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Four Weddings

... Mr. L. A. P. Robinson and the Hon. Nancy Boives-Lyon The Queen was present at the marriage of her niece, Nancy Moira Bowes Lyon second daughter of Lord and Lady Glamis, to Lance Amigo Percy Robinson, R.A.F.V.R., only son of the late Captain P. D. Robinson (9th Northumberland Fusiliers J, and of Mrs. E. L. Dimond, of Ladywood, Seal, Chart, Kent, which took place at Holy Trinity Brompton. The ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 321 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Tailored Simplicity: In Tweeds --In Fur

... Ta i I o red Simplicity In Tweeds In Fur The Government slogan, Wear your clothes longer, is no hardship when it is applied to l'urs, for good skins, cleverly worked, do not date any more than they wear out. The prices of furs will inevitably go up, so it is a real economy to buy them now. Harrods, Knightsbridge, have a collection that is a series of sound investments. Their model below, for ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Getting Married: The Bystander's Review of Weddings

... Getting Married r. Hie Bystander's Review of Weddings Mather Gillespie Peter Mather, the actor and producer, son of the late Norman Mather, and Mrs. Mather, of the A nchorage, Barmouth, Merioneth, married Audrey Gillespie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie, of Abcrford House, Aberford, Yorks, and niece of R. H. Gillespie, of theatrical fame, at St. James's, Spanish Place Wills Richards John ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 870 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Garrison Theatre

... Over the Rainboiv 99 Private Jack Warner, resident comedian of , rehearses a duet at the microphone with Joan Littel Gel Winters, the programme-seller. Jack, radio's first wartime star, with his bike, blue pencil and rill mills, has coined many phrases which are note on everybody's lips, and the whole country has followed his courtship of Littel Gel with the closest interest Was it in the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 383 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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These Clever People...: Writers, Painters, an Actress

... These Clever People No. '7. Writers, Painters, an Actress Adele Dixon one of the prettiest and live liest of younger musical comedy-revue stars, takes her work so strenuously that she has no time for gadding about. Nearest approach to socialite activity is knitting furiously for Mrs. Simon Marks' s Red Cross circle. If not on the stage would probably have been a house-decorator. Thinks a room ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 573 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

'GORRAY'

... is Mew P^AU Roun PLEATED SKIRT Here it is at last what skirt makers have tried to produce for years a skirt with GRADUATED KNIFE EDGE PLEATS ALL ROUND which TAPER OFF INTO A SNUG FITTING HIP LINE. How delightfully slimming And how smart Another big advantage is that the pleats stay in when the skirt is worn, simply because there is no pull on them. Prices from 30/- in a variety of quality ...

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell IT is characteristic of the British in wartime that they do not discuss the Budget. The details of the Chancellor's speech are read in grim silence, and that is all. The only addi tional tax which aroused a flicker of interest this time has been the extra 1/9½ on whisky and even this flicker is mainly academic. The new tax is ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1941 | Page: Page 4, 6 | Tags: Photographs 

In and Out of London: Four Events of the Week

... In and Out of London Four Events of the Week Presentation Lord Willingdon and Miss Pat Kirkivood Shirley Temple has her birthday on St. George's Day and to celebrate it sent a cheque to St. George's Hospital London, Eng. A little ceremony of presentation took place on the steps of the hospital when Pat Kirkuood, star of Black Velvet handed the cheque to Lord Willingdon, vice-president of the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 299 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Old Bill and Son: Bairnsfather's Character on the Screen

... Old Bill and Son Bairnsfather's Character on the Screen t nllobor°te stilieS „tors ,c0Ha; !ireOr Spi His cr^ori4ather °n4 to&,Het SC^l-ii and ^nsf04 scrip1 T°ho u>r°te n hlS nalO Ion I. Between tears Old Bill Busby has been a London taxi- driver. He and his flashy young son John Mills J disagree: 44 You make me siclc never stick to anything you don't. Look at me been in this job for twenty ...

Two Dancers at Home

... The London Ballet, of which Peggy van Praagh and Maude Lloyd are leading members, began a short season at the Arts Theatre on May 16th. A slight but attractive ballet by a new choregrapher, Charlotte Bidmead (a London Ballet dancer), was put into the repertoire Love in Idleness, music by Purcell, decor by John Guthrie. Last Thursday, Andree Howard's new work, La Fete Etrange, to Faure music, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 337 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs