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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1942 PROFILE Monty" PALLADIUM REVUE "Best Bib and Tucker There is nothing solemn about London's customary-suits of Black. When Trinder's the name (and the Palladium the address) one looks, as yesterday's audiences did, for a' loud and cheerful pattern. Certainly, the cut of "Best Bib and Tucker is not conspicuously austere. No revue could flag altogether with Mr. Tommy Trinder to guide, and occasionally to bully, it in his own impudent, likeable fashion.

At a time when mobility is an asset, he is the most mobile of comedians. His material may be thin in places, but thanks to him and largely also to Mr. Robert Nesbitt's rapid and resplendent production -Mr. Black is not likely to need a change for months ahead. A tribute to American music is in the Palladium's own fervent manner, and between a group of jugglers (Mr.

Trinder intervening) and a pair of musical clowns Mr. Nesbitt has inserted a rich medieval panel ojt The Jackdaw of Rheims," with Mr. Joseph Far-rington as singing Cardinal and Miss Margaret Roseby as dancing Jackdaw. For the rest, Caribbean Rhapsody describes itself, and the knockabout, both musical and physical, is athletic and gusty. THE PERFECT LOAF Blaming the Bin By OUH WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE Housewives will be disappointed to learn that the judges for the national 'oaf competition, taking place at the Caxton Hall on November 16, will not actually taste the bread.

They will squeeze each loaf to let the gases escape, and by that can form 50 per cent, of their judgment. They will, cut it in half and smell it, examine it eye. As well over seven thousand entries were received for the preliminary regional competitions, it is probable that something not far short of this number will be sent in to the final national judging, and no judges could be expected to re-tain-a perfect sense of taste if they had to eat a piece of each. CRUST AND CRUMB While the baker is encouraged to use a hotter oveh for the national flour than he used or wnite, to use less water, and bake for approximately ten minutes longer to get the perfect crust and perfect crumb," the National Association of Master Bakers expect housewives to play their part. Our loaves are sent through the post paper-wrapped, and in the Ministry of Food test were as much as a -week old, yet not one moulded.

Complaints of mould are due, as a rule, to faulty keeping. Do not put a loaf away until quite cold. iDo not put it in an airtight tin or tightly wrapped cloth. Loaves must breathe. They must not be kept in dark corners: mould grows in the dark.

Bins are breeders of mould unless cleaned out free of every crumb and of all damp each day. Old crusts must not be kept with fresh loaves. Imperfectly cleaned and dried bins are the of the. good loaf." says the Association. The judges will look for perfect fermentation, even texture, and a total absence of streaks.

Streaking is usually due to baking in too small a-tin. pher's atone' has been conjured into being by the fusion of a liquid and gas. Chemists call it synthetic resin and it is the basis of that range materials known as Bakelite Plastics. You will find them in every modern home and factory silent gears and pinions, electrical radio parts, light switches, bottle caps, telephones, wireless cabinets and stainless table tops And the list grows steadily. twice.

In manoeuvres he would be followed by two of his staff officers on cycles, whom he would order to take down the name of an officer who had distinguished himself either by success or failure. He struck the fear of God into many. He was often brusque and rude, but never sarcastic. good, Mr. So-and-so, but you're not good enough," he would say to an officer he was going to sack.

On entering his H.Q. one would be confronted- with a notice: Three Questions of the Day. 1 Are you 100 per cent, fit? (2) Are you 100 per cent, up to your job? (3). -Are you 100 per cent, full of Binge? Binge was the name of several i 51.3 exercises and was a pet word of his. No one knows why, for the nearest Monty has ever got to what others call a Binge is to go to the piano and sing "Little Brown Jug, polishing off the performance with a glass of water.

Actually he seems to use the word Binge iri its more Edwardian sense of punch zip. or jgst "guts." He gave a rude jolt to officers and men who were comfortably combining a domestic ease with their military duties by ordering all wives out of areas under his command Coming on top of the six-mile a week run for all ranks under forty this was too much of a good thing for some. Like Joffre, Montgomery retires to bed by ten and rises at five. But there the resemblance ends. He Is a hard thinker and a quick thinker.

He can retain enormously intricate staff problems in his head. In fact, he boasted that in France in 1940 he never had to write an order. He believes in making himself absolutely clear to his officers. It is said that immediately on arrival in the desert he addressed all his officers, ignoring protests that some must not be taken from the front line in order to attend. N.C.O.'s should be perfectly competent to take over, after two years in the field," he is reported to have replied.

