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... 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 ...
... W.P.B. HARVEST FROM PALACE, SCHOOL AND CINEMA. Get a load of this PLAZA GIRLS bring out old files, papers, programmes, and back numbers for the new waste-paper drive. LONDON CINEMA USHERETTES heave-ho for the How to tie up your old newspapers waste-paper drive and bring out stacks of files a lesson from a London girl with a and old papers. tidy mind. BUCKINGHAM PALACE waste-paper baskets send ...
... . In minutest detail, without blur or smudge a sheet of black mirror ice reflects SONJA HENIE AND HER PARTNER as they sivirl and twirl in the new film Sun Valley Serenade This marvellous effect was not achieved without much headache on the set. Hundreds of gallons of black ink were frozen on the Sonja Henie rink at Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, when in walked the electricians and condemned ...
... The LOSS of the PRINCE OF WALES and REPULSE Sunk off Malaya in Action Against, the Japanese Wednesday, December 10 VY/ithin three days of the opening of hostilities with Japan, the British Navy suffered a grievous loss with the sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and the big battle- cruiser Retoulse. Apparently, and according to their own statements, the Japanese Fleet had been ...
... BATTLE IN THE DESERT --THE THIRD WEEK General Rommel is Forced Out to the West and the Tobruk Connection is Re-established Special Sphere Diagrams On right When the two to three days of recuperation had passed, British patrols began to break out northwards, to begin the harassing of arty German or Italian forces which they were able to discover north of the T righ-Capuzzo Road. The two Panzer ...
... Alter the opening days of the offensive against General Rommel in Cyrenaica, when the Royal Navy actually participated in the land operations by bombardment from the sea, our warships have been concentrating on the destruction of the enemy's shipping and convoys carrying supplies across the Mediterranean to the sore-pressed Axis forces opposed to General Cunningham's Eighth Army. Our artist. ...
... THE UNITED STATES ON THE BRINK, Early December 1941 Impressions of a Flying Visit just Before the Devastating Attacks by Japan, which Brushed All the Trivialities and Bright Lights Aside and Brought America Grimly into the War Described by VERNON FANE AT a house on Long Island, quite close to where Walt Whitman lived, I took a glass of wine with a man who had dined in England on the previous ...
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