... THE LAST ACT OF THE GIOCOHDA SMILE --ALDOUS HUXLEY'S PLAY AT THE NEW THEATRE The dual scene shows Clive Brook as Hutton in the condemned cell, and, on the right, Pamela Brown as Janet, who has just confessed to the murder of Hutton's first wife. Her doctor (Noel Howlett) telephones the confession to the Home Secretary. Aldous Huxley's first play, The World, of Light, was presented seventeen ...

... T*he year 1947 witnessed the start of a new period of activity in Antarctic exploration, with Britain, Australia, the United States, Argentina and Chile all organising expeditions to the Far South. America s expedition, under Admiral Byrd, produced some spectacular geographical discoveries, and now the Australians are following suit with a less elaborate but hardly less important expedition ...

... HPhe Hertfordshire War Agricultural Committee has been fighting a losing battle against hordes of rabbits, grey squirrels and foxes since open trapping was abolished a year ago. Hounds have found it diffi cult to operate in the dense undergrowth, but since Major Sir Jocelyn Lucas offered to lend his Sealyham pack, they have had a number of successful days. It is a sight to see as the Sealyhams ...

... FOR the first time since 1939 there are Under Officers at Sandhurst. This item of news may leave the average civilian quite unmoved, but must be of extreme interest to all Regular Army officers, past and present. It was just over a year ago that the first intake of future officers of Montgomery's New Army was admitted. The whole process was rather like starting a public school from scratch ...

... i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Hard Road to Sal vation.-- I listened hopefully to Mr. Toynbee broadcasting on the collapse of earlier civilisations and on the prospects of saving our own. He was lucid, as was to be expected, but when he came to the remedy, he was, like all pundits, disappointing. He stopped too soon. He gave as the reason for the decline of the Greco- Roman, the Chinese and ...

... MOST OF THEM END UP AT THE SARACEN'S HEAD Captain Bob Bryant (of Alabama), Lieutenant Abraham (of Iowa), Lieutenant Owen Davies (of Florida), and Lieutenant Carl Estes (of Maine) congregated outside the celebrated Lincoln hostelry, a favourite haunt of the men of 28th Bombardment Group. This picture was taken as they consulted a member of the local constabulary on their first day of liberty in ...

... A TALL SHIP IN THE RIVER THAMES The Norwegian merchant marine cadet training ship Sorlandet, carrying boys in training, docking at Greenland Dock after her arrival in London. The vessel, built from a donation of 1,000,000 kroner (£50,000) by a Kristiansand shipowner, was handed over in 1927. During the war the Sorlandet fell into German hands after their invasion of Norway in 1940, and was ...

... The River Tyne, always an inspiring sight with its immense amount of activity, is now engaged in getting some of our finest whaling ships ready for next season s expedition to the Antarctic. Two of our largest and newest factory ships, the Southern Harvester and the Southern Venturer, are at South and North Shields for their seasonal overhaul, dwarfing other ships near by. The whaling ...

... PORT SHERRY I S3E Before the meal a Sandeman Sherry, slightly chilled. Afterwards a glass of one of Sandeman's incomparable Ports. This is the traditional tribute from host to guest and to fine food. ...

... nrhe old Dorsetshire fortress of Corfe is of fascinating interest from a military viewpoint. It could not have been built in a better strategic position, commanding as it does the road to Dorchester and the south-west. Corfe in Norman and mediaeval times was the scene of many dark deeds, including the murder of Edward the Martyr and later the murder of twenty knights by the order of King John. ...

... The Sovereign's Labours. --None of the King's doctors seems to question that overwork has been a prime cause of his illness. It is there fore apt to stress a point which seems to have been little considered since 1911. About that time the complexity and profusion of public business and affairs of State began to increase markedly, and have never ceased to do so. King George V and King George VI ...

... A POSSIBLE connection may be discerned between King Farouk's decision to divorce Queen Farida and the unsatisfactory development of the first campaign fought by the Egyptian Army as an independent body. Had the advance into Palestine led to victory, the King would have reaped full reward for having been its inspirational driving-force all praise to his House. It failed and the King must needs ...