... ff7 ise fiords Your EXTREMITIES are your bugbear in winter, icy fingers and numb toes. If you can manage to keep your circulation pumping briskly right down into fingers and toes you will avoid many little shivers. Wear socks on your toes if they are stationary and if you are in the damp or out in bad weather, try to get socks made of the greasy wool such as is used for seamen's stockings. ...

... . This is probably one of the biggest groups of headline names ever assembled together before the camera. Louis B. Mayer, the boss of M.-C.-M., is seated in the centre of the front row, surrounded by his most famous artists. See how many of them you can recognise, and, if in doubt, turn to page 302 for the key. N.B. A Coloured pi* u inserted in this issue ...

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... Flesh and Fantasy Being the Three Dreams of Mr. Robert Benchley It is the time of Mar di Gras. Henriette Betty Field), embittered because she lacks, beauty is about to take her life. She is stopped by an old man who urges her to ivear the mask of a beautiful woman. Wearing the mask she dances with her lover Robert Cummings). At midnight the mask falls off, and to her joy Henriette discovers ...

... 0.. A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Hiding to Honnds WHILE staying with her grandmother, Queen Mary, at her wartime country home, Princess Elizabeth had her first outing with hounds. Disappointingly, there was no kill, but the Princess, who has a fine natural seat, enjoyed the experience very much indeed, and will without doubt be seen out again when the opportunity arises. With the ...

... Mme. Katina Paxinou The Leading Lady of the Greek Theatre in Her First Hollywood Role Mmc. Katina Paxinou, first lady of the Greek Theatre, has jumped into the fore most ranks of screen stardom with her brilliant performance as Pilar, the force behind the guerrilla band around which centres the interest in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Mme. Paxinou came to England in the early days of the war, and ...

... THE BATTLE LINE IN ITALY The Latest Pictures from the Fifth and Eighth Armies BEFORE THE CROSSING OF THE SANGRO The Trigno Valley, where Allied troops were held up for about a week. German observation posts overlooked the whole of this valley, and their machine-guns made it impossible to move in daylight. The Eighth Army, having crossed the Trigno River in force, soon came in contact with the ...

... 17 or the first time in 2,400 years, a new type of compass has been invented a compass of such revolutionary design that it may well equal in importance the invention of the famous Sperry bomb- sight. No official details have been re leased by the United States Government beyond those depicted in the drawing here and, owing to its extreme importance and value to the Allied Air Forces, the ...

... Owing to the necessity of maintaining the greatest possible degree of wireless silence, flag-and-lamp signals are even to-day the chief means 0f communication between warships at sea. The lamp, whether it is the small Aldis hand-lamp or the larger signalling searchlight, comes into use mainly for the exchange of messages between pairs of ships. Flag-signals, on the other hand, are chiefly used ...

... --By Vernon Fane Miss Monica Dickens's Study of a War Factory An Airy- Collection of Short Stories This Week's Spy Story An Eleanor Farjeon Burlesque The Tunisian Battlefield And the Son g of the Birds MISS MONICA DICKENS has turned her observant eye and her tart, but friendly, humour on to the acti vities of her fellow-humans in a small war factory near London. lhere is no suggestion that any ...

... Two Over the Eight Of Ten Little Niggers Only Two Survive nagine a lonely island off the Devon coast imagine ten people, itherto unknown to each other, gathered there; imagine their t actions when each discovers that a guilty, conscience-stricken past is common to them all imagine their feelings when one by ^ne their number is diminished by accident and untimely death nagine their suspicion ...

... I Old Lace l The Queen Visits the Red Cross Exhibition and Sale When the Queen arrived at Claridges for the Ex hibition and Sale of old lace, held in aid of the Red Cross, she was re ceived by the chairman, Marie Marchioness of Willingdon, Field-Mar shal Sir Philip Chetwode and Lord Iliffe, and her Majesty made purchases at every stall. The Duchess of Gloucester was another visitor The Duchess ...