... WAY #F THE WAR By Jortsighi This Decisive Year IN all quarters it is now recognised that 1942 may prove to be the decisive year of the war. The next nine months can determine whether it is to be victory or some thing hardly distinguishable from defeat. Germany is hard pressed. By their constant harrying of the enemy throughout the winter the Russians have greatly increased the diffi culties of ...

... A Family of Three Captain and Mrs. George Brodrick and Mhari Mother and Daughter Snow Scene The Brodricks at Home Photographs by Comptoii Collier These pictures of Captain George Brodrick and his wife and small daughter were taken in Surrey, at the old farmhouse which is now their home. Captain Brodrick, who is in the Irish Guards, is the Countess of Midleton's only son by her first husband, ...

... Red Cross Parcels for Prisoners Packing at Two Centres These packers are all voluntary workers at the North Row Centre and the Next of Kin Centre, Finsbury Circus. From North Row, hundreds of food parcels are despatched and finally delivered to every British and Dominion prisoner of war and interned civilian through out Germany and Italy. Each one contains a balanced diet to supplement what is ...

... By Elizabeth Bo wen Honesty MR. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S Strictly Per sonal (Heinemann; 8s. 6d.) is remarkable as an inside document, as well as ex cellent as a book. A good deal that he has written, in these pages, must have been painful to write-- or, at least, the result of painful ex perience. Though Strictly Personal touches a number of other topics, its main theme is France-- France on from ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Hudson Evans Groom Dr. Michael L. Hudson Evans M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., son of Dr. and Mrs. F. Hudson Evans of i Lewis ham, married Winifred Groom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Groom, of Carlton Crescent, Luton at the Church Star of the Sea, Greenwich Conroy Tur goose Lieut. James Terence Conroy, Lancashire Fusiliers younger son of ...

... The Countess of Lewes The Countess of Lewes married in 1938 John Henry Guy Lamach-Nevill, Earl of Lewes, elder son and heir of Lord Abergavenny, of Eridge Castle, Tunbridge Wells. Lady Lewes was formerly Miss Mary Patricia Harrison, and is the fourth of Major and the Hon. Mrs. John Fcnwick Harrison's eight daughters, and a grand-daughter of Lord Burnham her parent's home is King's Walden Bury, ...

... La Belle Helene The Opera-Ballet from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, at the Strand Theatre In the opening ballet of La Belle Helene, the three goddesses, Juno Sally Gilmour), Venus Sara Luzita and Minerva (Elizabeth Schooling) indulge in a terpsichorean competition for the love of Paris Frank Staff) Paris offers a golden apple to the winner. Venus Juno and Minerva plead in turn for his ...

... London Headquarters of the U.S.A. I j Mr. John Winant and His Staff at the American Embassy In Grosvenor Square London, an imposing' building, guarded day and night by U.S. Marines, houses the staff of the American Embassy. Here the Ambassador, Mr. John Winant, spends most of his working day j when in this country 1 Mr. Don C. Bliss is the Commercial Attache. He came to this country last year ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES By James Agate A Jilm About Ijou and 7 )\c I WAS looking the other clay into a volume of essays by a dear friend of mine, the late Basil Macdonald Hastings. The essays look like being forgotten, which would be a pity since Mac, besides wielding a delightful pen, was full of the one quality which makes a good essayist, the gift of curious observation married to a sense of ...

... How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn's Best Seller of 1940 on the Screen Director John Ford, who won the 1935 Academy Award for the finest directing of the year with The Informer has again been honoured for his direction of How Green Wan My Valley which is classed as the out standing picture of the year. He has converted Richard Llewellyn's heroic story of a family of Welsh coal miners, ...

... After Pearl Harbour Film Premiere in Blacked-Out Hollywood World premiere of Sundown took place in Hollywood on December 8tli, twenty- four hours after America's declaration of war. It marked the end of a day tense with excitement. That morning all schools in Los Angeles had been closed down. A rigid black-out order was enforced. Many well-known film stars, among them Clark Gable, Ronald ...

... The Earl of Jersey married in 1937, as his second wife, Miss Virginia CherrilJ, daughter of Mr. James Cherrill, of Hollywood, U.S.A. She was formerly Mrs. Carv Grant, and made her name in films as leading lady in Charlie Chaplin's first talkie. City Lights. Lord Jersey, who succeeded to the title in 1923 on the death of his father, was first married to Miss Patricia Richards, by whom he has a ...