Monty is a 100 per cent, professional soldier. His only ambition is to do the job as well as possible. To him this just means hard work. As well as stupendous mental alertness he has that infinite capacity for taking pains in all matters, big or small: He has, too, the great quality essential in a good.general, of robustness of temperament. Because of his hard thinking, he is not easily surprised, and his serenity in the dangerous moment when his preparations for the offensive were interrupted by Rommel's attack seemed to eradicate the word flap from the desert vocabulary.

But. above all, he believes in that maxim of Ardant du Picq that the Man is the first weapon of battle." Every man, whatever his trade or speciality (cook, clerk, driver or signaller), is a soldier first. Every man knows his job in the team. He is the first British general who can say The Army and the Air Arm are operationally one." His faith in the British soldier has been rewarded with a famous victory for British arms. To Monty and his Army has fallen the honour ot destroying for ever the legend of German invincibility A.

F. tN olden times much midnight oil was burnt in attempts to produce the Philosopher'! Stone the substance which was to turn base metals into gold. To-day we have more practical problems in hand. We do not seek to transmute metals but to create new materials materials in many cases are tougher, lighter and belter suited to certain modern needs. In the Bakelite Laboratories a philoso BAKELITE VECD, TRADE MARCS a of and The War factories need GAS save it Out of buried forests of the past comes the wealth of British coal; and like a giant tree, from this coal the British Gas Industry has grown up.

The making of gas enriches the nation not only with gas, but with coke and with a wealth of byproducts of inestimable service. In addition to benzole, no less than half a ton of coke is made from every ton of coal used in the gas-works. From the tar produced, more than 2,000 substances are obtained explosives, motor spirit, drugs, dyes, disinfectants and plastics, to mention only a few. Ammonia is another by-product of gas, and provides fertilisers, explosives, and cleaning preparations; sulphuric acid comes from the sulphur extracted in gas-making. The gas economies you make at home will release more gas for the war factories.

Remember that gas, as well as its by-products, is vital in the Battle for Fuel so play your part and SAVE GAS. Pioneers in the Plastics World Gs BAKELITE LIMITED, l8 GROSVENOR GARDENS, LONDON. S.W.I NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS Independent M.P.'s Hints A change in political leadership was envisaged by Mr. Edgar Granville, M.P. speaking at Linstead, Suffolk, yesterday.

He said that three years of war had seen the transfer of military command in the field to a completely new generation of generals. We should now do the same with our political commanders. In our admiration for the single leadership of Mr. Churchill we must not write off a whole generation of younger men' as alternatives to his present colleagues. If the appointment of the new Viceroy creates a vacancy in the War Cabinet, we may see Herbert Morrison, the first Cockney in the War Cabinet.

Attlee and Cripps, who are considered to be looking at Delhi, must watch Morrison if they have an eye on the leadership of the Labour Party. Many Conservatives believe that Churchill has chosen his ultimate successor, and that Anthony Eden is the heir. There may be surprises if Beaverbrook and Randolph Churchill are out to form a new Centre Party. Labour imperils its position in the party truce by nominating veteran trade unionists to Parliament. If Labour wants more youth, Transport House must open its closed doors to those under sixty." 10,000,000 SAVED Last week a total of 10,004.848 was raised in the War Savings campaign, of which 4,238.518 was from the sale of Savings Certificates, MONEY AND MEN ASSOCIATION.

LONDON. S.W.1 (r) GARDENING No. 17 BRITISH COMMERCIAL GAS WARTIME don't Little It is thirty-four years since Bernard Law Montgomery, who is little Monty to his friends, left Sandhurst to join as a subaltern the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, of which, from 1931 to 1934, he was to command a battalion Ten years of his youth had been spent in Tasmania, where his father was Bishop. He says that the strictness of his reti-gious upbringing left him ted up with too much of that sort of thing and the rigid personal asceticism which is such a feature of his character to-day does not arise from purely spiritual causes. His keenness for athletics is of long standing; he played "Rugger for Sandhurst and hockey for the Army.

He is remembered as an exceedingly hard-worKing young othcer, not much interested in the more social activities of the mess. A friend tried to persuade him to take a girl to a dance and chose, fittingly as he thought, the vicar's daughter, whom he invited to tea and seated next to Monty. But, alas, she was discovered both to smoke and drink. Monty pronounced her not maidenly and stayed away from the dance. When later in life, rather to everyone's surprise, he got married, he ruled his household with the authority of a medieval knight.

