... Back Buttoning: distinguishes this beautifully tailored blouse. It is of crepe in white and pastel shades. £6 3s. From Dickins and Jones. Wool Fibre. which reduces coupon value from six to four, makes 'this cunningly striped, long-sleeved shirt. £4 7s. 8d. From Simpson's. Scalloping: giving a yoke effect softens the line of this tailored shirt buttoning high to the throat. £3 18s. I Id. From ...

... THE PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY IN PARIS. MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL ACKNOWLEDGES THE CHEERS OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE as he makes his way through the capital. General de Gaulle is on the right, Mr. Anthony Eden behind the Premier When Mr. Churchill arrived in Paris last Friday it was the first time that he had visited the French capital since the dark days of 1940. His first public appearance ...

... WINTER, cold, wet and dark, is now down upon the countries recently liberated in the west, and it is time to ask ourselves two questions. Have we done all we could to bring succour to the civilian populations concerned? If not, is the plea of 100 per cent, priority to the military arm too rigid a conception and one liable to have undesired repercussions in social and political fields over ...

... The invasion of the island of Walcheren was launched from two points Flushing and Westkapelle. Both landings were made on November 1 as part of the final phase of the battle to free the approaches to the port of Antwerp, on the Scheldt. The Westkapelle landing costly as it was in landing craft was a success from the start, and by dusk of the same day the town had been captured and the ...

... The assault upon Walcheren began on October 31, when the Canadian and British troops, having taken South Beveland, started across the causeway leading to Walcheren. This cause way was of solid construction, about a mile long and 30 yards wide, with sea-water on both sides. There was no other land approach. Just as the bridgehead over the causeway had been achieved on November 1, Walcheren was ...

... The clearing of the Germans from the island of South Beveland proved as tough a job as any in the war. Early in October, the Canadians, advancing from Antwerp, made an attempt to reach it and hold the isthmus, and thus cut off the garrison. The enemy, however, in the area of Bergen-op-Zoom, were too strong. By October 26, the Canadians succeeded in again crossing the causeway (a filled-up arm ...

... HOW THE ELECTION FEVER GRIPPED NEW YORK Fifty million Americans went to the polls last week to decide whether President Roosevelt was to be elected for a fourth term, or whether Governor Dewey was to be the new President of the United States. The decision of the nation was emphatically in favour of Mr. Roosevelt. Much bitterness was manifested during the closing stages of the campaign. This ...

... A SITE IN POPLAR, WHERE TEMPORARY HOUSES ARE BEING ERECTED to accommodate workers whose former homes have disappeared. 1 he problem ol housing is the most urgent with which the Government have to deal. Much depends on what can be achieved between now and the end of the German war: thousands upon thousands of homes have gene-for ever; yet accommodation will have to be found in London for those ...

... MERLE OBERON AS GEORGE SAND A SONG TO REMEMBER. CORNEL WILDE as Frederic Chopin Polish genius and patriot accepts tremendous applause after playing his own compositions. merle OBERON, as the famous George Sand (Mme. Amandine Lucille Aurore Dudevant), complete with her trousers and cigar. Liszt (STEPHEN BEKASSY) and Madame George Sand, the great novelist, listen to Chopin playing his own ...

... OLD ACQUAINTANCE-- WITH BETTE DAVIS AND MIRIAM HOPKINS. Triumphant youth Kit Marlowe (BETTE DAVIS) comes home in 1924 after having written a daring best-seller novel and is overwhelmed with congratulations. The green-eyed monster Millie Drake (MIRIAM HOPKINS) is madly jealous of her great friend, Kit. She sets out to emulate her novel-writing and succeeds. Though Millie is a successful ...

... c iPin=up cJirl dflo./3. Qene ffierney. GENE TIERNEY, who is here playing a big fish with quiet concentration, has just returned to the screen after a year's absence to take the title-role in 20th Century- Fox's version of the best-selling mystery story Laura. In private life she is the wife of Count Lieut. Cleg Cassini, and has a brand-netv baby daughter Daria Cassini. Gene who teas born in ...

... . AA7AR or no war, wherever he goes Field-Marshal Montgomery adds to his collection of pets, of which those on this page are probably a mere sample. The dogs, HITLER and ROMMEL, have had a pretty good Press so far, but the others are less well known to the public. The nameless tame rabbit was painted by James Gunn in a portrait of the Field-Marshal with some of his staff. The goldfish were a ...