... 0 C^J A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The King Abroad To such a high degree were the security measures concerning the King's visit to Italy taken that some members of His Majesty's own Household had no idea that the King was abroad until they read the official announcement in the daily papers. The absence of the Royal Standard from the flagstaff over Buckingham Palace was no indication ...

... 64 The White Cliffs of Dover The Film based on the Famous Poem Makes an Appealing Gesture to British and American Unity And now we stood On a bridge, where a poet came to keep Vigil while all the city lay asleep. 44 A curious background surely for a kiss Our first Westminster Bridge at break of day, Settings by Wordsworth, as John used to say. Susan (Irene Dunne), from an American small town, ...

... Farming in Essex Mr. and Mrs. Gosling and Their Family Packs Farm Little Mapleton Mrs. Gosling and Her Children Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Gosling The Saddleback Pigs are Fed A Family Outing with the Ponies Photographs by Swacbc Mr. and Mrs. Michael Spencer Gosling and their children live at Little Mapleton, Essex, where they are very busy farming 500 acres. Mr. Gosling, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. T. S ...

... Right This photograph was taken on the occasion of an inspection by Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery. Front row Majors J. S. C. G. de Longueville, J. W. Hyde, C. R. P. Sweeney, M.C., Capt. W. E. S. Sturgeon, Lt.-Col. L. H. Richards, the Commanding Officer, Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, K.C.B., D.S.O., Majors B. J. FitzG. Donlea, M.C., W. D. Tighe-Wood, Capts. M. D. G. C. Ryan, J. R. St. J. ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Robotism My somewhat vague remarks the other day about the possibilities of the matic control of aircraft have brought me some interesting comments. reader takes me (metaphorically, thank goodness) to the railways contrasts the activities of the old-fashioned engine-driver and fireman those of the motor man. The motor man, who drives an electric train, has fewer ...

... KEEP GOING-- WITH CYRIL FLETCHER AND PHYLLIS MONKMAN-- DUE AT THE PALACE THIS WEEK. PHYLLIS MONKMAN as a Parisian Can-Can dancer in the gay and naughty nineties ROMA MILNE, ROBERTA HUBY and AVRIL ANGERS wear flowing negligees in Wallflowers Rainbow Corner BILLY TASKER, as an American G.I. looking at the picture of his girl back home. Right With the canary the aspidistra and the family groups ...

... As easy to make as a cup of tea say. OLD HETHERS Since you cannot buy Robinson's Barley Water in bottles for the time being, you will do well to take Old Hethers' advice and make it for yourself from Robinson's 'Patent' Barley. The simple directions are on the tin; and if you cannot get hold of a lemon or an orange for flavouring, use the juice of stewed or tinned fruit honey or jam. Barley ...

... 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 ...

... IOSES FOR GENERAL MONTGOMERY. Three Utile French children of a local farm had a posy of roues ready waiting for General Montgomery when he came away from an Investiture held for officers and men of the Sixth Airborne Division in Normandy. As he thanked them for the flowers, the General gave them the ceremonious hand-shake for which they so solemnly and so obviously united. ...

... THE HOME FRONT, ITALY AND NORMANDY 4 ROUND DOZEN OF NEWS PICTURES. AYOT ST. LAWRENCE, home of MR. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, has been given to the National Trust, who will after his death, maintain it as a literary shrine. A Karsh portrait of G. B. S. appears on [our 44 Hats Off page. Right The marriage of MISS HEATHER ELIOT, M.T.C., daughter of the late Captain P. C. Eliot and of Mrs. Edward ...

... FIRST LIBERATION FASF NS FROM CHERBOURG; WHAT FRENCHWOMEN RE WEARING TO-DAY. I? VERY English and American woman has been wondering whether the French J woman's innate dress sense and natural chic can have survived the attritioi of war and the terrible shortage caused by the German occupation. The Sketch' is able to answer this burning question pictorially, by means of these snapshots o the ...