The joyous arrival of a son he treated as a staff problem, and orders for his upbringing and welfare were issued dally. So that when someone asked him if he did not hope for more children, he replied, Certainly not. Far too' much staff work." Montgomery had more than three years on the Western Front during the last war, being mentioned six times in despatches and winning the D.S.O. and the French Military Cross. Some say that he was one of those men who had to see too much of warfare, and that it was from his experiences during that time that his eyes got that curious, misty-grey, tired look which so often deceives people into thinking him older than this fifty-four years.

Certainly his eyes have seen much. When he lay wounded in No Man's Land another man went out to bring him in. He was hit and fell dead over Montgomery's body. For seven hours the Germans pumped lead into both of them, most of the bullets striking the corpse. As a result, Montgomery lost one lung and owes his life only to the presence of a famous surgeon, who ordered that he should not be touched at the dressing station, but should be sent back to England for special treatment.

His physical fitness since is all the more extraordinary. It was during the years between the wars, at the Staff Colleges at Quetta and Camberley, that Montgomery started working out the system of command which he has retained and improved upon ever since. At that time he called it the fixed battle scheme. In essence it was to ensure that a commander should have the fullest knowledge of what was going on all along the line, and to reduce to a minimum what Clausewitz called the friction of war." Montgomery's system enables him to impose his own battle plan on the enemy. This he has done in both his recent encounters with Rommel.

While recently in command of a corps and later an army, Montgomery, by constant training and manoeuvres gathered the lessons which have made him the equal of Rommel in experience. Mistakes were often made, but he never allowed them to be made panies is unchanged, owing to thp ban on new issues, this increased turnover should permit an increase in dividends. Hence there is no reason to suppose that the rise in Ordinary shares has yet gone too far. Consider the movement in yields, as shown in the following table: Actuahies' Investment Index. Consols Debs.

Pref. Ordinarv Yields-Average 1938 Oct 1941 Oct 1942 4 10 4 57 5 76 4 19 4 75 22 4.01 4 46 4.61 3A2 S.05 3.05 Over the past year, it will be seen, the spread between gilt-edged and equity yields has narrowed from well over 2 per cent, to a little over li per cent. This is slightly below the average for the pre-war decade; but throughout 1933, for example, the margin was less than per cent. On this basis, share prices could rise another 30 per cent. In the meantime, however, looks as though more attention should be paid to the possibilities of good Debentures and Preference shares, which have lagged behind both gilt-edged and Ordinaries.

SPECULATION AND GILT-EDGED For a year past gilt-edged have shown no improvement on balance, and the recent spurt of speculative activity has been associated with a fractional decline in some of the long-term Government issues. Any such reaction could be no more than temporary. Suppose that for a time a fall in market prices were to make the tap issues unattractive. The only result would be that current savings would pile up uninvested, until the public was so glutted with funds that gilt-edged prices recovered again For activity in industrial shares does not drain savings away from the market. One man's purchase is another man's sale.

The seller always has to solve the problem or reinvesting the proceeds, and sooner or later these must find their way into the new Government issues One gathers that the authorities are rather concerned, all the same, about the increase in speculation. It would certainly be regrettable if the public got the impression that fortunes were heing made on the Stock Exrhange Apart from this, the rise tn prices is a harmless and inevitable corollary of the war-time financial set-uo: a cheap monev poltcv which brings down interest rates: rationing, which leaves people with plenty of monev to invest: snri heavv taxation which for the man paving firl in the makes si xpennvworth of capital appreciation literally worth one pound of income. THEATRES, OPERA BALLET, Etc. breed pests CLEAR GARDEN RURBMSH NOW ENTER THE SPECULATOR By OVR FINANCIAL EDITOR PLASTICS WARM COSY WIGMORE W.t MNghm 4444. (OebenAam't ltd njd been discontinued and the rebate on flour used in bread making considerably modified, there had been an increase of 5i per sack in the price ot Hour used for bicmts, cake, and con-lectionery, and because of these factors it was estimated that their gross eam- mmkft -Biaw is -r 1 Good gardeners are tidy gardeners.

