... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Secrecy THERE is so much free talk these days about the prospects of another Three Power Conference that I am compelled to wonder if, now that the war in Europe is over, we shall be told the precise time and place of the meeting in advance, or will there be a continuance of that insistence on secrecy which shrouded even the most successful of the activities of the ...

... Romance with Music in Three Incarnations Ivor Novello's Perchance to Dream, at the London Hippodrome I Kis uk B>'ck mont on ...

... A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The Royal Family THEIR MAJESTIES have been spending a few days' holiday in Scotland, staying privately at Birkhall, the small and comfortable residence near Balmoral where they used to spend their summers as Duke and Duchess of York. This choice minimised the staff neces sities, and enabled the arrangements for the brief Royal respite to be made more ...

... ^4 By Sabretache Jockeys SUPPOSING A had something tried good enough to win the Grand National-- or, let us say, the Grand International-- would he go out of his way to pick a chalk jockey to ride him, when the best professional in the profession was available, and had, moreover, already steered the horse to victory over some of the worst raspers-- and brimful brooks-- ever imagined in the ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE following are some snappy quips from American papers:-- Saleswoman, showing a victory girdle to buxom customer: I don't think it will support you in the manner to which you're accustomed. Girl to boy friend: I didn't say it was a small diamond. I just said it looked like if was all paid for! Employer to bungling workman This is the last straw, ...

... TEAGERV VEAGERV Jfistorg in the making belore the building ol the Houses of Parliament was begun from the designs of Sir Charles Barry, the firm of Seager Evans was founded. With a record of 1 40 years of fine distilling, they still produce the unrivalled GIN Supplied to the public through the Retail Trade ONLY. 25/3 13/3 Full size Half bottle bottle EST 1805 ...

... IK* When Horlicks is scarce, don't forget that many have special need of it In emergency rations issued to soldiers, sailors, and airmen, Horlicks is an essential item. It was specially chosen for this purpose because it is excep tionally nourishing and sustaining. The makers of Horlicks are proud that it has helped to save innumerable lives. Large quantities of Horlicks are also required for ...

... HAVE A GLASS OF Guinness when ...

... To Be Married In The Autumn The Hon. Ela Beaumont The Hon. Ela Beaumont is the daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Allendale, and her engagement was announced in April to Viscount Morpeth, the only son of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle. Lord Morpeth, who is in the Rifle Brigade, was seriously wounded early this year in a mine accident while on active service with his regiment. His mother, ...

... Zjy a a One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis A CHAP who recently paid a call on Mrs. Van Burtchell assures us that she is looking as well as might be expected after five years of war, which is very gratifying. You may not know Mrs. Van B. She is preserved in her best lace gown in a glass case at the Royal College of Surgeons. When she died in the 1770's her husband, a prominent medical ...

... Lt.-Gen. Sir Ronald Weeks, k.c.b., c.b.e., d.s.o., m.c. The Chief Representative for Control Questions in the British Occupational Army in Germany 0 Lt.-Gen. Sir Ronald Weeks, who is to be Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Mont gomery's chief representative for the Allied Control Council in Germany, has been Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff at the War Office since 1942. Sir Ronald, who is ...

... Food's far from plentiful in Paris, but the simple meals provided for the returning prisoners seem like gargantuan feasts, after the long years behind the Huns' barbed wire D.O.A.H. A spot of trouble with a mine and an ambulance that has been running since '39 and was holding together by the mercy of God, a few bootlaces, some stamp paper and odds and ends of wire, brought me back to Paris for ...