... Quiet Week-End At Esther McCracken's Northumberland Home Esther McCracken, authoress of Quiet Wedding and its record-breaking successor, Quiet Week- End, is the owner of Rothley Lake House, near Morpeth, where she works hard on the farm of 23 acres. Her husband, Lt.-Col. McCracken, is serving with the Eighth Army, and until a year ago, she herself was in the W.R.N.S. acting as a driver in her ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The King's Travels IT was immediately after our final victory in Tunisia that the King first expressed his wish to go out and see the Anglo-American victors, but his visit was impossible until the armies had regrouped after fighting had finished --a process that naturally took some little time-- and when this had been done, Mr. Churchill was out of the ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Sub-Station HENRY GREEN is one of the most interesting of our contemporary novelists. Either in spite of, or because of, this, he is not yet one of the best known. His experiments in technique have been made with a view to finding, as every writer should do, his own approach to reality. In his style, more often than in his subjects, he breaks with conventions. He may ...

... . Brigadier orde CHARLES WIN- GATE, D.S.O., was the leader of the famous wrecking expedition into Northern Burma, one of the most remark able exploits of the war. Everyone knows how he captained his hand of Chindits, as they were called (after the fabulous griffins which guard the Burmese temples), through a three-months* campaign in enemy- occupied territory, and successfully destroyed ...

... CYRIL RITCHARD AND MADGE ELLIOTT- THEMSELVES IN EGG PIE LANE. Two in a woodland setting CYRIL RITCHARD and his wife, MADGE ELLIOTT, in the grounds of their country house. fi. m Apple Trees, Egg Pie Lane the seventeenth-century home of Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott. A keen gardener who has been digging successfully for victory Cyril Ritchard hoes a long row. A stroll through the flourishing ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Funny and Not so Funny By James Agate THE London Pavilion is another of those picture houses which is apparently with out regard for the ear-drums of its patrons. The opening of They Got Me Covered, the new Bob Hope-Dorothy Lamour picture, was ear-splitting. Each and every character was made by the excessive amplification to shout and yell as though the person within two ...

... Mrs Peter Thorn Mrs. Thorn, formerly Miss Kathleen Phyllis Moore, married Lt. Anthony Peter Thorn, Irish Guards, last Decem ber. She is the daughter of Major and Mrs. Geoffrey Moore, of Thorntonhall, Lanarkshire, and has been a member of the W.R.N.S. for over two years Bertram Park Mrs. Michael O'Cock Last February Lt. Michael James Palmer O'Cock, Irish Guards, and Miss Elizabeth Jane Hall ...

... -/4 By Sabretache His Majesty IF it is said that the one item of war news which the loyal subjects of the realm most want to hear is that of the safe return of The Monarch to this country, that will be no more than a bare enunciation of fact. We know the hazard, but equally well do we know that no consideration of his personal safety would deflect H.M. King George VI. from a course which he ...

... C The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings IMH\ IV.'' I Madden Newcombe Lt. Colin Duncan Madden D.S.C., R.N., married Agnes Margaret {Peggy) Newcombe youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Newcombe of Aldingbournc Chichester Sussex at St. Mary's Church Aldingbournc -4 rcner-Shee MarCn Lt. Phiii* a m act aw the laU U-cTVS'r- R N.V R m Archer-She, Slr M- Archer-Sh' Son °f daughter of ...

... BY APPOINTMENT TO H.M.KING GEORGE VI. GIPB THE ONLY GIN THAT HOLDS THE BLUE SEAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE ...

... 410 THE HIGHWAY (IF FASUIOA BY M. E. BROOKE It is always pleasant to visit the Sportswear Department at Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge. To them must be given the credit of the dress above, which is made of a new fancy linen. As will be seen, it has a becoming yoke and turn-over collar. The skirt is arranged in an unusual manner, while the sleeves just turn the elbows. Too much cannot be said in ...

... T his model is worn by Miss EVELYN DARVELL. a Jack Hylton artiste in Lady Behave ...