Don't leave dead plants and other rubbish lying about. A rubbish dump is a hiding place for pests and a breeding ground for disease. Clear runner beans, old marrow plants and other waste. Clean pea and bean sticks; tie in bundles and put under cover for next year. Look out for slug damage to winter crops.

If slugs appearj trap them with bait made by mixing metal-dehyde with bran or tea leaves. Look for the slug's slimy trails; they usually lead from your plants to a grass bank or some other cover. Put little heaps of bait between plants and the slug's hiding places. Write for Dig To Ministry of Agriculture, Hotel on-Sea, Lanes. Please send Dis No.

7 and 16. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY FRENCH ANXIETY FOR DAKAR Governor Won't Let it be Taken" M. Boisson, Governor-General of French West Africa, who has just arrived in Vichy from Dakar, stated yesterday, according to Vichy radio Dakar and West Africa certainly are cards in the British game, the value of which can escape no one, but I have no intention, and I wish particularly to emphasise this, of allowing them to be taken away from us." M. Boisson's arrival in Vichy followed unconfirmed Axis reports that a large number of Allied warships and merchantmen had assembled at Gibraltar, and that on Friday a large convoy left there for the Mediterranean. It consisted, according to these reports, of the British battleship Rodney (35,000 tons), other warships, and twenty-four British and American steamers.

including tankers and transports. VAUDEVILLE ITem. 4871. 6 p.m Sat. 2.30.

JOHN MILLS in MEN IN. SHADOW. Packed wit 1 laughter and thrills ay Mary Hayley Bell. Ralph Michael, Paul uonuas Robert wuton. fctupert uregg.

Ibert Wilton. Hubert Grecfi mrcoteo. ny mrnarq Miles ana jonn Mills VICTORIA PALACE. I Vic. 1317 1 Evgs.

(ex. 5.3U. 2.3a. LUP1NO LANE in TWENTY TO ONE. A Year's augh In a night." to 10J6 WIMBLEDON.

To-day, 3.0. CARL CONCERT. Evgs 7 O. Thur. 2.3tl CARL ROSA OPERA.

JOAN HAMMOND in LA BO HEME. WINDMILL, 11th Yr. Plcc. Clr REVTOEVILLE. ISRtri Edition 1 4th week 1 Cont 12.15-10 p.m.

Last perl. 8.15 VIVIAN VAN DAMM PRODUCTION ITem J028.I Dal.y lex Mon. 1. at 2. Sat.

6 P-ui QUIET WEEK END (2nd Yean. Bv Esther Mccracken. (The sequel to Quiet Wedding." I Directed by Red Bird Frank Cellier-- Marlone F.e.dlng. George Thorpe Glynls Johns Jeanne Stuart Geoffrey Edwards. PICTURE THEATRES EMPIRE.

(Ger 1234. To-dJy 3.30 to 9.0 lu.O to 1Q.0. THE WAR AGAINST MRS HAD LEY tU.l EDWARD ARNOLD FAY BAINTER AUMONT, Haymarket Con 3 30 to a.4u VT Noel Coward's WHICH WE SERVE lUl News. etc. Progs com 3.30 4: 6.25 EICESTER SQ TH Whitehall 5252 1 4 IJ ABBOTT COSTELLO in WHO OONh IT? 1U1.

To-day 3.30 6 10 Wkdyj. tr. 12.0. OH DON PAVILION To-day. trom 3.0.

WENT THE DAY WELL? with LESLIE BANKS A). Produced bv Uichatl Balcon. Directed bi' Cavalcantl VTARBLE ARCH PAV Con 3 to S.Jll J-T-i- Noel Ooward-s IN WHICH WE SERVE News to Prnffs aim 5.4 EW GALLERY Resent -SL. 3. KJB.3ri Wall Disnev'K BAMH fcol.l D1 Alsn rina.

nx strike lui. frogs S4 oe ej.a ODEON. Leic -sq (Whl 6111 1 To-day perls, at 3.30 6.15 D.m. Wkdvs 10-1O Don Ameche. Fonda.

E. Horuin In THE MAGNIFICENT DOPE cDl. PLAZA. Tech The Forcsl Rangers" lai. MacMurrav 1 Leningrad Fights lul Open p.m 3 30 6.S.

REGAL. Marble Arch Pan. BOH. Humphrey Bqsart Mary AstOT ACROSS THE PACIFIC (Ul. 4.35.

