... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MISS ENID BAGNOLD (Lady Jones): For making a first-rate thriller from her thwarted ambition. Lottie dundass, miss en id bagnold's successful thriller at the Vaudeville, is of amusingly personal origin. In 1939, Lady Juliet Duff being ill, Miss Bagnold deputised at short notice during the run of Mr. Cecil Beaton's revue 44 Heil Cinderella, at the Theatre Royal, ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. HOLIDAY-HOUSE-- During a brief holiday, I saw again the outsides of some of the historic country-houses of England and Scotland whose hospitality I have known, and I thought much of their future and their fate. And as the train moved fast or slowly across the face of Britain, I thought also of those ...

... M\ OF THE WAR By Foresight Climax WE do not know what caused the death of King Boris of Bulgaria-- whether it was an assassin's bullet or natural causes aggravated by acute anxiety-- but we can be certain that the Balkan game was reaching a climax for him, just as it is for Hitler. Having Hattered Boris, as well as badgered and bullied him, Hitler was about to demand the full price which ...

... Racing Carries On Some Pictures Taken at Kremlin Stables, Newmarket Combined Operations 7 a.m. and No Dew A Chinese member of the Allied Nations, Ming is the stable mascot Mrs. Lambton and Miss Sybil Lambton, who is in the Women's Land Army, discuss farm affairs --.4?-.. I I I IMIIHBI I W I 111 I In this group are Michael Beary, the stable joclcey the Hon. Mrs. George Lambton Mrs. Perry ...

... Brighton, 1880 Pink String and Sealing Wax is a Victorian Domestic Comedy With an Undercurrent of Tragedy Roland Pertwec's new play, Pink String and Sealing Wax, which has already been seen in Brighton and Nottingham, opened at the Duke of York's Theatre last week. It is the story of a Brighton chemist and his young family in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Domestic comedy throws ...

... -/4 By Sabretache /In Object All Sublime! THE Son of Heaven is probably the only person who will view with disfavour the formation of this new South-East Asia Command, and, if he has any knowledge of the fighting record of the sailor appointed to run it, he may be even more put out. In a recent recountal of Lord Louis Mountbatten's war service published in the daily Press, the author omitted ...

... gm BENTLEY The knowledge, the skill, the high ideals that invested the peace time Bentley with such easy grace and supremacy, have not been lost in the maelstrom of War. Rather have the trials of conflict provided experience which will he applied in the manufacture ol an even better Bentley for more discriminating owners in that more discriminating world which will follow in the wake III l\ ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME GOOD VALUE FOR COUPONS TAILORED COATS AND SUITS THERE is always some thing different about the creations of Rima (Bruton Street). They may be seen at high-class out fitters. The -suit on the right is arranged with a very becoming -modified corselet skirt, the blouse portion being of a con trasting colour. The coat is worthy of careful study. XJOWADAYS sim- i- s pie lines are ...

... First Pictures Received by Radio from the Toe as the British and Canadian Forces Cross the Straits of Messina for the Invasion ON THE EVE OF THE INVASION Generals Montgomery and Elsenhower (on right), with their staff officers, study the mainland of Italy. The Straits of Messina at this point are only two or three miles wide i mm ib in iii niiwi muni m x THE INVASION FLEET GATHERED IN THE ...

... THE OFFENSIVE BY AIR The Bombing Attacks on Rome, Wiener Neustadt Regensburg and Rennes AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACK ROME FOR THE SECOND TIME On August 13. in daylight, aircraft operated by the U.S. Army returned to the Italian capital, to attack the big Littorio Marshalling Yards in that city. The Marauders put their bombs squarely on the target, as this reconnaissance picture, taken during the ...

... The Path Followed by the Big Bombers in Some of Their Recent Raids on Germany and Italy Special Sphere Drawings The flight to Italy from Britain is a very long one: equally, the flight to certain parts of Germany-- as undertaken in daylight by American bombers-- is an invitation to enemy fighters to carry out attacks along the return route. For both these reasons, during recent operations, the ...

... ENTERTAINING the TROOPS Famous Stage Stars who are Now Touring the Camps GEORGt FORMBY, THE LANCASHIRE COMEDIAN, PERFORMS BEFORE A NORTH AFRICAN AUDIENCE. In an improvised theatre in the grounds of the 96th General Hospital at Maison Carree, George Formby entertains w ...