... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE Ruridecanal Conference was at lunch, and a discussion had arisen as to the duties of the laity in country parishes. The activities of the laywoman, said an authori tative voice, must be definitely organized. What is a laywoman. precisely? someone asked. The Rural Dean's sixteen-year-old daughter, bieaking a long and brilliant silence: A hen! An armed ...

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... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere BULL-FIGHTING doesn't appeal very much to English men but soldiers stationed at Gibraltar some times visit La Linea, just outside the fortress, to see what this Soanish soort is like. A party of them were in the crowd at the bullring there one day, when the matador was not in very good form. Twice he failed to kill his bull and there was a good deal of ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Publish THOSE who think that a strong but silent Air force can exist 111 any cuu.u.y in which votes decide political issues are wrong. In communist and in fascist countries air forces do not have to win popular support in order to exist and to develop. But in voting countries they do. Now the Royal Air Force does prepare and issue a number of publications. But they ...

... Lure of the Lunts At Their Brilliant Best in Rattigan's Love in Idleness Olivia No, you 're far too useful making tanks, and any way, that would make me a sort of femme fatale, and I 'm much too in love with you to want to be that Sir John Fletcher offers to resign from the Cabinet and ask his wife to divorce him so that he can marry Olivia Brown Sir John 44 You 've told him nothing whatever ...

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... Family Life On The Home Front Since You Went Away is the Story of every Mother in Times of War As the mother of two teen-age daughters Claudette Colbert has a new kind of role. She plays it with a simple sincerity and an ■endearing charm. Since You Went Away is based on Margaret Buell Wilder's letters to her husband in service and was written by David 0. Selznick who also produced the film. ...

... A Film Premiere for Toe H Gala Performance of Wilson at the Odeon The first performance of the film Wilson was given at the Odeon, Leicester Square, in aid of the Toe H welfare work for the Allied Forces in India and Burma. The Countess of Abingdon was chairman of the premiere committee, and Mr. Arthur Rank and his co-directors bore all expenses in con nection with the gala performance, ...

... C. Off A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Pantomime Party IN spite of the absence of the King and Queen from Buckingham Palace, London has not been altogether without Royal functions, and the Duchess of Kent has been seen about a good deal lately, mostly with her two elder children, the young Duke and his attractive eight-year-old sister, Princess Alex andra, whom their mother has been ...

... Director- General of the B.B.C. Mr. W. J. Haley Mr. William John Haley joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as Editor-in-Chief in November 1943, and in May 1944 was appointed Director-General on the resignation of Mr. Robert Foot. Born in Jersey, where he first went into journalism, he worked as a wireless operator at sea during the last war, and in 1921 he joined The Times editorial ...