... . The remarkable accuracy of the R.A.F. bomb-aimers insures that the maximum of destruction to enemy tear effort results from tJie bin, concentrated raids which enemy dockyards, industrial areas and U-boat bases get regularly from Bomber Command. Here a debutant bomb-aimer, eyes glued to the bomb-sight, and body tense, is preparing for the great moment which his training has led up to the ...

... NEWS AND PERSONALITIES IN PICTURE FO0 CAMERA REVIEWS THE WEEK'S LIGHTER NEWS. This romantic landscape, which is being hung in the new 44 Churchill British Restaur ant at Ilford, has been LENT FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE BY H.M. THE KING. Right MAJOR A. HUSKISSON, M.C., SYDNEY SMITH, MEL BOURNE INMAN and TOM WEBSTER at the opening of Simpson Services Club billiard- room, ivhen a championship ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I help me, Michele 44 Yslaev (MICHAEL SHEPLEY) and mmm Semyenm na (ANNIE ESMOND) interrupt Natalia and Rakitin. W. MICHAEL REDGRAVE as Rakitin, demoted admirer of Natalia and member of Yslaev* 3 family circle. 44 They say orphans make friends sooner than anybody.** Vera (ISOLDE DENHAM) and the young tutor, Beliaev (TOM GILL). VALERIE TAYLOR as Natalia Petrovna, beautiful wife of the rich but ...

... . SQUADRON LEADER THE REV. B. J. BOND makes a dramatic entrance as Paul Duhamel. Charles, Anne, McFie (SISTER J. McEACHERN), Gilbert (FLIGHT-LIEUT. B. L. HOWELL), and John (CORPORAL EMBERLEY) all drink to each other's good fortune. The only ladies in the play were A S O. J. HAWKER as Jill, SISTER McEACHERN as McFie, and CORPORAL MICHAELIS as Anne. Jill (A/SO. J. HAWKER), very much lit up, ...

... MARIA MONTEZ, Scheherazade of The Arabian Nights film, teas described by producer Walter Wanger as the quintessence of exotic towty when he cast her for the role. Her father is Spanish and her mother Dutch. She was born in the Dominican Republic, where her father teas Consul, and convent-educated in the Canary Islands. She speaks four languages, and has travelled widely. Our photographs ...