... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Battle THERE can hardly be any parallel in history for a general to leave the field of battle to read lessons in church more than a thousand miles away; certainly not to have made such a journey by aeroplane. It showed General Montgomery's complete confidence in the final and early outcome of the battle for Tunisia that he made his Easter pilgrimage to Cairo. He ...

... MYSELF AT IMF PICTURES A Naval Occasion By James Agate THERE was a period in my life when I was inclined to make too much of a certain French actress. So much so that I was rebuked by no less a person than Sir Max Beerbohm who wrote: You may say, 'one can't hear too much about Sarah.' But I, in my blunt Yorkshire way (for I am Yorkshire on the distaff side), reply: 'Lad, one can.' Similarly ...

... Cole Porter Supplies the Score for Something to Shout Ahout, Another Hollywood Back- Stage Musical on the Grand Scale (Tivoli and New Gallery) Janet lir (the blonde of My Sister Eileen'''') steps out in Hasta Luego, a rumba r. iber on the usual grand scale. The vaudeville shoiv includes Hazel Scott's p o pyrotechnics and a troupe of performing dogs called The Bricklayers f 'f 1 Words in the ...

... The one-day May meeting on May 15th, the first to be held at Ascot since the war, was attended by a very large crowd of people, many of whom arrived on bicycles. The King and Queen were there to see His Majesty's colt, Tipstaff, run. For the first time in history the Royal Enclosure was open to the public, and many members of British and Allied Forces were among the crowd Miss D. Paget's ...

... Every Otl ?r Night JNoel Coward's Step from the II into the Human Noel Coward's season d July 3rd) is all too short suburban motif of FumtJI sets a hot pace, but his to is vintage champagne-- ah comedy, with Noel as tin Cavalcade of humdrum-- U where daughters run awij and tears abound. Whrn Present Laughter SOCIAL OCCASIONS This Happy Breed Outraged feelings in Mayfair smack Christmas ...

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... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Official Argument SINCE Razzle became unobtainable I have been a devoted reader of the Reports of the Select Committee on National Expenditure. Here one finds the human touch which is lacking in other war time publications; one finds strong views, clearly expressed, without fear or favour. One finds a refusal to be awed by official pomp and something approaching ...

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... Crooks, Crystals and Comics A Quartet, of Current Films, with War Backgrounds to Three of Them The Crystal Ball One Fortune-teller and Another Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard are together in this picture at the Empire. Paulette as understudy to Madame Zenobia Gladys George a doubtful fortune-teller Ray as a lawyer pursued by a merry widow Virginia Field). Prophetic spirit messages tomorrow ...

... GENERAL EISENHOWER, C.-IN-C. OF THE ALLIED FORCES, pays a surprise visit to a forward area Headquarters of the Eighth Army. On his left is Major E. R. Lee, his A.D.C. in the centre is a British Brigadier of the General Staff on the right is Air Vice-Marshal Broadhurst (Commanding the Desert Air Force with the Eighth Army) BATHS BETWEEN BATTLES FOR THE EIGHTH ARMY. A change from the desert to ...

... DORNEYWOOD and BOARSTALL Tower for the National Trust A gift to the nation, similar to that of Chequers made in 1917 by Lord Lee of Fareham, has just been announced. Through the National Trust, Sir Courtauld Thomson has given Dorney- wood, in Buckinghamshire (adjoining Bumham Beeches), as an official residence for one of the Secretaries of State, or another Minister of similar rank. The Prime ...

... The S'ory of the pictures on the facing page THIS is the story of the sailor who became Squire of an African village. Not only the Squire, but also Chairman of the Parish Church Council, Chief Air-Raid Warden and the only white man ever to be elected to the village Leopard Hunt Club. The sailor is Petty Officer William Palethorpe, and the African village is Leicester, which clings to the ...