... athedral and Village Church, Schoolroom and Theatre, the Pilgrim Players Find Their Stage t Soon after the outbreak of war, the Pilgrim Players were founded by producer Martin Browne, under the auspices of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. They took the name of Pilgrim Players because they originally set off from Canterbury. The object of the Players is to bring the best ...

... Colonel the Rt. Hon. Oliver Stanley, M.C., M.P. The Earl of Derby's Son is Secretary of State for the Colonies In November 1942, Colonel Oliver Stanley succeeded Viscount Cranborne as Colonial Secretary. Conservative M.P. for Westmorland since 1924, his first ministerial appointment was as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Home Office in 1931, since when he has occupied the posts of ...

... 1 lie latler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Richardson Williams Major W Nigel Richardson, R.A., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. IV. R. Richardson, of Woodbury, Humbridge, Harrogate, married Clare Nesta Nightingale Williams, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W Humphrey Williams, of Chippenham House, Monmouth, at St. Mary's, Monmouth Evans, Monmouth Youngs Osborn- Jenkyn Major William Raul Youngs, ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Transnort and Tvnhoonerv TO subordinate all other matters to the winning of the war is the only sane course at the present moment. Yet there are one or two ways in which war-winning activities minister to peace-winning activities. (In speaking of winning the peace I use the current jargon which carries with it the unfortunate implication that the coming of peace ...

... Hermione Baddeley Returns to Straight Drama in Brighton Rock The Story of a Brighton Race-Gang Brighton Rock has been adapted by- Frank Harvey, author of Saloon Bar, from the novel by Graham Greene. It is a sensational, strong story of the machina tions of Brighton's race-gangs and of the sordid lives and distorted mentalities of the men and women who make up these gangs. It may come as ...

... Stage and Screen Some Celebrities Oil' Duty First-Night Dressing-Room Scenes at The Merry Widow Revival George Graves, who plays his original part of Baron Pop off read a telegram of congratulations from Lily Elsie the original Merry Widow) to Madge Elliott now playing the role) and Cyril Ritchard Celebrating the First Anniversary of The Doctor's Dilemma 99 Vivien Leigh gave the party, and ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Racing Dates 1943 THE publication of the dates for the prin cipal fixtures in 1943 does not greatly vary the information given earlier on, but the new dates are far more favourable to owners' interests than the first ones, under which the Derby and the Oaks were put down for the same day, May 27th, at Epsom, and the Two Thousand and One Thousand suffered in the same way, and ...

... lit RULE and SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE professor of chemistry was giving a demon stration of the properties of various acids. Now, he said, I am going to drop this two-shilling piece into this vessel of acid. Will it dissolve? No, sir, replied one of the students. No? said the demonstrator. Then perhaps you will explain to the class why it won't dissolve. Because, came the ...

... WAT OF THE WAR By Foresight Premier's Return THE Prime Minister is back at work once more and ready to assume new burdens in the House of Commons in the absence of one of his colleagues. Mr. Churchill looks thinner as though he had lost many pounds in weight but he is cheerful, even exuberant. He has overcome his illness in the comparatively short time of three weeks. Some of his friends ...

... Family Pictures The Duchess of Marlborough and Three of Her Children Lady Caroline Spencer- Churchill For over a year, the younger daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough did full-time secretarial work in a hospital, but deciding that she tvould be even better employed on the more active work of nursing, she recently qualified as a V.A.D. She is now working at a hospital in Oxfordshire ...

... The Glorious Story of the Eighth Army in the Battle of Egypt is Told in 44 Desert Victory' dive-bombed by ,n ,hc Rommel s J into action z-n.nrM l, ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Post-Symbolists THE HERITAGE OF SYMBOLISM, by C. M. Bowra (Macmillan; 15s.), is a study of the link between five great poets-- Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George, Alexander Blok and William Butler Yeats. These men, though (roughly) contemporaries, were of different nationalities: the scenes of their lives and their destinies lay very far apart. They did not ...