... Hr*ey, 3 Country wear, New Felt Hat for Town in Black, Brown or Na y 59,n limited quantity). n rt Halo Turban in Angora, L)raped Ha Sixes 23. Brown, Navy or Guards Red. Sloone 3440 i Co. Ltd., London. S.W.I. Harvey Nichols ...

... Bv Elizabeth Bowen J Criticism CRITICS seem to have it all their own way-- how rarely anybody criticises the critic! Yet, how important it is that he should be up to the mark. The wrong kind of critic not only wastes one's time, he really does more than anyone else to put art itself in a bad position. He can create, where books, pictures and plays are concerned, what one might call bad ...

... Mother and Son Lord Leverhulme's Younger Daughter and His Grandson The Hon. Mrs. Stobart-Wetherly is the wife of Major William Erskine Stobart-Wetherly, King's Dragoon Guards. They were married in October 1938, and their son, Dennis William Stobart, was born in 1940. Mrs. Wetherly was Rosemary Gertrude Alexandra Lever, younger daughter of Viscount Leverhulme by his first marriage. The ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Panzers EACH man was provided with four uniforms, four different types of foot- wear-- knee-boots, ankle boots, ordinary boots, and gymnasium shoes-- a white woollen nightshirt, plenty of fine woollen blankets, mattresses and pillows covered with the finest French linen, and various French powders, pomades, creams and perfumes. The Times War Correspondent on the Libya front ...

... By Oliver Stewart Japanatics STICKING needles into one's cheeks and sitting on the points of nails are as nothing to the disregard of pain, wounds and death shown by the Japanese air-pilots if we are to believe our newspapers. The Japanese ideal of national service, if we go by these sources, is not knitting for the troops, but attaching oneself to a flying chunk of T.N.T., and then steering ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- IHESE CALIFORNIAN VEN USES, for proving transcendental curves to be a matter of pure geometry. The coritour testers of Venice, California, use the Figure-ometer to record the outline of HELENA BR1NT0N. JUANITA COLTEAUX (standing, left) enters the measurements on a chart, and other recruits wait their turn. Movie cameramen record the overall measurements of a VENICE ...

... ROYAL DUCHESS-MOTHER OF AN INFANT PRINCE. PHOTOGRAPH nv CF.CII. BEATON. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, wife of the elder of the King's two brothers gave birth to a son, her first child, on Thursday, December 18. She was Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott is a sister of the Duke of Buccleuch, and was married in 1935. Our photograph was taktn by Cecil Beaton when her Royal Highness was ...

... . These W.A.A.F.s, smart in their new battle-dress, have been learning to man Britain's barrage balloons Practising the difficult art of handling balloon ropes a study in concentration. Learning splicing and knots in the rope shop. The diagrams of knots on the wall should be noted. Training with a sectionised winch is part of the programme of work in the Balloon Girls school. Hard at it in the ...

... SLIP-ON FROCKS IN LAME AND CREPE WRAPPERS AND MULES THERE has come into being a new type of dress which is called the slip-on. It is robbed of all com plicated fastenings and may be adjusted in the fraction of a second. Fortnum and Mason, Piccadilly, are making a feature of these, one of which is pictured above. It is carried out in a soft blue crepe embroidered with golden sequins. A folded ...

... On September 11 1941, Leopold 111 King of the Belgians, was married at Laekeu Castle, where he and his children are held captive by Nazi Germany, to Mile. Mary Lilian Baels, daughter of M. Hendric Baels a former Belgian Minister of Agriculture and Gouverneur of West Flanders. The marriage is to affect the private family life of the King only and in a formal document, the Kin- states ilni Hie ...

... East and West Bombay and Broadway provide the Background for Two New Pictures in London this Week Appointment for Love a Bruce Manning production directed by William A. Seiter. is at the Leicester Square Theatre. Andre Cassil, Broadway playwright (Charles Boyer) falls in love with Dr. Jane Alexander (Margaret Sullavan). Married life with a careerist who demands a separate apartment and 110 ...

... The Morning Star at the Globe Theatre Has Emlyn Williams as Author-Actor-Producer T.he Morning Star is a drama of London's blitz in a Chelsea drawing-room. The role of Cliff Parrilow, a young doctor, who, disgusted with his profession, takes to writing best-sellers, is played by Emlyn Williams. His blonde mistress and his de voted wife are Ambrosine Phillpotts and Angela Bad- deley. Bombs and ...