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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1942 tetters from an ATCO to its owner By C. A. LEJEUNE By TOM HARRISSON This week my path has curiously i esting Sunday evening News crossed that of co columnist Letter for sortie months past. Lejeune. Four times I have found These film notes have been inform- At the Play MR.

GIELGUD'S MACBETH Happy the playgoer whose expectations are fulfilled; happy rarer) the critic vhose appreciation has no reserves. We are glad to have Mr. Gielgud back in London. His long-awaited ative, unenterprising, and useful. Jclivered in an eager, almost adolescent way, enabling the listener any level of intelligence to deride whether he or she thought it the sort of film to see.

No criticism; plain comment. Now and this fourth time I cross Miss Lejeune's path a more distinguished and thoughtful film critic has appeared to take Duffs place at 7.20 m. Sundays- Miss Lejeune herself, who fills a rather By JAN GORDON Our expectations are seldom fulfilled unless we can do something to assist their fruition. The real success of the Artists Aid Russia Exhibition at the Wallace Collection? Hertford House, has not just happened by chance. A certain number of key artists, who might properly feel objections to submitting to a jury, were invited in by a the rest having to pass through the vote.

Almost, in fact, typical example of British democracy. And. like British democracy, the result is more successful than one might have hoped for. The selected have given ungrudgingly, and as for the elected," the slightly conservative-seeming jury have been very broadminded, perhaps because of Russia." Anyway, an exhibition that is based upon works by Matthew Smith, Augustus John, O. Duncan Grant, Epstein, Dobson, Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Gilbert Spencer, Sir Muirhead Bone, Sir George Clausen, Ethel Walker, Skeaping, A.Tl.

Thompson, Wads-worth, Lucien Pissarro, Frances Hodgkins, Connard, Ginner, wynne Jones, Underwood, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Menin- WeTUtlS are manu factured by a firm of nearly 100 iriigineering experience which specialises in ptactj time in the making of Motor Mowers and with whom Quality has become a tradition. Our popularity is due to three main characteristics: Efficiency the outcome 'of studying your particular needs: Economy the result of. careful design and well-balanced construction and Service planned to ensure that your ATCO is always in service. What a big. family we are! Between us we are responsible for the traditionally lovely appearance of thousands of lawns in this green and unconquerable isle- This being my last letter in this series I cannot finish on a better note than by expressing the wish that I have been helpful, and if, by any chance, you want some further information about me, get in touch with your ATCO Depot, where you will find the Depot Manager courteous and ready to giveyou every assistance within his power.

So till the Happy Day, I hope to remain. waveband and soundtrack intertwined. Memorable cine-radio was Monday night's The Next of Kin." At first it was difficult to follow. But a little radio complexity forces the listener to concentrate, to reach out beyond the soporific level of sedentary semi-attention. The enthralling story was steadily built up through the initial indiscretion of the Lieutenant, the arriving spies, the moving incident of the blackmailed Dutch refugee girl, to the Commando raids' sad results through the leakage of information.

A first-rate effort. The casting was particularly good (especially Reginald Tate as the Security Major), perhaps because it was much like the casting of the film in films these things are done are-fully. If I may offer skilful producer Cecil McGivern one sugges tion: unless very cleverly done, the constant use of background noises I behind speech becomes bewilder- I B- 1 I found The Next of Kin superb radio entertainment, just as bi Miss Lejeune found it superb film entertainment. But how about its propaganda value, which was recently called into question by Jack Beddington, Head of O.I. Films The implication is that only the silly spy gets caught the parachutist in battle-dress who did not even know elementary facts about the unit he joined.

Wiser TLJt- nm nu loiuc marme as a civilian is still ap- parently with us! The two indis- cretions which led to the disaster were both from officers, which. seems unnecessarilv uncomnli- mentary to officer intelligence A Mass-Observation survey among people coming out from the film showed a majority who considered that the officers behaved badly, a considerable number who felt their confidence in the officer class had been affected. Points to Bedding- i ton here? I Noticeably "The Next of Kin" failed to inform us what i reany iook HKe. or wnat we are not to talk about failings common to nracticallv nil careless talk nrn to praciicauy ail careless lane pro- I paganda. I was also disannointeri that such nn infelltfrpnt trpstmpnt sucn an lr teinge nt treatment used one trick tiringly familiar to i anv reader of sdv novels.

