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Fashion as it flies..

... Cy a sin on as l by (Shssa belli Cs Scott Btishc FOR the beginning (at least) of your September eruise you will need a light-weight wool frock the kind that can, as it were, take the rough with the smooth and stand up to more careless treatment than you usually accord your clothes. Such a one is this; in grey jersey, trimly shirt-waist ed, with a skirt cut in umbrella-gores the sort of skirt ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Le Touquet Week-end: Golf and Polo Between the Showers

... Le Touquet Week-end Golf and Polo Between the Showers A t vet day didn't stop Mr. Robert Sweeny Sr., and his son, Charles, going out to play a morning round of golf together on the empty, rain-swept course A fine day at last arrived for the finals of the Le Touquet polo season, but the soaked ground made the going very heavy and slow. Eight teams took part in the tournament, including a ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Women in Uniform: No. 7. The Auxiliary Fire Service

... Women in Uniform No. 7. The Auxiliary Fire Service London fires cost between half a million and a million pounds a year in peace-time. This sets an estimate of possible losses from air-raid fires among the astronomical figures. To meet and counteract the horror and colossal damage of air war on London, the L.C.C. under the 1937 A.R.P. Act is charged with the duty of organising a volunteer ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 734 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

News Reel

... ACTOR IN TRAINING Edward Hardwicke is the six-year-old son of Sir Cedric and Lady Hardwicke and he has received his first stage engagement from Roy Limbert a part in S. I. Hsiung's new play for Malvern, The Professor from Pekin. It opens next .Tuesday, the festi val's second day. Lady Hardwicke, who as Helena Pickard is a member of the Malvern Company is coaching her son for the part NEW ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 606 | Page: Page 32, 33 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Women's Golf: Daily Telegraph Finals

... Women's Golf: By Eleanor E. Helme Daily Telegraph Finals Girls' Championship Entry Form is on page iv. Autumn Foursomes Entry Form will appear August 23rd. IT was a little bewildering. Here was I, scarcely unpacked after three weeks amongst the blessed hills of Scotland, almost forgetful that such a thing as a typewriter or a newspaper existed, that a camera could take anything except land ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1071 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

Motoring Commentary

... By Alan C. Hess AS usual, The Welsh was definitely the most enjoyable of the year's rallies. The weather, admittedly, was out rageous, but the right rally spirit prevailed nevertheless, and I'm sure that if the organisers had tried the experiment of taking entries for next year's rally at reduced rates on the Saturday night, they would have re -enlisted this year's com petitors almost en ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 926 | Page: Page 40 | Tags: Photographs 

VINS BLANCS d'ALSACE

... VINS BLANCS d ALSACE VINS BLANCS JALSACE Jtr DIFFERENT ^/distinctive ^/-TRY THEM Colour a lovely light gold tempting prelude io their distinctive bouquet and your complete enjoy ment I Try these charming dry white wines for a most agreeable change. (FRANCE) 4 LABELS idj/# Riesling Traminer Gent/7 Sylvaner ALv8 ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 49 | Page: Page 42 | Tags: Photographs 

Portrait of La Camargo, by Alicia Markova

... In less than a iortmght Markova w ill be dancing again ill London, with Massine s company, tlie Ballet Russe dc Monte Carlo. Their two weeks' season opens on September 4th at Covent Garden. Five new ballets, four by Massine, one by Frederick Ashton, and Boutique Fantasque re-set and* re-dressed by Derain, are almost an embarrassment of riches in so short a time. Balletomanes have rushed to the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 150 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

News Reel

... The Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth Retires and the High Council Assembles in London to Choose Her Successor General Evangeline Booth, head of the Salvation Army throughout the world since 1 934 aged seventy -three, retires next month. The High Council met last week for the third time in its history to choose a successor. Before the sessions opened at Clapton, General Booth gave a ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 686 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Riviera Sun Season: More Lazers and Bathers, Mostly at Monte Carlo

... Riviera Sun Season More Lazers and Bathers, Mostly at Monte Carlo The Setting for the World's Holidays This is how Monte Carlo beach, the most internationally trod sand in the world looks from up above at the Country Club. The summer season burst into full swing with this month, and the influx ivas so great that the Principality's newspaper order was insufficient at the beginning of last week, ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 525 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Baghdad at Denham

... The Thief of Baghdad has throw n its Arabian Nights' spell over the Korda studios at Denham, since early June, symbolised by the 78-foot mast and huge red sails of the Black Ship which are a landmark for passing motorists. It is being made in Technicolor. Korda himself takes a hand in the production, super vising the work of producer-director Dr. Ludwig Berger and director Michael Powell. ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 706 | Page: Page 19, 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Warwickshire Family: Lord and Lady Cromwell and Their Children at Misterton Hall, near Rugby

... Warwickshire Family Lord and Lady Cromwell and Their Children at Misterton Hall, near Rugby David Bewicke Copley, here with his mother, is the ten year old heir to the ancient Cromwell barony. It dates from 1375, but fell into abeyance when the fourth holder,, Maud Baroness Cromivell, died in 14-97,' and so remained until 1923 when it was called out of abeyance in -favour of the fifth, and ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 349 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs