... WAV OF THE WAR By Foresight Offensive HITLER'S anxiety to disown any responsi bility for the new offensive in Russia caused some mystification in the first instance. It seemed so odd that armies should go into battle as the Germans did and that their people should be told that they did not launch the attack. The reason for this cannot be difficult to find. German morale is not in a state to ...

... At the Board of Trade The Rt. Hon. Hugh Dalton, P.C., M.P. Mr. Hugh Dalton became President of the Board of Trade in 1942. Born in Neath, Glamorganshire, fifty-five years ago, he is the son of the late Canon J. N. Dalton, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., who was for some years tutor to Prince George of Wales, afterwards King George V. Mr. Dalton was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, spent three ...

... -/4 By Sabretache King Willoic IN spite of everything, and even in spite of what The Vermin have tried to do to some of his playgrounds, His Majesty has still a firm and very graceful seat on his throne, and nothing is ever likely to knock him off it. These one-day matches, naturally, are not so satisfying either to the gnarled veteran, who likes to yarn and jaw about what the second ball ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Telebusiness A COMPOSITE, and partly fictitious, picture of the business man, continuously busy, hurrying from place to place, going through papers, examining documents, sitting at conferences, is conjured up when ever air transport is under consideration. For this business man is regarded as being perpetually in need of moving from place to place at high speed and ...

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... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES The Moon is Down By James Agate I BEGIN with an apology. But first let us have a little ancient history. In the autumn of 1921 I had the honour of being appointed dramatic critic to the Saturday Review. My first article was about a play by Michael Morton called Woman to Woman. My second article was about two Chaplin films, The Kid, and Shoulder Arms. Presuming that the ...

... PAPER IS NEEDED FOR MUNITIONS OF WAR SAVE EVERY SCRAP FOR SALVAGE fiais 64&I BY APPOINTMENT TO H.M. KING GEORGE VI Stands Sup'tawm 'l he fact that goods made of rate materials in short supply owing to war conditions are advertised in this paper should not be taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export MAXIMUM PRICES PER BOTT. 25/3 HALF BOTT. 13/3 GT. BRITAIN S N. ...

... Three's Company ouses are as Short in Wartime ashington as Laughs are Plentiful in The More the Merrier The male cuckoo in the female nest (two cuckoos are even better) is a good Hollywood formula. Add to taste intimate intrusions and love in suspense hang on a topical peg (the housing shortage in overcrowded W ashington) sweeten with a sensitive love scene and the answer is The More the ...

... Two Popular Singers Webster Booth and Anne Ziegler At Their Barnet Home Webster Booth and his wife, Anne Ziegler, two of the radio's most popu lar performers, have been scoring a tremendous success as Francois Villon and Kat.herine de Vaucelles in the re vival of The Vagabond King at the Winter Garden. This is their first appearance in a musical play, and after a very successful London season ...

... 6 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Palace Party THE afternoon party which the Queen gave at Buckingham Palace in celebration of the fourth birthday of the Women's Land Army was one of the jolliest and most informal gatherings at the Palace since the war. Three hundred girls, picked from every county, shook hands with Her Majesty and with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, in the ...

... Past, Present and Future Drama Students of To-day Stage Stars of To-morrow? The Webber-Douglas School Carries on Down in Sussex These pictures were taken during a visit to Rother Hill, Stedham, near Midhurst, where the Webber-Doughs School of Singing and Dramatic Art has found country quarters for the past two years. Three old Webber-Douglasites Dulcie Gray, her husband, Michael Dennison and ...

... The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester's old. Judging by these pictures, taken at near Peterborough, he already appears ti of the estate (the sandpit), and in ti is now two and a half years rents' home, Barnwell Manor, an interest in the cultivation :ep of his little dog, Zalie Prince William and His Parents at Barntvell Manor Smartening Up Zalie the Australian Terrier Prince William would have If ...