... The following rubber plantations are missing Since the Japanese seized Malaya ninety per Though rubber stocks are being conserved by dint cent of the sources of raw rubber have become of greater tyre care, and miracles achieved with unavailable. Yet the demand for TYRES synthetic and reclaimed rubber, still stands in this war of movement is phenomenal, and springs in need of your co ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Some Hints to the Critics' Circle By James Agate INSPIRED by my old friend and revered colleague, Sydney Carroll, who weighed in during the Christmas holidays with a column article on a new play which he admitted he had not seen, I propose to write something about: (a) a film which I propose not to see, (b) one which I could not see, and (c) one which I did see. Sydney ...

... 'Corvette K-225 Has Been Renamed The Nelson Touch The Nelson Touch has been sanctioned by the Royal Canadian Navy as the offi cial motion picture of the corvette warships it was made with the co-operation of Canadian naval shipyards and of units of the British Royal Navy and Nether lands Navy, its cast being augmented by the officers and crews of corvettes. The picture has aroused the ...

... Aspirant to Film Fame Miss Roberta Huby Fred Daniels London-born Roberta Huby has packed a good deal of adventure into her twenty-five years. She has been child dancer, juvenile artiste, cabaret star and vocalist band leader. She has understudied Bebe Daniels and played in intimate revue. In between, she has found time for marriage in private life Roberta is the wife of Staff Captain John ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Tunisia JORDAN'S TUNIS DIARY (Collins; ros. 6d.) reaches us six months after the finish of that campaign. This day-by-day journal of the News Chronicle's famous war correspondent contains facts and details, fruits of his own observation, that could not be in cluded in his despatches, and of which many, at the time when they were still fresh, could not be expected to pass ...

... Us :f1 .J tomorrow will dawn when imagination can have free rein again when colour and loveliness can be added to craftsman- ship and quality, to express the exhilaration of peace-time days. That is the glory to come. TODAY we are making WAUKEEZI ORIGINALS with all the charm and style war-time I restrictions permit, still finely made, good-looking shoes. I They are obtainable in strictly ...

... A 1 It EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Giving Them The Works GALLANT efforts have been made by the Ministry of Aircraft Production in the dissemination of information about enemy aircraft and aero engines. There have been very great improvements in this respect during the past year or so and we now have authoritative pronouncements upon many important enemy machines. The M.A.P. has, in fact, put ...

... Lend-Lease Chief in Britain Mr. Philip D. Reed Houxird Coster, F.R.S.A, The Honourable Philip Dunham Reed heads the United States Mission for Economic Affairs in London. His Mission represents five U.S. Government Departments responsible for Lend-Lease War Production, Food, Shipping, Petroleum and Foreign Relief. Mr. Reed, who has been in London for his Government since July 1942, succeeded Mr ...

... l Aiax factor I HOLLYWOOD C/ LONDON /Plax factor HOLLYWOOD C/ LONDON CQ Cosmetics of the Stars I YOUR WORLD f OF NEW Beauty IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER /YT For you and every woman 4 there is a world of new beauty just around the corner. It is beginning right now in the film capital laboratories of / Hollywood. Here you will find ingenious cosmetic chemists test ing and creating thrilling new ...

... What is wrong with this picture QF all the wrongs here and there are plenty, the most startling is to see that youngster offering fortune chocolates to the policeman. A kindly thought but impossible. Caley's, of course, aren't making fortune for the present not until after the war. It might have been dilferent if Norwich Chocolate Blocks had been offered. Calev's are makina them now. Errors? ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Tails Right Vp! No need for any ginger! The wicket, as we are aware, is not too good, but it will roll out a lot better. We have a first-class side from Number One down to the heel, and we have a Skipper we all like. Our children's children are never likely to forget what Uncle Sam's Army did for them on Christmas Day 1943-- a spontaneous act of great kindness, and one of ...

... WAT OF THE WAR By Foresight Success One thing is obvious. The sinking of the Scharnhorst was the result of very good management more than any kind of luck. The whole operation must have been carefully planned in advance. Well in advance; and the Germans were caught in a trap. The Scharn horst was coaxed out of her Christmas lair by what she must have imagined was a more or less helpless ...