Resident's spies are nearly always connected with the Arts. Here, one kept a bookshop, the other was a singer. My second contact point was the film Charley's American Aunt." with Jack Benny, whose Sunday morning broadcasts are funny. The film was not so funny, often silly. First-class radio comedians like Tommy Handley, Ben Lyon, and Jack Benny often fail to make the grade on the eye.

Before this film there was a trailer with Miss Lillian Duff in a huge, over-tasty studio, some kind of senior official removing her coat before she sat down in a fine chair and blurbed a coming film into a microphone. The scene bore no resemblance to anything in Broadcasting House, but was supposed to represent one of Miss Duff's film reviews, which have been a feature of the inter- at W. (8 of bv 8 I ir tet 8,0. I on bv 50 by 9.0. It is just as well, perhaps, to anticipate criticism.

by admitting that Hollywood's Mr. Miniver' (Empire) has its faults as a study of, English life in war-time. The accents of the young Minivers are not those customarily heard around the Home Counties. No 'gents' outfitters of our acquaintance supplied Mr with his pyjamas. The sirens did found on that first day of the war, but not at the time indicated in the picture.

When these details are recognised, however, the plain fact remains that Mrs. Miniver is the most moving, sensitive, and inspirational film that has come out of the war yet in any country. Doubtless we could have made a better film of England at war here at home, buf doubtless we never did, as Dr. Butler said of God and the strawberry. Mrs.

Miniver presents a family group of English country people, from the days just before the outbreak of war to the nights of the first big air raids, with an insight that is little of magical. Nothing is over-dramatised, every incident has its due proportion. When Mr. Miniver goes off to Dun kirk in his little boat, one amongst the hundreds in the river patrol, he simply steps out into the night, comes back in the night with a five-days' stubble on his chin. Little is said, every moment of that hazy June week is recalled to those who stayed at horde.

The film is full of touches such as this. A shattering night of bombing' in a garden air-raid shelter is followed by a village flower-show. The winning of a rose trophy seems momentarily more important than the winning of a battle. It Is years since 1 remember being so touched by any film. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Dame May Whitty, Teresa Wright (from The Little Foxes and a young actor named Richard Nev.

who looks like following in the foot steps of James tstewart, bring the family group to life with charm and discretion. It would be the grossest ingratitude to do anything but thank our American friends for this gracious and warmhearted picture. It was generously meant, and will be just as generously received. Veterans who have not entered a cinema for years will come out of their retirement to see Chaplin's revised version of The Gold Rush (London Pavilion), along with curious young people who find it hard to believe that anything worth while happened in the movies before, at the earliest, Clark Gable. The Gold Rush appeared as a silent film in 1925.

Chaplin has arranged it now with music and a spoken narrative. After all the Sayings of the Week found on page 8. will be Bridge By OUR CORRESPONDENT The time factor is defined byjul-bertson as the general principle in play that the establishment and- winning of tricks Is subject to a definite time limit This means, in effect: Can I establish my suit or suits before the opponents can establish theirs?" That this principle is either not understood or is ignored by the novice is one of the reasons why so many makable contracts are missed. The following simple illustration comes from Culbertson's ''Contract Bridge Complete (the Gold Book 8, 3 Q. 6, 4 0 2 4 10, 9, 8 4 10, 5,4,2 9, 7, 8 10, 9, 6 0 8, 4, 3 6 8, 3 0 10, 6 74 7, 2 9, 7, a 3, 2 South is playing "Three No Trumps," and West leads the 4 of Spades, which South wins with the King.

South can see eight tricks certain and has to find one more for his contract Clearly he can get it in Clubs in two rounds if he has time to clear that suit before the opponents establish Spades. But the opponents must thereby get in twice, and can remove South's only remaining stop in Spades In one round and use the other to get in to run off their suit. South must therefore look elsewhere, and is forced to play the Indirect finesse in Hearts, He has an even chance of finding the King with (Continued In next column) TORQUEMMU 8 Issued by Charla H. Pugh, sole This or hullabaloo we have had on the screen in intervening years, the film seems almost restful to-day, an occasion for smiles rather than guffaws, a matter of charm rather than uproarious comedy. A quality that was always in-, herent in the Chaplin Alms their pathqs seems now more marked than ever.

