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The Arrival of A Fresh Shipment of America's Famous

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IN ALL THE LATEST

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FROM

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Moonlight nud Mimosa

BD 5805 Hear My Song. Violetto

El Pescador

BD 5008 Say It

My My!.

(Quickstep)

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(Tango) (Foxtrot)

MII 11

Secrets in the Moonlight From 20th Century-Fox

(Foxtrot)

"Star Dust"

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I want my Mammy..

Duke Ellington.

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LORD ROTHERMERE

THE death of Lord Rother- mere removes from the world one of the most striking and re- markable figures in the history of journalism. Without the flamboyance of his brother, the late Lord Northcliffe, he made equally important contributions to the development of modern journalism, playing a particu- larly notable part in his early days in the successful produc- tion of "Answers" and other world popular Harmsworth periodicals. His was the finely imaginative, delicately poised business brain-behind-the- Harmsworth ventures, which, allied with the creative genius of his brother, turned almost everything they handled into

success.

It

While Lord Northcliffe was alive, Lord Rothermore identi- fied himself comparatively little with their newspapers, devoting practically the whole of his at- tention to the Harmsworth publications; nevertheless, was largely through him that the Harmsworths secured the "Times," and it was Rother- mere who produced the first fully illustrated Sunday news- paper in England-the "Sun-

Pictorial." day

Rothermere in fact, was the first the newspaper magnates as they are known to-day. His attempt to obtain a virtual monopoly of the leading daily newspapers from one end of England to the other, and the manner in which he was thwarted, constitutes one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of English news- paperdom.

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The political campaigns carried on through his newspapers were founded on a thorough-going hatred of Social- lam. At the same time he was a fair and scrupulously generous employer, and had the same sympathy towards the legitimate activities of the trade unions as had been shown by Northcliffe.

His writings. were not marked by scholarship, but they were picture- aque, vibrant, and compelling. He won a certain amount of respect and a great deal of popularity for his papers, and' he will be remembered as a man who, through his Harmsworth magazines, probably did more than anybody elas to bring to the home of the working man,

a form of popular education. which is still capable of supplement- -ing and broadening the scholastic training received in the schools of England to-day.

Bombs Over London

A WOMAN LOOKS FROM

HER BALCONY

In the calm light of morning, when London looks just like herself, it is difficult to realise that this is a city which has been subjected to intensive air bombardment.

Gay crowds surge through the streets, shop- ping is in full progress and there is not the slight- est sign of panic. In the small shops people are heard joking and passing the time of day, saying, "How did you get on last night?" or inviting one another to share their cellars or basements for the night.

Offices are running as usual, the big West End shops have their usual display of autumn tweeds and autumn fashions normal. and everything is Only the tired faces of people going to and from their work give some sign of the ordeal through which the city is passing, and in the evening everyone hurries home before the nightly raids begin which last until dawn,

The night raids are very unpleasant, Intensive raiding began on September 7th, when more than 300 people were killed and the Germans lost more than 100 aeroplanes. Each night raid has been dif- ferent from the last; but all have lasted 7 or 8 hours from From my start to finish. balcony on the fifth floor, the whole of London is spread at my feet, and the acroplanes Round as if they are very near, though actually, they are thousands of feet up

On Monday last I watched -fascinated for periods all through the night... When bombs fall near, you hear them a long time before they arrive, it seems liko 3 or 4 seconds, and if the scream or

By Janet Leeper

yards away. Sometimes the building rocked, which was rather alarming, like a mild earthquake.

I could see three huge fires that night, one near St. Paul's and two to the south-west, and it seemed as though no- thing could put them out. I actually saw the great flam- ing incendiary bomb fall that set a furniture store alight. It fell exactly behind a large roof visible from my balcony. The whole place must ap- parently have gone up in flames, as this roof was im- mediately silhouetted against flames as the bomb landed. You could hear the roar of the flames and the shouts and words of command of the fire- men as they struggled with the fire.

Yet an hour later, when I looked out at about 3 a.m., there was not even a red glow,

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the Fire Brigade must have mastered it.

The fire near St. Paul's was at one time so brilliant-for half a minute or so--that every balloon {11 the sky was silhouetted_dock against the pinkish glare reflected from the clouds. It was an awe- inspiring, apocalyptic sight. This fire burnt all night, but was out

put

during the following day. Dozens of searchlights, looking for targets, made criss-cross patterns in different parts of the sky. The serene beauty of the scene in a carly hours of the morning, the thin pointers of light against a starlit sky. with little drifts of white cloud 1lt up by moonlight, was unforgettable.

