... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Three Films By James Agate THE You-be-damned-ness of the English became in the course of time a superiority- complex. Being a nation polite in heart if not in manner, we naturally express that com plex in terms of diffidence. Hence the reticence and understatement of films like In Which We Serve. In the case of our good friends the Americans the thing works the other way ...

... Damon Patrick de Laszlo I is Christened in London Group Captain and Mrs. Patrick dc Laszlo's baby son was christened at St. Martin-in-the-Ficlds, and received the names of Damon Patrick. The godparents were Sir Robert Renwick, the Hon. Mrs. Dudley de Levignc, with Mr. Vincent Masscy, High Com missioner for Canada, as proxy for his son, Captain Lionel Massey, who is a prisoner of war. Mrs. ...

... i gfflrai 1 wk J Lady Barttelot and Brian The wife of Lieut. -Colonel Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot, Bt Coldstream Guards, of Stopham House, Pulborough, is the only daughter of Lieut. -Colonel Havenscroft, of The Abbey, Storrington, and her son was born in 1941. There have been Barttelots at Stopham since an ancestor came over icith William the Conqueror. At present the family are living in ...

... *^4 Bv Sabretache The Last Cornet MY correspondent and the Leicester Mercury, whose interesting paragraph he sent me, were apparently both in error as to Major H. H. Robertson-Aikman, formerly 1st Dragoons (The Royals), being the last cornet in the British Army, and for myself I think that the age of the gallant officer ought to have put me on notice. K.D.G. whom I have the honour to know, ...

... BY M. E. BROOKE Extremely neat and practical in every detail is the tweed coat on the right. It may be seen at Simpsons, Piccadilly, where it is companioned by many vari ations of the same theme. As will be seen, the armholes are roomy, hence the movements of the wearer are never handicapped. A new note is struck by the tie bows on the square pockets; the turn-over Peter Pan collar is worthy ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver S+ewart Airistocracy BETWEEN the flying officers who fly and the flying officers who do not fly; as between the squadron leaders who lead squadrons and the squadron leaders who do not lead squadrons, as well as between the pilot officers who are pilots and the pilot officers who are not pilots, a gulf is fixed. And it seems to me to be right that the flying side (by which, ...

... (fin) (fin) n\/n QPA I^T\A Unretouched photographs efort ji El. T ll'DllAU I Y after the Hystogen Treatment. WHETHER or not the eye is endowed with an overpoweri g beaut is firstly determined by the condition of the surrounding r tin. Es set in loose, wrinkled skin tell of age, worry, misfortune, a ill-hei: and destroy the natural expression of even the brightest eyes. 1 ortunatt! this ...

... i Night raids Daylight raids Intruder raids into the dawn across the bars of sunset, through rain and storm. BUT. whatever the weather cloudy or clear there is always always a glory on their wings for they go to avenge the innocent, to break the tyrant, to release a continent from slavery to save mankind. No enterprise more glorious in the story of the world. Once they were few, now they are ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 176 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Strange Bedfellows in North Africa.-- it seems that the sight in Algiers of is one which certain American eye witnesses, and many British, do not view with equanimity. Party leaders in the street, Maintaining with no little heat Their various opinions, On the contrary, warnings of the danger to the Allied cause, and of the ...

... THE BEGINNING OF A U.S. CARGO SHIP. This bow section of a Liberty ship weighs 50 tons and is 60 ft. high. It is being swung into position at a shipyard on the east coast of the United States. Yards in that country are turning out freighters with increasing speed by pre-fabricating whole sections and then assembling them on the ways. One West Coast yard recently launched a 10.000-ton vessel ...

... THE RESIDENT MINISTER IN BRITISH WEST AFRICA, LORD SWINTON, during an interview to British war correspondents on a visit to the vital Gold Coast area. After Italy's entry into the war, the African areas became of great value to Britain and her allies, and the Gold Coast as one of the points of entry- became a most important link in the supply routes to the Middle East. Lord Swinton has, for ...

... THE ISLAND THAT WAS A SHIP A Jap camouflage idea which failed in its purpose in the New Guinea fighting Japanese naval units have, during recent weeks, been observed by Allied aircraft to be still lurking off the New Guinea coasts, despite the hammering they have been receiving from Australian and American pilots. A hawk-eyed pilot of a Liberator bomber has just reported a new idea in ...