... And the Phenomenon Known as Black-Out which Accompanies It During Aerial Manoeuvres New Pictures of the World's Fastest and Most Versatile Aircraft, the Mosquito, in Production THE increased speeds at which modern planes fly has brought many new problems to both designers and flyers. One of the most difficult to solve, because it affects the pilot, is liability to black-out. This is the ...

... PAVING THE WAY FOR THE CAPTURE OF MATEUR American repair crews are here seen filling in holes in the road to accommodate the heavy truck and tank traffic during the approach of American armoured forces towards the great German stronghold of Mateur, within the Bizerta-Tunis defence perimeter. This picture gives a good idea of the manner in which the rains can play havoc with the lesser roads in ...

... WORKERS' PLAYTIME Miss Gwen Catley singing to a vast audience of munition workers under the direction of the B.B.C.'s Variety Depart ment The British Broadcasting Corporation has always tried to help in the war effort. Soon after the beginning of the war, they took over a huge theatre from which many variety shows, such as Music Hall and Happidrome, were performed. Blocks of tickets for these ...

... frocks C^etro SPONSOR THE NEW TEBILIZED FABRICS! Chesrc triumph over restrictions This year's designs are as charming as ever and every one of the lovely fabrics is marked Tebilized That means a great deal, for the 'Tebilized' mark stands for tested crease-resistance. Gives you cottons, linens and rayons em powered to resist and recover from creasing just as wool does naturally. Tested crease ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Theatre And Film By James Agate THE jubilation over the re-opening of the old Bristol Theatre Royal and its rescue from the clutches of the cinema have prompted me to a few reflections on the old film-versus-stage controversy. A hundred years from now every text-book on the English theatre will be found to contain the phrase: Then came the cinema! And later: Then ...

... The Edge of Darkness Another American Film of Norwegian Patriots Battling with British Help Against the Invader The Troubles of a Nazi British Agent to the Rescue A snub for the Commander of the Nazi garrison Helmut Dantine). His lan for a Greater Germany is rejected. He works off his annoyance on is foolish mistress Nancy Coleman and finally shoots her and himself hen the townspeople armed ...

... UJ A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country First Ascot of the War WITHOUT the Royal Enclosure and the Royal drive in Ascot state, without the grey toppers and gay dresses of peacetime, Ascot 1943-- the first Ascot of the war-- was a vastly different affair from the garden-party meetings we used to know. But perhaps, because of its memories and the nostalgic associations of the Royal course, ...

... - THIS N.F.S. GIRL for leaping through a flaming hoop as part of her fire-fighting training. MISS EVELYN SHARP for being the first woman to bt appointed Principal Assistant Secretary at the Treasury m THE GROUND CREW OF THE HALIFAX BOMBER SEA GOOSE for making a grand photographic Bomber Command frieze. RUBY LOFTUS for being the subject of DAME LAURA KNIGHT'S Royal Academy painting 44 Ruby Loft ...

... BROADCASTER ON THE LOVELY LAND OF THE FAITHFUL THOTOGRAPH BY KARSH, OTTAWA. MR. L. W. BROCKINGTON, K.C., is the author of the talk on New Zealand heard recently over the air, transcribed from a Telediphone recording. He described the tear achievements of what he called the Lovely land of the faithful pointing out that the population is a million and a half but that New Zealand sailors have ...

... . LADY LAMPSON. H.M. KING FEISAL OF IRAQ, VICTOR LAMPSON and H.E. THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT on the terrace of the British Embassy Cairo. Right Taking careful aim KING FEISAL OF IRAQ enjoys a table game at the British Embassy, while LADY LAMPSON looks on. THESE pictures of H.M. king FEISAL were taken at the British Embassy, Cairo, when he honoured the British Ambassador and Lady Lampson ...

... STRICTLY LOYAL, FOR ENGLAND'S HONOUR SAVED-THE THEATRE ROYAL. [If outside of the THEATRE ROYAL, BRISTOL, the oldest playhouse in the country which has been reopened by C.E.M.A. The foyer of the Theatre Royal. The building is an eighteenth-century one and has been cleaned and repainted. kk: MR. 0. B. CLARENCE, MISS THEA HOLME, DAME HLTHORNDIKE, MISS KAY BANNERMAN, LADY KEYNES lly&aLopok ova), ...

... . LADY MARGARET ALEXANDER is the wife of General the Hon. Sir Harold Alexander, the victor of Tunis, C.-in-C. the Middle East since Aug,*! 1942. On the eve of the final battle he announced to the Allied troops that the last phase of the campaign had been reached and late on May 7 the fall ofBixerta and Tunis was announced. In his message of congratulation to General Alexander. I he lyime ...