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... An October Bride the Hon. Mrs. J. J. Astor On October 23rd Senorita Ana Inez de Ctircano was married in London to Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, youngest son of Viscount Astor and Viscountess Astor, M.P. She is the younger of the two pretty daughters of Or. Miguel Angel de Cdrcano, Argentine Ambassador in Britain, and of Senora Stella de Morra de Ciircano. Her father was appointed Ambassador ...
... Commander of the 14th Army t he King recently conferred a knighthood on Lt.-Gen. Sir William Slim, in recognition of the victory won by the Fourteenth Army in India and Burma. This portrait of the General was painted by Capt. Metcalf, an official artist of Indian Public Relations Admiral Decorates an Indian Sailor Rear-Admiral Rattray C.I.E., R.I.N. pinned the ribbon of the D.S.M. on the ...
... A Busy Mother And Her Family of Four A Balancing Feat on the See-Satv In the Store Cupboard The Hon. Mrs. Sherman Stonor's family, Julia, Thomas, Gcorgina and Harriet, arc fast growing up, and all four of them are now proud possessors of tricycles. Their father, Major the Hon. Sherman Stonor, Lord Camoys' only son, is in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and in his absence Mrs. ...
... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere CHARLES DERRICOTT, in the paper Coronet, tells the following: The Nazi crew of a sinking German raider was transferred to a British vessel. British officers were reminded that the captives were to be treated just as if they were gentlemen. I he next day a German officer was sporting a beautiful black eye. The British captain was enraged. Who did that? he ...
... 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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... By Elizabeth Bowen Ora Formidabile AMONG the hundred thousands of faces milling about jubilant Paris on the night of November n, 1918, one paused, care worn, under an arc light of a boulevard. It was that of Emmanuele, Italian journalist, who thus greeted his American friend Yes, we have an armistice the ora formidabile has struck. The American was Stephen Bonsai, whose Unfinished Business ...
... _ J l T f nr* T? A M A tribute to airborne troops who took part in the Arnnem operation was paiu oy Browning, Deputy Commander 1st Allied Airborne Army, in a recent lecture at the Royal United Service Institution in Whitehall. It lias been said of the 1st Airborne Division that it combines the toughness of commandos with the discipline of the Brigade of Guards. This is perhaps not surprising ...
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... Wilson The Life Story of a Great American President Who Fought for Peace Wilson, the life-story of a schoolmaster who became President of the United States of America, is expected to reach this country early in the New Year. It has been made by Darryl F. Zanuck under the direction of Henry King and sets out to tell the story of Woodrow Wilson, the schoolmaster, lover, father, prophet and ...