... HOW THE R.A.F. ARE WAGING WARFARE, UNDER VERY ARDUOUS CONDITIONS, IN NORTH AFRICA. From dawn onwards, the fighter-pilots on their improvised airfields are ready to take the air in their Spitfires to beat back the Luftwaffe raiders- Drawing by Roland Davies In the campaign against the Nazi raiders over the British I First Army, the Spitfire pilots rise before dawn and are in the sky almost at ...

... A Summary of His Abilities and Deficiencies in the Field. By DOUGAL GORDON THE opportunity of seeing how they behave under a little adversity is just as valuable when assessing one's enemies as one's friends. Opinions as to the merits of the Japanese soldier up to, say, January 1942, had to be based on his series of almost unrelieved successes. Since then, in two of the three fronts Op which ...

... ROMANCE, ACHIEVEMENT AH DVENTURE: all topical pictures. This desert patissier produces admirable cakes for the men of an Australian squadron in Tripolitania. His goods are baked in an under-sand oven, ingeniously constructed of petrol cans and fitted icith a petrol-can chimney and cowl. LIEUT. EL WOOD COOKE, U.S.N. was formerly America's No. 2 /(iirnial amateur and MRS. COOKE was Sarah Palfrey ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- H.M.S. RENOWN SEES STARS. THE CREWS OF MALTA'S HIGH-SPEED LAUNCHES-- for having rescued from the sea hundreds of airmen shot down during the blitz THE 44 blitz over Malta, G.C., has been the occasion for countless acts of heroism, not least on the part of the CREWS OF THE HIGH SPEED LAUNCHES stationed there, who have, sometimes through great storms, during the last year ...

... . As the Witch of 44 Jack and Jill at 1 1 is Majesty's, ILEANA SILVA glW? 0 great back-stage performance in the art of transforming her charming faC* into a properly frightening witch visage. We give you eight stages in this miracle of maquillage, just to show what a little face treatment will do. PHOTOGRAPHS BY SWAEBF.. ...

... TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE-AY AS A MARY MARTIN DANCE. Star of the five-star 44 Happy Go Lucky Technicolor musical at the Plaza MARY MARTIN as the Neiv York cigarette girl who blues her all on a trousseau en route for a Caribbean island and a 44 poor rich fish, has thirteen changes of costume and no stockings. Mary teas a dancer before ever she dreamed of singing as a profession and in this film the ...

... i JAEGER are particularly successful in creating dresses for every daytime occasion they are exercising great care in never permitting any glamorous notes. The one above introduces the peg-top silhouette in its spring form. As will be seen, it has curved pockets, unpressed pleats, a neat neck-line and tight sleeves it is carried out in wool jersey. Outfits for the younger people have been ...

... QUALITY The policy of a firm controls its destiny. This subtle yet vital element throughout a firm defines its aims and governs its achievements. The Chatwood policy has always been to confine its efforts to the production of work of quality. Craftsman ship is placed before material gain. There is throughout the firm a definite atmosphere of continuous mental stocktaking. The reputation of ...

... M\ OF THE WAR By Foresight Progress WE are promised that the North African political tangle will be unravelled soon, and some go so far as to say that it will be a pointer to the pattern of the peace. There is considerable optimism in American quarters, which is reflected to some extent, but not as wholeheartedly, in Whitehall. Undoubtedly, as I write, we are on the eye of big developments, ...

... red and Rita Dancing Partners in /ou Were Never Lovelier Fre Astaire and Rita Hayworth are together aga this time in You Were Never Lovelier dire d by William A. Seiter and now showing for the st time in this country at the Gaumont, Ha; irket. With such stars as these, dancing moi rilliantly and spectacularly than ever, to the usic of Jerome Kern the story itself is rela ly unimportant. ...

... Mr. M. C. Thursby-Pelham and Miss R. M. L. Willson Married at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks Wedding speech by Mr. Mervyn Christopher Thursby- Pelham, Welsh Guards, at the reception after his marriage to Miss Rachel Mary Latimer Willson Sir Walter and Lady Willson1 s second daughter. He is the only son of Captain and Mrs. N. C, Thursby-Pelham, of Meole Grange Shrewsbury Itu n,V ...

... Miss Joan Perkins, who was in charge of one of the Fun Fair stalls, was visited by Princess Irene Obolensky, a member of the committee, and Colonel Rowan of the U.S. Army The Lady Victor Paget (vice-chairman, icith the Countess of (Jersey and Lady Waddilove found a willing purchaser in Major E. Hungerford, of the American Army Mrs. W G. Corfield dealt with the shilling-subscription forms for a ...