... Wartime House Party At Mrs. Theodore WesseTs Home in the Country The Hon. Mrs. Ian Lyle and Her Children, Gavin and Lorna Sa/.n, W -I Tfc 'I V o lr CouP/lne Sln, The Duke of Leinster With His Hostess, Mrs. Theodore Wessel The Duke of Leinster in His Caravan ►untcss Cadogan and the Hon. Mrs. Ian Lyle, >rd hurst on's two youngest sisters, with their ildren, are guests of their mother, Mrs. ...

... Quiet Week-End At Esther McCracken's Northumberland Home Esther McCracken, authoress of Quiet Wedding and its record-breaking successor, Quiet Week- End, is the owner of Rothley Lake House, near Morpeth, where she works hard on the farm of 23 acres. Her husband, Lt.-Col. McCracken, is serving with the Eighth Army, and until a year ago, she herself was in the W.R.N.S. acting as a driver in her ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The King's Travels IT was immediately after our final victory in Tunisia that the King first expressed his wish to go out and see the Anglo-American victors, but his visit was impossible until the armies had regrouped after fighting had finished --a process that naturally took some little time-- and when this had been done, Mr. Churchill was out of the ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Sub-Station HENRY GREEN is one of the most interesting of our contemporary novelists. Either in spite of, or because of, this, he is not yet one of the best known. His experiments in technique have been made with a view to finding, as every writer should do, his own approach to reality. In his style, more often than in his subjects, he breaks with conventions. He may ...

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... WAV OF THE WAR By Foresight Offensive HITLER'S anxiety to disown any responsi bility for the new offensive in Russia caused some mystification in the first instance. It seemed so odd that armies should go into battle as the Germans did and that their people should be told that they did not launch the attack. The reason for this cannot be difficult to find. German morale is not in a state to ...

... At the Board of Trade The Rt. Hon. Hugh Dalton, P.C., M.P. Mr. Hugh Dalton became President of the Board of Trade in 1942. Born in Neath, Glamorganshire, fifty-five years ago, he is the son of the late Canon J. N. Dalton, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., who was for some years tutor to Prince George of Wales, afterwards King George V. Mr. Dalton was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, spent three ...

... -/4 By Sabretache King Willoic IN spite of everything, and even in spite of what The Vermin have tried to do to some of his playgrounds, His Majesty has still a firm and very graceful seat on his throne, and nothing is ever likely to knock him off it. These one-day matches, naturally, are not so satisfying either to the gnarled veteran, who likes to yarn and jaw about what the second ball ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Telebusiness A COMPOSITE, and partly fictitious, picture of the business man, continuously busy, hurrying from place to place, going through papers, examining documents, sitting at conferences, is conjured up when ever air transport is under consideration. For this business man is regarded as being perpetually in need of moving from place to place at high speed and ...

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... 6- uJ 0^ /)*y A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Anniversary Parade DURING the early days of the war, when Her Majesty the Queen became Com mandant-in-Chief of the three women's Services, she decided that she would not wear uniform even for formal parades. Accordingly, when she took the salute at the march past of the W.R.N.S. at Buckingham Palace on the fourth anniversary of the rebirth ...

... 4' 4 What a Performance! Sid Field, London's Latest, Loudest, Longest Laugh, Reaches a New High in the Craziest, Cleanest Comedy Act in Town Twenty-seven years ago a small boy aged twelve i debut in a Birmingham music-hall. His name was Sit a Birmingham boy born on April 1st, 1904. None family were theatrical people, and Sid's initial success spectacular. Recalling the occasion, Mr. Field ...