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THE VATICAN WITHOUT A POPE:: What Happens When the Holy Father Dies, and How the Cardinals Set About the ..

... The Vatican Without a Pope: What Happens When the Holy Father Dies, and How the Cardinals Set About the Selection of a Successor to the Throne of St. Peter By Ferdinand Tuohy TWENTY days elapsed between the death of Pope Benedict and the coronation of his successor, the late Pontiff. The Conclave having been of the shortest-- three days-- this is about the minimum time in which the Vatican ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1245 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Photographs 

AXIS NEWS

... Signor Mussolini making a tour of the galleries on the occasion of his visit to the Third Quadrennial Exhibition of Italian Art, which is attracting much attention in Rome Admiral Marquis de Mngaz (left), General Franco's Ambassador in Berlin, being received in audience by Herr Hitler at Berchtcs- gaden. On the right is Interpreter Schmidt ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 57 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHECKING the WRECKER: The Bomb Outrages in London and the Provinces Draw Attention to the Menace of the Trained ..

... Checking the Wrecker The Bomb Outrages in London and the Provinces Draw Attention to the Menace of the Trained Saboteur to a Country's Defences THE mild outbreak of wrecking by explosives in London and the provinces may bring benefit in its train should it be instrumental in rousing the authorities to the high potentiality for danger to the defence of the country that the enemy within, or ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2113 | Page: Page 16, 40 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE R.A.F. WEATHER PILOT WORKS IN GALE, STORM, AND BLACK-OUT: Naval Gunnery in Gas Masks--The Modern Stoker ..

... THE R.A.F. WEATHER PILOT WORKS INI GALE, STORM, AND BLACK-OUT I Naval Gunnery in Gas Masks The Modern Stoker Must Be a Technician GAS MASKED ANTI AIRCRAFT GUNNERS pictured aboard the battleship Revenge during a mock battle in the Atlantic. It is the policy of the Navy to train its men to get used to gas masks so that in war time their efficiency would not be impaired by wearing them M' 1 1: ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 296 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BROADCASTI NG EXTRAORDINARY:: Hier is Hilversum

... Remarkable Hilversum, Where Every Shade of Opinion is Represented by a Studio Where Each Studio Has Separate Days and Hours of Broadcasting and Where You Pay Nothing to Listen-in Unless You Feel Inclined to Make a Donation By ROY ELSTON Hier is Hilversum THAT announcement is familiar to many English listeners. The fuller announcement may puzzle them sometimes: Hier is Hilversum de AVRO; or de ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1909 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Photographs 

The GROWTH of the GRID: Some Facts and Figures Regarding This Nation-Wide System of Electricity Supply

... The Growth I of the Grto Some Facts and Figures Regarding This Nation Wide System of Electricity Supply In the course of examining some of the great industries of the day, Noel Thompson here surveys the origin and growth of the Electrical Grid system. He clearly reveals the mag nitude and growing strength of the Grid system, and there is no doubt that the yearly increase in the use of ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1828 | Page: Page 20, 42 | Tags: Photographs 

Zaza at the Plaza

... 64 Zaza at the Plaza What was once a moving, shocking play becomes an ordinary spectacular film with frillies and Claudette Colbert Tragedy on the stage was confined by classical tradition to the great of the earth emperors could go mad, princes be tortured by indecision, queens fall in love with their stepsons. But since La Dame aux Camellias the woes of anyone from journalists to mannequins ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 569 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Hollywood Visit (No. 2): Warner Brothers' Studio

... Hollywood Visit (No. 2) Warner Brothers' Studio 1. James Stephenson and Edda Harrington are husband and wife in 44 On Trial, in process of shooting. In real life she is married to Walter Connolly, is granddaughter of a famous song-writer, and great-niece of Harry Braham, who introduced America to Gilbert and Sullivan. Stephenson, recently success ful in 44 Heart of the North, went to ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 387 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Gardener's Chronicle: Looking Ahead

... Gardener's Chronicle Looking Ahead By R. C. Jenkinson As I sit idle, all outdoor work held up, looking at trees and shrubs weighed down-- I only hope not broken-- by snow and the ground covered by nearly a foot of it, I resent the weather: I resent the fleeting escape from the high hills of their particular perquisite and glory. The snow in the plains of England makes neither a seasonable nor ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1114 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Photographs 

On the Beaten Track

... Film Faces at a Premiere in Hollywood Cary Grant is the host of the little party above, arriving at the Pantages Cinema in Hollywood to see the premiere of Gunga Din, an Anglo-Indian romance based on Kiplingys ballad, in which Grant has a lead. His companions are Annabella, Phyllis Brooks and Tyrone Power Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., another lead in Gunga Din, did duty in New York, as Cary Grant ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 327 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Sporting Occasions: Indoors and Out, On Land and On Water

... Sporting Occasions Indoors and Out, On Land and On Water Kings at Cannes include two of the sport-loving Scandinavian monarchs, King Gustaf of Sweden, who, as usual, is playing in the tennis tournaments, and King Christian of Denmark, who prefers sport afloat. Here is the latter in his yacht in the Bassin de Cannes, wearing the cap of the Kongelig Dansk Yacht Club Delegates to the world ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 423 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Winter Sporting

... The pair on the right at Davos are Lord Gosford's American daughter-in-law and Sir Colville Barclay, Lady (Robert) Van- sittart's son, who has just joined the Diplomatic. Lady Achesons husband is now Air Attache in Paris. Below are three very chic Par- senners, Vicomtesse Louis de Gourcuff, Comtesse de Contades, and her sister Vicomtesse d'Espous Mr. Fuller, Miss Minshull Ford, Mr. Best Atop ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 225 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs