inherited, willy-nilly, as part of the Christian faith. No wonder it has taken most of us about fifty years to lose our fear of it. How I ...

... THE HIGHWAY OF FASHION by E. BROOKE K|l|JlIs^. ^tbose f°r eY have aecti° ,v,e \atteI' aS c0ndet' T asloD e ui guVaoOS' tt0u^e s the fcf a„d Wmm this flft'lsl of not*-atlCC pjg;^ t featte ie\t, quite itapot^ SitaP^I^ °M the accept {„t ko1 s^ oa ^e t\ov.'a A soft drapery of silk is used to trim the shady straw hat above, with its adjustable brim and gutter crown, also from Dickins and Jones. A ...

... Puritan Tanneries Limitec, Puritan Tanneries Limited, Cj ood shoes deserve I 'gritan leather soles -others need them Runcorn CVS I0S ...

... What Happens in the Room in the Heart of the Empire where Dramatic Decisions are made By Emrys Jones WITHIN a few months of the outbreak of war I was sitting in the room of a Cabinet Minister in the House of Commons, a man I knew well enough to ask what happened at the last Cabinet meeting held before the fateful eleven o'clock on the morning of September 3, 1939. Of course I knew he would not ...