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A

HUSH falls over the gay

chattering groups as she

glides down the great staircase with

cool, unhurried steps. She holds the

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and she knows it. centre of the stage. —- Only the confidence born of a very slender lissóm figure could stand up to ordeal by stairway on an "Orders and Decorations" occasion like tonight. She takes no chances with that willowy figure of hers. If, through some rare oversight, her host fails to see that there is gin and Rose's Lime Juice, then she just sighs faintly and drinks nothing. He is a lucky host who sees her a second time at his parties after making such a gaffe. There are many, many parties, but only one Rose's.

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THE CHINA

ROOF MAKE-UP

NLECTRIC power stations, gas-

works, mines, aérodromes and factories of national impor- tance will all need the protection of camouflage against aerial at- tack; and by the terms of the Civil Defence Bill the Govern- ment will have power to order factory and mine owners or pu blic utility undertakings to cam- ouflage their premises, allowing them a grant of 50 per cent, of the approved cost.

Modern camouage, I should emphasise, entirely supersedes the crude zebra stripes and jazz patterns tried out in the Great War. To-day, it is a highly de- veloped and scientific technique.

Working in close collaboration with the Royal Air Force Ex- perimental Camouflage Depart ment at South Farnborough, in Hampshire, and the Home Office Air Raids Precautions Depart- ment, the Stafford Camouflage Group has been formed as an ex- It repre- pert advisory body. sents a unique contribution by the theatre to A.R.P.

Head of it, Mr. Frederic Staf- ford, is Art Director of Stoll Theatres, and collaborating with him are some of the most famous scenic designers in the country.

The whole object of the camou- fleur is to make a place look un- important. He tries to merge whatever is being protected into its background, so that an enemy airman six miles away and 20,000 to 25,000 feet up, sees nothing to get in colour, so as to get a true irical power st identify his target.

impression of background. Later, angles, its back These are the figures on which in their own private cinema thea- playing fields, all work is based, since 20,000 or tre, they study that filmvery going to be to SAT VRTI Rósurfaces of the 25,000 feet is the height at which closely coul

Then they build paper models going to enorm enemy aircraft will need to fly to

Every target avoid the balloon barrage and to scale of so much of the works anti-aircraft guns; and, owing to as may be seen from the air..on its merits. the high speed of modern bomb Those paper models are made so ers, six miles is the distance that they can be cut up into sec- ahead of the target at which a tions, and the actual model of a bomb must be released from air- part of the roof given to each of craft flying at such a height. the foremen in charge of the ne

As a theatrical man, camou- cessary painting. flage is to Mr. Stafford large-scale “Aerial observation is essential, illusion-make-up for factories, and very often will save factor- so to speak; and the "make-up" ies hundreds of pounds of unne- must be skilfully applied,

cessary expense, because quite otherwise the result is worse than often what looks a glaring- if nothing were done at all.

ly conspicuons target from a Some crude attempts at camou- hill or a high tower will be quite flage made during the Séptem lost when viewed from two ber crisis had the effect, not of three miles up. concealment, but of making fac. tories startlingly conspicuous from the air..

“HOT” - RIDING.-Iron nerves and a charmed life Dering and his motorcyclists have thrilled thousands torcyclists who risk their lives in hair-raising perfo ture shows H. F. Taylor, one of the riders giving an

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Colour Films

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Gasworks Disguise

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describes how, er, factories v houses, playg will-which bombing may less, and driv the urgent ca

quiry into

I saw a film of a very large del of a large gasworks before treatment. The of roof. It is tops of the gasometers stood out a continuation Before a camouflage plan is like great blabs on the landscape, tate. Just s devised, the first task is to study. In a second film, the same gaso houses will the target from the air. The tar- meters, after camouflage, were would be seen

at very ing high. get is photographed from the quite indistinguishable, four points of the compass and much less than enemy aircraft Typical hou

tate measure directly overhead, not at enemy height, from the rest of the ini aircraft height, but at a height dustrial area in which they were rection, so the

situated.

measure the of 3,000 or 4,000 feet,

As well as observing - directly Another film was of a large square feet of from the air, experts film the tar- water-cooler attached to an elec- be included to

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