... General's Wife: Lady Ismay Yvonne Gregory Lady Ismay is the wil'c of Lt. -General Sir Hastings Ismay, K.C.B., D.S.O., of Wormington Grange, Broadway, Worccstcrsliirc. Her husband is Chief Staff Officer to the Prime Minister in his capacity as Minister of Defence, and went with Mr. Churchill to America in 1942, attended the Casablanca Conference last year, and accompanied Mr. Eden to Moscow in ...

... WAV OF THE WAR By Foresight Climax BRITISH and American experts have com mitted themselves to the opinion that Germany's long-term plan of defence against Allied air attack has been broken. Germany has been trying in the last twelve months to quadruple her fighter aeroplane output at the expense of bomber production. But the plan has failed and now it is claimed that Germany's production of ...

... Did She Murder Emile l'Angelier? Ann Todd Revives Memories of Madeleine Smith In the spring of 1857 a young Frenchman, Emile l'Angelier, died in Glasgow of arsenic poisoning. Amongst his possessions were found some two hundred letters written by Madeleine Smith, daughter of one of Scotland's most eminent architects. They gave clear evidence of Miss Smith's desire to be rid of her former lover. ...

... Some Important People At the Film Premiere of A Canterbury Tale at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square Viscount Bridgeman Director-General of the Home Guard came to the premiere with Viscountess Bridgeman Mr. Leslie Hore-Bclisha M.P. arrived with Miss Cynthia Elliot who was for two years a prisoner in Germany Viscountess Bury and her father the Marquess of Londonderry were talking to Air ...

... A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Bartimeus at the Palace COINCIDING with the news of His Majesty's stay with the Home Fleet came the an nouncement of a new appointment to the Royal Household of a naval officer world-famous as a writer of sea stories-- Paymaster-Capt. Lewis Ritchie, known to many thousands the world over as Bartimeus. Capt. Ritchie is to act as Press Secretary to the ...

... Linklater's 66 Crisis in Heaven An Allegorical Fantasy Set in Elysian Fields Among the Souls of the Departed Great Crisis in Heaven is the first play by the well-known novelist Major Eric Linklater to be presented com mercially, the only earlier venture having been a private production of The Devil 's in the Neics ten years ago. The action is set in Elysium that strangely human place where the ...

... Ballerina of the Sadler's Wells At Sixteen, Beryl Grey Has Mastered the Great Classical Roles When the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company returns 1 New Theatre on May 30 for the summer season, Grey will be seen in a new role, that of Giselle, with; Rassine as Count Albrecht. She will thus add anotl the great classical roles to her repertoire, for sht already been seen in Sylphides, Le Lac des ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Strong Meat for Babes Mr. H. G. Wells's '42 to '44: A Contem porary Memoir has been published by Messrs. Seeker and Warburg at £2 is. I omit from the price of this book my usual bracket because in this case the price is more than a mere aside to be murmured, behind the hand, for your information-- here it is signifi cant; it is the publishers' means of supporting the ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere A GOOD story about Theodore Roosevelt is told in The Christian Science Manitor; A delegation from Kansas, calling upon Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, was met by the President with coat and collar off. Ah, gentlemen, he said, mopping his brow, I'm delighted to see you, I'm very busy putting in my hay just now. Come down to the barn and we'll talk ...

... Mrs. Heathcoat-Amory is the only daughter of Commodore Edward Conyngham Denison, M.V.O., R.N., and Mrs. Denison. Her father is nephew and heir presumptive of Lord Londesborough. She married in 1940 Major Edgar FitzGerald Heathcoat-Amory, of Clievithorne Barton, Tiverton, Devon, and has one son, Michael. Her husband is the second son of the late Major Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory, killed in action ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES A Bright Idea By James Agate FOR some weeks I have been tormented by a passage which I could oply half- remember and could not locate at all. A passage about an American film-producer who comes to this country to look for new talent. And then, by glorious accident, I recovered it. This was the taking up for no particular reason of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm. Here ...

... A May Wedding in London Major T. F. C. Winnington Marries Lady Betty Anson The marriage look place at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, of Major Thomas Foley Churchill Winnington, Grenadier Guards, younger son of the late Mr. Francis Winnington and of Mrs. Winnington, of Brockhill Court, Shelsley-Beauchamp, Worcester, and Lady Betty Marjorie Anson, elder daughter of the Earl and ...