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IBERIAN SPARKLE AND ISLAND CHARM ... OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH BEAUTY

... IBERIAN SPARKLE AND ISLAND CHARM PES OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH BEAUTY. LA SARAZENA, the well-known Spanish dancer, is a characteristic Iberian beauty, well suited by the white mantilla, the ceremonial dress of her eĀ°uri y. scored a success at the parly given by Lady Ironside and Mrs. Peter Ellis in aid of the Duchess of Northumberland 's benevolent and Comforts Luna J Auxiliary Territorial ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 136 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROAD VEHICLES DESTROYED

... YY/herever practicable, traffic at night was maintained throughout London even during some of the raids. Buses and trams continued to run. until the sound of firing indicated that the raiders were actually overhead. It is not surprising, therefore, to witness such sights as the above. Although some people were caught in public conveyances and private cars, the wonder is that there were not ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 265 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IN RAMSGATE TO-DAY: Life in Britain's Most Heavily Bombed Town

... IN RAMSGATE TO-DAY Life in Britain's Most Heavily Bombed Town T IFE goes on in Ramsgate-- Britain's worst bombed but I in some ways safest town. With over 500 H.F.. bombs dropped during one raid alone, the people of Ramsgate are determined to see it through to the end, despite that Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker, the distinguished American journalist who recently visited the town, has stated that no ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 620 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MAP and DIAGRAM

... Invasion Distance Problems Set Forth. The New R.A.F. Incendiary Weapon. The Prime Minis ter's Speech Geo graphically Set Forth WHY THE AREA, DUNKIRK TO BOULOGNE, WAS HEAVILY BOMBED Last week-end the coastal area between Dunkirk and Boulogne was strafed by the R.A.F. with one of the heaviest aerial bom bardments yet undertaken by that force. Barge concentrations at Zeebrugge, Dunkirk, Calais ...

HITLER BOMBS SICK CHILDREN: Destruction at the Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde Street

... HITLER BOMBS SICK CHILDREN Destruction at the Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde Street ome along, we re going to take you out to see the searchlights. Behind those calm, smiling words, uttered by nurses and staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, London, to a group of some 46 little children is yet another story of men and women upon whom naturally falls the mantle of heroes and heroines ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 407 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE HEROES OF ST. PAUL'S: Lieutenant R. Davies and Two of the Members of His Bomb Disposal Unit

... THE HEROES OF ST. PAUL'S Lieutenant R. Davies and Two of the Members of His Bomb Disposal Unit MIC VYIIUIC U I Lwl lUul I HQ) UCCll llliyiliy 1 L i I piai.'C I VI'S heroism of Canadian-born Lieut. R. Davies and the members of his Bomb Disposal Unit who safely removed the huge bomb from beneath St. Paul's and exploded it harmlessly on the Hackney Marshes. It was not until this incident that the ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 197 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The SPIRIT of LONDON in the AIR RAIDS

... A Thames pleasure steamer was used to evacuate some of the women and children from their bombed Dockland homes to rural districts outside London. Several aged women too old and infirm to walk were carried on board on stretchers. They were told early one morning to be ready to move within an hour or two. In this island area of London, where the drawbridges of Dockland are raised as the ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 294 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The MEN WITHOUT FEAR

... The Members of the Bomb Disposal Unit, Whose Heroism at St. Paul's Has Thrilled the Whole of London HEROES ALL!-- THE BOMB SQUAD WHICH SAVED ST. PAUL'S: The story of the St. Paul s bomb will be an Epic of this war. It was no ordinary bomb it weighed nearly a ton and bristled with fuses. Now that their work has been made known there is a public clamour that official recognition should be made ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Movement and Repose: Studies of Gal; ielle Brune

... Movement i id Repose Studies of Gal iejc Brune FoUotcjng her success in last year's Gate Revue of her dancing first brought her to the notice of i Australian musical-comedy-star Adrienne Brune ha further laurels upon an already garlanded fomily nt made noticeable strides since the beginning of the\ flair she has delighted the frequenters of Londot rj simple charm of her voice and the ease i do ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

COW & GATE

... sleepy C LEEPY because it's time to go V to bed and all babies fed on TSCOW GATE sleep well, eat well and grow into fine sturdy children* Her mother took the best advice and baby has never looked back. COW GATE is made from the world's finest milk and contains, in perfectly balanced proportion, all the vitamins necessary to build firm flesh and strong bones. (C)2562 ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 67 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

Harvest

... There is talk of famine in Europe. Where Hitler rides famine cannot be far behind. But Hitler does not ride here. The is being gathered here and in the wide wheatfields of the Empire behind us. This is a blessing for which we must be grateful. But what keeps it for us Our Air Force, our Army, our Navy, our Merchant Service and you. Every time you are about to spend a shilling or a pound, and ...

Shakespeare at Home: Stratford-upon-Avon Ends Its First War Season

... Shakespeare at Home Stratford-upon-Avon Ends Its First War Season A symbol of English culture stands in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Popularly subscribed and built with substantial American donations the theatre is impressively situated on the banks of the Avon, and is one of the best equipped in the country Merry wives in The Merry Wives of Windsor are Thea Holme and Clare Harris, who ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 547 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs