... By Margaret Chute WARTIME Hollywood is an upside-down sort of place. Stars are scooting to the studios on motor bicycles or real scooters. Clothes that once cost £50 per suit are made from cloth that adds less than 5s. to the budget cost of the picture. Film lovelies are deserting their dazzling careers for the sake of soldier-husbands in one or other of the Services. The smartest spot in the ...

... Most women face the ordeal of being interviewed for a job with a certain amount of diffidence. The interview --that is, for a job in the service of the country-- is even more to be anticipated with care, because so much more depends upon the issues than upon those of ordinary employment. Interviewers are selected by tne Ministry ot .Labour tor tne qualifications most essential to this work. ...

... s C^ct0' -\v*a vpVP**'^^ ■\V Ctct^' -\V*a More women than ever are stitching happily in their rare hours of leisure. For tired minds and tired limbs there is no greater relaxation than to sew at something beautiful and colourful. Needlework has always been an escapist pastime. Now more than ever. Many women miss the pleasures of embroi dery because fine sewing seems difficult. Petit point is ...

... Mothers Must lie Fathers Louisa Ka^ The war has brought a lot of day-to-day problems to women, not all of them big ones, but together they make life an exacting business. One of these is the special bugbear of mothers who are deprived by the war of the steadying masculine influence of a father. Some women have such an easy talent for control. In any case, not all children are hard to handle, ...

... JlARELLAf jjAHBLLA/ See Harella utility coats and suits at any good Fashion Store. Or if in difficulty, write to L. Harris Limited, 243 Regent Street, London, W.l. Wholesale Shoicrooms) ...

... England, Home and that Schoolgirl Complexion Now, more than ever, a lovely woman is a gladsome sight especially to war-weary men. Use Palmolive every time you wash, every time you bath. You find its rich, velvety, olive-oil lather beautifies as it cleanses keeps you schoolgirl complexion all over. j pALMO|_jyg IP 3£d. Including Tax ^-4 ...

... pocket defiance1 /fieac/ Design AWN. /a 3 9 6 7t tJ 9 70 9\ r c=> V V K v Scientific To give yourself a spot -of confidence try standing around with one hand in a hip pocket, just like a man. And make it a ZWOW the pocket placket that doesen't gape and has no buttons or other fasteners to spoil the symmetry of your hip line. GOR-RAY Skirts have this new fashion feature. Ill the better with ...

... w VV HY shouldn't women have a pocket in its most convenient position Why shouldn't she carry around a handkerchief, a little spare change, and maybe her cigarettes and lighter without having to resort to the inevitable handbag No reason at all since Gor-ray Skirts have featured the ZWOW, a Pocket Placket Fastening which DISPENSES WITH HIP BUTTONS AND OTHER FASTENERS THAT SPOIL THE SYMMETRY OF ...

... The wife of Sir Giles Loder, Bt., was before her marriage in 1939 Miss Marie Symons-Jcune, and is the only daughter of Captain Bertram Symons-Jeune, of Runnymede House, Old Windsor. Since the war Sir Giles and Lady Loder and their small son have heen living at Jarman's Farm, Bishop's Waltham, near to where Sir Giles is engaged in shipbuilding, while his wife works in an aircraft factory. Their ...

... Major the Rt. Hon. Gwilym Lloyd George, P.O., M.P., took up his duties as Minister of Fuel in 1942, on leaving the Ministry of Food, where he was previously Parliamentary Secretary. Major Lloyd George first entered the House of Commons in 1922, when lie became the Member for Pembrokeshire for two years, being re-elected for the same constituency in 1929, and again in 1931. Like his famous ...

... -*4 By Sabretache The Untile of the Tico Stools WHIPPED and yelping! Likewise hating the noises in the head-- der Katzen- jammer-- the inevitable corollary to a hangover! In spite of the little guttersnipe stuff enjoining cold hatred of England, plus the trumpery ebullition about Britain, America and the Jews in them same, having sold Europe to the Bolsheviks, had von Arnim and his fellow ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Town with a Future SPRING 1940 brought the small town of Narvik into heroic and tragic prominence. How much did the English newspaper- reader-- unless he had been one of the happy few who for their holiday travels sought out Norway-- know about Narvik before that? Even so, in the tourist days the place ranked as a gateway to the remoter beauties: one did not stop, as a rule, ...