... 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 ...

... At West Wycombe Park The Home of Sir John and Lady Dashwood Sir John and Lady Dashwood have con verted part of their lovely Buckinghamshire home into a maternity convalescent home for officers' wives. Sir John is now a Flight I.ieutenant in the Auxiliary Air Force, No. 9 07 (Balloon) Squadron. Lady Dash wood was formerly Miss Helen Moira Eaton, daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. Vernon Eaton, ...

... The Countess of C.adogan has recently returned to this country from a ten months* visit to Egypt, where her husband, Captain the Earl of Cadogan, is stationed. During their absence abroad, their three children, the young Viscount Chelsea and his sisters, Lady Sarah and Lady Daphne Cadogan, have been staying with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ducas at Stanton Fitzwarren, in Wiltshire. In the photograph ...

... Allied Artists In England Now Some Distinguished Painters From the Occupied Countries M. Oscar Kokoschka Paints a Religious Picture Oscar Kokoschka is the most outstanding Czecho- slovakian artist of to-day. Well known on the Continent and in the U.S.A. as a leader of the expressionist school he now lives in London, at Finchley, ivhere this photograph was taken in his studio. During the Nazi ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Immortal LORD BYRON is an immortal character if not an immortal poet-- and he may be that, too. A spectacular legend surrounded him, from the moment of his first emergence to fame, and when fame was succeeded by notoriety, this legend began to take on an infernal hue. He was to give name to, if he did not actually patent, a storm-driven, dark and ruthless type of romanticism ...

... Oxford Goings-On Gowns Over Uniforms An All-Star Red Cross Show he Oxfordshire Red Cross Agriculture Fund was the eason for and the beneficiary rom a wonderful all-star how at the New Theatre, )xford, presented by Jack lylton and Stanley Dorrill. tage and radio celebrities see the group below, right, or some of them) enter- ained the packed house i or the first half of the vening, an auction ...

... Whenever Janie the telephone operator (Ginger Rogers) gets engaged to a new young man, she dreams about him. hen she has got herself engaged to three young men at once, she dreams about all of them, and herself in this honeymoon array. Then she wakes up with the rhythm of Make up my mind, make up my mind heating in her head, and remembers she has promised to tell them at breakfast which she'll ...

... 'hf Cisy By Foresight Libyan Epic THE battle of the tanks in the Libyan desert has become an epic in this new age of mechanised warfare. I say this with no intended disrespect to the Russians. They are valiantly--month by month--with standing the undiminishing pressure of Ger many's mechanical might with what seems to be an ever-growing fortitude and determination. But of the Libyan battle ...

... By James Agate Sergeant York WAY back in 1916, Alvin York is a hick or hayseed living in a Tennessee milieu which makes that of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms one of perfect sophistica tion. His chief hobby is galloping around on horseback and letting off revolvers what time the sturdy villagers are indulging in bouts of primitive revivalism. But Alvin has a heart of gold, and when ...

... 'It Started With Eve )eanna Durbin and Charles Laughton in Ihe New Universal icture, Produced by Joe Pasternak, Directed by Henry Koster, at the Leicester Square Theatre Jonathon Reynolds, Junior Robert Cum min gs) catches Anne Terry Dcanna Durbin) at the station as she is leaving Juniors dying father has expressed a wish to meet his son's fiancee. I 'liable to locate the real one. Junior ...

... ■^4 j By Sabretache A Hoary Maxim THE task of the British armoured forces is not to take positions, but to bring the enemy armoured units to action. --The Times Correspon dent in Libya. A timely reiteration of a very well-known fundamental. Cartridge Paper The Salvage and Recovery Board of the Ministry of Supply has issued an appeal to all who may be shooting (birds) at this moment, ...