... This photograph was taken after the christening of the month-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, on August 4, which was also the anniversary of the Queen's birthday. The little Prince was given the names ofjllichael George Charles Franklin. lie was horn on July 4, American Independence Day, and has President Roosevelt as one of his godfathers. The Duke of Kent stood proxy for the ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES American and English By James Agate ANYBODY who has toured the battlefields of the last war must remember the monument to Guynemer. This is essen tially French in its exquisiteness of form, and also, be it said, in the unashamed rhetoric, almost the theatricality, of its inscription. At the top of a tall and elegant column is a flying stork, neck and legs outstretched, ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Historical Gift Repaid tcith Interest Two hundred years ago, Queen Caroline of England, while acting as Regent in the absence of George II. {who was away from home on one of his frequent visits to his other kingdom of Hanover), sent £300 to one Thomas Lee, a Virginian magistrate, in sym pathy with him at the loss of his home, which had been burnt down ...

... Film Premiere Raises £4,000 for I A.T.C. Welfare The first showing of Eagle Squadron was given in aid of the A.T.C. Welfare Fund, and the magnificent sum of £4,000 which was raised will be used to supple ment funds given locally to pay for canteens, sports meetings and all those other little extras which help to make camp life like home. With a foreword written and spoken by Quentin Reynolds, ...

... For more than thirty-five years Mr. Basil Dean, actor, producing-manager, stage-director and dramatic atithor, has made the theatre his all-absorbing interest. Originally intended for the Diplomatic Service, he early found the fascination of the theatre too strong for him and in 1905, when seventeen years old, made his first appearance on the stage at the Opera House, Cheltenham, as Trip in ...

... Adlington Hall Home of the Leghs for Six Centuries Is Now a Maternity Home Georgian columns facing south make an imposing background for one of the white ambulances used by the hospital Seeing off a patient from the Elizabethan court yard on the eastern side of Adlington Ii ...

... Mrs. Lyle with Rosemary and Margaret Mrs. Lyle, who comes from South Africa, is the wife of Lieut. Ian Duff Lyle. She is working for the W.V.S., while her husband is serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Their two little girls, seen here with their mother, are called Rosemary and Margaret. Barring- ton Court, home of the Lyles, in Somerset, is the property of the National Trust, and at ...

... 7^-. By Elizabeth Bowen Study of a King THE king-figure makes a great subject for drama: a human being called to a super human position never fails to stir the imagination. Shakespeare's succession of royal heroes comes most immediately to the English mind as examples of kings resurrected by poetry. But the tradition comes from the Greeks. There was more to this choice of a royal subject than ...

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... FOUR P.CTURES FROM THE EGYPTIAN DESERT THE RESULT OF A SUCCESSFUL ATTACK LAUNCHED BY THE NEW ZEALANDERS IN THE EL ALAMEIN AREA A destroyed German 88-mm. anti-tank gun found in an enemy laager. These guns are of a type too heavy to move, and were therefore blown up by our men New Zealand troops in the Alamein area recently made a most successful attack on the enemy, surprising and wiping out a ...

... The Rising Tide of Anger against Nazi Excesses is Leading to Demands that We Play Rough with the Enemy, Instead of Fighting on more Traditional, Honourable Lines. Comparison is here Made Between the Methods of Warfare Pursued by Germany and Britain To-day By FERDINAND TUOHY JAN MASARYK, Czechoslovak Deputy Prime Minister and man of insight and punch, pro vokes a remunerative line of thought ...