... The Best Play Since the War Watch on the Rhine, at the Aldwych Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine., the finest American play of 1941, is now repeating its Broadway success in London. Victim of political persecution, penniless and exiled, Kurt Miiller, German anti-Nazi agent, is brought by Sara, his American wife, to the peaceful haven of her family's Washington home. The Midlers' three ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By foresight Tactics, Not Strategy HITLER'S attack on the Kerch Peninsula now appears in its proper perspective. It has been purely tactical, and only a preliminary to his grand spring strategy. Stalin was quick to appreciate this. Timo- shenko did not waste any time in launching a counter tactical offensive at Kharkov. This was to create a nuisance and if Hitler was compelled ...

... Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy Marriage Versus Career Film at the Empire Sam Craig Spencer Tracy) sports writer on the 44 New York Chronicle is having a feud in his columns ivith Tess Harding Katharine Hepburn who writes an international column for the 44 Chronicle The two meet for the first time when jointly reprimanded by the paper's managing editor and are mutually attracted ...

... Behind the Scenes A New Ballet is Created Last week the first per formance of Robert Help- mann's ballet, Hamlet, was given in aid of Mrs. Chur- chill's Aid-to-Russia Fund. The performance was attended by Mrs. Churchill with the Soviet Ambassador and Mme. Maisky. This was a tribute not only to our gallant allies, but particu larly to the Russian Ballet, on whose traditions the Sadler's Wells ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country II. M. Queen Mary QUEEN MARY very rarely appears with the King and Queen at' an official function: and Her Majesty had a very warm wel come, therefore, last week, when she accom panied them on their visits to the Guards Armoured Division and the Airborne Division down in Southern Command. Queen Mary's absence from the public scene is only partly due ...

... Fine and Dandy, Stylishly Staged, Lives Up to its Name at the Saville Gay opening the Company arrive by carriage and pair and are announced by the flunkeys. Leslie Henson comes by bus and punches his own ticket. The party *s on Left Tribute to Russia Graham Payn as Kapok Douglas Byng as materfamilias and Leslie Henson as the Impresario and com pere. 44 The Story of the Steppes a burlesque of ...

... A Man of Importance Colonel J. J. Llewellin, Minister of Aircraft Production During the first week in Feb ruary Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Vircraft Production since its formation in 1 910, became President of the Board of Trade. Eighteen days later he suc ceeded Lieut. -Colonel Moore- Brabazon, now Lord Brabazon, as Minister of Aircraft Produc ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Commandos in 1922 A QUITE uncanny case of prescience is dis closed in one of the stories in Blackwood Tales from the Outposts-- Tales of the Border (William Blackwood and Sons; 4s.), written by Lieut.-Colonel L. V. S. Blacker, formerly in the Guides of the Frontier Force and now in the Field Artillery, and inventor of the Bombard, now issued to the Home Guard. The story is ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen They Say FOR France, the years 1870-1875 were packed with false hopes and horribly real disasters, intrigues and courage, cynicism and piety. Letters from Paris, written by C. de B., a political informant, to the head of the London House of Rothschild, edited and translated by Robert Henrey (Dent; 15s.), give a contemporary account of those fateful years. The letters are in ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings du Vivier Swann Lieut. Paul Edward du Vivier R.E., only son of Mr. Joseph Evariste du Vivier and of Mrs. Phyllis Carlish of 7, Burnsall Street Chelsea aw/ Joan Beryl Swann only daughter of Mr. A. IV. Swann, of Leicester, and Mrs. Swann, of Worthing, Sussex, were married at Brompton Oratory Mrs. D. A. A. Treheme Daphne Fairlie B alders, daughter of ...

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