6.40. RITZ. Lelcester-sq, (next to the Empire! GONE WITH THE WIND I A. To-day starts at 3.30, finishes at 7 15 Wkdavs (rom 10.15. "O.W.TW" 11.15 Si S.15.

STUDIO ONE. 2 30 WALT DISNEY'S FANTASIA IV). Louis Jouvet Entree des Artistes iai (French I. etc WARNER. Lelc.

Oer 3423. James Oagney In Yankee Doodls Dandy (Oi. alth Joan Leslie. 3.50 A 6. CONCERTS ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY' 131st season.

1942-43. ROYAL ALBERT HALL, SATURDAY NEXT at 2.30. LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. Handel, DeiLlus Bartok Brahms. LOUIS KENTNER.

ILONA KABOS. SIR ADRIAN BOULT. 10V-. 76, 61-, 4-. 3-, 2-.

trom Royal Albert Hall and Chapueli's. 50 New 1. (May. 7600.) HAROLD HOLT SUNDAY CONGESTS. TO-DAY at 2.30.

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. oreiiioven rrogramme. SIR HENRY J. WOOD. JOAN HAMMOND.

MOISEIWITSCH. Popular Prices: 76. 6-. 5'- 3-, 2- PHOEN1X THEATRE. W.C 2 Suns at 2.JO nnnuw present NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

TO-DAY at 2.30 Kaydn. Qluck, Cesar Franck. Wagner. Mendelssohn. SIDNEY BEER EILEEN JOYCE.

Popular Prices 36 66, 5-. 36. 2-6 CAMBRIDGE THEATRE OUNLIAT LUHOERT8. TO-DAY (SUNDAY! B.t 2.50. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

MYRA HESS ANATOLE FISTOULARI. Variations on tneme of Brahma Piano Concerto A mln Schumann lFmnhnni Nn ilTnnni.kuti Fantasy O. "Romeo AJullet'' Tchaikovsky oui.iyni null at AL CHOPIN RECITAL IRENE SCHARRER Sonata tl flel ti (Funeral Marcni. 12 Etudes Nocturne flat Impromptus Ballade, e. c.

Tickets. 8 6. 6 6. 5f- 36 ilti Usual Agents, at Theatre ITem 2527 1 IBBS Sl TILLET. 124.

1 ORPHFUM. OOLDERS GREEN TO-NIGHT "Sundayi, at 7 Oustav Mahler's THE SONG OF THE EARTH, also Mosan: Figaro Ov-rture Beethoven Symphony No in mslor Culture Limited present A BOOSEY ti KAWKES CONCERT LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conductor SIR ADRIAN BOULT 80loisls Astra DESMOND. Peter PEARS All seats bookable. 6- to 21- Spe 9741 ART EXHIBITION HOVSL CALFMY BURLING I ON HOUSE EXHIBITION OF GREEK ART 50UC BL tn A I iMH Open daily 10-5. Sundays 2-5.

AaoiissiLn la torces od All-wool Jersey Dresses for Victory Leaflet No. 16 for further details and remember that tnetaldehyde is poisonous to human beings and animals. Don't miss any chance of making compost. Try to start a new heap now. You must keep your soil fertile.

If you can't get dung, make compost it's quite easy. Leaflet No. 7 tells you how. If you want a catalogue from your seedsman, write for one now he is not allowed co send you one unless you ask for it, START DIGGING EARLY. DIG ALL YOU CAN BEFORE THE FROSTS COME.

EARLY DIGGING MEANS BETTER CROPS. Lindum, St. AnneV for Victory Leaflets 113 OarYiea fCaneraJ Rtftfatfoni. 1939, Not. S3 and SS.

Centre of RuUxr Trru (No. 4) Ordtr, 1942 a A DELPHI. (Tern. 7611.1 Evgs. lex.

Mon I 6.15. IVOR NOVELLO in THE OANCINO YEARS. Tues fcnd at 2 sharp ALDWVCH. Tern. 64U4 6.0.

2.30. Wynyard. Anton Walbrook. Athene Seyler Valerie Taylor. HUTCH UN THE HHNE ITem.

1171.1 6.0 m. and i 30 MURDER FROM MEMORY. ERNEST MILTON SOPHIE cTEWART. APOLLO. Qer.

U6o3 at Mats rues 2.30 By Terence Rauluan ARTS. (Tern. 7541.1 T-. 7.S0; Th. 6.30: S.

ll 2.30 6.30 Last week. HOUSE OP REGRETS." iMems. onflyi Mnhip. 5-. CAMBRIDGE.

