... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... TWEED COAT, full length, for this month, next month, all through the year. Attractive split pockets and four large black buttons with gold anchors give detail interest in front, a half-belt and wide pleat high light the back. A Florian Mantles Model. (Left) WHITE 1'IQIJE at the throat gives a youthful look to this light wool frock of sage green. The uirptcssed pleats in front of the skirt give ...