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Woman's Talk

... (jjc/ _ 1|| BY JEAN BURNUP Whenever a new magazine feature begins, there is always a great to-do-ment about its title. So much time and trouble are spent on thinking up a good one that you might imagine the reader cared. We are the only people who care about the title being good and the lay-out being attractive. All you want is for the matter to be interesting. We aim to please that way, too. ...

WOMEN I'D LIKE TO BE

... Kl 0 \N 0^N By VERE DENNING It starts when you are five years old. I wish I was a princess, you sigh, and then get involved in compli cated instructions about saying were, not was. Later on you want to be the circus rider with all the spangles, and then the gym mistress, who represents to your adolescent soul the essence of everything it is nice to be. Psychologists say you should be ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1507 | Page: Page 32, 33, 97 | Tags: Photographs 

The Z OO Gets Up

... The z oo Gets Up k n| WBijSte/ _ v.,*^^yU MOST of you will at some time or other have visited the London Zoo, and if you did not enjoy your day there, I am sure it would not be the fault of the authorities. But the Zoo you saw was the menagerie in its best workaday clothes. When you arrived the Zoo was up and dressed, its 4,000-odd inhabitants ready to minister to your pleasures. For some ...

DOGS OF THE DAY: Our Indebtedness to Dogs

... DOGS OF THE DAY Our Indebtedness to Dogs By A. CROXTON SMITH DEEPLY implanted in the hearts of most dogs is the spirit of self- sacrifice. John Galsworthy, who appreciated the canine temperament more than most writers, remarked in one of his books that dogs were the only four-footers with the rudiments of altruism and a sense of God. Plenty of animals, of course, will go to any lengths in ...

GEO. PARKER & SONS

... GEO. PARKER SONS GEO. PARKER SONS rtfpl l Estab.lSgll HUNTING SADDLES Our Patrons are reminded that we have the largest stock of new and secondhand saddles by all London Makers, and that our super horse clothing is excelled by none BEST RUGBY PANEL HUNTING SADDLES Best Leather-lined Rugby Panel Hunting Saddle (our own best make), complete with pair of super hand-forged steel or super 011 1 a ...

FRANCE

... Thousands of holiday-makers dis covered the France of Winter Sports last week the land of snow and sun which is so near and where the goes so much farther They had a fine time ask anyone who went but the best time to go is from now till March. The holiday rush is over your choice of accommodation is greater, the trains less crowded fares have been greatly reduced) the days are longer and ...

PONY RACING IN HAMPSHIRE

... The Burley and New Forest Pony and Cattle Society's Meeting at Brockenhurst PASSING THE POST Miss R. Marlyn [right), winning the second race, for Small Commoners, on Juno from Mr. L. Mansbridge on Brown Jack. The races started at Brockenhurst Bridge and finished at Wilverley Post in real old-fashioned style. PRESENTING THE PRIZES Lady Meyrick, the wife of Sir G. Meyrick, M.F.H., master of the ...

A LUCKY WIN AT RICHMOND: Hampstead beat Bromley by Three Goals to One

... A LUCKY WIN AT RICHMOND Hampstead beat Bromley by Three Goals to One On right A HAMPSTEAD ATTACK: The for wards have run the ball up into the Bromley circle and are developing an attack on the Bromley goal. The game was fast and keen through out, but the state of the ground made it a somewhat haphazard affair, as at times it was impossible to take the ball on the run at all. Hampstead were the ...

ECCLESIASTICAL HOCKEY: Dr. Winnington Ingram Enjoys His Annual Game

... ECCLESIASTICAL HOCKEY Dr. Winnington Ingram Enjoys His Annual Game DR. WINNINGTON INGRAM, the Bishop of London, turns out every year for the Old Malburnians in their annual hockey match against Radley College. Though he will be seventy-nine this month, he never misses this fixture, which is played in the grounds of Fulham Palace. He is a great athlete, a well-known performer at golf and lawn ...

LORD PETER WIMSEY ON THE STAGE

... Busman's Honeymoon at the Comedy Theatre A Marriage-Tangle Farce with Nora Swinburne and Basil Radford A Victorian Parody By PLAY BILL HANGING from the flies, and hang ing lower than anything on any stage has ever hung for ornamental reasons, was a cactus plant in a brass bowl. That caught my eye-- the sight of it, that is to say-- the moment the curtain rose upon Busman's Honeymoon, ...

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE: An Epic Film at the Carlton

... THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE An Epic Film at the Carlton THE three stills reproduced on this page are from The Charge of the Light Brigade, the First National film which is now running at the Carlton Theatre. It is a magnificent and spectacular production, thrilling in the extreme, and guaranteed to stir the blood of the most phlegmatic filmgoer. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland play ...

THE LEADING STABLE OF THE YEAR: A Visit to Messrs. Tattersall's Establishment at Manton

... THE LEADING STABLE OF THE YEAR A Visit to Messrs. TattersalLs Establishment at Manton By DAVID LIVINGSTONE-LEARMONTH WHEN I got as close to Manton as I cared to go that night, it being close on half-past eleven, my unfor tunate perspicacity noticed a board which informed me that a certain hotel had been entirely modernised. s>o l stopped outside its newly painted door and rang the bell, an ...