... China Fights On For Freedom Pearl Buck's Heroic Dragon Seed Is Filmed I Dragon Seed is being shown at the Empire. Based on the novel by Pearl Buck, it tells of the heroic struggle of the Chinese masses to survive in spite of the fearful indignities and atrocities perpetrated by the Jap invader. The family of Ling Tan are typical of the millions of Chinese who eke out a living from the soil. ...

... M\ OF THE WAR By ''Foresight Caution IT was the caution of a veteran militarist, as well as the wisdom of a politician, which compelled the Prime Minister to warn the nation and the world that the war in Europe might go on until the spring days of 1945. As a politician it is obvious that Mr. Churchill felt it necessary to underwrite possible public disappointment should the war not end this ...

... London Film Premiere First-Nighters at The Hitler Gang Lord Bruntisfield had his eldest son Major the Hon. John Warrender, M.C., with him at the premiere Sir Charles Portal and Sir Archibald Sinclair Lady Louis Mounthatten sat beside Mr. Noel Coward, who recently returned from entertaining the troops in the i Middle LEast Right Beatrice Lillie was there and was photographed in the foyer at the ...

... -/4 9 By Sabretache To the Valiant THERE are horses like men the good and the bad, game 'uns and shifters, and some that JL mad ;but give me the one on four legs or two, whose heart is pure gold, whose colotir 's true blue! Here 's how to all those who fight till the end through rough and the smooth as Fortune may send! Drink it in bubbly or drink it in beer, down it, no heel-taps, and give ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Personality ENGLISH novelists, since the novel began, have packed their pages with charac ters-- comic, resplendent or sinister. So gladly do we, enter this gallery, so much entertained are we by these personages and by the super-life with which their creators endow them, that we seldom ask how deep characters go. These fictitious men and women more than play their ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Civil Air I HAVE sympathy with the plea that civil aviation should be taken out of the hands of the Air Ministry and handed to some other ministry. In fact I expressed my views clearly enough in my book, Air Power and the Expanding Community, wherein I argued that there should be a single fighting service and that air transport should become the interest of the ...

... Ladv Mary Harvey and Her Children Lady Mary Harvey, the Earl and Countess of Leicester's younger daughter was married in 1940 Her husband sister of Viscount Coke and of Lady Sylvia Combe. Her younger brother was lulled ,n act.on m 1941 B Compton Collier ...

... Bringing in the Harvest At Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire Harvesting was in full swing on the Duke of Gloucester's home farm at Barnwell Manor when these pictures were taken, and the Duke was busy helping to get it in. Barnwell Manor estate, near Oundle, was bought by the Duke of Gloucester in 1938, and he and the Duchess have made it their country home, with Prince William, and the recent ...

... Lady Worsley-Taylor and Her Daughter, Anne, Are Staying with Mrs. J. O. Paget Lady Worsley-Taylor is making her wartime home with her mother, Mrs. J. Otho Paget, at 44 White Water, Warnborough, Basingstoke. The former Miss Anne Paget, only daughter of the late Captain J. Otho Paget, of Burrough, near Melton Mowbray, married Sir John Worsley-Taylor, Scots Guards, in 1942. Their daughter, who ...

... Behind he Scenes of UNRRA United Nations Rcflicf and Rehabilitation Administration at Work i THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILI TATION ADMINISTRATION, commonly known as UNRRA, came into being nearly a year ago, at the Atlantic City, N.J., Meeting. It is regarded as an organisation likely to be of the utmost consequence in post-war years. It is a co-operative body, and a permanent link ...

... On Location in Cumberland The Lovely Vale of St. John's Provides the Setting for Loyal Heart Loyal Heart is the story of a sheep-dog based on Ernest Lewis's book Beth, and adapted to the screen by George Cooper. The film is being made entirely amid the beauty spots of Cumberland, in cluding St. John's in the Vale, Derwentwater, around Keswick and in the village of Threlkeld. A prize sheep-dog, ...

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