... 0 C^J A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Princess in the City PRINCESS ELIZABETH brought her first month of public engagements to a brilliant close when, in the very last days of May, she made an historic journey to the City of London, to attend the Diamond Jubilee meeting of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Presidency of which she assumed earlier in the ...

... Another Wartime Fourth at Eton Speeches, Cricket, and the Procession of Boats Mr. J. H. Thorpe, K.C., and his wife and son, Jeremy, were with Viscount Caldecote, Lord Chief Justice Viscount Mfilgund is seen with his mother, the Countess of Minto, and the Countess of Elgin The Hon. Mrs. Edward Pleydell-Bouverie watched the cricket with her son, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu Watching the Procession ...

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... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere TWO fishermen named Smith, living near each other, had met with misfortune, one having lost his wife, the other his boat. A visitor called by mistake on the man who had lost his boat, thinking he was the widower. Good morning, Mr. Smith, she said. I'm so sorry to hear of your sad loss. Oh, it ain't much matter, mum. She wasn't up to much, he replied. ...

... THE ROAD TO ROME: THE TOWN OF CISTERNA, A KEYPOINT IN THE ANZIO BRIDGEHEAD, AFTER ITS CAPTURE BY THE ALLIES, showing troops and transports speeding along the Appian Way towards the Italian capital before its fall on Sunday, June 4 During the prolonged and bitter fighting in the Anzio bridgehead, the town of Cisterna was held right till the last moment by the Germans. It was finally captured on ...

... . LADY LEIGH MALLORY is the wife of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trajford Leigh- Mallory, K.C.B., D.S.O., R.A.F., the Allied Air Commander-in- Chief under General Eisenhower for the Invasion of Europe, the most important military operation in our history, which began on Monday, June 5. She is the second daughter of the late Mr. Edmund Stratton Sawyer, was married in 1915, and has a son and a daughter ...

... . A NIGHT IN VENICE, at the Cambridge Theatre, has a decor with gondolas, a ballet of the personages of the Commedia delV Arte, and masked revellers whose costumes are after the carnival drawings of Domenico Tiepolo but the Johann Strauss waltz tunes and lilting melodies are of the genuine Viennese brand. The opera was written in 1884, so has had to wait a long time before coming to London, ...

... THE NEW MRS. CHEYNEY CORAL BROWNE. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTHONY. CORAL BROWNE is to play the name-part, first played by Gladys Cooper, in the revival of Frederick Lonsdale's 44 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney at the Savoy on June 15. This comedy of 44 the day before yesterday belongs to the 1900-1910 period and has the charm of Edwardian costumes, tchich are designed by Sophia Harris. Miss Brotcne's great ...

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... By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE clearance of early vegetables, such as peas, Spring cabbage, broad beans, etc., will free a number of plots in the kitchen garden for further cropping, and the maintenance of ample and varied winter vegetable supplies will depend to a large extent, on a judicious use of these plots. Provision should be made for plenty of autumn and winter greenstuffs for ...

... INFORMATION, illustrating the difficul ties under which German farmers are working--shortage of labour, fertilisers, machinery, etc.--is periodically released by the Ministry of Information. This, we are sorry to see, is often seized on by the daily Press (aided and abetted, one suspects, by the Ministry of Agriculture) with an air of rather smug satisfaction. There is presumably no great harm ...

... THE large sheep-farms in the mountainous part of the South Island, where half-bred flocks graze on the sparse vegetation of the bush slopes, provide a healthy but strenuous life during the mustering, dipping and shearing seasons. Extra labour is engaged and youngsters from the towns come up to help in the less skilled farmwork. Sheep are driven from the hill-slopes and mustered at the farm. ...