... 44 Lottie Dundass a Psychological Thriller A Play of Mother Love and Inherited Inhibitions by the Author of National Velvet Ann Todd plays Lottie Dundass daughter of a homicidal maniac, granddaughter of a famous actor, a girl whose inheritance has from the first marked her for tragedy. The weak heart she has always feared proves ultimately to be her greatest blessing The conversations of ...

... Ilobert llelpmann, Sadler's Wells choreographer and principal male dancer, must surely be one of the most versatile and gifted of all theatre personalities. Apart from his work for and with the ballet, he has lately been appearing in film- character parts (his latest role is that of the Bishop of Ely in Laurence Olivier's production of Henry V.), and now he is to add to his many interests by ...

... Flying Officer the Earl of Haddington, M.C., R.A.F.V.R., and his wife have two children, Lord Binning, who was born in 1941, and Lady Mary Baillie-Hainilton, aged nine, and their home is Tyningham, Prcstonkirk, East Lothian. Lord Haddington is the son of the late Brigadier-General Lord Binning, C.B., M.V.O., and succeeded his grandfather as the twelfth earl in 1917. He served in the last war ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart First Hand A FEW first-class accounts have appeared of aerial actions by trained writers who have travelled in the aircraft. They have given vivid pictures ol the whirling events of combat and of the surging of the emotions that occurs in the breasts of those taking part in them. i nese accounts are going to play an important part in air war history. They give many ...

... I Britain's! J War Machine AND SOME OF THE WOMEN WHO MAKE ITS WHEELS GO ROUND The Microgram girls, seen on the right, are a section of the ATS who operate a remark able new apparatus which is speeding up the transmission of official correspondence and documents between the War Office here and the battle areas of the Middle East. Before the days of the Microgram, these documents were sent by ...

... A CROP not often met with in British farming has just been successfully harvested at Britwell Farm, Burnham, Bucks. It is Pedigree Cocksfoot Grass, and was grown under the supervision of Mr. Cecil J. Twist. Formerly stocks of this valuable grass seed were imported from New Zealand and Denmark, but now we are largely dependent, on our own efforts. There is bound to be a great demand for this ...

... THE Glasgow Fair, the city's summer holiday, became a stay-at-home-holi day week, and the Corporation did everything to take the workers of the second city of the Empire out-of-doors for their well-deserved annual holiday. There was every kind of entertainment from dancing to golf. There was a feeling that exhibition golf matches might not take with the workers, and, in any case, that ...

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... The Long-range Catalinas and the Parachute-dropping Hudsons With Further Details of the Defence of Our Atlantic Ocean Convoys Special Sphere Drawings and Diagram MOST flying-boats have an extraordinary cruising range-- up to 24 hours or so. This often means leaving base soon after midnight, so that the greater part of the flying time can be spent in daylight, convoy shepherding or anti-U-boat ...

... The SPRINGBOKS in NORTH AFRICA The Concluding Article of a Series Dealing with the Response of the British Commonwealth of Nations By CHARLES GRAVES NOW that the results ol the South African General Election proved such a success for General Smuts, it is appropriate to record the war effort of the Union under his patient guidance. Many people have forgotten what happened in September 1939 out ...

... SPA C ES FOR WAR WORKERS Women who produce the weapons of war are now I b given three-week courses of treatment at famous Spas all over the country, when I th health requires it. The Spas have thus been made available for rich and poor alike. I In pril 1940, nineteen-year-old Joyce Pearson (above) was completely crippled by I rii matoid arthritis and was being wheeled about in an invalid chair ...