... . Brigadier (acting) JOHN CHARLES CAMPBELL, D.S.O., M.C., Royal Horse Artillery, has been awarded the twenty-seventh V.C. of the war for his most conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Sidi Rezegh on Novem ber 21 and 22, 1941. He has created a remark able record by being awarded the V.C. and D.S.O. and bar within ten months. He also holds the M.C., which he gained in 1919. The first ...

... . MRS. PERCIVAL is the wife of Li exit. -General Arthur Ernest Percival, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., who defended Singapore against the Japanese hordes until lack of water, food and supplies forced him to surrender. She sent a message to the women of Britain through a daily paper saying The duty of wives at home is to go on showing that they are not second in courage to [3 their fighting ...

... THE 44 BRAINS TRUST, or B.B.C. Oracle, which guarantees to provide information and entertainment by answering questions put to it, was founded on a cold and dismal January day in 1911 when London had been taking it through a long winter of almost continuous air raids. As a result of the first session. Professor Joad Commander A. B. Campbell, and Dr. Julian Huxley received fifteen questions. ...

... BLACK i WH ITE BLACK i WH ITE £cofch! V A REAL TREAT To men who have an appreciation for fine whisky, a glass of Black and White is always cl Yectl tYCClt. ...

... Comus and the Lady Anthony Ballet is a magpie art, thieving unscrupulously from the rich stores of its sisters, here a poem, there a picture, and from somewhere else a symphony. Sometimes its thefts stir the critic's fury sometimes a true creator's touch reveals new magic in old beauty, translating for to-day's public the remoter language of another century. Robert Helpmann, the latest thief, ...

... 3ne Star Differeth From Another1 Rise Stevens Youngest-Teamed Star Rise Stevens made her screen dSbut with Nelson Eddy in 44 The Chocolate Soldier 11 a film based on Molnar's 44 The Guardsman 11 with music by Oscar Straus. She is a star of the Metropolitan Opera House New York. Her voice is lovely her eyes are naturally mocking, she has a rare sense of comedy and she is easy on the eyes. Can ...

... BRIDES, BRIDEGROOMS, WAR-WORKERS, ARTISTS: ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF TO-DAY. KEY LARGO, new play by Maxwell Anderson was given its English premiere by the Cambridge A.D.C. MICHAEL BENNETT played the hero, an American volunteer in Spain who deserts when he thinks his cause lost and finds life with courage lost is not worth living. This is Act I., the gambling scene. MISS CHRISTINA CHAN, ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Saunders Furber Capt. HughSatmders, 0. attd B. L. son of Mr. and Mrs. .4. P. Saunders, of Latchmore Cottage, Gerrard's Cross, married Patricia Furber, daughter of Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. C. T. Furber, of 62, Queensborough Terrace, W., at St. James's Spanish Place Loftus de la Pasture Maurice Pierse Murrough Loftus, Scots Guards, son of Captain and Mrs ...

... By Pamela Murray 77ie Transient Pattern OVERHEAD roars a patrol nosing seaward after the submarine which sank a tanker off Long Island, bringing war to the doors of commuters, as they call suburban daily-breaders. Someone from the Boy Scouts telephones to know if our waste paper has been packaged (instead of tied up in bundles) and weighed for collection. Someone else wants old Christmas ...

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... Greta Garbo. The Stars Are Unto Her As Raiment Swedish Sphinx, Hollywood's Mystery Woman, call her what you will, Garbo remains in the opinion of many the most brilliant star of all. The Garbo legend of silence and inscrutability is not without foundation. It is based on a genuinely natural shyness and an overpowering and sincere desire for privacy. The first press interview with Garbo on ...

... The Hon. Eric and the Hon. Mrs. Butler-Henderson Entertain Their Children and Grandchildren The Hon. Eric Butler-Henderson and the Hon. Mrs. Butler- Henderson had a large family gathering at their Hampshire home, Faccombe Manor, when the Army leave of two of their sons and of both their sons-in-law coincided. The Hon. Eric Brand Henderson, the younger son of the late Lord Faringdon, married ...