... The Countess of Ronaldshay and Her Children Marcus Adams The wife of Major the Earl of Ronaldshay was Miss Penelope Pike before her marriage in 1936. Her father. Colonel Ebenezcr Pike, C.B.E.VM.C., of Ditcham Park, Petersfield, Hants, is a Zone Commander in the Home Guard, and her mother, Mrs. Pike, is the well-known artist, Olive Snell, whose portraits frequently appear in The Tatler. Lord ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Tosh and Bosh By James Agate I LOOK around my acquaintance and marvel why A. endures B. I hate B. How could C. fall in love with D. ?D. is a fright, a bore and a vixen. Why was the C sharp minor Rachmaninoff Prelude a howling success when the others are so much better? Why do most playgoers prefer The Merchant of Venice to King Lear? And then I decide that A. endures B. ...

... At Home in Warwickshire Lady Dudley and Her Daughter Before her marriage to the Earl of Dudley last February, the f ountesa of Dudley was working as a part-time V.A.D., but now she is fully occupied running her husband's Warwickshire estate, Himley Hall. She is the second daughter of the Hon. Guy Charteris, and a sister of Lady O'Neill and Mrs. Roderick Thesiger. She was previ ously married to ...

... Four R.A.F. Pilots Portraits by Olive Snell F/Lt. G. R. Crakanthorp, D.F.C. Crackers was recently promoted, and now commands his flight. His coolness and courage have enabled him to perform some very daring feats in the air S/Ldr. E. A. Fairhurst D.F.C. S/Ldr. Fairhurst commands his squadron. He is an excellent pilot, and is extremely popular with his fellow officers and men i I V/Cdr. Lord ...

... Sir John Slessor A.O.C.-in-C., Coastal Command Last November, Air Marshal Sir John Cotcsworth Slessor, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., succeeded Air Chief-Marshal Sir Philip Joubcrt de la Ferte as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chicf, Coastal Command. Educated at Hailcybury, he served in the R.F.C. from 1915 to 1918. Two years later he became a Flight Lieutenant in the R.A.F., served for two years in India, ...

... jucosT 20. I4) Triples.-- the safety glass fortnightly (f^, ILLUSTRATED SPORTINC AND DRAMATIC NEWS SPORT &COUNTRY ...

... SUFFOLK sheep, at the Society's August Show and Sale, shared in the increased prices obtained recently for high-grade stock, although this very fine breed of arable land sheep has always been in steady demand, not only in the Eastern Counties, but also in the North and Midlands and wherever a good all-round type of animal is required. Originally bred from a cross between the old Horned Norfolk ...

... THE East Terrace of Windsor Castle was one of the country's show places before the war. The flower beds running up to the fountain in the centre were a sight which attracted thousands of visitors to the Castle. Since the outbreak of the war the garden has been laid out exclusively for food production. The Terrace, the size of a cricket field, has its orderly succession of vegetables. A part of ...

... THE Cavendish Golf Course at Buxton belongs to the Duke of Devonshire and was designed for him some twenty-odd years ago, by Dr. Mackenzie, the well-known architect. Dr. Mackenzie, while not the inventor of the built-up double-tier or plateau green-- Nature made these before golf was thought of-- con structed many courses throughout the world, where he has featured this type of green ...

... The BATTLE of the SEVEN SEAS How the Merchant Navy is Winning It HERE is the story-picture of a typical crew of a Merchant Navy ship. The crew were lined up at a British port when they had brought their charge back to port unscathed through U-boat lanes. These men are typical of tens of thousands of their comrades in the Merchant Navy whose courage and endurance on the embattled seas have made ...

... THE GREAT ARMAMENTS CENTRE OF GERMANY DEVASTATED BY THE R.A.F. A RECONNAISSANCE MOSAIC OF THE KRUPPS WORKS AT ESSEN AFTER THE HEAVY RAID OF JULY 25-26. This mosaic has been built up from R.A.F. reconnaissance photographs taken after the big raid by Bomber Command on the night of July 25-26. It shows how extensive is the devastation, particularly among the scores of workshops and buildings in ...

... FIRST PICTURES OF BRITAIN'S ANTI-INVASION GUN An exterior view of th turret-mounted, twin 6-pounder weapons put up round our shor to deal with the enemy's smaller craft and small torpedo-boats THE ARMOl ED VESTS FOR AMERICAN AIRMEN Part of one which has v stood a heavy shell fragment. The steel plates of whit these vests are made are I -32nd of an inch thick J blING ]U. 88 AIRCRAFT DIVES TO ...