... A fter performing some fine work in the Libyan campaign, the 7th Indian Brigade was cut off by the enemy when the latter recaptured Benghazi. The Brigade was operating in the SoIIuch area as General Rommel made his rapid advance towards El Gazala, it looked as if the British force would be cut off. But after much hard travelling for three days and nights, much of it through enemy territory the ...

... redetermined to switch the blame for the war on the French, the Germans insisted on the War Guilt Trial at Riom. But the proceedings are not going according to plan, if reports from Vichy be correct. The defendants include the two ex-Premiers, MM. Blum and Daladier (M. Reynaud is to follow later) General Gamelin, the French Generalissimo and other highly-placed former Ministers. Gamelin is ...

... ATTACK BY SUBMARINE The Shelling of Elwood, on the Californian Coast, and the U-boat Attacks on the Atlantic Coast Elwood is a huge oilfield and oil refinery on the Californian coast, some 8 miles north of Santa Barbara and some 80 miles north-west of Los Angeles. Here the field runs out actually under the sea it is made the more conspicuous by its giant derricks, some of which run out from ...

... Bv PHILIP PAGE STRANGE, perhaps, that two revivals should have been the outstanding features of 1942's theatrical activity so far-- an activity which at present is pretty healthy, and looks like remaining so. And yet not so very surprising, perhaps, when one considers that the two authors are B. Jonson and B. Shaw. Mr. Donald Wolfit rounded off his successful Shakespearean season with Jonson's ...

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... By Joresighl Indian Journey SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS has undertaken the most important mission of his career. He is on his way to India to produce a new constitution which will bring the people of India nearer to the goal of dominion status. No man ever undertook such a difficult task at such a difficult time. But the most significant thing is that Sir Stafford actually volunteered to undertake the ...

... Film Medley Slapstick, Spies, and Sentiment Bud Abbott Lou Costello Martha Raye 44 Keep Em Flying Leicester Square). Is slapstick comedy directed by Arthur Lubin. Bud and Lou /wo amusement park attendants who lose their jobs and enrol with patriotic ardour as mechanics at a flying academy keep the fun going with their girl friends Gloria a clinging vine type, and Barbara her twin sister a ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Williamson-Noble Till Sec-Lieut. Miles N. Williamson-Noble 7?.^., son of Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. F. A Williamson- Noble^ of 27, Harley Street W.i, and Denise M arson Till, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Till, of Northwood, Middlesex, were married at St. Mark's, North Audley Street Payne Cook Somerset Lieut. Andrew John Hugh Payne Cook, son ...

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... By James Agate SOME few days ago a kind friend sent me a copy of The Cornhill Magazine for 1876 in order that I might peruse an unsigned article on the Italian opera of the period. It was a good article, but next to it I came across real treasure-trove. This was an essay, also unsigned, on the Nature of Humour. As the article might-- though I do not think it will-- elucidate the problem of W ...