... j With little chance to sell its breezes these days, Brighton Corporation has turned from visitors and amusements to vegetables and agriculture. It is an example of self-help and enterprise the sort of effort that every town in the country should be making, for it leads to victory. BRIGHTON'S enterprising scheme for the production of food in 1942 will very greatly exceed anything that the ...

... English Market Garden A Lesson in Intensive Cultivation SOMEHOW or another the impression of England before the war was that we were rather behind the times in everything. It seemed easier for people to rush about the world collecting stories and pictures of other nations' activities and abilities than to look around at home. Numerous societies sprang up to encourage international relations ...

... (riv The Derby Justified The Breeding of Big Game WE have had our Derby and its running has, I think, been justified. The Oaks, too, has been run and the halfway stage in the season is over. A few more essential races are yet to be decided, notably the Gold Cup, a St. Leger, some two- year-old races and, if possible, a Cesarewitch. This last, if it is to be run. might be framed as a conditions ...

... ROMFORD-- Trentham Park-- Peter borough Milton. Red Cross golf matches at these three clubs raised well over £1,700; the figures at the time of going to press are £450 at Romford, over £800 at Trentham Park, and over £450 at Peterborough. Splendid efforts of organisa tion and handsome gestures of generosity in support of a great charity. On the day we played at the Romford Golf Club the course ...

... By A. Croxton Smith A FRIEND who manages to find time to attend many of the week-end shows that seem to afford much pleasure, called on me the other day to discuss certain aspects of these diversions that are giving him concern. That they are appreciated is evident from the fact that more than 300 were held last year, but for all that it does not do to attach too much importance to them or to ...

... The latest portrait of Princess Alice to reach this country from Ottawa shows H.R.H. in the blue uniform of the Royal Canadian Air Force (Women's Division) in which she holds the high rank of Air Commandant. H.E. The Earl of Athlone was appointed Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of Canada in 1940. Their daughter, Lady May Abel Smith is now in Canada with her parents, ...

... Bedtime Story Loretta Young and Fredric March (Regal) (Right) Jane and Lucius take a last look round the now empty theatre. Robert Benchley who plays Eddie the Drakes'1 business manager, is on the left Jane rake Loretta Young) is the leading lady c the Broadway stage. She is anxious to reti into domesticity but her playwright husba Lucius Drake (Fredric March) contin s to pen successful new ...

... Mrs. Patrick Needham and Richard Mrs. Patrick Needham is the young est daughter of the late Sir Lionel Faudel- Phillips, Bt., and married in 1941 Captain Patrick Needham, elder son of Major the Hon. Francis Needham, and a nephew of the Earl of Kilmorey. Captain Needham is in the Grenadier Guards, and his younger brother, Arthur, is in the same regiment. The \Patrick Need- hams have one small ...

... forking for the Common Cause Mrs. A. V. Alexander wife of the First Lord of the Admiralty showed great interest in the mobile canteen exhibited at the Salvation Army Exhibition at Dorland Hall. This canteen is something to be proud of for 2,000 meals can be served before the canteen has to return to base for further supplies Lady Violet Astor, representing Lieut. -Colonel the Hon. J. J. Astor, ...

... Champion Plugs pep up power The full combustion you get from Champion's strong, hot sparks means JKX pepped up power on even ageing cars. You save petrol too, ease engine strain, start more easily, run The scientific Sillment Sealing of Champion Plugs explains their unique efficiency. Sill ment is a dry powder which when compressed forms an absolute seal against that leakage at the shoulder ...

... , , 1 Beaufort House, Gravel Lane, London, E.l. Telephone Bishopsgate (i565. Send remittance as above, and state height and chest measurements. Place your order NOW Stocks arc getting low. II And this man is still alive Most Naval men choose the Vitabuoy because its buoyancy might be invaluable in emergency. Paymaster Lieutenant R.N., found its fire-resisting properties almost as valuable. ...

... MALTA George Cross Island of an Heroic People, which has Already Endured Well Over 2.000 Bombing Attacks IT is difficult for us who knew Malta in its light-hearted days to picture it in its new role of a beleaguered fortress, at present the most bombed in the world. Pre-war Malta, for all its consciousness of surrounding unease (in 1933 trenches dug along the front for gas-pipes were ...