... . PHOTOGRAPH BY KANOVA. GENERAL JOSEPH PIERRE KOENIG, D.S.O., is best remembered for his heroic defence of Bir Hacheim in Libya 1942 at the head of a small French garrison, chiefly of Parisians and Bretons. For sixteen days the stronghold teas held against incessant dive-bombing attacks, and assaults by picked German and Italian troops, an epic resistance which restored French military ...

... . ONE of the most ingenious of this war's inventions was made by MR. DONALD COLEMAN BAILEY, inventor of the Bailey bridge to carry the heaviest of modern armoured vehicles over rivers and chasms. The Bailey Bridge fits together like a giant jigsaw puzzle, only one steel pin being needed to lock each joint securely to the next. It is built up first on rollers, and then each successive span is ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- G. B. Sv for making an Eishty^Eishth Birthday Gift of his Home to the National Trust. PHOTOGRAPH BY KARSH OF OTTAWA. Our Grand Old Socialist man of letters, MR. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, reversed the usual procedure when, on July 26, his eighty-eighth birthday, he presented his house at Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, to the nation as a literary, shrine. The property ...

... c (Pin-up J ^rio. 6 (Jean dzParler In answer to special requests from the Forces, tee heretcith resume our Pin- Up Girls series. JEAN PARKER, who will he seen in the new Universal Picture Dead Men's Eyes, is one of the fete actresses in Hollywood who didn't want to go on the films! One of the most beautiful schoolgirls, posed in a stvim-suit for a Tenth Olympiad Poster, she went to a picnic ...

... AMAZONIAN HERRENVOLK ANt THEIR FALL BY JUPITER IS ON ITS WAY TC LONDON. The lithe and blithe dancer of the Greek camp followers is played by LUCILLE GAYE. Militant Antiope, General of the Amazon forces (ADELE DIXON), cannot resist a flirtation with Theseus, King of the Greeks (BRUCE TRENT). 14 The Temple of Minerva exhibits living girls instead af marble statuary, but they are just as ...

... . Sam Clemens, later to gain world-wide fame as Mark Ttcain (FREDERIC MARCH), becomes a Mississippi River pilot. He is with Horace Bixby (ROBERT BARRAT; I.) and Charles Langdon (WILLIAM HENRY). Boyhood days on the Mississippi Sam Clemens (JACKIE BROWN) with Huck Finn (EUGENE HOLLAND) and Tom Sawyer (MICHAEL MILLER) and their Pal, and their hound-dog. Sam becomes a successful writer as Mark ...

... HAVING A WAR OF HIS OWN I LORD GREENWAY can have a war all of his own and enjoy it He owns one of the best collections of joy soldiers in the world a miniature army 6000 strong and our Life picture shows him with a few of them. His troops include Coldstream and Scots Greys 1 bands and detachments of Grenadiers Sussex, Warwickshire, Bengal Lancers, and some twenty other regiments. He is the ...

... is in the Factories helping to increase efficiency By photographing the path traced by a lamp fixed to a worker's wrist, a record is obtained of all movements made to complete a job. Such pictures often show how operations can be speeded and fatigue decreased. The i J t countless uses of photography in Industry :L^ic 1 to-day consume vast quantities of 'Kodak' I wM Film, lf you have difficulty ...

... . How would you like to do your hair this way every morning? M.-G.-M.'s nete Technicolor, Kismet, presents MARLENE'S crowning glory looking like a coiffeur's dream of overtime'. Elaborately rolled and plaited and curled, the star plays Jarmila, harem dancer and Grand Vizier's favourite, emerging in one scene with her elegant legs thickly cased in gold and her hair gold-powdered-- Marlene on ...

... . LADY TEDDER is on the battlements of the chhteau where the first Malcolm Club in Normandy is now installed. Pictures of the W.A.A.F. Gang Show given there are on another page. The COUNTESS OF CARLISLE, new Chief Commander of the W.A.C. (I.) is seen in her new Delhi H.Q. Her Indian staff officer JUNIOR COMMANDER D. KAPILA, wears an Indian version of y Service uniform. GEORGE FORMBY and his ...

... . LADY HALIFAX, C.I., wife of the British Ambassador to Washington Viscount Halifax, recently arrived in England tcith her husband. Lord Halifax has been Ambassador in Washington since 1941 in the King's Birthday Honours List in June this year he teas made an earl, and will take the title of Earl of Halifax. Lady Halifax is the younger daughter of the fourth Earl of Onslow, and sister of the ...

... I The Very Rev. Henry Charles Robins, Dean of Salisbury and Mrs. Robins are entertaining evacuee guests in unusual quarters, the Chapter House and Cloister Garth -of Salisbury Cathedral. The Cathedral was consecrated ivith great ceremony in the presence of King Henry III. in 1258. The Deans visitors live and sleep in the vast octagonal Chapter House, famous for its slender and delicate ...