... Counties Their Own Customs, Characteristics, Traditions and Food By Gordon Beckles WHY don't the Eng lish counties begin to put themselves back on the map? For over a hundred years now they have been becoming progressively more and more departments of the Whitehall machine, and less and less separate entities-- with their own boundaries, their own rulers in the Lord-Lieutenant, their own ...

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... SSS^SS5S5SSSS5S22HHH^25^S Nature's Submarines U nder-Water Travel is the only Sphere in which. Nature Holds the Speed Record By Frank W. Lane IF the Nazis could have made a submarine which would travel under water as successfully as a fish they might well have won the Battle of the Atlantic. The best a submarine can do when travelling beneath the surface is around twenty knots, There are some ...

... 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 ...

... I WAV OF THE WAR By Foresight i Report THE Prime Minister will have quite a lot to tell the House of Commons when Members reassemble on January 16 after their comparatively short Christmas recess. His sudden flight to Greece might not then appear in such a dramatic light as it does now while we watch the developments which are flowing from his courageous action. His report on the war ...

... Viennese Operetta Strauss Music, Dancing, Romance, Laughter in A Night in Venice After an interruption of some months, during which the Com pany fulfilled an extended E.N.S.A. tour, A Night in Venice has returned to the Cambridge Theatre. Music by Johann Strauss has been orchestrated by Erich Korngold, and the sumptuously- dressed Commedia Dell Arte Ballet, performed by the Pauline Grant ...

... Clive 44 Has anyone lost a diminutive utensil, containing, unless I am mit tat a favourite preparation for the toilet The meeting of Clive Cecil T rounder) and his former wife, Lady K (Yvonne Arnaud), is a little unorthodox. Clive has returned from Paris m than expected, and it is a shock to everyone when hp breaks in on the lurxhi party to which Kitty and her lover Lord Porleous (Leslie Banks ...

... Another Maugham Revival The Circle is Included in John Gielgud's Repertory The Circle, by Somerset Maugham, was chosen by John Gielgud as the opening play of his new repertory season at the Theatre Royal, Hay- market. Twenty-three years ago, when this play was first presented at the same theatre, it caused a sensation in London society present- day audiences are less inclined to be shocked, ...

... Lady Glive is one of the two Ladies-in-Waiting appointed to go to Australia with the Duchess ol Gloucester, the other being Miss Eileen Phipps, a niece of the Duchess. Her husband, Squadron Leader Lord Clivc, R.A.F., died on active service in 1943. He was the only surviving son of the Earl of Powis, his elder brother serving in the Welsh Guards, having died ol wounds during the last war. Lord ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Mr. Rank and the Critics By James Agate a t a luncheon party given to the film critics by the directors of Gaumont- X X British Mr. Arthur Rank, who was in the chair, begged that the speakers, of which there were to be six, would inform him as to the essential nature of film criticism. Did film critics regard their duty as being towards their narticular readers or ...

... 0- 0^ /)-Jy A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Dining Out THEIR MAJESTIES spent very busy days in deed before Christmas, touring London clubs for Servicemen, distributing per sonally Christmas gifts to the staff at Bucking ham Palace, attending the stand-down parade of the Palace Home Guard and, finally, enjoying an afternoon performance of the nqnfnimmfi in the COuntrv. The King, ...