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... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Prestige and Private Flying THERE will be little chance of aviation being turned to peaceful purposes until there is a change in the distribution of prestige between military aircraft and civil aircraft. I notice the patronizing way in which Government officials and even manufacturers look upon small, low-powered, light aeroplanes and the awe with which they regard ...

... i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Saving Face and Wasting Time.-- If I were an Australian statesman, I should temper my relief at Japan's defeat with anxiety for the not far distant future. The next weeks may put a different complexion on the face of things. Just now Japan looks like a by-no-means extinct volcano. Hirohito may be still the Son of Heaven, still the one institution which all Japanese ...

... Six days before Japan surrendered, Russia declared war upon her, in fulfilment of a promise made to the Allies to join with them against the Far Eastern enemy when the war in Europe was over. China had been at war with Japan for eight years, and America and Great Britain since December 7, 1941. Russia entered the war with vigour with full military force, and with all the experience gained ...

... A FAVOURITE LONDON VIEWPOINT, WHICH IS AGAIN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The Monument, near London Bridge, was closed to the public during the six years of war a few days ago it was reopened, so that visitors may once again enjoy the remarkable vista of the City and its suburbs to be seen from its high platform. To climb the Monument was always a favourite diversion of our country cousins. In this ...

... Highland Queen Highland Queen by jamaui 2UEEN ELIZABETH By ZUCCHERO HntfiplH Hnuse Collection GRAND LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY bif ^ilEacoirrLCiMAi^ From her canvas she looks down with that regal dignity and serenity which only an outstanding reign could have imparted. In Grand Liqueur (Queen of Scots Whiskies) you will find something of that same regal assurance, for behind it there is a con ...

... . BETTE DAVIS and Airedale Mike are here enjoying a spot of rest on the set during some, of their spare moments in the making of their new picture A Stolen Life.''1 Bette's the star, but Mike has a part too. Everyone has been going to see Betle in her latest film, Mr. Skejfinglon,11 in which she has the whale of a part as the beauty who won't grow old, and puts up a grim rearguard action ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IF there is one trick that our studios have developed to admiration in this war, it is the trick of making films that shall rival the artificiality of Hollywood under cover of the austerest functionalism. We have evolved an art known as the semi-documentary. What the producers do is simply this They take an earthy, realistic subject, let us say, hop-picking in Kent. They ...

... x x The Little Red Cap ✓N /X x An Irish Love Romance By Day Russell X X DENNIS MACKAIL might have been home much sooner if his father had not told him that he should try and see his grandmother in Ireland before he returned. After three years overseas he felt a month one way or the other would not matter, and after untangling a lot of red tape and after suffering considerably from the effect ...

... IT began to be obvious, a few years back, that glass was a most promising medium for building construction. It admits more light and sunshine to the home-- it is healthier in that sense-- it is easy to clean and, though this will surprise you, it is warm. So the manufacturers went to work, and the result of their investigations is that we now have glass for building purposes which has all the ...

... BY JEAN R11RM1P Editor Women's Department 1. Hugh Bcresford's dashing Regency topper, of brown felt, trimmed with apple-green tulle 2. Muted grey worsted shirt- maker, faintly herring-boned, pleated at front and back of skirt, gold-piped on bodice, cuffs and pocket flaps. Berkctex 3. Black and white herring bone, with inverted pleat front and back of the skirt, high revers and large flapped ...

... Flowers for Decoration To Make the Everyday Things of Life Beautiful By Wilma Buckley WE have grown accustomed to the fact that flowers have been banished from our gardens during the last six years or so, partly because of the need to grow vegetables instead and partly because of labour and re-stocking difficulties (hyacinth bulbs, for instance, have been unobtainable since 1941, reserved for ...