... Noel Coward Actor, Author, Playwright and Producer Karsh Ottawa For many years the wit and poignant truth of Noel Coward's writings have delighted and enthralled his countless admirers not only in these islands but all over the world. Mr. Coward is a remarkable man; his gifts are lesion and it seems that anything he turns his hand to he does well. At the moment he is in India He left this ...

... ti*/ A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Introduction SOCIAL activities have of necessity fallen into the background these days. Flying bombs and the varying degrees of safety offered by one type of shelter as against another have displaced cricket scores and the dernier cri as the national topics of conversation. The King and Queen setting, as always, a wonderful example to their peoples ...

... ■^4 By Sabretache Change of Bowling IT sometimes gets wickets, and for the sake of the courageous literary owner, I hope that it will do so in the case of Happy Landing, who has now been placed under the care of Captain Percy Whitaker who, I verily believe, has forgotten more about that animal called a horse than most of us think we know. Happy Landing is to run in the Leger; he has been ...

... Officers of a Staff H.Q. in the North of England Sitting Major P. A. Sellars, Lt.-Col. F. Robinson, Col. A. E. Hawkins, Majors W. H. Lawson, A. S. C. Browne. Standing J/Cdr. M. E. Lawson, Capts. D. H. Wright, S. Pick, W. MacMiilan Instructors and Officers of a Signals Course Front row, sitting Lts. D. V. Morgan, R. G. Addis, D.S.C., W. R. Wells, D.S.C., Lt.-Cdrs. P. Hankey, D.S.C., E. T. L. ...

... ander's Review of Weddings De Butts Halsey Lt.-Col. Frederick Manus De Butts The Somerset Light Infantry, only son of Col. F. C. De Butts, of Glenealy Co. Wicklow, and of the late Mrs. De Butts, married Miss Evelyn Cecilia Halsey, youngest daughter of Sir Walter and Lady Halsey, of Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead, at Great Gaddesden Church Pugh B eckwitli-Smith Capt. John Lewellyn Pugh, U.S ...

... HOLIDAYS 01 THE LAO i&M he spirit of 1944 to work even while we play is typified by these two young things spending their brief leave helping the farmers. The girl on the left is wearing beautifully tailored trousers of finely checked tweed. The original button-up flap-fastening is an idea borrowed from the hoys of the British Navee, hitherto exclusive to that most enchanting of uniforms the ...

... . . KODAK FILM is in the skies faking spy pictures from nearly six miles up Armed with huge precision cameras, our recon naissance planes streak across enemy skies. They take their pictures from miles up, at hupdreds of miles an hour yet the pictures they take must show every important detail. Kodak Film helps to provide the answer. If you have difficulty in getting 'Kodak' Film please ...

... CAEN JULY 9, 1944 A PICTURE TAKEN ON THE DAY THE CITY FELL. This view was taken in the suburbs it shows some of the damage causea by the air and land bombardment, which one correspondent described as unbelievable chaos. R.A.F. block-busters had twisted streets and buildings out of all possible recognition, and over a great part of the city there is no question of any pattern of streets. ...

... The people of Southern England and of London parti, cularly now know the worst con- ceming the German Flying Bomb, Enemy propaganda has not con cealed, but emphasised, that this is what they term a reprisal weapon. It could not be described as any other for it i$ impossible of control once it has been launched, and cannot be directed at any specific target. London is a very large area, and ...

... i-- .-..iaal!nrf--wii,ll n i -aM-iti i -ffT, i THIS IS A HAPPY ARMY: A SCENE ON A NORMANDY ROAD, as the crew of a British tank fix up a dartboard to while away the time of waiting. On the left, other British soldiers offer passers-by a share of their Army rations- Drawing by Edward Osmond Correspondents at the scene of action around Caen have commented more than once on the happy atmosphere ...

... n the initial fighting for Caen, a stern struggle took place around the aerodrome at Carpiquet. Three battalions were employed by the Germans for their attack, and the ground troops were supported by thirty tanks. Apparently, the enemy intended to co-ordinate this first attack with a similar one made from the opposite direction. Before it could be developed, however, our air forces were called ...

... The two pictures given here show how the co-ordination between air and land forces in Normandy is carried out. An unimposing little vehicle, planted right in the line, is manned by R.A.F. officers and situated along side a vehicle occupied by the commander of the leading army brigade (see drawing below). From this visual control post, admirably sited, a close watch is kept on enemy movements. ...