Nothing could be more disarming than the way in which Chaplin, "the narrator, refers to Chaplin, the clown, as the little-fellow." It induces just the right mood of pity in the audience, of affectionate amusement not untinged with melancholy Indeed, Chaplin has rarely seemed more the artist than in this arrangement of his classic comedv. It is a two-fold pleasure he gives us here, the spe cial delight or seeing a worK 01 ari through the artist's eye. With a little more plot, Song of the Islands (Odeon) might have been a musical comedy. As it is, it seems just a souvenir of the old Hawaii, where young men strummed on steel guitars and maidens wove flowers into leis on sun-drenched beaches. To this island paradise comes.

Miss Betty Grable, back from college with a pink, lei round her heck and a pigskin pochette over the left shoulder. Bring me," she sings, the fragrance of ginger," and they bring her, these simple, understanding natives, assorted dessert, a' stunning grass skirt, and Victor Mature in a yachting cap and sweater. 8on of Fury (Gaumont) shows that the islands were much the same even in King George days. This time Mss Gene Tierney is the charmer with the grass skirt Tyrone Power the stranger who teaches her the basic English phrase, I love you." Mr. Power, unlike Mr.

Mature, doesn't plan to stay long. A disinherited English lord, he has just popped in to fetch some pearls to buy back this birthright. Once he gets the birthright, though, he doesn't seem to want it, won't touch the nasty thing at any price. He simply tosses his castle to the tenantry and takes the first bpat back to the islands, arriving just as Miss Tierney comes up the beach in a new permanent wave, and the local swing-band break into their party-piece, "Blue Tahitian Moon." IN THE SUBURBS AND PROVINCES Defeat of the Germans Near Moscow. Russia's grim and unsoftened camera-portrait of total war, presented to English audiences with a commentary by Wilfred Pickles.

This Is" a film that will haunt you inescapably, and any recommendation must be considered and individual. Captains of the Clouds. A hokey story about a bunch of 'bush pilots who join the Royal Canadian Air Force, put over by expert treatment, refreshing Technicolor, and James Cagney's acting. Entertainment for almost everybody. The Spoilers.

Marlene Dietrich, as the best-dressed saloon proprietress in the Frozen North, inspires the fourth screen fight between Rex Beach's honeaj miner and the wicked gold comrriisSToner. On your right, Battling John' Wayne, your left, Gentleman Randolph Scott. Don't Get Personal. One simply remains aloof. Chess By BRIAN HARLEY Problem No.

1,345. By H. D'O Bernard mm pp i ri 9 a ma. White plays and mates ir. three moves (Ordinary rules, for either Section.) No 1,244.

By J. Stewart. Two moves. Key B3, 10 marks. Variations: 1.

any. 2. HI 1. KR any. 2.

1. any. 2. Ha; 1. Kts.

2. KRT The interest lies In the numerous tries, by which White either opens a defensne line, for Black, or closes an attacking line. An example the first kind Is Kt4, allowing of the second. P--B3 There are also various tries which allow a Black check. Mr Stewart has made a special study of this ingenious type of problem.

No. 1,843. Some tries and replies: 1. Qa. B3 4 l.

Kt R1, Q4! 1. Q8. B' 1. 3 B7. KtG! and 1.

K6. KB moves! (Continued from preceding column) West, but, if he is right, his ninth trick can be made with the loss of only one entry. So he must lead a small Heart to the Queen. He does not in this case lead the Ace first because it is his only certain Heart stop and he must keep it until he is bound to use it or until it wing a trick to make him his contract. A simple case, but typical of the principle pf the time factor.

CROSSWORD No. 848 PLAIN SOLUTION AND NOTES of Titipu, 9. Aviator (A-via-torl; 10. TuH.f i n.itrp. 11 1 iH r.ri 1H 1 is.

Allow; 20. Garth. -II. Ischiagra. 24.

0 and niche. more speciausea Hints for the Week A good week for plays, including B. Yeats 's spiritualist, The Words upon the Window-pane 30 Dm. Wednesday, Home) one the enterprising Columbia Workshop radio experiments, with Henry Ainley (7.45 p.m Thursday, Home); an intricate play, There are Three Sisters." Australian radio dramatist I Maxwell Dunn CI. 30 p.m., Sunday, In the tenth Black Gallery," Louis MacNeice paints Hitler him- self 6.30 p.m., Thursday.

Forces). The war-time story of the efficient French section of the BB C. on JuU' 14. Fiances ISalional Day 5 Home) Talk Week: Joad on his earlier self (he ip. Smr rales (6 HO p.m., Saturday, Home).

