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... II t/ T. S. Douglas THE world historian of a thousand years hence describing the middle of the twentieth century may well ignore wars, revolutions and economic disasters and state that the period saw the dawn of the Age of Plastics. To him the second World War and the great political changes will seem, perhaps, insignificant beside the introduction of a new basic material destined to ...
... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Expectancy WHEREVER facts can penetrate, and faith in ultimate freedom has survived, there is expectancy. It is in the very air. There is an atmosphere of renewed urgency and fresh confidence. It is, perhaps, a natural sequence to these last few weeks of com parative calm which has kept us, as well as the enemy, guessing. Now that the lull is ending there is ...
... Rommel on the Screen Eric von Stroheim as the Afrika Korps Field Marshal in Five Graves to Cairo Five Graves to Cairo (Plaza) brings Rommel to the screen and Eric von Stroheim back to Hollywood after three pre-war years in French films in France and two years on Broadway and on tour in Arsenic and Old Lace. His make-up is accurate, from medal ribbons to candid cahiera. Franchot Tone, as a ...
... rM jfl /i m*' i l gendry ll THc S°n' v. In 1941 the Hon. Elspeth Ironside Field- Marshal Lord Ironside's only daughter, married Lt. Andrew Gilbert Hendry Black Watch, only son of the late Andrew Hendry and Mrs. Hendry of Gagie, Angus. They have a small son called Michael Andrew. Lord Ironside, who was Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1939, and C.-in-C. Home Forces in 1940, received a ...
... Edmund Dulac Designs Fighting French Banknotes Born in Toulouse sixty-one years ago, Edmund Dulac was natural ised British in 1912. Besides portraits, caricatures and stage settings, this versatile artist is famous for his designs for medals and stamps, notably the 1937 Coronation Stamp and the King George VI. cameo portrait of current stamps. Books illustrated by Dulac include The Arabian ...
... Airs and Graces an English Voice and a Polish Partnership Patricia Burke, Leading Lady, and Halama and Konarski, Dancers of Renown, are the Headlines of The Lisbon Story I I George Black's elaborate show at the Hippodrome is a novel cros between a topical melodrama and an operetta. The Lisbon Story isn't IS musical comedy, because there are no comedians, the hero doesn't sioj and the story is ...
... By Elizabeth Bowen Love Letters AT least once-- and ideally only once-- in a lifetime almost every man and woman takes up the pen, and adds (unconsciously, because unself-consciously) to the primary literature of the world: love letters. It must be said that all love letters are not great. One blushes, on behalf of the human race, at many that come to be read aloud in court-- though it is ...
... . This adaptability Her day is a hard one, her work heavy and fatiguing. But she shoulders her unaccustomed tasks with cheerful vigour. And success. We can't all be women railway porters. But we can all remember their example of willing adaptability. We can think of them when faced with war-time jobs that seem new and strange and unsuited to our strength. We can all bring something of this ...
... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Bluff THERE was a time when a meeting between Hitler and Mussolini was an event of importance. In all parts of the world there were people anxious to know why they had met and what they had discussed. By his propaganda Goebbels was able to produce headlines in all the capitals; and there was the usual boast about Axis solidarity. Usually these meetings did portend ...
... he Show Goes On but Blackmail, Strangulation, id the Hidden Hand keep the Actors Busy Back-stage ^Vliat city but New York could sponsor another Gypsy Rose Lee? Complete mistress of the art of strip tease, author of best-selling thrillers, queep of a Bohemia all her own, her life-story would make a score of Hollywood films. Strip Tease Lady (Odeon, Leicester Square) is based on her lurid novel ...
... Garden Party at Windlesham Chilean Ambassador Lends Home to Aid Royal Naval War Libraries The grounds of Thankerton House, Windlesham, Surrey, home of H.E. The Chilean Ambassador, were thrown open to the public recently for a garden party in aid of the Royal Naval War Libraries, founded by Mrs. Ivan Colvin, O.B.E., shortly after the outbreak of war. The Libraries work directly under the ...
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