... TOUGHENING THE MEN= AMPHIBIAN COMMAND!] THE R.A.F. REGIMENT aining in progress. NEWS from the Western Desert has recently revealed that first time, successfully captured enemy uerodroines, togfj Regiment was instituted in January 1942, as a force designed Ij defensive and offensive tactics and in the following April it defence of all the aerodromes in the country. On these pages the R.A.F. ...

... DANCING INTO A JOB-- AND A ROMANCE ASTAIRE AND HAYWORTH. Y°U WERE NEVER LOVELIER, new Columbia musicals with Fred Astairc and Rita Hayworth, Adolplic Menjou and Xavier Cugat and his orchestra, was due at the Gaumont, Haymarket, on January 24. It s a dancing medley woven roflnd the complicated story of a hotel manager s lovely daughters who must be married off in order of seniority. Maria, ...

... ALFRED LUNT, LYNN FONTANNE-- AND A PIRATE. The lunts, ALFRED LUNT and his wife, LYNN FONTANNE, have not been much on Broadway of late, so their appearance at the Martin Beck Theatre, New York, in 44 The Pirate,'* new comedy by Behrman, has added a joyous offset to the austerity of wartime life. 44 The Pirate is an amusing, satirical comedy set in San Domingo in the nineteenth century. Manuela, ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME 1 PRACTICAL WRAPPERS j GOLD KID FASTENINGS CHEERFUL COLOURS WOMEN are busy planning the spring wardrobe and are discussing coupons rather than money. Swan and Edgar, Piccadilly, advocate the inclusion of a wrapper which may be worn when Service uniform can be discarded. To them must be given the credit of the pretty affair above, a strong point in its favour being that it ...

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... . AIR VICE-MARSHAL HARRY BROADHURST, aged thirty-seven, is the youngest Air Vice-Marshal in R.A.F. history. He has been appointed to command the Western Desert Allied Air Forces. He has been awarded the D.S.O. and Bar, D.F.C. and Bar, and A.F.C., has flown over 600 operational hours in fighters and shot down at least twelve enemy planes He was a famous peacetime pilot, and specialised in ...

... RUSSIAN COMEDY AT THE ST. JAMES': A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, WITH VALERIE TAYLOR., MICHAEL REDGRAVE AND RONALD SQUIRE. Rakitin (MICHAEL REDGRAVE) asks Natalia Petrovna (VALERIE TAYLOR) why she is so disturbed and restless. RONALD SQUIRE as the country doctor, Ignaty Illyich Shpighecsky. He gives a magnificent performance. 44 Stay, my love and Heaven must be our judge. Jtaljfl overhears ...

... . IH.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH (right) and H.R.H. PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE (second from left are members of the first Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides, and are here seen marching smartly along in the ranks, someichere in the country. Princess Elizabeth is now. a Sea Ranger, and recently sent a message of greeting by carrier-pigeon to all Rangers, Guides and Brownies. She will be seventeen ...

... TWO-GOLOUR CONTRASTS SPRING UTILITY COATS NEAT WOOL FROCKS TV K ANY decades have passed since Courtauld materials made their d6but M and great advances have been made in their manufacture Now thev are extensively used for war work, hence there is only a limited quantity available for fashion and it is highly prized. Susan Small has been able to acquire some of it and has created the model seen ...

... HE WAR MINISTER ND HIS WIFE. THE RT. HON. SIR JAMES 1 CRICG. P.C., K.C.S.I., Secretary for W ar. gave in his I mceiit Estimates speeeh a masterly review of the Army's progress during a year of war inch had seen disaster turn 'to the beginnings of victory. 's description of the Army's tea 'stic battle training and piipment, coupled with the confident note on which he 'shed, drew from ...

... THE BOYS WHO HIT THE ENEMY TARGETS DEAD IN THE CENTRE: HOW SKILLED BOMB-AIMERS ARE MADE BY STUDY AND PRACTICE. The bomb -si ght is a most intricate instrument and a bomb -aimers training includes hours of arduous study as well as practice before he can be certain of getting his bombs right on the spot. 44 All bombs fell in the target exercise in target practice at a BUmer does good work at his ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MISS LEUEEN MacORATH, lor being a good hand at getting wool without coupons within the law. POSSESSED of a French poodle, Minou, whose coat makes for admiration and envy, it occurred to MISS LEUEEN MacGRATH that here was a means of making comforts for evacuee children. A friend of hers who owns an ancient spinning wheel entered into the scheme en thusiastically, so the ...