Tern 6056. 2.15. Evgs 5.30 i ex. Mon. i.

JACK BUCHANAN presents WALTZ WITHOUT END. A New Musical Play by ERIC MABOHWTTZ COLISEUM CharlnK Cross. Tom. 3161-Matlnees. Daily 2.30.

EvenlnRS. Weda and 6.15 EVELYN LA YE in Emlle Llttler's THE BELLE PF NEW YORK. C10MEDY. (Whl 2578 I 2.45 RAYMOND LOVELL in MURDER WITHOUT CRIME. Peter OroR Directed by Henry Oasa.

SUBTLY EXOlTmo." Dally Mall." As 2 P-m uonaon ijonsesi nun. BLITHE SPIRIT, By NOEL COWARD. GARR10K. Wed. next, at 5.45 Subs.

5.45 Wed at 2 ROBERTSON HARE. ALFRED DRAYTON In AREN'T MEN BEA8TS. ay vernon onvaine. LOBE. per.

1592 at 6 p.m VX Mats. at z. 1 EMLYN WO.LIAMS In his own Play. LI HE WOBHIHC STAR. HAYMARKET.

6 pm. IE. Mons.i Thura 2.15 VIVIEN LEIGH In Bernard Shaw's 11 THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA." 15 oADL.cn a C.LLB BALLET. Marcot PONTEYN Robert HELPMAKN Orchestra direction. Constant LAMBERT Rendezvous: Comus: Dante sonata.

Tues. SleeplnR Princess Wed lMat.1. Syl- pnioes: mite a progress, tjaase woisette. PALACE. lOer, 6B34.I NlEhtly.

at 6.30 Matinees. Wen and at 2.15. Tom ARNOLD and Lee EPHRATM nrespn JACK HULBERT; CICELY OOBRTNEIDCJE in niu. aw PHOENIX 6.30 Weds. SaU 2 30 John Edith Cyril OIELQ0D EVANS.

RITCHARD Jean CAD ELL. ROBERTS Owen PeRRV FFRANGCON-DAVIES. ASHCKOFT THE IMPORTANCE OP BEING EARNEST. PICCADILLY ler 4506. 5.45 Mals Weds, at 2-15.

FAY COMPTON in Lillian Hellman-a int iile Fuxtta." PLAYHOUSE. iReopentag.l IWhi. 7774.1 Thurs. next at 6 Wed ffi 2 30. RONALD ISABEL BARRY SQUIRE JEANS JONES HOME A BEAUTV by.

W. Somerset Maugham T3R1NCEB. iTem. 6596.1 Evgs. lex Frl 5 4a- Mats Sat 2 0.

FIRTH SHEPHARD presents WILD ROSE." "London's Blgvest Beit Musical Comrdy JESSIE MATTHEWS RICHARD EARNS Frank Lelghton Andre Randall ST. JAMES', whl 3ynj Eiits 6 om Wed. Thur Sat 'i 15 LESLIE BANKS. MICHAEL REDGRAVE THE DUKE IN DARKNESS bv Patrick Hamilton WALTER FITZGERALD HUGH BORDEN Thrilling, moving and enthralling. ST.

MARTIN'S. ITem 1443' Evgs 6 0 Mats. Wed Sat. 2.15 Lee Ephraim Emilf Littler present CLAUDIA." A New Play bv Rose Franken PAMELA BROWN HUGH SINCLAIR MARY H1NTJN LEA S1EDL. SAVILLE.

iTem. 4011.1 5.30. Mats. Wed. Sat HO FIRTH BHEPHARD oresenls PINE AND DANDY.

LESLIE HEN SON DOROTHY DICKSON STANLEY HOLLOW AY DODOLAS BYNO SAVOY. (Tern. 8888 I Evgs les Mon I 5 45, Mats Thurs, St. 2 1 5 FfRTH flHEPHARD presents THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER ROBERT MORLEY CORAL BROWNE HuRh McDertnoU Mary A Collins Jerry Verno Edward Cooper STOLL. Klngswiv Hoi.

3703 Dlv 2.30 Eves. Weds Thurs Sats. 6 n- Schubert's LI LAO TIME. OEOROE ORAVES. DEREK OLDHAM FRANK TCTTERTON IRENE EISINOER STRAND ITem 2660.1 Events 5 45 Mats.

