... MAY 29, 1942 TVi/j/ X tlie Safety glass FORTNIGHTLY The Illustrated SPOKITINQ and DRAMATIC News SPORT COUNTRY? ...

... THERE is a show running in Birming-- ham and it costs 6d. to get in. The success of the event is amply proved by the fact that the first Saturday's entrance- takings more than paid for the whole 14 days cost of the show-- personnel, wages, property and effects! It isn't a circus, it isn't a dog track or even an open air theatre. It's far more important. It is a practical demonstration of every ...

... Big Top at His Majesty's MR. C. B. COCHRAN could not produce a poor revue if he tried (I don't suppose he ever has tried), and if Big Top, at His Majesty's, is not quite one of his best efforts, it is big enough and topping enough to provide plenty of first-rate entertainment. I fully enjoyed at least four-fifths of it. The author is Herbert Far j eon, another expert at his job. At least, ...

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... Prices including Purchase Tax SAVES STEEL Blue 1/3 for 5 Stainless 1/3 for 5 Thin 1/3 for 6 For the common wealth 'I Economy comes hard on that Brotherhood of Nations that has given the world its comforts from luxury ships to luxury shaving. Yet because it is well made the liner can join the Navy and because it is well made the Blade conserves the common wealth by its economy in use. 11 ...

... Two Royal Days The King s Unique Classic Double THE Court Circular of May 12 announced that among many distinguished visitors received at Buckingham Palace on that day were the Prime Minister of England and that gallant soldier. Sir William Dobbie. On the 13th, the King's visitors included the United States Ambassador, the Hon. john G. winant, and Admiral Stark. His Majesty, needless to say, ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 143 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A New Note of Confi dence.-- Usually When changes of opinion alter our view of war, those changes filter into our consciousness from a hundred sources, and very gradually. They are more like links in a chain of circumstantial evidence than a single and damning piece of direct evidence. But not always, the collapse ol f ranee was a single ...

... TRANSITION DAYS IN FRANCE'S EMPIRE Second Largest in the World, the French Colonial Empire is Now Being Thoroughly Shaken Up Owing to the Vichy Policy of Collaboration with the Germans By FERDINAND TUOHY PERHAPS it is as well that not more than two or three millions at most of the 60,000,000 populating the French Colonial Empire, the second largest in the world, are sitting up and taking ...

... CHAMPION SPARKING PLUGS Giving them all a lift is fine, but ever think about that overloaded engine Champion Plugs, with their Sillment Sealing, prevent gas-escape, increase power, give your engine better pull, easier running, smoother acceleration, reduce petrol and oil consumption. With petrol prices on the up-and-up, they're all asking the same thing how to get the utmost from their ration. ...

... . WE reproduce, by permission of Mrs. Margaret Drexel Biddle, an extract from her book, The Women-of England, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. It is taken from the chapter entitled Land Army. Mrs. Biddle, as explained on the preceding page, has worked hard to present to her countrywomen a picture of the vital con- tribution which is being made by English- women to the ...

... l rp\VICE a year (in spring and J autumn) all roads lead to Stow-on-the-Wold, five hundred 3 feet up on the Fosse Way, over which the Britons and the f Romans once travelled from the south coast of Devon away up to the Hhmber. The origin of Horse Fair Day is lost in the mists of the Gloucestershire Wolds, but the real selling- ground is still the main street, where up and down and round the ...

... Gui neas Day Exclusive Pictures of a Great Occasion 1 'Wbk _ i .'*t .rj. Where's that racecourse? A remarkable picture of Big Game leaving the paddock before the race. Gordon Richards, unusually grim takes a very tight hold. Gordon Richards s brother, Clifford, also had a win on Mrs. S. F. Raphael's Jeepers Creepers, in the Lavenham Handicap. Quartier Maitre (T. Carey was second and Starwort ...