... A bout the middle of February a new place-name suddenly appeared in the war news. It may safely be said that the name Aruba meant little or nothing to the average lay reader, although to the oil world this oil-refinery island off the coast of Venezuela was a very well-known and notable spot. It came into the news by reason of a number of attacks by enemy U-boats. Both Aruba and the ...

... Continued from page 304) On the question of luck, there is no doubt it has been with us at least once in this war, on the sinking of the Bismarck. This brand-new thirty- five-thousand-tonner was dangerously near the safety of the French coast when, for the second time in the hunt, one of our planes defied the hail of flak to score a hit with a torpedo. This time it hit the most vulnerable spot ...

... THE FIRST AID TO RUSSIA DEMONSTRATION IN AUSTRALIA: This picture comes from Melbourne, a city notable for the number and variety of its street processions to celebrate all kinds of occasions. It shows the first Aid to Russia demonstration ever held in the Commonwealth. The scene here is the intersection of Flinders and Stanton Streets a decorated car bears portraits of Stalin and Churchill, ...

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... IYSELE AT THE PICTURES By James Agate Small Voxm Jilm ONE of the things which constantly astonishes me is the intrepidity with which playwrights and novelists insist on writing glibly about matters of which they have no understanding. Even critics. The normally accurate William Archer once fell into this trap, and his introduction to the Master Builder contains this Frightful Warning to ...

... t/'tx By Elizabeth Bowen Yugoslavia BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON (Mac millan; £2 2s.) is a book that has taken its author five years to write. Not only the excellence of its finish, but the variety of its contents will explain why. The two volumes are packed with sometimes delightful, sometimes tragic, but always very important stuff. Superficially, one might call this a travel-book, and the ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Panto. Party CHILDREN Who were taken to see Jack and Jill at the Palace recently had a lovely surprise awaiting them. They found there not only the traditional fairy princess, but two real princesses, our own Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. I he royal princesses were dressed alike, m dusty rose, and stood one each side of the Queen in ...

... Moscow Bells Opera, Ballet and Musical Comedy at the Coliseum Lukomsky9 s Curtain in The Great Fire of Moscow 99 Professor Lukomsky designed the curtain for one of the most spectacular scenes in the Anglo- Russian show at the Coliseum 44 The Great Fire of Moscow. Born Prince Lukomsky, the artist was curator of the Tzar's treasures at Tzarskoe Selo till 1917, and was kept on at his post when ...

... 46 Comus I Robert Helpmann's First Ballet is Based on Milton's Masque, With Purcell Music 44 Come, let us our rites begin *Tis only daylight that makes sin In the woodland scene designed for their revelry by Oliver Messel, Comus's 44 rout of monstersy headed like sundry sorts of wild beasts, but otherwise like men and women, welcome midnight with grotesque and clumsy dancing. Their master, a ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Family Group QUEEN VICTORIA, who was to stamp her own reign with such a titanic respecta bility, was herself the child of a dashing age and of a family noted for high living. More than this, the blonde, discreet, plump little girl grew up in an atmosphere tense with domestic intrigues that had political, sometimes international, interests behind them. In and round the ...

... 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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