October 1, 1938

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WOMEN AND THE HOME

A Week of Fish

IT'S OPEN season all the year round for all kinds of fish. Referring, of course, to the sport of eating them. Most housekeepers, anyway, are more interested in the flavor than in the gaminess of a fish. They don't care who catches it, nor how many big ones got away in the process. By HELEN G. CAMPBELL7 min

HUMOR

Parade

A number of Twin City readers have hastened to tell us about Mrs. Paul Popiel. of Fort William, and the hornet. Mrs. Popiel, with her sons, was working away at the back of the house, loading a newly cut crop of hay into the barn when from one of the stacks there came a hornet.

SHOTS and ANGLES

THE astonishing thing about “Marie Antoinette” is that, though it runs a full two hours and a half and is weighted down with over two million dollars worth of production, it is wonderfully absorbing to watch almost all of the time. Admitting that “Marie Antoinette” might have been even better with more cutting and fewer crystal chandeliers, it’s still worth two hours and a half of anybody’s time. By ANN ROSS5 min

Maclean's Editorial

The Bren Gun Enquiry

IN ITS September 1 issue, Maclean's Magazine published an article headed “Canada’s Armament Mystery,” written by LieutenantColonel George A. Drew. In that article, Colonel Drew made a critical analysis of the contract made by the Canadian Government with the firm of John Inglis Company, Toronto, for the manufacture of Bren machine guns, and set forth a series of questions which, in the public interest, he declared should be satisfactorily answered.