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... How Are They At Home? J. B. Priestley Supplies an Answer to the Troops' Most Popular Question Lady Farfield (Jane Carr) celebrates factory promotion by giving a party. Ilcr two mates Angela Wyndham Lewis and Patricia Lajfan) and the foreman Sam George Carney bring their own rations, which are handed by Lady Farfield to Lotta, the cook IJella Kurty) While the party is in progress, two R.A.F. ...

... THE GREAT ARMADA ASSEMBLES A VIEW OF A PORTION OF THE GREATEST FLEET THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN-- an official picture taken just before zero hour. Warships, transports, landing craft, supply ships, are here seen awaiting the signal to launch the assault. Just by the wingtip of the plane is a large transport crowded with assault troops within a few hours after this picture was taken, they were ...

... This drawing was given in last week's issue of THE SPHERE: it is reproduced here again because it typifies the nature of the problem with which our troops were con fronted in their descent on the French coast on June 6. The first line of defence consisted of the extensive minefields along the coast, and the E-boats which were immediately sum moned to the attack upon the vast array of Allied ...

... AN UNUSUAL TYPE OF GERMAN MINE-DETECTOR. Much German equipment was captured by British troops at Anzio before the break-through last month, and some of it was actually being used against its former owners. Several unusual-type mine-detectors were secured, including the one depicted here. This piece of equipment is on the pram principle the search coil is ahead of two rubber-treaded wheels on ...

... I When our men crept forward in Italy to open their big offensive against the Germans, they carried with them every device for the detection and immobilisation of the enemy's mines. And then found that, in many cases, there were to detect! Instead, they were subjected to intense mortar-fire from the German defenders firmly ensconced on those awkward hill positions. i orrespondents at the ...

... THE fall of Rome, followed so swiftly by the start of the Second Front, makes the position of the Pope more interesting and important than ever. He has been described correctly as the greatest neutral. It is surprising, however, how little the British public knows about him, and how recent is any knowledge of his personality, even existence. Not a single English newspaper printed a single ...

... npMIBMMPVM General de Gaulle landed In France on June 14, stepping on French soil on a Normandy beach for the first time since the Germans occupied his country. He crossed the Channel on board the destroyer La Combattante nd was accompanied by French army and naval officers. Later he visited General Montgomery and inspected some of the British troops in the bridgehead. Soon after his arrival. ...

... . A At the recent Windsor Horse Show PRINCESS ELIZABETH teas a winner in the non-hackney section of the private driving class. With Princess Margaret as passenger, she drove Hans, a dun Norwegian pony, in a French chaise given in 1876 by King Edward, then Prince of Wales, to the Princess of Wales. The cup was handed to the Princesses by the Duke of Beaufort. There teas a large entry in this ...

... NOVELIST WIFE OF -OUR AIRBORNE CHIEF AT HOME: DAPHNE DU MAURIER IN THE HOUSE THAT INSPIRED REBECCA. Mrs. Browning (Daphne du Maurier), wife of Lieut. -General F. A. M. Tommy 11 Browning, Commander of the British Airborne Forces, waves good-bye to her children as they start on a cycling expedition. The sub-tropical climate of the Cornish Riviera make, it possible for palms hydrangeas and ...

... New York reactions to the news that D-Day had come are recorded in these pictures. The fashionable store which closed during the first tense hours was in tune icith the general feeling. At West Point GRADUATING CADETS LINED UP ON D-DAY to receive their diplomas, while guests and visitors watched the ceremony in the Field House. CADET WILLIAM D. CLARK (I), son of Lieut.-General Mark Clark, O.C. ...

... . The white cliffs of Alice Duer Miller s poem as a symbolic background IRENE DUNNE as the American girl who marries, an English husband, ALAN MARSHALL. RODDY McDOWALL and ELIZABETH TAYLOR in a delightful sequence. Alice Duer Miller s well-known poem in praise of England has provided the basis for the story. Summer-time in England s green and pleasant land RODDY McDOWALL and little ELIZABETH ...