... By Elizabeth Bowen A Moment of Truth BRITISH church .architects are known to have excelled in the perpendicular style. Some thing of the same kind might plausibly be said of British portraitists, for there can be no question that, for whatever reason, British horizontal portraits are exceedingly rare. There may indeed be something of moral prejudice in this rage for the vertical which has ...

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... Sitting Capt. W. T. Couchman, O.B.E., D.S.O., R.N., Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham, First Sea Lord Capt. J. B. Heath, R.N., Capt. G. Thistleton-Smith, G.M., R.N. Stand ing Pay/Cdr. H. T. Isaac, O.B.E., R.N., Lt.-Cdr. J. A. Ivers, R.N., Cdr. (A) Nicholson, R.N.V.R., Cdr. F. G. Einley, R.N., Lt.-Cdr. F.. B. Morgan, R.A.N.V.R., Pay/Lt. J. E. Bryon, R.N.V.R. Front row Prof. P. A. ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen National Figure THE dire years through which we are living now can be raised to one sort of level; they are a time for greatness. We are at least released from the depressed decades of nonentity. In England, it is at present our privilege to hear the voice of one great man in whose utterances the might of the English past rings, whose language is in the august tradition. ...

... Pantomime Gala In Aid of Army Cadets' Welfare Fund A gala performance of Babes in the Wood was given at His Majesty's Theatre, in aid of the Surrey and Middlesex Army Cadets' Welfare Fund. The audience included Array cadets, who were delighted to meet the Principal Boy and other members of the cast after the show 44 Monsewer Eddie Gray who with Nervo and Knox and Leo Franklyn provides *he fun ...

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... C.. A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Memorial Service IN all its long history, St. Paul's can rarely have been the setting for a more impressive scene than on the morning of the memorial service for President Roosevelt, when Their Majesties, with Princess Elizabeth, led the nation in its mourning for a well-loved and true friend. Crowned heads and the heirs to two of the most stable ...

... Strauss with a Sparkle The Laughter and Song of Old Vienna Revived in Gay Rosalinda Gabriel 44 Eight days, my dear, instead of five. That 's what this blackbcetle does for me Gabriel von Eisenstein Cyril Ritchard breaks the news to his wife Ruth Naylor) that he is to go to prison for eight days. Blind, the lawyer (Trevor Glynn), has failed in his appeal Gabriel 44 We are just two hearts ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen The Voiceless WITH the liberation of country after country, the clamped-down lid of silence is being levered up. Only slowly, perhaps, shall we be able to comprehend what our brothers and sisters in Europe have been through. Our own imaginations have been overstrained, numbed, by the successive happenings since 1940. We can, it is true, readily be uplifted by resistance ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE Editor had died and gone below. Scarcely had he arrived when he received the most colossal slap on the back. Turning, he saw a contributor who had pestered him on earth. Well, sir, said the free-lance, I'm here for that appointment. Appointment? What appointment? Well, every time I came into your office on earth to show you my stuff, you said you'd ...

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