Also Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald in a new series at 6.40 to-day. Home but why only five minutes? Music: A lovelv serenade of Schubert's, sung by the BBC. singers (Tuesdav, 1.30 Home); a programme in honour of Butterworth, who iom- pnsed xhe Shropshire Lad (Tuesdav. 9 40 Home); Mozart: the unearthly AdaRio and Hm wnnni tn.M. mfinnr ak- nis ih.

m-t rr, I (Tuesday, 4 p.m., Home); two' enterprising programmes by the B.B.C. orchestra (Monday. 3.30 and Saturday, 2.30 p.m. both in the Home Service). TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES HOME 1203.5 S91.1 441 1 4rJ4 ml.

7.0, NVJ. 7,15. Light Mll-Slc. Records; S.30. Organ.

9.0. Ntt-s; 9. JO. Sfr.cc 10.15. Music Tmlk.

10.30, Ixaiit orci.cstr.' tfiuVby' Mnn cutler: No. 12.30. Mldlnd Llnht Orch- 12.10. weuvn'i violin sonata in A. in in.

Nm- i n. Conntn Hm'' YouT 0mi. 3-30. B.B O. Scottish Orchestra, j.3, There Are tht sisters Maxwell Dudhi: a.is.

b.b.c Miittjirv Band. 4 45. Talk by Rev. Our R. Leve.slev.

Wrllh Ntws 5 a0 children, a.o. News a. so. People in the New: .40. Theatre Orchestra: 7.30.

Norwegian News 7.45. This Week at tile a 0. Server 8.40, Good Oause, B.4B. Balule lo ir People of Prance, 9.0. News and Poster, Dt B.JO, The Devil In Ihe Oathedral V.

A. Pearn: 10.15. Russian Bones yey-f iwseraiq: o.t. a c- 10.30. Epilogue: 10.55.

English siring Music 11.10, Organ; 11 25. 12.0. News. FORCES 1296.1 542 1 48. B6 1.

6.30. Records: 7.0, News, 7 75. Records. I 8.0. Light Music: 8.30, Irish Haf-Hour.

I News, 9.30, ScotUsh Variety 1 10.0, Black Dyke Mills Band; 10.15. For) Indian Forces: 11.0. Service, 11.15. Records, 11 30. Workers' 17.0, Scottish studentr Sons: 13.20.

Orean. 12.35, Jack Besmy Programme, 1.0 News 1.15. Old Motner RUey. 1 0. W.taR lor 2.15: Ma-pLe Leaf Matinee.

2.50. Talk bv Rev. A Neville Davidson: 3.0, Lltrhc Msislc. 3.30, Records. 4.0, Irish Rhyihms; 4 30, Records.

S.15. Dance Music: 6.0. News: 8.30 JoUvollday 7.10. News-Letter; 7.20. The Week's Films 7.30.

Sundav HaltHour, B.o, A-ward for lndustj-y, a.i5, SonRs for Ee.vbodv. 8.43. Kay on the Keys 0.0, News. 9.30. Dance Mukc, 10.0, Epilogue: 10-B.

"Secrets of a Hundred Shuws 10.40 Orchestre Ravmonde Mr. fi-or Broicrt will resume the Play" in a fortnight. At A I I mi I i Si iviacoetn came to me Piccadilly Theatre on Wednesday, where the welcome matched the occasion. Let me therefore insinuate, rather than assert, my own reservations towards this carefully-planned and devotedly executed production, which carries the honours of a long and arduous provincial campaign. The devising and direction of such a production, and the playing, night after night for weeks on end, of its exacting hero might well temper the fire and tax the resilience of the lustiest tragedian, let alone those of our leading Shakespearean actor, in whom sensitiveness and subtlety predominate over brute force.

Hence, no doubt, the occasional check and sense of strain that seemed to hamper Mr. Gielgud's performance. In verbal modulation, in splendour of declamation, his Macbeth is incomparable. The surge end tumult of its storms have less than shatter ing force, and its impulse seemed to be trammelled. While no multi-murderer can have had less joy his crimes than this desperate king, one felt that, in addition to the part's legitimate burden.

Mr. Gielgud was feeling the rigours of campaigning as well as a not unnatural first-night tension. That he soliloquised like a master, apostrophised superbly, and lighted the way to dusty death with the percipience of a poet go without saying. And it is probable that to these he will presently add mastery o( the tougher terrors of Macbeth. Miss Ffrangcon-Davies's Lady Macbeth is a mellifluous miniature entirely this clever actress's own.