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The news from the Middle East has stirred up the Stock Exchange into a passable imitation of a peacetime boom, with a marked increase in the number of bargains and share prices generally establishing, new high records for the war period. Much of this activity is no more than the normal response to news of 'an important military success. In some cases, however, speculators seem to be rushing into the market with an intrepid courage and disregard for risk that might find a more useful outlet elsewhere. Rubber shares, for example, have been among those in demand. If previous prices were admittedly, anything that brings victory nearer would justify an improvement.

But is it really possible to place a rational valuation on, say, Malayan rubber shares to-day? Consider the number of important things we do not know about the prospects for such companies. We do not know when the estates will be recovered, nor what condition they will be in. nor what arrangements will eventually be made for war damage compensation. We do not know whether the synthetic product can be produced at prices to compete with the natural product, or, if so, whether the development of new countries such as China will open up a sufficient market to absorb both. To bid up for shares in face of all these uncertainties suggests a touch of the Mediterranean sun.

And this applies to some of the other outright gambles which are so popular, such as the bonds of occupied and even enemy countries. POST-WAR EQUITIES With industrial shares the case is different. Come what may, the end of the war must bring an improvement in equity earnings, taken as a whole, provided only that E.P.T is sooner or later to be relaxed Even after the recent rise, therefore, good war news justifies a purchase of post-war recovery equities, such as sound textiles, stores, or building shares. It does not seem very helpful to describe such buying for the postwar prospect as hedging against inflation We shall have no serious inflation while the war lasts, nor even afterwards, so long as the Dhysiaa! controls over consumption and investment are kept on Bui neither shall we see any return A'ages or other dhcpf to Iheir prewar levels if the mistakes of last ime are avoided The nations! money income, with reasonably Jul1 L'mploymcnt, u'lll be far hiphtr than before the war And since the nominal capital of most com Every Frederick Gorrmxt Li til Victoria 6666 (24 hnrir BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD, LONDON, S.W.I of LAID UP VEHICLE ings wuuld be reduced by rer annum Never- COMPANY MEETING ALLIED BAKERIES LIMITED Trie seveniM aniiuaJ general meeting A. Lied Bakeries.

L.in;ied. was held in London Mr Gariield Weston, ime irid.imani. saitl that furtrier restriction! 1 iijveL had made 11 int. in as tnat Local buards of mdiiajie-r: if ill could mure erTectlv handle t.dV-io-dd problems cunfrcsitins sub-, companies and lour regional fr had been formed and the par-i't thus Decame in efleci a u-orcii mating holding compan us 1 anctiDns largely delegated it-jiional compdrises and lis revenue eel 1 rum six subsidiaries tneies, the available net profit foi uie current eit should not be less than that (or the year to June 30 last, which was more than the previous year is required to complete and send in Form T.C.1 which can be obtained from any POST OFFICE transacting Savings Bank business "fcA CUSTODIAN is the person who has a vehicle in his keeping whether he owns the vehicle or not IF YOU HAVE NOT YET MADE A RETURN YOU MUST DO SO AT ONCE! The company contribution 10 me i Natiunal Exchequer was substantially higner than in the previous year. but.

I owing to charging out to subsidiaries Excess Profits Tax paid on their behalf. 1 dividends from subsidiary companies 1 could r. jt ceded total earnings, and profit vtas show-n after all taxation Tnev wire advised that publication a fomtiind ertrmni. statement vai inadvisable during the war Their baxeriei were equipped with I (he most modern and up-to-date auto I malic pLar.t. and their standard of eftt I 'Tigh ruh Thev wert-thu5 able 'lCj re'ider unM.11 passed ser ic tn the pulJiic in the suppK.

under Ui-MKisl hwtViic conditions of food pro 1 ip'ii" i the nitons 1 1 1 the curm nI some jDeraling 1 a ci 1 1 1 i ti throuBhn it ine 1 hijd heen rciriTnelv uneventiul, discontinuance ol the baking of white biead. together with of y. rapping and slicing, (in a i rurT.rLfd the fur-n1 n'i but the had pru-1 unsih hiijn quality Wheaimej) 'ioaf 1 which the inipt-n 11-ici ease 1 i i'i mi I pn ah- undnimousjv adopted ideml of 5 per t'tfnt fur the ear. kju The tep an a fitia r-g pi appc.