... 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 ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Warning SEVERAL Ministers have been at pains to warn us that 1943 will be a grim year. Some prophesy that we shall break in on Europe, others forecast greater hardships, and Lord Woolton hints at the possibility of bread rationing. Obviously this is a new policy line to offset increasing optimism. The Government cannot afford to allow any slackening of the war ...

... This Time an Exciting Melodrama Sans Crosby and Sans Hope against a Background of Spies and Refugees in Casablanca Victor Laszlo Paul llenreid head of the vast underground movement in Europe arrives in Casablanca with his wife Ilsa Ingrid Bergman) hoping to obtain visas for Lisbon. His plans are frustrated by Captain Heinrich Strasser of the 'hird Reich (Conrad Veidt) and Captain Louis Renault ...

... You Have Been Warned The Drunkard, by the Arts Theatre Club, Paints the Evils of Drink in the Lurid Colours of Victorian Melodrama Double Exposure to Temptation The photographer emphasises the dangers of drink by double exposure. The hero (Wilfred Fletcher) by now in [the final stages of degradation, is unable to resist the temptation of draining the bottle to the last drop The Proposal The ...

... lCL' :Y//''he\ the pe°ple °f London Courtaulds a house destined offered asylum to the to be known for the beauty of its Huguenots nearly three centuries silks and later, for its rayon yarns ago, there was little reason to and fabrics, suppose that this act of hospitality A n£ National Service would have far-reaching effects first but when the war is ?he worfd C thrOUgh°Ut over, Courtaulds ...