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How a Radio Play is Born

... By C. JVhitaker IVilson (who has had many of his plays broadcast) FORTY plays a week find their way to Broadcasting House-- and most of them find their way back again to where they came from. It is astounding how many wonderful people there are in England who can afford to dispense with knowledge of drama when they write for broadcasting. I glanced at an excellent specimen not very long ago in ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2840 | Page: Page 18, 19, 104 | Tags: Photographs 

Wings over the Pacific

... H .'ir II .11 f T /l/(7C 1 T vrl/c J '■-Xi f? over the Pacific NO women, no cats, no dogs. Forty-three men, thousands of rats, hermit crabs and myriads of birds on a coral island one mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, more than thirteen hundred miles from the nearest land. No soil, no water save rain preserved in underground cisterns. Sup plies brought by ship twice a year. The only ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4478 | Page: Page 10, 11, 95, 96, 97, 98 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

Things A Young Girl Ought To Know

... UJwiad A Aijuria^ (j irl Oaa/mI Ja Jimmr B Y A L I S 0 N H A 1 G A young girl should know that picking a husband is like picking mushrooms-- unless you go out early, there's nothing but puff balls left in the field. Therefore, though at eighteen any young man is a gift, it is a mistake to kiss every gift horse on the mouth. Also, she should be warned that he who tells her his life history ...

Starring STRIPES

... Stripes are a big news point for 1939. From America comes details of some quite beautiful adaptations for interior decoration of the stripes which, over there, are a national symbol. Hori zontally striped wallpapers are frequently used to form the nucleus of a decorative scheme. In one of New York's biggest stores a specimen room has been treated with a horizontally striped wallpaper in ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 274 | Page: Page 57 | Tags: Photographs 

FUR PHIL OSOPHY

... F V P I u J 1 j i i o o p I If I I Whatever your conscience has been saying to you about the extravagance of that fur coat you are wearing this year, there is this thought with which to comfort yourself. See how it lasts. A good fur coat should see you through four or five years unless you choose one of the notoriously soft and short-lived skins. If you take reasonable care of your coat its ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 457 | Page: Page 69 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MOTHER TOUCH

... O V5 C T ouisa Babycraft is all right but it's mother ing that counts, a young mother said to me once. And she was right. You can't lay down hard and fast rules on the subject of baby management. With each child an individual having idiosyncracies, habits peculiarly his own. How can you? This is why mothers are so often dis appointed when their strictly scientific routines come to grief. ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 684 | Page: Page 74 | Tags: Photographs 

Jaffas for juice

... fjaffas^ C for juice J Jaffasl L for juice J Jaffa oranges and grapefruit 5 1 are in I JAFFA GRAPEFRUIT Indispensable for preparing the palate lor a shrewdly selected and well-cooked meal. Perfect as the first cleansing taste ol the day, as an im maculate early morning cocktail JAFFA ORANGES The easiest oranges in the world to peel. The easiest to divide. The easiest to eat The most generous ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 104 | Page: Page 75 | Tags: Photographs 

Allenburys Diet

... S1EEP DURING ILLNESS 64 1 was advised to try your and after the first two cupfuls it seemed to settle my nerves and I was able to sleep. OF ALL CHEMISTS IN TINS 2/1, 4;-, 7/6. A'lenburys Diet is as easy to prepare as hot milk and is more dige>t ble because it is partially preaigested. is a great boon to those whose vital energy is depleted by illness. During the attack it will be found very ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 138 | Page: Page 102 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON ELECTROTYPE AGENCY LTD

... .. R.MS QUEM MARY IX MIXIATIJRE i r T-T TY-ivfc f^nnrial irtist of The Details of R.M.S. QUEEN MARY From the designs Ot G. H. Davis (bpeciai arust Ol 0wsrall Length 34 in. Price £3.3.0. Carriage extra. Inland 1/H Illustrated Loudon News) have been produced accurate each Abroad 5/9 each. South Africa 8/3. scale working models of R.M.S. Queen Mary and H.M.S. 0veraIl length 2r, cSwapr inland ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 101 | Page: Page 105 | Tags: Photographs 

MILK OF MAGNESIA

... INDIGESTION Milk of Magnesia sweetens a sour acid stomach, and relieves acute gastric pain in almost as little time as it takes to tell. For stomach troubles, indigestion, flatu lence, heartburn, sick headache and acid ity for furred tongue, nausea and upset stomach caused by foods that disagree, there is no finer remedy the world over than Milk of Magnesia.' The relief it gives is marvellous- ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 201 | Page: Page 108 | Tags: Photographs 

Covers

... Il 1 li WM I I rtWfc [By drummond hay ■jRANCIS DWYER :f||UP PAGE I -tjflH CLEVELY Il H. *iafORD JONES F. MATANIA, r.I. by Carl Shreve Cover Design ...