... .- The one and only MAE WEST has returned to the stage and is now appearing at the Shubert Theatre, Broadway, as Catherine the Great of Russia in her own play, Catherine Was Great. Obviously Miss West's presentation of the Empress's character is a highly individual one, and the play is proving an enormous success. The costumes and settings are lavish in the extreme and the incomparable Mae ...

... FAMILY HISTORY IN REVERSE THE BANBURY NOSE. DETER USTINOV'S 1 comedy, THE BAN BURY NOSE, at Wynd- ham's, puts the history of a family into reverse. The play opens in 1943. Lieut. -General Hume-Ban- bury, aged eighty-three, is a domestic tyrant of the worst type, obsessed by the military tradition of his family typified by the Banbury nose. His grandson, however, has 44 revoked. Though he ...

... RENDEZVOUS FOR DOMINION AN U.S FORCES: THE CHURCHILL CLUB, SET IN HISTOR ASHBURNHAM HOUSE. 1 1 *HE CHURCHILL CLUB, for members of the United States and Dominii Forces stationed in London 44 who find interest in those aspects of Brita which are of enduring value and beauty, and form the cherished heritage of ti English-speaking peoples/4 was founded in 1943, with the Prime Minister as i ...

... Windsmoor have long been famous for their casual jackets of brilliant colour ings. Indoors and out, they superbly high-light the sombre backgrounds of our wartime wardrobes. Really well tailored, with interest centred on the shaped pockets and striking stitch ing, they button high and can be worn equally well with a blouse, with just a scarf at the throat, or over a dark dress. FroM Dickins ...

... THE CHANNEL PORTS-- THE LAST PHASE THE NAZI BATTERIES IN FRANCE OPEN UP WITH HEAVY FIRE to get rid of their ammunition before the ports fall to on Armies. A British cruiser is caught in the beams of a German searchlight while replying to the enemy fire, while a destroyer lays a smoke-screen t protect the Channel shipping Drawing by Wm. McDowell One by one the Channel ports are falling to our ...

... HOW THE COASTS AND PORTS OF BRITAIN WERE DEFENDED: TWO OF THE SEVEN CIRCULAR TOWERS OF A FORT BUILT IN THE SEA, to 'guard our shipping lanes against German mines and mine-laying planes. Primarily they were formed as First Line Invasion Defences. Each of these towers was constructed ashore, towed out to sea, sunk on sandbanks and joined up with cat-walks (see also page 3) On this and the ...

... Before Rimini fell to the Eighth Army, some very heavy fighting was experienced by the British, Canadiap and Indian troops advancing through the hills. Our progress was most marked on the hills near the coast, particularly on the Coriano-Sansovino ridge. Canadian troops fought their way up to Coriano from the low foothills British and Indian troops stormed into the village of Passano ...

... I HRpHIIVJNpRHH i .mm i mm A INFORMAL DISCUSSION ON TOP OF THE CITADEL AT QUEBEC Mrs. Churchill, the Earl of Athlone (Governor-General ol Canada) and President Roosevelt enjoy a joke together ANOTHER DEGREE FOR MR. CHURCHILL At the Citadel, honorary degrees of I McGill University, Montreal, were conferred on both President Roosevelt and I Mr. Churchill. The picturesque ceremony, for which the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 266 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Epic of Arnhem.-- Pereunt et imputantur. Thousands of gallant young men have died, been wounded or been captured in this epic struggle by a Division of the Airborne Army to hold Arnhem and its bridges. It was not to be. The Germans were too strong. Their powers of resistance were perhaps under-estimated and the difficulties of the terrain ...

... THE SKYBORNE TROOPS IN ACTION WITH 3-IN. MORTARS, firing on enemy positions across the Rhine. Many of the men were said to be so tired that they smiled as if it hurt them to move their mouths GERMAN PRISONERS ROUNDED UP BY BRITISH PARATROOPS At one time many hundreds of them were captured, but- presumably had to be released later at the withdraw MAJOR jOCK NEILL (ON LEFT), C Company of a ...

... A FLYING BUTTRESS TO THE WALL OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIA MENT along Westminster Bridge. The buttress effect was achieved by covering the concrete strong-point inside with canvas and painting to harmonise with the architecture of the Parliament buildings PART OF THE DOWNING STREET DEFENCES A massive concreti fortification which blends with the masonry of the Homt Office in Whitehall. In the ...

... A NEW TYPE OF RIVER FERRY NOW BEING USED BY THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM i first went into action for the crossing of the Seine at Elbeuf-- Drawing by 8. C. Wood. This craft (which i ferrying a Bren carrier and trailer) consists of two decked barges connected by girders. It carries a ramp at eat end, raised or lowered by means of wire ropes operated by the motor and winding-drum on ...