... 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 ...

... Engaged The Earl of Harrington and Miss Grey The engagement was announced recently of illiam Henry Leicester Stanhope, eleventh Earl of Harrington, of Elvaston Castle, Derby, to Miss Eileen Grey. His fiancee is the only daughter of the late Sir John Grey, Bt., and of the late Ladv Grey, of Enville Hall, Stourbridge. Lord Harrington, who is nineteen, succeeded his father in 1929, and lie is ...

... By Foresight Royal Inspiration PLANS for the King's Christmas broadcast were made before Japan, throwing in her lot with Germany and Italy, set the Pacific ablaze. Now that war encircles the whole world, and embraces every great Power, the occasion assumes the highest importance. More than any other modern monarch, King George VI whose forty-sixth birthday on December 14 was passed quietly ...

... The Stand-in and the Star The Sadler's Wells Ballet is back at the New Theatre from to-day (Christmas Eve), opening with a revival of Coase Noisette in which Margot Fonteyn makes her first appearance since her early days as premiere danseuse. She will, during the season, take a leading role in Comus Robert Helpmann's first ballet for the Wells company (music Purcell, arr. Lambert decor Oliver ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country By Bridget Chetwynd People MRS. CHURCHILL was in the House of Commons to hear her husband's speech about the new war develop ment, wearing a snow leopard coat, and a wide orange-coloured ribbon round her hair. Myra Hess was having an early lunch before going to a matinee of Blithe Spirit, very cheerful. Lord Decies was lunching out the same day. and ...

... The First of the Few A Film Tribute to Mr. R. J. Mite] Who Designed the Spitfire, Whic Course of Production at Denham 1 Leslie Howards and David 11, the Man is Now in [th the Two iven Leslie Howard, in his triple capacity of star, producer and director, is now filming The First of the Few at Denham Studios. His seventeen-year-old daughter, Leslie, plays her first part in the film. The First ...

... Heavy Weather for the Convoy Escorts THE LOOK-OUT ON THE GUN DECK Heavy seas are running, but all hands are at their stations and the ship is in fighting trim A HEAVY SEA HAS BROKEN OVER THE GUN DECK The gunners have to retrieve their mats and replace them in their proper position THE GUN DECK AWASH But the gun crew must remain for hours at their posts. Note the rafts lashed ready for use at ...