... An Admiral* s Farewell Speech liral Sir John Tovey K.C.B. D.S.O. is seen making his farewell speech to the Home T on board H.M.S. King George when leaving to take up his new duties as C.-in-C. The A e. He was previously C.-in-C. Home Fleet and is succeeded by Admiral Sir BruceFraser Eisenhower Visits the British Fleet Gf neral Eisenhower Allied Commander-in-Chief North Africa visited units of ...

... 6.. A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Many Happy Returns HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY celebrated her seventy-sixth birthday last Wednesday (May 26th), and though, because she remains in the comparative seclusion of the West Country village where she has been living since the start of the war, there was little to mark the anniversary for the general public, Her Majesty holds as warm a place as ...

... The Queen Charlotte's Hospital May Ball Major Archie Campbell, Lady Mary Lyon and Ll. Kenneth D. Clapp Sub-Lt. J. M. Synge and Miss Sarah Dashivood Ll. G. H. Kinnicu.lt and Viscountess Bridport Miss Anne Heyworlh, WjCdr. E. Holden, Lt. R. Whiskard, Miss Ursula Byrom Lt. R. Motion and Miss Gillian Wharton S/Ldr. Jack Charles, F/Lt. the Hon. John and Mrs. Mansjield and Miss Nighean Fraser WjCdr. ...

... l/ 'tL By Elizabeth Bowen What About Ilalx? IN view of the number of books about the belligerents-- whether allies or enemies-- that have come from the publishers since this war began, there have been remarkably few about Italy. Why, I wonder? Is the role she has played too ignoble to contemplate? Is Italy, as a country, one of those minor characters on which one is not willing to waste ...

... GRAVE AND LIGHT-HEARTED, WORK AND rLAi STABILITIES OF THE WEEK AND THEIR DOINGS. ADMIRAL LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, Chief of Combined Operations, and LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN attended the premiere of 44 We Dive at Dawn, in aid of the R.N. Benevolent Fund. I 1 M I II 'VHmtmMWmt IT 1 f Wk j Jj WING COMMANDER W. RUDD teas judge of the ankles competition at the garden party' held by plotter W.A.A.F.s ...

... FROM WAR TO WAR: THE LIFE 11 D DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP. Brilliant young British officers of 1902 Lieut. Clive Candy, V.C. (ROGER LIVESEY) and Lieut. Hopuell (DAVID HUTCHESON), heroes of the Boer War. Edith Hunter (DEBORAH KERR), British governess in Berlin and official 44 reason for Clive's duel finds him bandaged, but all thumbs-up. Clive as the complete Colonel Blimp. Colonel Blimp is ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME i THE IMPORTANCE OF COLOUR THE SHORT EVENING DRESS PRACTICAL ECONOMY IN the new collections, if so they may be called, colour and simplicity are very important. Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore 'Street, are making a feature of House Coats which are a glorified version of the time-honoured wrapper they are semi-fitting, with full skirts. The model above has been designed by this ...

... Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security since 1940, Mr. Herbert Morrison became a member of the War Cabinet last November. Born in London fifty-five years ago, son of Mr. Henry Morrison, a member of the Metropolitan Police Force, he started work as errand boy, shop assistant and telephone operator, later becoming a newspaper circulation manager. For twenty-five years secretary of the ...

... , , This ____ devotion Her war goes on through most of the day and night her war with pain, disease and death. Her war has brought her into danger, hardship, and seldom-ceasing work. She is of the mettle of which heroines are made. Few of us have got the qualities to make a nursing sister of the battle-field. But we have all got more grit and more courage than we know This is the spirit that ...

... by M E. Brooke ^'omen who study the dress problem with care appreciate the fact that it is a very important one. They never spend in a haphazard manner, and buy raiment that will last for a lengthened period, and do everything in their power to achieve a well-groomed appearance. Peter Robinson, Oxford Street, advocate a dress for important occasions like the model portrayed on the right. It is ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Damned Dots I have been waiting to see which British aircraft or aero-engine company would be the first to introduce statistical control of quality into its regular production scheme. The credit belongs to the Bristol Aeroplane Company, where they have got this amazingly ingenious method of stepping up production and reducing waste going well. Descriptions of ...

... Carta Lehmann as Molly Morden, in The Moon is Down John Steinbeck's notable play about the Nazi occupation of a northern country, which Georgie Wood and Basil C. Langton are presenting at the Whitehall Theatre on Tuesday, June 8, with Lewis Casson as the mayor of the little town overrun by the aggressor, and Karel Stepanek as Colonel Lanser. Molly's husband is executed for killing an enemy ...