... THE problem of feeding some seventy employees in war time conditions on Mr. David Lloyd George's estate, Bron-y-de, Churt, Surrey, has been solved and celebrated in a novel manner. The celebration took place on the ex-Prime Minister's 79th birthday. The solution was provided by Haslemere Urban District Council. An insulated motor van brings hot food to the restaurant, which has been made out ...

... MR. R. ROADNIGHT, who has a considerable farm at Britwell Salome, Watlington, Oxon, is a great believer in horse-traction, the use of which he has brought to a fine art. The two-wheeled gear and coupling illus trated ensures great economy of time for example, while the four-wheeled dung-cart is being unloaded and spread, the horses are free to return for another load. Other of Mr. Roadnight's ...

... TO care for the many- horses still being used by the Army, there is the Royal Army Veter inary Corps, with its hospitals and convales cent homes. These pic tures give an idea of a typical day's activities at one of the hospitals, where the sick and injured are treated, so that they are fit to play their part in the war machine. This part may yet prove to be a bigger one than we thought likely ...

... AMERICAN agriculturists, obsessed with their grave pre-war problems, reacted sharply to reality in 1935-39, and sought to reorient their farming on principles of a balanced agriculture. Now, faced with a new set of world conditions, they have sheered away from maximum wheat and cotton production in order to meet world requirements of high -protein foods-- poultry, pork, dairy products. They ...

... Jk \H°V SEVERN HANDICAP 'CHASE takes its name from the river flowing alongside the course. Lord Stalbridge's Tallin is leading over the water second time round. W. Hollick, in Mr. C. H. Blunt' s claret and yellow checks is riding Le Titien III. Black Brother won the race easily for Lieut. -Colonel N. Furlong. A BIG FIELD of nineteen runners was saddled for the Coventry Handicap 'Chase. Here ...

... Royal Horses and the Classics Rationalisation What the Public Expects. A FIRST glance at the reopened entries for the 1942 classic races is re- assuring. There are 43 entries for the New Two Thousand Guineas compared with 53 last year, and 54 for the One Thousand compared with 50; for the New Derby there are 56 against 65, and for the New St. Leger, 72 against 81. The dates and venues do not ...

... The role of avaricious sister as well as hard-hearted wife is played by 44 THE Bette Davis as Retina Hubbard, in 44 The Little Foxes. Here she is LITTLE with her two merchant brothers Ben Hubbard (left), played by Charles tl Dingle and Oscar Hubbard, played by Carl Benton Reid. FOXES Herbert Marshall, as Regina Hubbard's ailing bank-manager husband, dies heartbroken at the realisation of his ...

... &.&c. S.&C. AM// //i, /{J/^. [HIS magnificently ornate pendant in rich gilt colour brass was the last word in G.E.C. lighting fittings for the smart drawing-room of 1914. But designs change. Lighting methods improve. Science never stands still. The G.E.C., pioneers in everything electrical for the home, continued to progress during the last war. In this war, also, the G.E.C. is helping to ...

... Warn That Man Vernon Sylvaine's New Comedy-Thriller at the Garrick Uninvited guests force their way into Buckley Hall. They are fifth columnists, each disguised to resemble some one of the Buckley household. Lord Buckley is faced by duplicate editions of his butler, his secretary and his chauffeur. Herbert Rouen, Veronica Rose and Percy Parsons, as three of the enemy agents, confront Rod ...

... DONALD WOLFIT'S LONDON REPERTORY SEASON Once again, Donald Wolfit is to bring his Shakespearean repertory company to London. His programme will include A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice Richard III. and Hamlet. Donald Wolfit is the first actor-manager to present Shakespearean repertory in London since the days of Tree. His company, the Advance Players Association, was founded in ...

... -/4 By Sabretache The Premier's Bloody Prop MANY kind persons have written to the papers telling the world that Mr. Churchill was quite in order when he used the expression a bloody prop vis à. vis what was coming to the Verführer of Germany. It was always 2 to 1 on the Premier, for was he not at one time, like another famous Premier in history. a subaltern in a cavalry regiment? Some ...

... By Oliver Stewart Bookery Nook AIR and hot air do not mix. Or, to put it plainly, flying a kite does not go well with shooting a line or telling the tale. The expert pilot, though, far from dumb, is often inarticulate. The result is that the full flame and fury of modern air war are rarely represented in the books. Yet there have been good first-hand accounts of air action, and I am going here ...