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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 119 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Halloo-ing in Libya.-- If Heaven had elected that men should be born dumb, humanity would have gained on the swings of silence more than it lost on the roundabouts of ideas. If men were born dumb, there would be no total wars, fewer private quarrels and a vast increase in dignity and peace in human life. But life would be duller on Olympus. ...
... the opening of the OFFENSIVE IN LIBYA first Pictures from the Desert Battlefield Showing the Opening Stages of the Campaign and the Weather which Accompanied It When the moment came to open the offensive in Libya, quite suddenly the weather took a hand. For two days heavy rains fell, mainly in the coastal strip to the north camps, tank traps and ditches, and whole areas of the desert were ...
... A DECLINE in PANZERS? How German Tank Losses in Russia and Elsewhere May Affect the Course of the War THE most important military news for some time was sent from Moscow the other day, when it was stated that sixteen out of nineteen German Panzer divisions fighting in Russia had suffered appreciable casualties, nine of them experiencing considerable losses in men and materials. Taken in ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 118 x, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Grounds for Satisfaction. --In these dark days of winter and the war, we have some solid grounds of comfort. It is hard pounding, gentlemen, and we shall continue to get some nasty jolts and setbacks all along the line at sea, in the air and on land, from Murmansk to Benghazi, and thence to Dover, and perhaps across the oceans to Hong Kong ...
... GREAT AIR JOURNEYS THAT STEER THE WAR The Development of the Long-distance Aeroplane has Made Possible Many Diplomatic Contacts and Movements in All Parts of the Globe. Some of the Journeys Already Achieved During the War are Here Described By FERDINAND TUOHY ONE day in the winter of 1870-71 the Prussians on Mt. Valérian overlooking besieged Paris were flabbergasted to see a balloon rise from ...
... 'Phe recent loss of the Ark Royal has once -L again drawn attention to the aircraft- carriers. Since the outbreak of the present war we have lost three of these vessels Ark Royal, in the Western Mediterranean, Courageous, tor pedoed in September 1939, and Glorious f sunk off North Norway in June 1940. Despite these grievous losses, the aircraft-carrier force is as strong as ever it was. There ...