... TWO- YEAR- OLD GAY GHOST KAY HAMMOND. ENCHANTING ghost-wife of Noel Coward's frivolously, spiritualist Blithe Spirit at the Duchess, KAY HAMMOND cele brated what we might call her second spiritual anniversary on July 2. This successful play opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1941, moved on to the St. James's in June 1942, and to the Duchess in October that year. Kay's frailly- ethereal ...

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... CHINA'S FIRST LADY- MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK. MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK, wife of China's Generalissimo, has arrived hack in Chungking from her long visit to America and Canada, where she put the case for more aid to China in lucid and eloquent English. Resides being an inspiration to her countrymen, China's First Ladv is very chic in appearance and wears her clothes elegantly like a Farisienne ...

... . AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY was celebrated in Moscow. A concert of con temporary U.S.A. music was given in the big hall of the Moscow Conserva toire by the Soviet State Orchestra conducted by Honoured Artist of the U.S.S.R. Nathan Rachlin. Right LADY YULE'S film company, British National, have averaged eight pictures yearly since the war. These include 44 One of Our Air craft is Missing The ...

... THE RECORD-BREAKING BATTLE The Great Onslaught on Germany by Air The battle of Many Objectives. Described by FERDINAND TUOHY NEVER in history can an onslaught have had so many effects, repercussions and implications as the epoch-making Battle of the Ruhr. Battle' is indeed a misnomer. Offensive or campaign would be the nearer the mark, since the present vertical assault has already ...

... Reconnaissance Pictures taken on July 4, and recently released by the Air Ministry, after the R.A.F.'s Heavy Attacks on June 28-29 and July 3-4 (See also two succeeding pages oj tnis issue) Nazi reports, issued immediately after these big raids, claimed that heavy bombs had caused severe damage to the Cathedral. R.A.F. photographic inter pretation experts say that there is evidence only of ...

... Longstop Hill is a height which lies six miles to the north-east of Medjez-el- Bah, west of the city of Tunis. During the campaign in North Africa, it witnessed some of the bitterest fighting of the whole war, for it was a key position which the Germans fought fiercely to hold. This part of the country proved extremely difficult terrain for the First Army; and in the winning of the Hill two V ...

... In an attempt to save their chief arms centres in the Ruhr, the Germans appear now to be concentrating all their available defences on that important district. Our pilots have reported that during recent heavy raids they have had to battle their way through the heaviest barrages yet supporting the guns are hundreds of massed searchlights; in addition, swarms of night fighters are operating ...

... MECCANO BRIDGE- BUILDING BY THE R.E.s New Methods Brought About by War Necessities Described by J. W. KELLOGG WARS are not entirely destructive; quite a large part of the Army spends quite a large part of its time on work of a purely constructive nature-- road-making, bridge-building, pipe-laving, land-draining and levelling. Not all the work is on the repair of military damage either; much ...

... V Son The Story of Chiang Kai-shek and his Wife, who acts as his Foreign Minister, Chief Propagandist and Personal Envoy By C. Patrick Thompson PASS thy wisdom on: inspire my children, grunted the old dragon in Tseng Kuo-fan's ear; and on the sun-dried mulberry parchment the ashen-yellow hand wrote: One must be persistent, and also: Fight to create your own world empty handed, for that is ...

... La a y WitI, A Lamp HEROISM has bloomed in many places in this war, but nowhere more gloriously than among the women who are serving their country and humanity in the nursing services. Every branch of the women's Services has had its share of praise. Women in uniform have been blazoned across the front pages of the world and rightly- but the nursing service goes quietly on, unrivalled in its ...

... - W\ I ji w/ Bx W i n i f r e d Lewis HOUSEWIVES arc peaceable people and revolution seems a drastic term to use in connection with them, yet revolution is exactly what is brewing among the peaceable fraternity of home makers. domestic revolution. Women everywhere have been separated from their homes they have been pitch forked out of their humdrum environ ments, endowed with new ...