... WAY OF THE WAR By foresight Reaction PENAL servitude for black market dealers. Utility suits for all. Abolition of pleasure petrol. Cries of conscription for all. We are in a period of movement and vast changes and these are the signs. I would like to believe, and indeed I hope, that here we have the rebirth of a nation. It is a long time back more than five years that Lord Caldecote, then Sir ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Royal Tour THEIR MAJESTIES returned from their first provincial visit of the year considerably heartened by what they had seen in the Midlands. It was an interesting, two-day programme which the King and Queen carried out, includ ing visits to several vast and important war factories, a tremendous shell filling factory, which comes under the Royal ...

... The Loves of Hoffmann George Kirsta's Conception of Jacques Offenbach's Famous Opera Act 1. At the Home of Olympia, Hoffmann's First Love Spalanzani (Werner Simon), a constructor of ingenious automata, and Coppelius Percy Heming), the mad optician whose features are those of Offenbach have between them created a doll a 44 sweet child who can sing and dance. She is named Olympia. Hoffmann ...

... R.A.F. Personalities Pilots, Pianist and Painter Wing Com. Percy C. Pickard, D.S.O., D.F. C., is already famous as the hero of 44 Target for To-night and for his many real, and far more hazardous adventures in the air. He was once more in the news as the leader of the R.A.F. carrying force which transported the parachute troops on their successjul raid on Bruneval. Ming his dog, who often ...

... BY M. E. BROOKE Nowadays blouses have a double duty to perform they must be decorative enough for semi-evening wear, and earlier in the day look well at lunch, forming a background for the becoming stoles in which chiifon and fur share honours. The latter is a revival of an old-world accessory. The blouse above is carried out in Celanese Ninon and is arranged with hishop sleeves and niched ...

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... The above striking picture is from an official Air Ministry photograph it was taken during the course of the low- altitude daylight raid by the R.A.F. on the Matford factory, which lies 10 miles to the north-west of Paris. This raid followed on the heavier attack on the Renault Works at Billan- court on the night of the 3rd (pictures of this attack are given on pp. 326-27 of the present issue ...

... 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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