... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere A BARRISTER felt that he had received a call to the Church, and trained for and subsequently entered the ministry. In due course he was appointed to a church and. meeting one of his narishioners one dav, was questioned about his past experiences. When the minister told him he was once a barrister-at-law, with an income of three thousand a year, the man ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By 'Foresight Record PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has smashed all precedents in the history of the United States by his re-election for a fourth term. Historians will doubtless refer to this remarkable period of American affairs as the Roosevelt dynasty. Never before has a President remained in the White House for so many years. Never before has one man been able to maintain such a ...

... /)*Jy A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country At 10, Downing Street WHEN the King sees the Prime Minister twice within a few days, it is fairly certain that something of importance is in the wind; and though few people outside the inner circle of the Cabinet had any idea of what was being prepared, the fact that His Majesty drove to 10, Downing Street to dine with Mr. Churchill only a day ...

... A Hamlet to Remember Gielgud Gives a Great Performance at the Haymazket Hamlet 44 I will watch to-night Perchance, 'twill walk again Horatio tells Hamlet of the apparition which has thrice appeared on the castle battlements by night a figure like his father, the dead King (Francis Lister, John Gielgud) Ophelia 44 There 's fennel for yon, and columbines there 's rue for you and here 's some for ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Red Indians FRANCIS PARKMAN was just twenty-three and still fresh from Harvard when, in the spring of 1846, he undertook a hazardous, but rewarding, journey. At college he had been reading law; and partly, perhaps, in youthful, adventure-loving reaction, he now sought great open spaces and the red men. He had already conceived the ambitious project of a history of the Old ...

... TAILORED TOWUCOATS Down the steps of Bush House, in the Strand, comes Joan, on her way to an important date. She is wearing a Windsmoor coat, made of a finely ribhed material, new and most attractive, with fitted waistline and outsize pockets. From Derry and Toms Kensington. In several colours. Price £16 17s. 4d. approx. Photographs by Dormer Cole Walking in the autumn sunshine outside ...

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... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart The P.B.P. THE poor British public is so pushed about by the conflicting forces of propaganda that it can take its place beside the infantry as being per petually in a state of being sat upon. I do not know whether the P.B.P. or the P.B.I, is the more deserving of sympathy. After having been told repeatedly and in the loudest tones that the German air force was all ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Caution ONCE more the Prime Minister has put the war into perspective on the basis of all the facts before him, and with obvious regard for the facts about Germany and her position about which he cannot be as fully informed. He has told the House of Commons that on military grounds it seems difficult to believe that the battle for the final defeat of Germany can ...

... Tli Return of Tommy Trinder Happy and Glorious Provides Riotous Entertainment at the Palladium _ latest George Black musical funfare at the Palladium. It is fast-moving entertainment, run ning the whole gamut of emo tion from light-hearted foolery through love and laughter to martial glory and national pride. It is all in the best tradition of the Palladium there is Tommy Trinder with his own ...

... 0 c^d A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Court Mourning COURT mourning, ordered by His Majesty for the death of his great-aunt, Princess Beatrice, did not cause the cancellation of many functions, since in these days there are, unfortunately, all too few engagements of a character to be affected. Almost the only outward and visible signs were the mourning bands worn by the officers on ...

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