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... 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 ...
... THE CANNON-GUNS OF A BRITISH FIGHTER AIRCRAFT THE WEAPONS WHICH HAVE BEEN USED BY THE R.A.F. DURING THEIR DAYLIGHT SWEEPS ON ENEMY TERRITORY AND FOR LOW-ALTITUDE ATTACKS ON GERMAN SHIPPING Dy day, fighters of the R.A.F. are carrying out daring sweeps over Northern France and Belgium they are also attacking enemy shipping all along the Occupied Coasts. Fighters armed with cannon such as that ...
... H.M. SUBMARINE UTMOST RETURNS After a year of very useful service in the Mediterranean THE BRITISH FLEET ON WAR SERVICE A DESTROYER HAS JUST RECEIVED A SIGNAL WHICH WARNS OF AN IMPENDING ATTACK BY HOSTILE AIRCRAFT: Gun-crews immediately take up their Action Stations and maintain a careful watch OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE CREW AT THEIR STATIONS, with the commanding officer at the periscope ...
... _ One of the answers to What is the American Ull Fleet Doing Special Sphere Drawings and Diagrams PART OF THE NAVAL FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC ARE BASED ON NEW ZEALAND At one time this area was considered a vulnerablf one, but it lies considerably to the south of the Australian continent in fact, south of the Roaring Forties Special Sphere Map Speculation as to where ...
... The CONQUEST of the PACIFIC With the Capture of Java, the Japs are now Masters of the whole South-West Ocean This conquest has been achieved within the incredibly short space of three months THREE MONTHS OF NON-STOP OFFENSIVE BY JAPAN, on land, by sea and in the air and what it has achieved for the I attackers month by month (see key in bottom left-hand corner). The map inset on the right also ...
... 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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... 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 ...