... 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 ...

... 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, ...

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... Love in a Mist Kenneth Home's Light Comedy or Who '11- Have-the-Bedroom Farce at St. Martin's Theatre Kenneth Hornef playwright and film author, is now a Flight-Lieutenant in the R.A.F.V.R. His latest comedy, Love in a Mist, a frivolous, good-humoured trifle about two couples stranded in a fog, is well and gaily acted, and is deftly produced by Richard Bird at the St. Martin's Theatre. ...

... By Oliver Stewart Plane Propaganda THOSE that strive for the mastery are temperate in all things, and how in temperately dull they are withal! You can see the man who is bent on success holding himself in, continually taking thought as to what will improve his efficiency and what will reduce it. He steers a mean--frequently a very mean--course. We can learn something from his example in our ...

... [MOSS BROS amA way they have in the Navy A gentleman who was one ol our most respected civilian customers appeared on our I threshold, trimly clad in blue and gold, and an nounced that he was i 'a rough, tough, sea- I faring chap who'd I stepped ashore to B buy a bridge coat B and look slippy about it. This was no sooner said than B done. How you people keep up our pre-war standards of ...

... Concert-Going in Oxford Lord Berners, Lord and Lady David Cecil and Mr. William Walton were on their way to a concert in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Walton's latest work, a violin concerto, had its first performance in England at the Albert Hall last month, with Henry Hoist as soloist Johnson Oxford Studying Child Welfare Viscountess Suirdale is one of the people whose work for the Red ...