To suggest that its compass is. say. Tennysonian rather than Shakespearean would be, not to fault the actress but to admit the intrusion of wanton thoughts of Mrs. Siddons into one's appreciation. For Mr.

Leon Quarter-maine's fine performance as Banquo one's admiration has no reserves: and. in his leadership of the Weird Sisters, Mr. Ernest Thesiger has surely essayed nothing more difficult, or succeeded more completely. He established the principle that the Witches should never cackle, and that they should always be played bv men. The production as a whole strikes less with the blinding force of this superb tragedy than with a tempered strength as of good illustrations.

Some of the pictures are excellent: notably the cauldron and banquet scenes, the latter haunted by the most effective Ghost of Banquo that can ever have curdled Macbethan blood. To these Mr. Michael Ayrton's admirable decor and costumes strongly contribute. The knocking at the gate, which catches the murderers with the blood still gleaming on their hands, sets our own hearts thumping. And the slaughter of Lady Macduff and her gallant chick never fails to move.

Several minor performances by the good company merit praise. In short, the wonder is less that, in wartime conditions, such a pro duction should have shortcomings than that its Eeneral achievement should be so high. H. H. When July comes into its stride we should be able to tell the date by the sounds that we hear and cease to hear, or indeed by the scents: there it an almanac not directly devised by astronomy.

In place of the brightness of birds' song we are given- the hum of insects; and of the few surviving songs a good proportion carry an almost mechanical suggestion, as if they were made after the fashion used by crickets or grass hoppers or the rapid wing beats of fly or bee. This last week the whir, or churr. or whatever onomatopoeic word is preferred, of the turtle doves has been con tinuous, hour after hour, from the neighbourhood of the nest. The number of these charming doves is perhaps ten times as nreat as it was a generation ago or such is my impression. Has anyone any explanation of this? They are among the last migrants to arrive in the spring and they remain late in the autumn, maintaining their summer habits beyond the date of most other birds.

The one class that in several regards has contemporary habits is the bunting. The yellow-hammer, the cirl bunting and the corn-bunting all continue to sing into autumn; but their songs have a drier, dustier intonation than any of the spring songs, though they are not quite so dry as the husky wheeze of the green linnet. We all know the little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese lament of the yellow-hammer; but it is gay and buovant beside the rough, though happy, grunt of the stout, clumsy, corn-bunting, which has a eurious preference for a telegraph wire. The merriest bird of the season i is perhaps the sedge warbler. His dwelling by the water makes him oblivious of the dryness of the rest of the world, and his song main-i tains the babble of spring.

The stream renects every vibration of light that the hour allows, and he therefore disregards the coming of night, as of autumn: and sings more continuously in the night hours than any nightingale. It is I RalPh i nuuftv.i, mc ucM. ui an our1 1 poetical observers of birds. I describes it as consisting of shrill! Thick chattered cheeps that seemed not to belong Uf right to the frail elfin throat mat threw Them on the stream. their miker.

I Yet it is peculiarly pleasant lo the senses. Stand among the sedge. the loose-strife and the water-dHn willow herb and the odorous mint and listen while this song half imi- lates. nair drowns me bubble of Ihe stream below the willow listen as Iho light sinks and the water refiVrl: the afterglow, and the nolcs will prove as f.lid to "beget the golden time again as any song by any bird at anv hour of the vcar. B.

T. i i a I 1 i 1 opurrier, nenneu, Musseil Flint, Vanessa Bell, Margaret Fisher-Prout, A. K. Lawrence, and otner leaders of their respective schools (some of whom have eiven three or even four picked exam- pies or tneir talent), is bound to be an event in contemporary painting. What could not have been anti cipated was that the other five Hundred or so artists (who complete the tableau of everyday art in Britain now) should have been so good.

Here, perhaps, I should be more explicit. To expect an exhibition containine more than nine hundred works to be composed only of masterpieces would be to do it injustice. Some datum line of an averaee excellence should be stipulated. From that the level of the exhibition must be found unexpectedly high. Dis counting the admitted leaders the quality of the rank and file, despite the war, has I believe never been so vigorous, intelligent and aware of its opportunities as now.