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As I write, the noise from the guns is terrific. It is a new heavy barrage, heard for the first time Wednesday. There are searchlights to-night. There is so nuch shrapnel bursting in the sky, yellow stars overhead, flashes from big and little guns, that it is not very wise to look out, and occa sionally there is a reminder of the fact in a rattle of shrapnel on the roof.

sounds. The whole thing is like a monstrous firework display com- bined with a thunderstorm,

London is absolutely calm amid all these excitements. Everyone is amazingly stoical, no sign of panie anywhere, least of all among the poorest families, many of whom have lost their homes. After daylight rald there is a rush on the Undergrounds, much as it is after a football match. During the day- light rakis, many buses run as usual, and no one seems to take cover unless the 'planes can actual- ly be heard overhead.

Occasionally machine-gunning is heard and then it means an uir- battle is in progress, but I have only once seen an enemy 'plane, a tiny, tiny speck with cotton-wool puifs near it, going in and out of the clouds. Some of the small shops close, and one has to be nippy getting the shopping done between warnings.

There are so many that one quite loses count, about four, five, six or seven a day. They really have very little effect on the population except as a nuisance. I have, for instance, more than once started out after the warning has gone and found the Under- ground working normally,

All the transport officials are most courteous and considerate and rendy to help everybody lo find their way, for many routes are diverted or curtailed. This is because of the time bombs which necessitate whole blocks of streets railed off until the bombs being have exploded. One went off this morning not far away with a shattering explosion. After work, troups of sightseers go to see the dumnge done on their way home.

The casualties, considering the number of bonibs' dropped, are very low: this is because the popu- lation has learnt to take cover.

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The crater clearing squad słows up for a minuto as Their Majes ties inspect the bomb wreckago in Buckingham Palace grounds -after a recent raid.

De Gaulle's Men Help Show Girls

By RITCHIE CALDER

Show girls bombed out of theatrical boarding houses1· and clubs, have been victims of the neglect of the home- Існя.

This time it was not the East End, but Central Lon-- don, where lack of facilities surely cannot be the excuse.

Badly shaken by the bombs, which had wrecked the houses and imprisoned many of them in shelters from which they had to be rescued, they found themselves helpless, ́....

Shelters Full

The rald was still on, but the neighbouring shelters were full.

No one Intervened to help them until French sakllers of De Gaulle's Army came to their rescue

They

found them temporary shelter in their club.

Every kindness was shown them: by the Frenchmen, but presently they were ordered to get out bo- cause there was

danger of this house itself becoming unsafe.

Again the girls had to go out into the raid. Again there was. no prospect of shelter. Again there help was no organised effort to them,

In Museum Finally, they found sanctuary among the specimens in'n museum. which was thrown open to them out of compassion...

After the raid they had to And food us best they could.

During the same bombardment people escaping from bombs in a crowded North London district tried to get refuge in the well-pro- lected and equipped sheller of a big firm,

During the day this shelter accommodates comfortably about 3,000 workers, but it was barred to people seeking shelter from the night bombers,

How Deaf Man

Made Fortune

We have a shelter in the build- ing here and everyone goes down now for the night, sleeping in Thore is chotra or on mattresses, 110

a new neighbourliness, friendliness, and a determination not to be rattled by anything that Bombs fall alf may happen. round us and we laugh and chatter In spite of it. And this is true of every section of the population.

But while some theatres ond restaurants with deep shelters have munaged to keep open, most places To Mr. White this seemed waste- ful. He therefore decided to start of entertainment have closed. An enquiry at the Queen's Hall about an industry which meant collecting the abandoned Promenade Con-old torch and wireless batteries. certs elicited the characteristic. reply: "We hope to resume the concerts next week and to give

The roar of the guns, some of which are very big and very near, is positively encouraging an body minds this nearly so much as. the beastly drone of the aeroplanes. Often # in only one, a kind of tiresome super-mosquito, cruising

whistle grows louder, you round and round and dropping this wenk's programmes at the end

know it is coming nearer. Many fell in the streets on either side a few hundred

disgusting eggs at Intervals, when It feels, inclined. The eggs whistle as they arrive, or burat in mid-air like huge fireworks with swishing

Ella P. White, à Glasgow Jew, ta deaf. Ho wears a deaf-ald appliance which uses up battery a day.

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Now his London factory is turning out materials for cartridge weds, brass buttons for uniforme, copper for shells, carbon for the steal of bayonets, graphite for soldiers' boot of the season.* MAN MAR

That the spirit with which block; zinc for camp utensils and

bitch for Army tarpaulins, London carries on