... THE SERVICES TO-DAY NEED THE BCK3CS I DAWN PATROL The price of our safety is ceaseless vigilance. In the chill hours before daybreak our young airmen go aloft, watching the sea approaches of our island, shepherding in the convoys bringing food and munitions of war. As you read this, think of what you owe to these young defenders. What can you do for them in return Send a cheque to the Y.M.C.A. ...

... frs we Aw War always takes highest toll of the choicest products. It is these which require the best ingredients and the best ingredients are the most severely rationed. So if you have difficulty in getting your favourite Huntley Palmers Biscuits, please remember that their scarcity is the best tribute to their quality. To meet Government requirements Huntley Palmers Biscuits are now made of ...

... Summer IV atur e W alk in the IvHiu'.v $ieaiotvs tmti the Hedtferotvs By B. Melville IVieliolas THE path that follows the winding stream down the bracken- covered slope and into the woods is never more lovely than in summer when the honeysuckle drapes its fragrant flowers over the hedges, and the meadow-sweet raises its blooms from the ditch. Walking quietly onwards along this peaceful path, ...

... j C^3rirnrviing d^)ver QM QM,. It 's 110 secret. Yon too can be at the top of i your form if you learn to look after your body S It is impossible to blazon your way through life with vitality banners flying unless you keep your body healthy inside, and see that stomach, liver and other im portant organs are all functioning pro perly; that you are getting enough nutriment and sleep to keep your ...

... VAN T ONI THE H 0 II E OF VAXTONA TEXTILES Even for her wartime emergency home Mabel Constanduros, the well-known radio star, chooses Vantona Court Bedcovers and Curtains to match and, of course, Vantona Towels. It is not unusual for people of discriminating taste to select Vantona Textiles for brighten ing and enlivening the home and for that durability which is so important these days. ...

... XUGGCT BOOT POLISH j I It Shines in I the Services NUGGET 4 BOOT POLISH ...

... UTILITY LINGERIE WASHING FROCKS AND JUMPER SUITS WASHING or tub frocks, as they are sometimes called, are really of importance. Women in the Services and other war workers are always pleased when they can abandon, if only for a few hours, their working kit. Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, are making a feature of dresses that will directly appeal to them. It seems almost unneces sary ...

... IUVSELF M THE PICTURES By George Campbell Decline and Jail in Shanghai SOMEBODY in New York, about fifteen years, ago, wrote a play called, I don't quite know why, The Shanghai Gesture. It was all fearfully daring. The scene was the biggest brothel in the world, the proprietress was known as Madam Goddam, and the most spectacular scene, if I remember rightly, was the auctioning of a dozen ...

... Ophelia and the Queen of Denmark T unbridxe-Sedgwick Typical of the magnificent costumes designed by Leslie Hurry for the Sadler's Wells production of Hamlet are the dresses of Ophelia and the Queen. Both in colouring and design they are exquisite. Margot Fonteyn as Ophelia stands with Celia Franca the Queen, against a background of. Leslie Hurry's original sketches. On the extreme left the ...

... The Duchess of Marlborough and her two eldest daughters, Lady Sarah Spencer- Churchill, who is twenty, and Lady Caroline; eighteen, are carrying on the Marlborough tradition of public service. While Lady Sarah, works daily as a driller in a munition factory and Lady Caroline is washing up dishes at a communal restaurant, the Duchess, as Red Cross President for Oxfordshire, is organising her ...

... Hamlet The First Performance of Robert Helpmann's New Ballet In Aid of Mrs. Churchill's Aid to Russia Fund Mrs. Phillips sat next to Mrs. Winston Churchill at the first night of 44 Hamlet at the Ne to Theatre. The proceeds of the performance were given to Mrs. ChurchilCs fund for Russia M. Maisky, the Russian Ambassador, went with Mme. Maisky to 44 Hamlet ,n Robert Helpmann's delightful new ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen What We Want to Know MR. HAROLD NICOLSON diagnoses, and does much to disperse, an anxious bewilder ment on the part of the general public as to the nature and functions, even the aims, of diplomacy. There has been a tendency to regard this subject as esoteric. Degrees of ignorance have, in some quarters, set up preju dice against what looks like a haughty mystery. The ...