... edr^Jl By Foresight' .lunari's Artnv Politicians THE change of Government in Japan has one most significant aspect. For some years now Army politicians have been forcing the pace. They've had a lot of power without much responsibility. By the appoint ment of Lieutenant-General Hideki Togo as Prime Minister, the militarists have to shoulder full political responsibility for the conduct of ...

... k V^%4c4r;^J i„i> L 'JiSBF*^^ 1 i r A merican Dorothy Comingore Dorothy Comingore had a lucky break when Orson Welles chose her as his film wife No. 2 in the most discussed picture of the season. As a result of her intense realistic playing in Citizen Kane red-haired grey-green-eyed hitherto-unknown Aliss Comingore now has good parts in 44 Unexpected Uncle and in. 44 Valley of the Sun Iris/i ...

... Lord and Lady Galway returned to England some six months ago from New Zealand, where Lord Galway had completed a six-year term of office as Governor-General. With Lady Galway here, on the steps of the house on the borders of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire where they are now living, are her son and three daughters. Her son, the Hon. Simon Monckton-Arundell, will be twelve next month. The three ...

... A mobile kitchen, given by the Women's Golf Association of Massachusetts, U.S.A., to the Ladies Golf Union, xvas presented to the Y.M.C.A. by Lady Astor, president of the L.G.U. The gift was received by Mr. James Fairbairn on behalf of the Y.M.C.A. Mobile Canteen Committee. Above are Miss Lloyd Williams Miss D. I. Clark, Lady Astor and Miss MacFarlane, with two members of the Y.M.C.A in front ...

... Racing in Ireland The Leopardstown Meeting Between Races Mrs. R. Lywood and Mrs. Richard Colthurst i cere two spectators. The former's husband is on Sir John Maffey's staff in Dublin. The latter is the wife of the brother and heir-presumptive of Sir George Colthurst, Bt., of Blarney Castle On the Stand The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, who is an indefatigable war worker in Northern Ireland, ...

... Now in the M.T.C. The Hon. Mrs. Patrick Bellew at Her Surrey Home The Hon. Mrs. Paddy Bellew with Suivy the Pehe The Hon. Catherine Moya de la Poer Beresford, younger daughter of Lord Dccics, married in 1936 the Hon. Patrick Herbert Bellew, a half-brother of Lord Bellew. He is serving in the R.N.V.R. The Bellews have sent their four-year-old son, John Jeremy, to America, and Mrs. Bellew has ...

... By Oliver Stewart Concentration NO country at war finds it harder to keep its mind on the job than Britain. At a time when agricultural workers are being taken from the task of growing food in order to put them in the Forces, Lord Reith is having a glorious gambol among the works and buildings that are to be. Wisdom dictates that all the thinking and planning capabilities that Lord Reith or ...

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... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis MAKING rather a naively exclamatory or headline issue of the fact that a poet, Mr. Francis Meynell, has been appointed Board of Trade Adviser on Con sumer Needs, the Fleet Street boys seemed to forget that the dreamiest poets are notoriously men of action. Chaucer (later Ambassador) fought a chap in Fleet Street. Villon was always being slung into ...

... Celebrity Sitters To Artists of Three Nations Se, Rodzianko Paints a Polish Portrait Alexander Jaray Models Mr. Lloyd George Alexander Jaray the Austrian sculptor, ivent to stay with Mr. Lloyd George at Churt recently. W hile there he made a bust of his host in clay since cast in bronze which will be the chief exhibit at a show of Jar ay's work to be held in London shortly. One of Vienna's ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Gracious People I Too, Have Lived in Arcadia (Macmillan, 15s.) Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's memoir of her own family, has a haunting, very distinctive charm. It is a book in a thousand, for it conveys the character of a group of people, at once highly civilised and original, and the atmosphere of an unusual place. From the moment when, on a spring day in 1867, two English ladies ...

... Dancing Partners Jeanne Ravel and Ronnie Boyer, Her Sailor Husband, in Hertfordshire The war is responsible for separating temporarily a dancing partnership which began seven years ago, that of Jeanne Ravel and her husband, Ronnie Boycr, who is now in the Navy. Before his departure the couple had a great success at the Cafe dc Paris, the May Fair and the Savoy, with their spectacular ...