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... By Philip Page MR. TERENCE RATTIGAN having been very bright indeed in French Without Tears shows another aspect of the Bright Young People in his After the Dance at the St. James'. I do not think these people were ever particularly bright in any sense in this play they are not even young. They yelped and made whoopee and nuisances of themselves generally, in the early 1920's. Here they are ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2367 | Page: Page 26, 27, 38 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

LONDON LIFE: Mainly From the Feminine Angle

... London Life Mainly From the Feminine Angle Emmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammm ill i miii CINE-VIEW This wedding guest expertly trained her camera on the bride, and while she made sure of her picture she at the same time provided a subject for the camera man. The wedding was at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street HOME FROM HOLLYWOOD: British film actress Margot Grahame seen aboard the Nor m ajidie on arrival ...

THE WIMBLEDON SEASON--1939: Players and Personalities

... The Wimbledon Season-- 1939 Plavers and Personalities By ROY McKELVIE IF, as is obviously expected by the seeding committee of the Wimbledon Championships who rate them respectively No. 1 man and woman, H. W. Austin (Great Britain) and Miss A. Marble (America), a blonde his successes during his tour, including wins over G. von Cramm, the best amateur in the world who did not enter for ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1108 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE AXIS NAVIES: Compared with those of the; DEMOCRATIC POWERS

... THE AXIS NAVIES Compared with those of the DEMOCRATIC POWERS TWO OF A KIND Below, left The new cruiser Fiji entering the water at Clydebank. Below, right The new cruiser Euryalus about to leave the slipway at Chatham. Cruisers are now being launched at the rate of one every week This diagrammatic drawing has been specially made for 1 1 The Sphere in order to show the relative strengths of ...

CZECHS ON HER HANDS: Sir Walter Layton's Daughter Describes the Difficulties of Dealing with the Tremendous ..

... Czechs on Her Hands Sir Walter Layton's Daughter Describes the Difficulties of Dealing with the Tremendous Influx of Refugees in an Interview With NOEL THOMPSON IN London these days one gets the impression that it is impossible to move 100 yards in any direction without meeting a refugee from some part of Europe. In fact, there are people going about with a rather superior air stating that in ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1569 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Photographs 

TRANSPORT ON LAND AND SEA

... Transport on Land and Sea LAUNCHING A LOCOMOTIVE: Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira speaking through I the microphone before unveiling the name plate on the L.N.E.R. locomotive C.oldstreamer a ceremony that took place on No. 7 platform at King's Cross I in the presence of a notable company, including the Provost of Coldstream. After the unveiling Sir Cecil entered the cabin of the locomotive ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 353 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

JAPANESE POLITICIANS GO FLYING : And Other Aerial News Culled From the Far Eastern World

... Japanese Politicians Go Flying: ti0ktcVtlIw'i'u THE FLYING LEGISLATORS: These ten men, chosen by lot from among 300 members of the Japanese Parliament, were given demonstration flights in military planes during a recent visit to Tachikawa flying field. Standing third from the left is Count Matsudaira, President of the House of Peers, a prominent figure in the councils of the nation THIS AIRMAN ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 291 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ZOO NEWS: Pictures from the Edinburgh and London Gardens: A Zebra, a Camel, and a Goat Make Their Bow at ..

... Zoo News Pictures from the Edinburgh and London Gardens A Zebra, a Camel, and a Goat Make Their Bow at Regent's Park E unfhin 1 jifh i|ndla,n antelope at Edinburgh Zoo welcoming a morning of sunshine with delighted bounds round their enclosure, one of them giving a most curious Impression as. with body held horizontal, It seems to be walking on air. Their legs are so thin that it is a marvel ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAY DOWN SOUTH

... i these anvusing beach boQte ^ith P ^cmf thcy Py wlth thc new They are r them with tailored shorte ar success Sh'bboS that are enjoymg such MONKEY JACKET. With your trimly straight shorts wear a monkey jacket, link fastened at the waist oyer a blouse of dark brown linen. White suits with dark tops are the big news this summer STRIPED COAT. If you like yourself in impec cably tailored clothes ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DUN LOP

... Supreme comfort and care-free security in motoring is assured, more than ever to-day on fort THE TYRES WITH TEETH DUNLOP ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 22 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

YORKSHIRE'S FAMOUS SPA

... YORKSHIRE'S Famous Spa HARROGATE.-- On the way to Northumbria recently I once again broke my journey at Harrogate, a place I never miss if it can be helped. The air there possesses a remarkable quality of stimulation and it seems to operate as soon as you arrive. The town is particularly pleasing-- clean, spacious, and well endowed with gardens-- --and it is anticipated that this present ...

A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

... AN R.A.F. PLANE TAKES TO THE ROAD: When this machine ran short of petrol during night exercises in the Scarborough district it came to rest in a cornfield. Before it could rise again it had to be dragged along the main Pickering Scarborough highway and then through a gap in a wall to a racecourse field. There it was refuelled and at length it took off for its base at Catterick, Yorkshire, none ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 206 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs