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Amusing The American: Reflections On The New York Theatre, Radio, Television, Cinema And Gramophone Worlds

... Amusing The American Reflections On The New York Theatre Radio Television, Cinema And G ramophone Worlds By Sam Heppner YOU can judge people by their books or their friends. Equally, you can judge them by the various forms of entertainment they pat ronize ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2429 | Page: 74 | Tags: Photographs 

Eau de Cologne

... excitement can be. All the make-up in the world won't hide that tiredness. What your inner self needs is the refreshing lift that '4711' Eau de Cologne immediately gives. Inhale its fragrant vapour from cupped hands use its freshness freely on the forehead ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 143 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... reasons cited, there is not something rotten in the state of France and England, then we are mis informed even by our responsible Press. And nobody can say that the news they bring us to date out of Korea invites optimism. But there are clear signs of resolution ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2018 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

WIMBLEDON 1950: DESPITE THE BOOM IN PROFESSIONALISM, THE GREAT TOURNAMENT HAS LOST NOTHING IN GLAMOUR

... I-- The lure of professionalism has certainly removed a host of great names from the world of amateur lawn tennis, but Wimbledon has not lost its glamour, and this year's tournament was, if anything, more international in flavour than any of its pr ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 584 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... that the winning of the dollar battle can alone avert world war. The opposite view (which the present crisis strengthens) is that it is no use winning the dollar war until the imminent risk of world war is averted. A middle way has for some time suggested ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1883 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

Crêçy Repeats Itself

... the German occupation and the wholesale purloining of their bloodstock, of which we heard so much. Not only the Gold Cup but the Hunt Cup and our own two-year-old races, the Coventry and Queen Mary Stakes, were safely held by the home side, and Big Dipper ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1258 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Cricket Caravan

... Australian Test cricketer who finds Tests such a trial. These two visited England in summer, 1945, as members of that Australian Services team which came as a boon and a blessing to a world that had forgotten what real cricket looked like. Dick Whitington was ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1039 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

The Penfold 1,600 Gns. Tournament

... former course was used for the qualifying rounds only, for 36 holes of qualifying was required from a big field to find the necessary thirty- two players of both sexes to compete in the match-play finals. The medium men's tees were used by all the players ...

DATE-BOOK

... her, and Lord Mountbatten, grandfather, just visible be hind, the Princess carried her new godson out into the world. JUNE 26. At the All-England Lawn Tennis Club the first day oj Wimbledon. Good climatic ally, unexciting sartorially. Smaller crowd than ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1094 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court News

... year were the Grand Challenge Cup, which was won by Harvard University the Silver Goblets, won by the Belgian pair, J. Rosa and C. Van Antwerpen the Thames Cup, which once again went to the United States, and the Stewards' Cup, won by the Hellerup Roklub ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3584 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

St. Leger Portents

... it is easy to forgive anyone's head going round in a world which seems to be so determined to put itself wrong way up. What ought we to read between these lines Is it French opinion that the world did not see the real Scratch II. at Longchamp, and that ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1209 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Some Portraits in Print

... tavern attached I have been enjoying a book called Explorer's England by Mr. Martin Thorn- hill, just published by Skeffington's (12s. 6d.). You can, as he says, go round the world in England if you wish to be a postmark traveller. There is a Calvo in ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1767 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs