... THE OUTLOOK FOR THE BRITISH SPORTSMAN Practically Every Sport and Popular Game Indoor as well as Outdoor is now being Affected by Wartime Restrictions and Shortages. This Article Goes Over the Whole Field and Shows the Difficulties from which All Types of Recreation are Suffering To-day By CHARLES GRAVES A SUB-EDITOR in the Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald recently showed his flair for ...

... TWO NEW DANGER-POINTS in the BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS The Importance to the Allies of Fort Lamy, in Central Africa, and of the Vichy- Con t ro 1 1 ed Island of Madagascar By FERDINAND TUOHY OFFENSIVE action in defence of communi cations seems to epitomise the newest and most pressing task, self-recognised, of the United Nations. The best chance the Triple Axis has of winning is to cut as ...

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... . VERA LYNN, actress and radio star 44 Sweetheart of the Forces is letting the shredding machine eat up her fan mail to aid munition-making. Have you turned out your old letters for the same good cause Film-star ROBERT YOUNG, now a sergeant in the U.S. Army looks as if military life gave him a good appetite. He 's about to enjoy a meal after being on a spell of driving duly with the ...

... . Left 44 HEART OF A CITY, presented by Gilbert Miller in Netv York, is inspired by the story of how London7 s Windmill Theatre kept up its non-stop policy of enter tainment through the nightly 44 blitz 77 of 1940. This is the scene set in the star dressing-room, where the girls slept on raid nights. DENNIS HOEY and JEAN McNALLY as Leo Saddle and Frenchie in one of the scenes. Toni (MARGOT ...

... THE PROFESSOR 'S ON HIS WAY I 'm on my t cay ioyi Professor Potts (GARY COOPER), setting into his stride when he finds himself out of step with Sugarpuss (V Shea's ideas on love and life, in Sam Golduyn's ne w picture, Ball of Fire,'' due at the Gaumont, Haymarket, on March 22. BARBARA STANWYCK, who plays Sugarpuss the burlesque dancer, eventually succeeds in making the serious young Professor ...

... : The SEVEN KERSTENS CHILDREN came across three continents with their mother Mme. SybUla Kerstens, from Java to England. Their father is Dutch Minister of Economics and Shipping. The Dutch are push-bike fans and the children have been given new bicycles. The G.W.R. has sacrificed historical documents in the cause of munitions. Records going back for years are being carted off from the book ...

... . ROBERT MORLEY, brilliant and accomplished actor, is drawing big houses to the Savoy to see him in the 44 rich, ripe part of Sheridan Whiteside, the title-role of 44 The Man Who Came to Dinner the amusing play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. He will be seen as Charles James Fox in the forthcoming film 44 The Young Mr. Pitt, and, as 44 Sketch readers ivill remember from our recently ...

... . THE Arosa Ice Kink of the Richmond Sports-Drome was the scene of a notable party when skaters got together to entertain MISS MELITTA BRUNNER, the ice ballerina whose Ballet Eurhythmic and Dancing Classes on Ice are so well known. Miss Brunner is a distinguished skater, winner of the N.S.A. gold medal and of the world's professional championship in 1932. Sonja Henie, Sir Samuel Hoare and ...

... LITTLE-ODD-OLD GENERAL SUVOROV, WHO NEVER LOST A BATTLE. 'GENERAL SUVO- v_J ROV has been produced at the Tatler Theatre in its season of Soviet films. Suvorov (1730-1800) is the General who never lost a battle. He was called General Forward and Field -Marshal Private by his men and was as eccentric as he was bril liant. He usually ap peared in his shirt, and when he wore uniform it was ...

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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 ...