... ON the evening of Saturday, December 27, after a week of strenuous professional theatre-going, a young friend of mine, with a spot of embarkation leave, asked me to take him to a play. We visited fourteen out of the twenty-nine theatres open, as I write, in Central London, and at not one of them could a seat be secured for either love or money. The twenty-nine theatres, nearly all of them ...

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... NOW IN COMMAND OF ALL ALLIED FORCES IN THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC General Sir Archibald Waveli inspecting the Fixed Defences of Singapore in November last. With him are the G.O.C. Singapore Fortress (Major-Gen. Keith Simmons), and the Commander of the Fixed Defences GENERAL WAVELL'S DEPUTY Major-Gen. G. H. Brett, Deputy Supreme Com mander in the South-West Pacific to General Sir Archibald Wavell. ...

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... More Pictures from Libya T V. eu.t-eneral N. M. Ritchie (in command of the Eighth Army) and Air Vice-Marshal Coningham (A.O.C. Air Forces in the Western Desert on left) studying the map at their Desert Headquarters MEMBERS OF THE CRACK GERMAN AFRIKA CORPS being searched by one of their captors, a member of the New Zealand forces serving with the Eighth Army in Libya A GERMAN PETROL DUMP ...

... HOW THE R.A.F. CONTROL THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN WATERS This picture shows the Italian island of Lampedusa, which lies between Sicily and the African coast, and behind which convoys for Tripoli and Libya were wont to shelter. A 9,00G-ton enemy merchant vessel had been attacked by Swordfish aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, and the stricken ship was beached on the island Blenheim aircraft were ...

... THE DUTCH NAVY And Its Work in the Far East A Note by F. C. BOWEN RECENT events in Malayan waters have drawn particular attention to the Royal Netherlands Navy, which has already scored many notable successes against the Japanese. Although it has been necessary to maintain the strictest censorship with regard to most of its doings and its present strength, repeated general statements have been ...

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... By Pamela Murray ITar, IT'ilA a Vengeance AMERICA at war is entirely, amazingly dif ferent. This change is difficult to convey by letter because, apart from the obvious bruhaha occasioned by accelerated A.R.P., W.V.S., etc., ad lib., the metamorphosis is wholly spiritual. Their eyes are shining, the blinkers off at last, their hands (especially the most velvety) busy with unaccustomed chores, ...

... The Hon. Mrs. Frederick Leathers and Christopher The Daughter in law and Grandson of the Minister of Transport At the Garden Door Christopher and His Mother Sil by the Fire Photographs by T unbridge-Sedgwick The wife of the Hon. Frederick Leathers was, before her marriage in June 1940, Miss Elspeth Stewart, a daughter of Sir Thomas Stewart, Governor of Bihar, and Lady Stewart. Her husband is a ...

... The Perfect Ballet for the Christmas Holidays Casse Noisette Revived by the Sadler's Wells Company for the first time since the war, Casse Noisette is being given by the Sadler's Wells ballet company at the New Theatre. In pre-war days, this Tchaikovsky children's tale was a regular Christmas event, with the Ivanoff choregraphy reproduced by Sergueeff, and Doboujinsky's gay decor and dresses. ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Eyre Spence Wing Commander Anthony Eyre, D.F.C., R.A.F., son of the late G. W. B. Eyre and Mrs. Eyre, of Parley, married Jean Mary Spence, elder daughter of Major and Mrs. P. M. Spence, of Salmon's Cross, Reigate, at Sidlow Bridge Church, Salmon's Cross Ewing Gillespie Sub-Lieut. William S. R. Ewing, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Ewing, of 10, Langley ...