... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Year of Destiny WITH the New Year new hopes are born. It is a long time since Mr. Churchill forecast 1943 as the year of our maxi mum effort. When he made the prophecy, 1943 seemed far away in the future. Now it is here. This is the year of destiny. Already we have seen the beginnings of the vast movements which will be needed to overthrow the Axis Forces. Already ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country First-class Shot UNEXPECTEDLY, the King has found it pos sible to take a short respite from official duties and spend a few days in the country shooting. It is a good many months now since his Majesty last had the opportunity to handle a gun, but he has lost none of his old skill, and in each day's bag the number credited to the King has been the ...

... The Tuttles of Tahiti, which has its London premiere on August 2, gives Charles Laughton anothpr great character part. This fine British actor who has brought to life for present-day audiences such well- known figures of days gone by as Henry VIII, Mr. Barrett of Wimpole Street, Captain Bligh of Bounty fame, Mr. Pickwick, Ben Jonson and Rembrandt, now finds food for his art in fiction. As old ...

... Mary Ncwcomb in an Ashley Dukes Revival The Man With a Load of Mischief is to be revived at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, on August 5th. Mary Newcomb, making her first appearance on the London stage since war began, is to appear as the Lady. Since 1939, Mary Newcomb, with her own company (known as The Mary Newcomb Players), has been entertaining troops in Southern Command. Such plays ...

... Susan Kathleen Dorothy Koppel was christened at Westminster Abbey a short time ago. She is the first child of Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. John P. Koppel, who were married in 19.19. Mrs. Koppel is Lord St. Levari* s elder daughter Sarah Jack Paley Johnson, Major and Mrs. Paley Johnson's baby daughter, was christened at St. Faith's Chapel, Westminster Abbey. Her father, who is serving abroad in the ...

... Family Life with the Children in the Country Lady Anson and Her Children A small farm and the entire responsibility of the kitchen garden keep Viscountess Anson very busy at her home near Slough. She is the wife of the Earl of Lichfield's elder son and heir, and before her marriage in 1938 was the Hon. Anne Ferelith Bowes-Lyon. She is the eldest daughter of the late Hon. John Herbert Bowes ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen- Looking About CURIOSITY may be idle-- or it may be very much the reverse. Idle curiosity is no more than a whim: it has no persistent direction; it often and quickly veers. But curiosity of a sterner kind has intellect behind it, and involves strong will. The man or woman who feels it, becomes, in one way or another, a devotee, prepared to use every faculty, to take risks ...

... No Fireworks For Miss Eton At the Third and Quietest Fourth of June Since the War Lady Romaine Cecil and Miss Diana Wake were with Lady Violet Benson and her sailor son at the Fourth, which was held this year with a minimum of display. Wonderful sunshine made up for any lack of pre-war glory Mr. C. A. Elliott, headmaster of Eton since 1933, chatted^ in the shade to General Smith. Mr. Elliott ...

... The j Marchioness of Londonderry and Her Youngest Daughter In 1915 Lady Londonderry founded the Women's Legion, the pioneer women's Service in the Army. She became the first President of the Legion and still is its President. Commandant of the Legion is Mrs. Marjoric Robert, who controls the fleet of mobile canteens which daily travel throughout London and the outlying districts distributing ...

... ■/4 By Sabretache The Leopard Cannot T a time when the world was attempting j\ to disarm Germany, he [Von Bock] L A. shocked the post-war politicians by pro claiming publicly that wars are not only in evitable but essential as population regulators. He also advanced the fantastic theory that, if land is to bring forth fertile crops and a thriving humanity, it must be drenched periodically in ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By foresight Lethargy THE loss of Singapore is more disturbing in lengthening retrospect than it was in contemplation. There are two reasons which make me feel this very deeply. In contemplating the fall of this costly naval stronghold (as all wise men must have done) one found opinion steady and convinced that there was going to be an historic stand. It was one of those ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country The Queen's Interest HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN has been round and about a good deal in London of late, and the charm of her smiling presence has added to the pleasure and dis tinction of a number of different occasions, from a show of lace gifts at the Royal School of Needlework, in aid of the Fund for Officers' Families, to demonstrations of the latest ...