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Between Ourselves: Some Intimate Interviews with People of Interest

... WHO are people of interest? The answer is every one. We may have no notion of this ourselves. We may think we are leading a life of the dullest monotony, yet when we come to unburden ourselves to others, we find it has not been so dull after all. Take Mr. A., for instance. He was quite unaware that his life held any interest for any one, yet he waxed almost enthusiastic as he described how he ...

The WOMEN I MEET: A Month to Month Commentary

... The JVOMEN I TWEE A Month to Month Commentary By Princess Paul Troubetzkoy LONDON'S streets are paved with gold so the old rhyme runs, although the cynical still insist that the gold is of a very syn thetic quality and that Fortune dressed up in her town clothes is as elusive as ever; they may add that the coinage she supplies is apt to be very similar in value to that in the crock of gold at ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4031 | Page: Page 22, 90, 92, 95 | Tags: Photographs 

IF THAT 30,000-TO-ONE CHANCE CAME OFF

... IF THAT 30,000 TO ON E CHANCE CAME OFF Thousands of men and girls are trying to break into the Film business every year: what happens when they succeed? By Margaret Chute THE contract is on the table. Somebody puts a pen into the hand of Miss Mary Smith, remark ing crisply: Sign on the dotted line, please. Thank you. Mary Smith rises to her feet, a little shakily; smiles at the big ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3654 | Page: Page 28, 29, 130, 131, 132, 134 | Tags: Photographs 

KEEPING AGE AT BAY

... By CHRYSIS If you require further details or want help for your individual problems, write to me at Britannia and Eve, 32-34, St. Bride Street, London, E.C.4 Three qualities keep age at bay, and transform any expression-- supple ness, fairness and clarity of skin. Make them yours. A dazzling bloom can only be achieved if your face is free from deposits of seborrhea. These spring from the ...

I GIVE MY DAUGHTER A WAY

... D AUG^v A, Twenty-two years ago I stood at the foot of the stairs waiting for my daughter and heard the thin wail which told me my first child had been born. There are times when the ordinary machinery of life stands still, and nothing moves except one's thoughts, when details of place and circumstance disappear, and nothing exists except an all-pervading emotion. Such a time was that when I ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 816 | Page: Page 68, 125 | Tags: Photographs 

It Happened in South West Africa

... It Happened in 'jSoutfil West Africa Negley Farson in this article the second of a short series giyes some further impressions of contemporary life in the mandated territories of Africa which owing to German demands are focal points of IV or Id atte?itio7i HAND I went up to the Kunene River on the border of Por tuguese Angola. It was to be the first flowing water I had seen for over a month. I ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6037 | Page: Page 12, 13, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124 | Tags: Photographs 

The Third Prisoner: who convinced a man and wife that life was too short to quarrel

... The Third Prisoner who convinced a man and wife that life was too short to quarrel By Dorothy Eden AT sundown another man was pushed unceremoniously into the cell. That made three of them. The guard made a rapid utterance in Spanish, which was addressed to the first occupants of the cell. There was a smile on his dirty dark face as if he were exulting over the unintelligible remark he had made ...

The Perennial Parking Problem: Is the motorist given fair treatment?

... The Perennial Parking Problem Is the motorist given fair treatment? By The Earl of Cardigan AT this time of year, when the majority of motorists are using their cars to an increased extent, the old problem of finding safe parking places is more than ever a bugbear. No reasonable person wishes to get on the wrong side of the police through leaving his car where it may cause an obstruction-- but ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1161 | Page: Page 79, 85 | Tags: Photographs 

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... NEGLEY FARSON BARRE LYNDON Ji B. L. JACOT RALPH STOCK MARGARET CHUTE F. MATANIA, r.I. COMPLETE HOME AND FASHION SECTIONS 4W ...

HITLER'S WAR MACHINE: How the Führer, casting the Peace Treaties aside, has created a potent striking force

... HITLER'S WAR^JTMACHINE How the Fiihrer, casting the Peace Treaties aside, has created a potent striking force By C. Patrick Thompson IN a little group at the cross-roads, five foreign officers silently watched the grey columns of horse-drawn artillery rumbling along the haupt strasse on their way to the front. Two wore American Army uniform; three the uniform, with red star in visored cap, ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4856 | Page: Page 10, 11, 110, 112, 114, 116 | Tags: Photographs 

The MAN on your MIND How to read the mind of

... A 1 r J V-- 1 >'y '/tf 1111111 I Hm to By Winifred Lewis lovable but unpredict- suppose you-ve been able Most ^T^ter the occult processes of mmd of the Biack At..- 1VACL11 V* -1 1 ri VOU w tio° aSWe -h 01 Xugtt ttWto M. practically- complete Masculine Thoug A> but why? it liUes_the male You think that is a bit f l d tradition can saJ d engineer. The truth is that m Ml v- rf ^chaulsm. f>t ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 594 | Page: Page 42, 43 | Tags: Photographs