... At Home and in the Theatre Beryl Grey is the Young Ballerina of the Sadler's Wells Company Beryl Grey will not reach her sixteenth birthday until June, but already she is recognised as one of the outstanding members of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company. Her roles include Le Lac des Cygnes, Rendezvous Les Sylphides, Comus Dante Sonata and the Nightingale in The Birds. Her great gifts were ...

... Ronald Squire gives a fine character performance as the Doctor. He is a man who has risen above the state of his birth by his own good humour and wit. He is not only the family doctor but also the family friend, allowed the free run of the Yslaev estate and treated with confidence by all members of the family Rakitin 44 Natalia Petrovna, what is the matter with you Rakitin Michael Redgrave), ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Go and Stop IT is good to see the Royal Aero Club concerning itself with private and sporting flying prospects after the war. There is a strong case for keeping both thought and action concentrated upon the war effort and for avoiding too much speculation about the peace. But moments do come now and then when a certain preliminary and theoretical mapping out is ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 184 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Second Front? Second Chance?-- The early thaw on the Russian front gave the Nazis a much- needed respite, and in the vital Donetz area, and even in the Kuban, they were able to organise something more serious in the way of counteraction. In those areas, bitter fighting was not always to their disadvantage, and the general advance of the ...

... The R.A.F. MASS EVERYTHING Against the German thrust through the Kasserine Pass. The tactics of El Alamein repeated-- In the Battle of the Kasserine Pass, where Rommel's too venturesome Panzers were thrust back, the R.A.F. reverted to what might almost be termed El Alamein tactics. Air Chief- Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, taking a first big hand in the North African operations, threw in ...

... Three Studies of H.M.S. Forestert the Destroyer which has Just Completed 200,000 Miles' Steaming H.M.S. Forester is a destroyer of the Eclipse class of six sister vessels. She has just completed 200,000 miles of steaming since the beginning of war in 1939; and she claims to be the first destroyer to have reached this remarkable total, which is equal to nine times round the world. The ...

... THROUGH E-BOAT ALLEY WITH THE COAL An average collier carries some i, ooo tons of coal-- the equivalent of ten trains. For centuries ships have brought their cargoes from Tvne to Thames, and the ship-masters of to-dav are determined that Hitler shall not stop their commerce. Up and down the East Coast they ply, escorted by the ships and guns of the Royal Navy, braving the dangers from the ...

... HOW THE TOWN OF MEDENINE, IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA, WAS FOUND AFTER ITS ABANDONMENT TO THE EIGHTH ARMY. Looking through a Moorish archway at tha wrecked buildings, wantonly destroyed by the Germans before their withdrawal The town of Medenine, near the Mediterranean coast, is only seven miles from the Mareth Line defences it lies on the direct route between Tripoli and Tunis. In view of the ...

... THE VOUGHT-SIKORSKY HELICOPTER demonstrating how it can land or take-off from the water without making even a splash. With floats fitted to this strange aircraft, it is immediately converted into a seaplane. Its value in mid-Atlantic would make it of great value in combatting the activities of the U-boats COMING DOWN TO PARK, the helicopter can hover like a humming-bird over the exact spot ...

... SIX SOLUTIONS IN SEARCH OF A FUHRER Or, What is the Mystery of Hitler's Disappearance from the Gaze of his Adoring Public By FERDINAND TUOHY ON April 20 there will be fresh occasion to test the validity of the argument that something has happened to Hitler. He should then be fifty four, and preceding birthdays have been signalled by a personal message. The obvious and simplest proof would be ...

... GERMAN VEHICLES in N. AFRICA Pictures 'The pictures reproduced here have all been received during the past few days from the Tunisian battle areas, where the fighting has, once again, largely been a conflict of tank versus artillery. Many of the German Panzers were badly mauled in consequence especially during Rommel's attacks on the Eighth Army before the Mareth Line, when no fewer than fifty ...

... Cince the early days in North Africa, the R.A.F. has grown so strong that Air Superiority is now un doubtedly ours. Bombers and fighters are now crowding the skies, and valiantly supporting the efforts of the men on the ground. To the troops of the First Army it is a relatively new experience. One correspondent has described the scene depicted by Mr. Osmond above in the following terms Lying ...