... I Last week was a big week in the theatre, and, in addition to several new productions, it was made particularly notable by the three special matinees staged on behalf of the King George's Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses. About £7,000 was raised by the three matinees, and following The Importance of Being Earnest the King and Queen received the players. During the week the Princesses ...

... YY/hen Lord Winster, Minister of Civil Aviation, recently visited Heathrow, Middlesex, with Members of Parliament and Foreign Air Attaches, he announced that hence forward Heathrow would be known as London Airport and that plans were on foot to convert the place into a great international terminus. Lord Winster explained that by taking in land on the north side of the Bath Road, the airport ...

... THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN OPENS IN ITALY Signer Togliatti, the Italian Communist leader, addressing his followers in the Cathedral Square, Milan. As he spoke, a train arrived at the Central Station bringing 1 ,200 prisoners of war from Russia. Many of the men told lurid tales of life in Soviet camps A MOMENT OF REUNION Returning prisoners of war searching for their rela tives on the Central ...

... Of late vears re markable changes have taken place in the fighting ships of every Navy in the world, and one glance at the battleship, cruiser or destroyer of to-day is sufficient to convince the on looker that the modern warship pre sents a massive sil- houette, almost wholly with regard to its superstructure, that is of very recent origin. fhe reasons for these radical changes in design are ...

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... 7*\n April I gigantic tidal waves coming from the area of submarine earthquakes in Alaska roared across the Pacific a| 500 miles an hour, spreading deatk and destruction in their path. Triple waves, nearly 100 ft. high, swept nearly a mile inland on the Hawaiian islands, killing and in juring several hundreds of people, while in Honolulu harbour ship- ping was piled on the foreshore in ...

... Of all the holy places connected with the Easter story and the last days of Christ, the Garden of Gethsemane is probably held in most veneration by the Christian. The garden now belongs to the Fran ciscan monks, and it is always tended with the most loving care. Leading over the Mount of Olives are several roadways, and that on the left of the picture is the way to Bethany. It was along that ...

... ■Thursday I And they took counsel to- I gether that they might take I Jesus by subtility, and kill him. But they said, not I during the feast lest a tumult I arise among the people.' St. Matthew XXVI, 5. I AND they came unto a place which was named g Gethsemane. -St. Mark XIV, 32. ■Friday And the whole company of I them arose up, and brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him ...

... THE VIRGIN AND ST. JOHN A sixteenth-century sculptural work in boxwood from the Netherlands shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Exhibition, Style in Sculpture, which is now being held in the main entrance-hall of the Museum and is attracting much admiring attention. This piece belongs to the period when Gothic art was giving way to the ideas of the Renaissance, and a freer and more ...

... A TRIBUTE TO WELSH VALOUR-- CAERNARVON CONFERS THE FREEDOM OF THE BOROUGH ON THE ROYAL WELCH FUSILIERS Lieut.-Colonel F. Laugher, M.C., addressing the gathering in the castle grounds after his battalion had been honoured The 6th Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers was honoured by the town of Caernarvon last week, when the freedom of the borough was conferred upon them for thejr gallant ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Dr. Dalton's Medicine.-- About seventy years ago, Queen Victoria, on the advice of Canon Prothero and with the approval of the Prince of Wales, selected John N. Dalton to be the Governor of the young princes, of whom one became King George V. A few years back X was concerned to probe into Mr. Dalton s secret heart, and I often wondered what his political views ...

... As international tension mounted in the closing days of March and U.N.O.'s Security Council in New York was facing the intensely complicated problem of the Persian appeal, Russia suddenly announced her decision to evacuate Persia, thus belatedly honouring the terms of the 1942 Agreement made between the three occupying Powers. The Russian departure from the Teheran area was as swift as it was ...