... THE POWFR PLANTS AND THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CRISIS THE FIRST COAL FOR A WEEK ARRIVES AT BATTERSEA POWER STATION The collier lohn Honkinson about to unload 1 ,800 tons of fuel under the glare of powerful electric lamps Last week-end Britain heard with dramatic abruptness the news that large-scale power cuts would be necessary in London, the Midlands, and the North-West in view of the failure ...

... Nine nations are at present concentrating on the South Polar regions, and the most important expedition, and quite the largest, is that under the leadership of Admiral Byrd, the American ex plorer who set out before Christmas with thirteen ships and 4,000 men, one of his intentions being to create an air base in the Far South and map the Antarctic Continent with the aid of heavy transport ...

... QUIZZES being popular, I am prepared to wager a bottle of Concession champagne to a packet of cigarettes that only one in a thousand of Sphere readers has ever heard of the founder of what has been called the British Empire's greatest foreign asset. This is, of course, a double-barrelled challenge, because it is necessary to guess (if you don't already know) what is the British Empire's ...

... M,I I U I I,' ,mi NOEL COWARD'S NEW LEADING LADY Moira Lister, twenty-three- I year-old South African actress, is I to play opposite him in the new I production of Present Laughter. I I She played on the London stage in 1 943 I I and did a season at Stratford-on-Avon in I 1945, after which 'she joined the John I Clements Kay Hammond Company I ONE OF MR. RANK'S YOUNG LADIES Sonia Holm, Sutton ...

... . . ROLLS-ROYCE 'The Best Car in I he World CONDUIT STREET. LON DON, W.'l. MAYFA'lR 6 20 1 ...

... KING IBN SAUD ABOARD THE UNITED STATES OILER CIMARRON: The ruler of Saudi Arabia seen during the course of his recent visit to the Persian Gulf port of Dhahran, where he made an extensive tour of the properties of the fast-developing American-Arabian Oil Company AND THE GRANDCHILDREN CAME TOO Some of the young relatives >f Ibn Saud who accompanied the ruler of Saudi Arabia on his visit to ...

... ^/^fter Southern England had endured a cold spell equal to anything within living memory, the North Country had its turn and, if anything, the dislocation was greater, road and rail commun ication in Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire being brought to a standstill by the giant drifts. In Lincolnshire, villages and an R.A.F. station were isolated, while from many parts of the North ...

... p ver since Epstein completed the Oscar Wilde memorial in Paris in 1909, his work re vealing that the influence of African primitive sculpture was strong upon him, this artist has never for long been out of the news. With his magnificent portrait busts, with all their assurance and vitality and their dignified modelling, he has built up a lasting reputation, while with his more abstract ...

... Narrow streets and miserable houses once covered the site now known as Parliament Square, and when these were swept away at the beginning of the nineteenth century there was left a gaping void which the wits of the time chose to call the Desert of Westminster. In modem times Parliament Square has presented an appearance of reasonable dignity, although not fully in keeping with the importance ...

... IT cannot have been by chance that France sud denly shot forward in international notice on the eve of the Moscow Conference. Rather do certain aspects of this quiet and confident assertion of French interests, hopes and expectations suggest that the hour was carefully chosen after patient waiting while the Big Three had their say and re-say (although officially on a par with these three, the ...

... YY/ithout in any way seeking it, France, at the beginning of 1947, found herself saddled with a full-scale colonial war, and ever since the treacherous attack on her garrisons mTong-King and Annam, at the end of 1946, she has been compelled to pour men and munitions into the former Indo- Chinese colonies in an attempt to restore the status quo and so pre pare the way for negotiations. Of ...

... i' r Admiral Byrd is in Little America, encamped with 190 men on the Ross Ice Barrier, and no fev-or than nine nations are said to be interesting themselves in Antarctic exploration. There has been much lot ie talk of the search for uranium and mineral wealth .n the South Polar regions, and only a few months a o, when the S.S. Trepassey left London with British scienti ts and explorers aboard, ...