... back to the stage- in CLUTTERBUCK. NAUNTON WAYNE and BASIL RADFORD will make a welcome return to the West End stage in Benn W. Levy's comedy Clulterbuck, which is due at Wyndham's on August 14. Here they are-- literally back to the stage-- after a series of sue- cessful screen and radio engagements. The comedy, which is set on a pleasure- cruise liner and in a South American island in the ...

... THE Jewish trek across Europe to Palestine is instigated and carried forward by four principal agencies, each with a different objective in mind. Firstly, it is proper to name the practising Zionist with whom it is an article of faith to redeem the captive in this case the J ew who escaped Hitler and to head Jews for the National Home in Palestine at a time when others can least interfere. ...

... The name Viet-Nam still strikes an unfamiliar note, but this new Republic, carved from part of the French possessions in Indo-Chma, is now coming into being, and the native leaders of its independence movement are attempting to create a new nation. By far the most interesting people of L Viet-Nam are those of the Tongking hill country, who form the subject of the above drawing. In describing ...

... LONDON'S LUNCH HOUR THEATRE London's Lunch-Hour Theatre took place between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on August 9, 12 and 16, and those who sat in the quiet churchyard of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, the London actors' church, enjoyed an hour of mingled comedy and tragedy. In addition to witnessing an excerpt from Shake speare's Henry VIII the audience was treated to a specially-written playlet by Frank ...

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... ■I VY/eek in week out during the months of spring and summer ships laden with Jewish people from the ports of Europe have sought to obtain illegal entry into the Holy Land. More often than not they have been stopped by British naval vessels as they reached Palestinian waters, and thereafter they have been escorted into the port of Haifa. Many people have asked what is the fate of these ...

... Having completed her running trials and her gunnery tests in northern waters, H.M.S. Vanguard now comes south to Plymouth, and this really marks the end of her testing period. During the late autumn and winter Vanguard will be specially fitted out for the Royal visit to South Africa early in 1947, and the cabins to be occupied by the King and Queen and the Princesses will then be prepared. It ...

... CRICKET IN PERFECT SURROUNDINGS-- a match in progress on the village green ai bowler, who is living in retirement in the district and plays for the local club, is the war years Bearsted was in the celebrated Bomb Alley, but despite the bombs of the Luftwaffe and the V-ls, cricket was played there regularly when weather and war-work permitted. Freeman, known to all as Tich, is now in his ...

... The Technical Advisory Committee of the Fuel Ministry which recently visited the Ruhr was much impressed by the evidence of efficiency which it saw in the collieries of the Ruhr Valley, and in its report has urged that the horizon system of coal-getting, as practised in Germany, should be practised in Britain. The horizon system, with roads between the main and staple shafts, is ideally suited ...

... GREAT importance must be attached to the R.A.F. attempt to break its own speed record on or about August 14 at Littlehampton. The aim is to raise the record to 1,000 kilometres an hour-- about 623 m.p.h.-- and Air Ministry experts are confident that the speed attained will be something between 620-630 m.p.h. The first attack on the record will be made by Group-Captain E. M. Donaldson, D.S.O., ...

... The Camberley Conference of senior Army officers, which it is hoped is the fore runner of similar gatherings every six months, was attended by 180 leaders of the Service. The idea behind the meeting is that the senior officers shall hammer out a common policy of training in the light of les sons leamt on the field of battle and in the light of the startling scientific develop ments of the past ...

... I WEST TRENTON'S TOM THUMB DONKEYS i FROM SARDINIA I Mr. Robert W. Green, a retired Wall 5 Street broker, started breeding Sardinian donkeys in 1929, when he imported six Jennies (females) and one Jack from their native Sardinia. Since then I they have continued to flourish exceed ingly, and he has bred over a hundred of these diminutive creatures, selling them for the most part as pets ...