... Entertaining the Forces At Home and Abroad Josephine Baker, the famous coloured artiste, had a chat on the terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo with Mr. Basil Dean. He is Director of National Service Entertainment Noel Coward, the famous actor and author, was the guest of Lt.-Gen. Mason McFarlane, C.-in-C. and Governor of Gibraltar, when paying a short visit to the peninsula. He is seen with ...

... A Wedding Bouquel An Ashton-Berners Revival by the Sadler's Wells Ballet Another Ashton ballet was added to the current Sa Wells repertoire when A Wedding Bouquet was revived in, It came all the more piquantly out of its two years' retire by following fairly closely on the production of his creation, The Quest a juxtaposition of the two works u lines afresh Ashton's astonishing versatility. ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Across the Channel NOT long ago, business took me into a restricted area-- a strip of the Kentish coast I have known since childhood. Here, west of Hythe, Romney Marsh begins, and one sees the great curve of the coast out to Dungeness. Inland lie the chalky South Downs. Leaving Folkestone, one almost drops from the high plateau-- then, above the coast road, run those smiling ...

... THE PRIME MINISTER IN CANADA: WITH HIS DAUGHTER AT THE NIAGARA FALLS, ON HIS WAY TO THE UNITED STATES TO VISIT THE PRESIDENT On his way to the United States, Mr. Winston Churchill broke his journey for two hours of sight-seeing at the Niagara Falls, which he had not seen since the year 1900. He was accompanied by his daughter, Subaltern Mary Churchill, who is acting as his official aide-de ...

... Phases of The Sicilian Campaign Which Led Up to the Total Defeat of the Axis and the Withdrawal of the Germans Special Sphere Drawings Below Tt is now known that some of the towns and villages of Sicily were badly smashed up by bombing and shelling as the battle raged around the slopes of Mount Etna. Many of the civilians fled from their homes during this period up towards the summit of ...

... STRATEGY IN ITALY Some Aspects of Coming Problems for the Germans in Northern Italy and Austria --Illustrated with a Series of Special Diagrams GERMANY may, in her desire to protect the Fatherland from actual invasion, seek to drive an iron wedge between Italy and the Balkans. This wedge would be driven through an area lying between Ljubliana (the Laibach of former days) in Slovenia, Zagreb ...

... . CAMERA PORTRAIT BY BERTRAM PARK. H.R.H. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF GREECE, daughter of the late King Alexander of Greece and of the Princess Aspasia, has been engaged to H.M. King Peter of Yugoslavia for nearly a year, but the formal announcement has only just been made and, ou'ing to the sufferings of the peoples of Yugoslavia and Greece, the betrothal ceremony will not take place at present. ...

... PETROL SAVING AT SANDRINGHAM BIKE AND PONY CART FOR THEIR MAJESTIES. In order to save petrol THE QUEEN drove round Sandringham by governess cart and THE KING and PRINCESSES i cent on bicycles, to inspect the harvest. H.M. THE KING had a talk with some of the very junior workers ivho had helped with the harvest, and congratulated them on their prowess. Royal Procession at Sandringham THE QUEEN ...

... /)^y A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country 1 he King with the Home Fleet ONE of the King's last engagements before going on holiday-- details of which were still on the secret list when we went to press last week-- was his fifth wartime visit to the Home Fleet. It was his first inspection since Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser hoisted his flag, and it was obvious to everyone fortunate enough to be ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Hook, Line and Sinker! SOME people have swallowed the lot! The raconteurs must really think of something better than that old whine: Not me, sir-- t'other boy! Telling us that the Bull- Frog has been put on ice, and asking us to believe that they are doing the same thing by Der Verführer, is taxing our credulity a little bit too much! It makes no difference, of course, ...

... 0$ 0aae, oi Wom&ri Jl. g@ioJL These toilet preparations have been carefully chosen, whereby women may practise wartime economies. There is talc pow der, soap, complexion milk, cleansing cream and natural rose lipstick in miniature carton YARDIEY Destined for the trousseau are the pyjamas and wrapper. The former are of a spotted fancy material and the latter of floral chiffon. It is avail able ...

... The KIND of FRENCH WE'LL FIND TOMORROW And the New Regime in that Unhappy Country When Her People are Free Once Again By FERDINAND TUOHY FOR reasons of strategy more than of politics France is much in our minds these days. If Allied landings have been canvassed on and off since the spring of 1942, the prospect is now felt to be really likely. Of course, there need not be a scrap of doubt as to ...