... A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The Season Opens LONDON seasons, as we knew them in pre-war years, are a thing of the past, perhaps only temporarily, perhaps per manently exiled into that nostalgic land of things we used to enjoy; but the return of Their Majesties from the country, where they had been spending a few days' holiday with their daughters, and the first investiture of the ...

... AIR COVER FOR THE BEACHHEAD-- ONE OF THE FACTORS IN THE IMPROVED ALLIED SITUATION AT ANZIO. Spitfires of the R.A.F. fly over the Italian mountains on their return to base after a sortie over our newly established positions south of Rome Mr. Winston Churchill's reassuring statement concerning the Anzio Bridgehead last week-end came after a period of some days of anxiety concerning the outcome ...

... Following up the occupation of the Gilbert group and the two landings on New Britain, the Americans have now invaded the Marshall Islands and captured a number of small but valuable strong-points. These islands all lie within the area mandated to Japan after the Great War. They consist of two main chains-- the Ratack and the Ralick. Hie former lie to the east and the latter to the west. In all ...

... A GERMAN SUPPLY ROUTE IN ITALY PEPPERED BY ALLIED BOMBERS This picture, taken by an R.A.F. reconnaissance pilot of the Desert Air Force (now operating in Italy) shows bomb-hits on the road and railway bridges spanning the River Tordino at Giulianova. The river is some 36 miles long and flows into the Adriatic just south of the town. The Germans have been using both the railway and the road for ...

... Many picturesque phrases have been used to describe conditions in the air over the Nettuno bridgehead. The Allies have variously been credited with air mastery and supremacy; correspon dents have commented on the absence of the Luftwaffe from the skies; while other reports have interjected tales of quite determined, if brief and localised, Nazi ground-strafing of the beaches and shipping. ...

... MAESTRO AT HOME IN NEW YORK ARTURO TOSCANINI. WHEN the small and brilliant conductor, ARTURO TOSCANINI, stands before a symphony orchestra he is a furious perfectionist who makes men play music as they play it for no other man. Born at Parma, Italy, in March 1867, the maestro began studying music at the age of nine at the Parma Conservatory of Music. At nineteen* he conducted a performance ...

... TINY LITTLE PROPS MAKE HUGE-SCALE HAVOC SCENES I I THE poignant scenes of war havoc in the official films are, of course, the real thing, shots taken by units with the fighting forces, but iifl many other instances sequences of dramatic effect arc obtained by the skilful use of tiny models, and miniature props. For example, thesfl photographs show the shooting of a scene for the M.-G.-M. film ...

... Andy Hardy's house on Ames Avenue painted with trompe Toeil meticulousness on a canvas backdrop. M.-G.-M. also has a three-dimensional exterior of Ames Avenue. ...

... ON AN ENGLISH FISH FARM A scene from Nailsworth, in Gloucester shire, where fish are netted so that their eggs may be secured for restocking our trout rivers THF SQUIRREL WHICH TAPS FOR HER BREAKFAST A study of Miss Nellie Nutkin at the window, asking for food. Ac brkf,t-time every mornint, in the woodside cottage of Mrs. Jobson. a beautiful red squirrel with a big and bushy tail calls for her ...

... The Song of Bernadette, from Franz Werfel's novel of that name has been filmed by Twentieth Century-Fox. JENNIFER JONES plays the part of Bernadette Soubirous, the peasant girl who, through a series of visions in 1858, discovered the healing spring which was to draw each year to the grotto of Massanielle at Lourdes thousands of pilgrims in search of relief from pain. ...

... , 7 he engagement of LADY BRIDGET ELLIOT, elder daughter of the Earl and Countess of Minto, to MAJOR JAMES AVERELL CLARK, JNR., D.F.C., U.S.A.A.F., elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Clark, of Westbury Long Island, New York has been announced. Lady Minto is Canadian by birth. She is a daughter of Mr. G. W. Cook, of Montreal, and married Lord Minto in 1921. Lord Minto' s father, the fourth Earl, ...

... - AT a recent Investiture a Wren and her son, SUPT. EUPHEMIA V. WELBY, W.R.N.S., and LIEUT. RICHARD WELBY, R.N., went together to Buckingham Palace to receive their decorations. Supt. Welby, who is in charge of all Wrens at an important naval base on the South Coast, received the C.B.E. awarded to her in the New Year Honours list, and Lieut. R. Welby the D.S.C. for bravery in action in the ...