... Playbill Looks at the Shows The Morning Star (Globe) This play has been proclaimed (though not, I think, by its progenitors) as the first stage representation of the air raids on London. That is not so. We had, some months ago, a well-intentioned but lament ably boring and depressing dose of much the same medicine at the Comedy Theatre, followed by alleged fun in an air-raid shelter at the ...

... c /j tjoit cant tciik Jii^et/ y*1 ^oa llr Harriet Muir You may think, as many people do, that a Christmas dinner without a turkey is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. But believe me, you can find plenty of stand-ins to give you what the Prime Minister promised a better Christmas dinner. I don't suppose you will know until the last minute when you go shopping what it is going to be; ...

... AND PEARS IN THE FUTURE Andrew invented the first refined toilet soap in the same year that the fall of the Bastille heralded the French Revolution. Born in that year of trouble, 1789, Soap has, nevertheless, been manu factured without interruption for 152 years, and has during this long, eventful period survived many trou bled experiences in our country's history. The house of A. F. has ...

... , THE CARE OF THE EYES IN CIVIL DEFENCE Written by a Civil Defence Worker and approved by Medical Authorities In Civil Defence the eyes are liable to attacks from dirt, dust, germs and gas. Severe additional strains are imposed on the sight by working at night, without lights, under abnormal conditions. HERE ARE A FEW USEFUL HINTS (1) Never rub your eyes when they itch or water. You only ...

... pimm? smrs piMrpp s/f/prs u C/T is surprising what a difference graduating knife-edged pleats into a snug-fitting hip line does make to an all-round pleated- skirt. That streamlined effect is so amazingly graceful, so slenderising; and the KONERAY allows greater freedom of movement than does any old- style pleated skirt. Good drapers and stores everywhere are pleased to show you the KONERAY ...

... i V T?OR several years the State Conservation 5 Jv Department of Illinois has been waging j war on crows. The purpose has not been to exterminate these creatures, but to so reduce their numbers that they would cease to S constitute a serious menace to the game and song birds, and to the crops of farmers in the State. The most efficient way yet found of thinning their ranks is bombing the ...

... ford motor company limited, ford motor company limited, d IAGENHAM, ESSEX. LONDON SHOWROOMS: 88 REGENT STREET, W.I Until then As dusk falls, the fairy lights on the Christmas Tree outside St. Paul's Cathedral will go out we must wait until Victory to see them at night* again in all their colours. Then, there will return many of the pleasures that we have so willingly given up for the sake of ...

... FOR most families this must be a Christmas without presents or Christmas cards just good wishes and one day's holiday. But to some people Christmas without the pleasure of handing tokens of good will to friends is no Christmas at all. This household, with a war time policy of trying to be as self-supporting as possible, finds itself in the happy position of being able to make little gifts all ...

... CCB R 26, 1941 TripleX the safety glass fortnightly (j^) The Illustrated ar|d DRAMATIC News SFORT COUNTRY| ...

... Ploughing Up Hillside Successes of a King's Tenant IN common with all other farmers, tenants of H.M. King George VI. have to cultivate an increased acreage to help the war effort. Mr. Hugh C.olehso, of Trenarlett, near St. Tudy, in the valley of the River Cawel, Cornwall, is a tenant on a Duchy of Cornwall farm, and has a good reputa tion amongst the farming community. Previous to coming to ...

... Family Album 1 lie Hon. Mrs. Lowson, Her Daughters and Her Dogs I he Hon. Mrs. Lowson is the younger daughter of the late Lord Strathcarron (the former Sir Ian Macpherson, M.P.) and Mrs. H. E. Le Has and sister of the seventeen-year-old second Lord Strathcarron. She married Mr. Denys Lowson in 1936, and has two daughters, Gay and Melanie. Her husband is a barrister and was a Sheriff of the ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Short Stories I HAVE been told--in fact, I have noticed-- that quite a number of fiction-lovers have a lively prejudice against short stories. This seems to be specially true of readers who go to the trouble of fetching their books from libraries, or to the expense of having books posted them--not to speak of the labour of posting books back again. At the end of all that one ...