Very promising, too, is the number of the comparatively young, some hitherto unknown, painters, here who are, one might say, only offer ing us their promissory notes on the future. The growing school of what might be called profitable British technique is certainly not that of Cezanne, nor is it that of Picasso. Both of those masters were in their own ways realists, and true real- sm makes us British a little un comfortable. We are trying to escape by a blend of description, poetry, and expressionism and the mixture seems well adapted to stimulate our imaginations and to give sufficient reins to our natural zest. The evidence of an acceptance these limitations, and the results, gives the Artists Aid Russia Exhibition some of its special interest.

MATTHEW SMITH In spite of the fact that it is not very prominently hung, Matthew amun Young Model is one of the outstanding works at Hertford House. The shock that Matthew Smith once gave to London art is by now forgotten. But at the time when he held his first exhibition the New English, with their muted harmonies. Steer, Nicholson, and Pryde ruled the roost. John hadj nung aown, say, nail a gauntlet, but Matthew Smith flung down a whole one.

painted orange on one side and blue on the other. The artist," he implied, is first of all a man with a paint-box." During his brilliant career, well illustrated by his present exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery, he has continued to prove it. Many artists have used colour, but 'how few give the impression that they have brooded over their pigments until by such means they release a voice different in kind from what has been heard before. The significant message of his intensive colour is only matched by the vitality of his brush. As it is thrust across Uie canvas the pigment perpetuates the painters power in that magic1 life which philosophers admit but cannot explain.

Moreover, one is only too conscious that almost every one of nis pictures nas lived dangerously. In almost every one of his paint- I ings raaunew Smith has solved some problem, whether in colour relationships, spacing, compositional balance, or emotional impact, that at the outset of the painting would have appeared impossible to a lesser genius. Follow his development through the Matisse influenced Dulcie of 1916, Cornish Landscape (1922), "The Red Ear-ring" (1928), Nude (1932), to the almost pure colour transcription of "Lady Elisabeth White" of last year, these are all daring adventures of a kind never attempted by any other British artist (except perhaps Turner in his own manner), and those of the public who are able to go all the way with the adventurer will reap the delight. ACROSS 1 Duse and Bernhardt find a curl and leave it In sad case 1310 "'Have vou the faintest recollection of (11 121 1 dn? CM 14 Hood took to It and set It on fire 15 Each of mv members used to be 4 three times 16 Avoid beginning 2 Sound' of and auction the neck 3 Characteristic Judas 4 Turn avoid part 5 See 15 6 Ancient in a 7 Fatk up troubles cold, cold 8 Mitchell this Other ship-savere are home-grown oatmeal. Give your family cheese or preserve home-grown fruit and of food.

Pin this tip on the larder door and let it remind you that thoughtful shopping saves shipping. Tor- day's Scraps 's Savaurtes You must make the best use of every ounce of food you have. Even odds and ends left over from your meals mustn't be thrown away. Here are some suggestions for using-up 1 Chop up odd scraps of cold meat and bake in a batter. 2 Left-over beans make splendid fillings for pastry turnovers.

3 iJse up cooked fish in a salad or as a sandwich filling. I "MAGNIFICENT 1 ln is the only word I can think or that adequately fb ray describes this film." Harris Dtans, Sunday Dispatch rEj i 950 i fOP Entertainment you will long remember." 3 ta Daily Express I ROBERT 1 I DONAT I makers of the ATCO MOTOR MOWER Ships and 'Qiore ships are wanted for war materials. Ctss cargo space can be spared for food. That's why we i must all think of food in terms of Dried eggs and cheese are splendid ship-savers. They take up far less room than shell eggs meat, and they are first-class food.

foods such as vegetables and often for their main meal. Bottle) vegetables. Don't waste a scrap 'MoJit it on Saturday, ttrve an ounaqy.J SUMMER PUDDING Ingredima: 8 oz. bread, I lb. rhubarb, 2 ox.

prunes (soaked overnight), 2 oz. sugar, I pint water. Quantity: 4- helpings. Method: Stew rhubarb and prunes in the i pint of water in which the prunes soaked. Grease a cake tin or pudding basin and line the bottom and sides with fingers of bread, keep odd pieces for putting en top.

Strain the juice from the fruit pulp. Soak the bread in the basin thoroughly with the juice. Fill the basin with alternate layers of fruit, sugar, and the scraps of bread, packing it very tightly and finishing with a layer of bread. Pom-aver an; ternahv-ing juice. Place a saucer and weight on top and leave overnight.

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