... . PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEYSTONE. General Bernard MONTGOMERY, of the famous Eighth Army, victor of North Africa and Commander of the British Forces in Sicily, paid a secret visit to England in May and was in this country for a fortnight. One of his most important engage ments was a visit to his only I son, DAVID BERNARD MONTGOMERY, who is at Amesbury School. Our photographs show the General ...

... PEG-BOARD TESTS TO KEEP SQUARE PEGS OUT OF ROUND HOLES I A MERICAN women applicants for war jobs are tried out by special intelligence tests which enable their general aptitude or special talents to be assessed, and help employers to avoid the danger of putting them in work to which they are temperamentally or physically unsuited. These tests seem pretty simple, but they are arranged in ...

... A PEG-BOARD TEST FOR MANUAL DEXTERITY The girl must pick the pegs up and arrange them on the other side of the board in the same pattern. TWEEZER DEXTERITY TEST This helps to rate the ability of a girl to work with small tools, as she has to pick pegs out of holes with small tweezers and rearrange them. The BLOCK TEST is a fairly simple try -out for quickness of hand. The girl has to put ...

... . GROUP CAPTAIN ADOLPH GYSBERT SAILOR MALAN, South African- born Ace R.A.F. pilot, won the D.F.C. at Dunkirk, and a Bar to it for night operations in 1940, and was awarded the D.S.O. for fighter operations over England and the Channel in the same year, and a Bar to it in 1941 for ops. over France. He also has the Croix de Guerre (avec Palme). Not long ago he entertained a thousand guests in ...

... BARBARA STANWYCK AS THE STRIPTEUSE HEROINE OF A BACK-STAGE MURDER THRILLER. BARBARA STANWYCK plays Dixie Daisy in STRIPTEASE LADY, the United Artists release picture version of Gypsy Rose Lee's best-seller novel G- String Murders which is due for presentation at the Odeon, Leicester Square, -on July 30. Gypsy Rose Lee is herself a famous American slripleuse and her thriller, with a bach ...

... DU BARRY WAS A LADY -AND VARGA'S MONTHS ARE GIRLS! VARGA'S LIVING CALENDAR, with every month portrayed by a lovely girl, is a feature of the M.-G.-M. Technicolor musical version of the stage show DU BARRY WAS A LADY, due at the Empire, Leicester Square, on July 30. The girls are (I. to r.J Aileen Haley, Kay Aldridge (seated). Hazel Brooks, Georgia Carroll, Eve Whitney (seated), Inez Cooper, ...

... This W.A.A.F. has driven the bomb-train up and with her spaniel beside her, is watching the BOMBING-UP OF ONE OF OUR NEW TYPHOON FIGHTER BOMBERS, which carry two 500-lb. bombs and can dive at more than 400 m.p.h. almost vertically on their targets. CORPORAL VALERIE BOOTH (6\ stone) and C.S.M. F, WILLIAMS (20 stone) are the smallest and the largest A.T.S. and soldier in the Middle East. No. 1 ...

... . These ROMANS AND ANCIENT BRITONS are W.A.A.F. members. This pageant, 44 Women Through the Ages, was staged at a depot to mark the fourth birthday anniversary of the W.A.A.F. I re's haymaking, modern style. These land- lirls, the picture of sunburnt mirth, are bringing j,/( the hay-wain on the fourth anniversary of 'be formation of the Women's Land Army. VINA BARNDEN, Australian pianist, ...

... - THE successful towing of a cargo glider across the Atlantic opens a new page in air history. This was achieved last week by SQUADRON LEADER R. G. SEYS, D.F.C., R.A.F., glider pilot, his co-pilot, SQUADRON LEADER F. M. GOBEIL, R.C.A.F., and FLIGHT LIEUT. W. S. LONG- HURST, R.C.A.F., with FLIGHT LIEUT. C. W. H. THOMPSON, R.A.F., of N. Zealand, pilots of the towing aircraft, the R.A.F. ...

... MISSION TO MOSCOW THE FILM FIGURES AND THE REAL. 44 1\/T ISSION TO 1V1 MOSCOW is due ut the Warner Theatre shortly. This film is based on U.S. Ambassador Mr. Joseph E. Davics's book of his experiences during his term in the Soviet capital, and the ferment of events which preceded the second World War. We give here parallel figures of this dramatic piece of history the chief personalities in ...

... GORRINGE have used flowers and felt for the simple hat above, which, although decorative, will retain its freshness indefinitely. It is available in several colour schemes such an advantage. NOW that Mid summer's Day is past women are thinking of lighter raiment it must not be of an ephemeral character. Therefore, no one can fail to be in terested in Finnigan's, New Bond Street, fancy linen ...

... FIELD-MARSHAL ROMMEL, the desert fox, German Commander in North Africa, as he is in real life. ERICH VON STROHEIM'S film presentation of Rommel. A scene from Five Graves to Cairo, with FRANCHOT TONE as the British soldier Bramble masauerading as a waiter. Rommel himself on active service in the Western Desert in 1942. The screen Rommel (ERICH VON STROHEIM) interviews the French girl, Mouche ...