... NANCY EVANS (LUCRETIA) WITH NORMAN WALKER (COLLATINUS) DURING THE SUICIDE SCENE IN THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA, AT SADLER'S WELLS The libretto of Britten's new opera is based on Andr£ Obey's play Le Viol de Lucrfcce WARNING ALL THOSE WITH CARS A London theatre plays its part in the campaign against road accidents. The com pany of Worms Eye-View, the Cockney comedy at the Whitehall Theatre, made use ...

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... Last week in Scotland all roads led to Braemar and Aboyne, When the Royal Family arrived at Braemar their car circled the arena in a downpour of rain, ploughing through pools of undrained water, and in the parking- places many cars were bogged down. Nothing was allowed to interfere with the games, however; while the massed pipers, parading 100 strong, evoked roars of enthusiasm in their ...

... Considering the vast difficulties of post-war I reconstruction, the London theatre has had a notable summer season, and it is made addition- I ally memorable by the visit of the San Carlo j Opera Company. The production of La Boheme I under the conductorship of Signor Capuana j delighted the audience with its generous tone I and lavish singing, while on the opening night I La Traviata proved a ...

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... WITH A FAIR ISLE YOKE THE FRONT With main colour wool and No. 12 needles, cast on 100 sts. Rib in k. 1, p. 1 for 3 ins. (inc. 1 st. of the last row only, 101 sts.). Change to No. 10 needles and the following pattern: xst row. Knit brown. 2nd. row. Purl 2 b., 1 main. Repeat from ending 2 b. 3rd row. As 1st row. Work 7 rows main, in stocking stitch (one row knit, one Materials Required 6 ozs. of ...

... HmnHBinnnnRBHBnHMm WmmmmmmmmmmmmmmKmammmmummtmmmmmHmmmammMHmKMK&qm By Wit ma Buckley INEVITABLY associated with the Lake district of Cumberland and Westmor land, the poets Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge have left their mark for ever in another part of England altogether, through the brief year's mingling of these three harmonious intellects in Somerset. Coleridge was, in any case, a West ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Thoughts While on Holi day.-- Sometimes I am pricked in conscience. Two or three times a year, as I comment too easily on the news I feel an urge to separate wheat from chaff, truth from hearsay, and see things clearer, striking a juster balance-sheet. Civilisation wears the air of bankruptcy, and many vital features at home seem grim enough. My farmer friends tell ...

... JEWISH GIRLS ARE SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT Smiling broadly, they are escorted by two male guards and one female guard after hearing the news of their sentence by a British military court. They were found guilty of participating in a night attack on the Palestine railway workshops at Haifa, but had to be tried in absentia on account of their behaviour in court. When the charges were read ...

... ^f/estem Germany has for generations depended upon river transport, and such vital transport links as the Rhine, the Weser and the Main are even more important to-day now that road and rail communications throughout the country are still in disrupt on. To keep traffic moving on the Rhine, the new bridges which are being constructed by British and American engineers, with the help of German ...

... The 46-ft. Watson-type cabin lifeboat now under con struction in British yards for the National Lifeboat Institution is probably the most seaworthy craft ever devised. It is divided into seven watertight compartments, and is fitted with 142 air cases while the engine-room is itself watertight and each engine is sealed, so that the lifeboat can continue running even when she is flooded ...