... Cricket Eton v. Winchester Fourth Century for the Eton Captain and Another Draw in the Annual Match Mr. C. A. Elliott, the Headmaster of Eton, comfortably puffed at his pipe as he watched the match from the pavilion The Winchester XI. Going Out to Field The Headmaster of Winchester, Canon Leeson, and Lieut. -Colonel and Mrs. Dawnay were all enjoying themselves G. H. Myrtle, who played for ...

... I A New Finale to an Old Favourite I A Brilliant New Twist in the I Tail for Sweeter and Lower Exception to the rule, Britan nia adds a new note of satirical gaiety to what must surely be the most popular 44 intimate revue in London. First produced by J. W. Pemberton as Sweet and Low it became Sweeter and Lower as time went by, and now, having broken the long-run record for revue held for ...

... Priscilla in Paris A Letter from Germany D.O.A.H.-- From the dormer window of the cream-painted, chintz-hung room where I am writing, this is what I see: neat little white houses with pointed, red roofs of scalloped tiles standing in gardens bright with spring flowers, green with lilac-trees on which the blossoms have only just died, and cherry-trees on which the fruit is still in hard little ...

... ^4 By Sabretache LOOKIŃG at a wartime crowd at Ascot, no one with a feeling heart could help having it borne in upon him that we do not count our blessings half often enough. Uniform, the variant of battle-dress, rat-catcher, how much more comfortable than the kit which was de rigueur exactly 234 years ago, and also than the regulation of many years later; grey busters, sponge-bag trousers, ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Nooks and Crannies DEVELOPMENT in both aircraft and motor cars is externally indicated by a reduction in the numbers of nooks and crannies. Bumplessness is the barometer of progress. The outsides of the early aircraft were a maze of joints, seams, corners, cracks, kinks, humps, blobs, ridges, dents and channels. Likewise the early motor cars were hung about with ...

... STETTINIUS'S SUCCESSOR-- THE NEW U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE. MR. JAMES F. BYRNES, former Justice of the Supreme Court nominated by- Mr. Truman as Secretary of State in succession to Mr. Stettinius, becomes not only the first member of the Cabinet, but next in succession to the Presidency. He was promoted before the present war from the Senate to a seat on the Supreme Court, and then left this ...

... Abigail Sarclet (MARY MORRIS) starts with horror when Stephen Cass (JOHN MILLS) plays the mysterious and forbidden tune which recalls the sinister and beloved Guy. Dr. Edward Sarclet (ELWYN BROOK-JONES) and Stephen Cass, the young poet on whom he has performed an amazing and miraculously successful grafting operation. Ella Sarclet (ELSPETH MARCH) looks at the mysterious and alien hands which ...

... . The second edition of the Sweeter and Lower revue at the Ambassadors runs and runs and runs. HERMIONE GINGOLD has been given a fresh a very fresh number, Exception to the Rule, Britannia.' Written by Alan Melville, with music by Charles Zwar, this new finale to the first part is introduced to celebrate the second anniversary of a record-breaking revue. PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEXANDER BENDER. ...

... . *T*HE first-class presentation of these two Gilbert and Sullivan operas i 1 by the Ofladium Theatre -prisoners of war of Stalag 383, Germany was given in 1943. They had an orchestra, under the direction of J. H. Rymer, and a chorus a wardrobe master, whose very ingenious productions can be observed in these photographs. In our last issue we gave reproductions of the well-designed and printed ...

... JOAN FONTAINE AS FOUR- I PERSONALITY SUSAN. Susan (JOAN FONTAINE), heroine of 44 THE AFFAIRS OF SUSAN, seems to Richard Aitken (WALTER ABEL) to be a cultured, charming and correct lady his ideal for a dependable wife. I m But to theatrical producer Roger Berton (GEORGE BRENT) this same Susari (JOAN FONTAINE) appears as a charming child of nature, unspoilt by conventional ideas, or 44 stuffy ...

... For the few precious hours when sun and leisure coincide, Rima has designed a lovely playsuit of brown rayon linen, with a trim tailored line and a free-and-easy air to go over the play Fin„ig ...

... The desperate determination of Japanese soldiers to fight to the death in their bunkers and caves has led to the development of a special method of winkling out on the part of the U.S. and Australian troops who have to meet this last ditch technique. Japs ensconced behind their timber and concrete bunker protections, or inside their slit caverns, have provided difficult problems for the ...