... SPITFIRE VIEW OF A CHERRY PICKER A Spitfire pilot might perhaps have glimpsed a vietv like ihis when flying over the Garden of England, for the Kentish cherry crop has been a record one this year. Gathering in the harvest from a cherry orchard calls for a lot of energy and a certain amount of daring so no wonder the little girl tcho has been left grounded while her mother climbs aloft is ...

... The first freight-carrying glider to fly the Atlantic has just reached Britain from Canada. It was towed across by a Dakota aircraft of R.A.F. Transport Command, the 3,500-miles journey being covered in 28 flying hours. It is the first time in history that an air train has crossed the Atlantic, and the flight has created a world record in the total distance covered by a glider carrying cargo ...

... The Surrender of 'the Island of LAMPEDUSA After the Fall of Pantellaria And other War Pictures from Distant Theatres of Conflict THE HARBOUR ENTRANCE AT LAMPEDUSA AS THE ROYAL NAVY SAW IT ON JUNE 12. The white flag of surrender flies at the masthead, with the Italian flag at half-mast behind. A concrete pill-box can be seen to the right of the flag-masts THE SCENE AS THE VICTORS LANDED ON THE ...

... CHURCHILL'S GUILDHALL SPEECH ILLUSTRATED-- 150 YEARS AGO! COPYRIGHT RESERVED FOR THE OWNER. Mr. Churchill's stirring description of the British Commonwealth and Empire in his Guildhall speech is perfectly illustrated by this allegorical drawing by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg R.A., made 150 years before the speech ivas delivered for Loutherbourg was born in 1780 and died in 1812. The ...

... Dr. David Blake (PHILIP CUNNINGHAM) and Molly Benton (JANE BAXTER), young Medical Officer of Health and medical student are in love. LOUISE HAMPTON as Miss Vicky Benton one of the spinster sisters whose slender means are derived from slum property. Miss Vicky Benton (LOUISE HAMPTON) and her sister. Miss Deborah Benion (NELLIE BOWMAN), look out old things for a jumble sale. Miss Vicky Benion is ...

... . HERMIONE GINGOLD, star of Sweet and Low at the Ambassadors, has just moved into an attractive house in Kinnerton Street, Knightsbridge, so the celebration party she recently gave in honour of the success of the new show was also a house-warming. Miss Gingold writes a good deal of the material that she puts over so brilliantly, and is responsible for the amusing burlesque Arsenic and Old ...

... REGENCY FILM THE MAN IN GREY. Clarissa Marchioness of Rohan (PHYLLIS CALVERT; right J, finding her old schoolfellow Hester (MARGARET LOCKWOOD^ touring in a third rate repertory company, takes her back to London to stay with her Lady Rohan makes friends with her husband's new librarian Peter Rokeby (STEWART GRANGER), to whom she once gave a lift in her coach i chen he was a poor strolling ...

... |he GROWING MIGHT of the R.A.F. I As Demonstrated During tsomber Attacks on I Germany, Italy, Occupied France and Burma --New Reconnaissance Photographs issued by the Air Ministry during recent days On right This official picture of Aachen still burning is one of the most xtraordinary photographs yet taken by the R.A.F. on reconnaissaru after a bomber raid on German territory. Eight hours ...

... SICILY INVADED The Destruction of the Axis G.H.Q. and the First Radio Pictures of Invasion Scenes The Grand Hotel San Domenico was known to all visitors to the famous beauty spot of Taor- mina it is or was a most con spicuous building on the east coast of the island a few miles from Messina. Here, the Axis G.H.Q had been located in the old Dominican Convent which, some years ago, was converted ...

... THIS is the COMMON WEALTH of TO-DAY The Second of a Series of Articles Dealing with the Wonderful Response of the British Commonwealth of Nations By CHARLES GRAVES MANY a pessimist in this country genuinely thought that the Larwood-Jardine incidents during the Test matches in Australia were causing such bitterness in Sydney and elsewhere that Australians' sympathies for this country would be ...

... 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 ...