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... BUBBLE a iv ii SUUEAK Stories from Everywhere IN the club a group of men were sitting, one of them an actor who had recently scored a great success. He had knocked around the stage for years and years, without getting anywhere, when the big break finally arrived. And, as a result, his head had grown to abnormal proportions. I'm terrific, he assured them seriously. The entire nation is ...

... Full Well They Laugh'd At All His Jokes During his recent four days' visit to the Home Fleet the King was present at an ENSA show, at which Leslie Ilenson was the star and afterwards a guest at dinner with His Majesty. Sil ting beside the King at the performance were Captain E. D. 15. McCarthy and \dmiral Sir John Tovcy, former C.-in-C. Home Fleet, now C.-in-C. The Nore. The last Royal visit ...

... WAV OF THE WAR By Foresight lime OBVIOUSLY General Montgomery is work ing to a time-table. He has not allowed Rommel a moment's rest,, and though the Germans are doing their best to fight a delaying action, the issue can be no longer in doubt. A friend said to me the other day: Montgomery is in a hurry because he has another and bigger job waiting for him. Belore he can take on this job, ...

... Six years ago, Lord Ashley, son and heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury, married as his second wife Mile. Fran^oise Souilier, daughter of M. George Souilier, of Rouen. Since the war, Lady Ashley has worked hard in the cause of her compatriots in this country. Her home, Mainsail Haul, is in Dorset, and she is the county's representative of the Friends of the French Volunteers, the official ...

... Vive la Veuve The Merry Widow, First Produced in 1907, is Revived for the Fourth Time Thirty-six years have passed since Mr. George Edwardes first gave London theatre audiences the opportunity of seeing The Merry Widow and hearing the lovely melodies of Franz Lehar. It was revived in 1923, and again in 1924 and 1932. Its 1943 presentation by Mr. Jack Hylton has lost none of its old charm. ...

... ^Ce^4; -F^ulc^eLf By Elizabeth Bowen The Portuguese in Asia THE LAND OF THE GREAT IMAGE, by Maurice Collis (Faber and Faber; 16s.), is I find, doubly fascinating-- as a first-rate adventure story, and as a picture of two different civilisations. Those who en joyed, as I did, The Great Within, will not be disappointed by its successor. Here, again, Mr. Collis adds to the fruits of his wide ...