... This Ladd Quits Racketeering For Romance Learning to Love China and Loretta Young, and Dying a Hero's Death for Both, is Tough- guy Alan Ladd's New Role An intensely dramatic story unfolded against a momentous backdrop of heroism, romance and high adventure. That's Paramount's own description of their big picture China which came to the Plaza on June 18. Alan Ladd, Killer No. 1, who made his ...

... 4 4 Colonel Blimp's First Night Spectators at the Odeon for a Film Premiere Sir Stafford Cripps Lord Privy Seal came with his wife and daughter The Prime Minister sat between Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Anthony Eden, wife of the Foreign Secretary Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen was with his wife and Sir Richard Cruise The Marquess and Marchioness of London derry arrived together at the film premiere Young ...

... Biggin Hill Celebrates in London Sailor Malan's Famous Sector Holds a Ball With Sailor Malan (centre) are Cmdt. Rene, D.F.C. Croix de Guerre, and S/Ldr. Charles, D.F.C., the ttvo pilots responsible for the 1000th victim This was one of the striking decorations hanging on the wall of the ballroom A model Spitfire hung from the gallery There were a thousand guests at the Ball held at ...

... Farming in Wiltshire Viscountess Weymouth Lady Weymouth, formerly the Hon. Daphne Vivian, is the elder daughter of the fourth Baron Vivian and a sister of the present peer. She married the son and heir of the Marquess of Bath in 1927. At present Lady Weymouth is running her own farm, at Sturford Mead, Warminster, one of the farms on the Longlcat Estate. Her speciality is breeding Wiltshire ...

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... I 1 THERE are few large farms in Derbyshire, but many family-sized properties and same 3400 part-time holdings. Excluding holdings under 20 acres, there are 5012 farms in the county, and of these 3502 are less than 100 acres. In the county of stone walls the smallholder and the small farmer are playing a fine part in British agriculture's miraculous recovery. The war has intensified rather ...

... Having in the Jordan Valley A FORTNIGHT ago we published pictures from the cattle market at Aleppo, where the Royal Army Veterinary Corps are teaching many of the Arabs something about the care of animals. These pictures are from Palestine, in the Jordan Valley, where, in one of the hottest and driest spots in the world, the British Army has made a forage farm. War, at least when British ...

... feflhe Derby SILVER RING CROWD watching the Coventry Stakes, icon by Miss Paget' s colt, Orestes. The Ditch on the far side of the coarse was lined with spectators who chose the open side of the Ilcath. GETTING THEIR MONEY READY, the long stream of spectators nearly all of whom had walked or cycled to the course, including a strong contingent of Servicemen from U.S.A., Australia and elsewhere. ...

... MOSS BROS? MOSS BROS L- JQDHPURS Breeches Sc complete Riding Outfits Horse lovers still manage to get their riding, and so keep fit -fi to do their bit. They may be glad to know that we still supply most items of Riding Kit Riding Boots and also Saddlery. For Officers in the Ser vices we have a full range of fittings in ready-for- wear Service breeches and Field Boots. Naval, Military, R.A.F. ...

... FIRST PICTURES FROM THE ISLAND OF PANTELLARIA The First Enemy Position Ever to Surrender as the Result of Air Power Alone These vivid pictures show the terrific pounding to which the island in the Sicilian Narrows was subjected by the Allied Air Forces, the landing of the first British aircraft on the battered aerodrome and the scenes of devastation which greeted our troops as they landed to ...

... And what they achieved during the Tunisian campaign. Described by Dougal Gordon and The cherry berets of our airborne divisions fought their first sustained campaign in North Africa. Like all campaigns it had its surprises and taught its lessons-- even to the fundamental one that a parachutist landing on a high plateau in the desert hits the ground much harder than he does in England. Our ...

... Below Spezia is the great naval base of Northern Italy it has a grim circle of forts round it, constructed in 1888, on the high hills above. It has one of the largest and safest natural harbours in the whole of the Mediterranean, and it has been the chief naval harbour in Italy since 1861. Recently it was attacked by our own home-based Lancasters and then it was subjected to a fierce assault ...