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From a Prisoner of War Camp

... MR. FRANK SLATER, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, has caricatured the cast of Grouse in June, produced in a German Prisoner of War Camp. The Officer in Charge of Entertainments, Lieut. M. W. V. Maude, says The production of plays forms quite an important part of the life in this Camp, and I wonder if any of your readers have some acting copies of recent plays which, from the point of view of ...

Farming Round The Houses: Middlesex Deals With; The Odd Corners

... I Farming Round I The Houses Middlesex Deals With The Odd Corners MIDDLESEX has succeeded in doing a very difficult job of farming by putting an extra 10,000 acres of land under cultiva tion since war began. To a country county, this may not seem a vast achievement, but in a county so heavily built over, it means a farming increase of just one-third. There are no rolling plains to take over ...

The Organisation of a Farm Sale

... The Organ isatio of a Farm Sale ALTHOUGH modern custom tends to a public sales, there is much to be said fo where the animals can be seen in their hoi informal conditions than are possible at thi also a far more intimate atmosphere at a d inspected, before the sale commences, wit buyers wandering at will among the farm bu are working among their charges. Then tl farm-sheds helps to create a ...

THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED--TOM TITT'S IMPRESSIONS

... THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED-- TOM TITT'S IMPRESSIONS The Palladium is nightly proving that blackness and potential bombers will not scare Londoners away from the chance of a good laugh. According to latest reports, the walls bulge as the house rocks at every performance of the Crazy Gang's new topical rag. And for forgetting about all that 's going on outside, Bud Flanagan's warlike hat is well ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

Gordon Harder in Saloon Bar: AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE

... Gordon Harder in Saloon Bar AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE PEOPLE ROUND THE BAR (AT TOP) JOHN FRANKLIN, PEGGY LIVESEY, ANNA KONSTAM, MERVYN JOHNS (ON LEFT) BARBARA BABINGTON, LEUEEN MacGRATH; (RIGHT) GORDON HARKER. THE background for all these people (and several more, including a murderer) is in warm contrast with the black-out from which you enter a bright-lighted bar, complete with crimson curtains ...

Published: Wednesday 06 December 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

Graphic

... AN R.A.F. STATION SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND: BY MEL Somewhere in England must always be just a manner of speaking, for, as is common knowledge, our Air Fighters may at any moment be here, there, or anywhere. The Boche has also some definite knowledge as to this. They have recently been putting the stencils on a place called Stavanger, and there are many more to come. The fact that the enemy has ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

Oiling a Destroyer in Dirty Weather

... By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler E. G. Oakley Beuttler The tanker and the destroyer steam head into the wind at about eight to ten knots. After certain mutual operations have been performed with the necessary skill and precision, the hose is then passed by the tanker and is coupled into the oiling connection of the destroyer. The hose is a 10-in. armoured flexible piping. The sketch, ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 100 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

WITH THE FLEET AIR ARM-- No. 5

... A SPOT OF BOTHER WITH A 'PLANE- BY VINC-COMMANDER E. C. OAKLEY BEUTTLER What has happened is that the helmsman, or man at the wheel, as the land-lubber might say, has swung his helm hard over and the good ship, handy as a lady's maid, has heeled over to port, causing the bit of a roll we see. It is unlucky that it should have happened just as they were hoisting a Swordfish in board, and the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

Graphic

... Classic Prospects by The Tout 99 From all accounts, Dantd has wintered well, and on his phenomenal two-year-old speed of last season Sir Eric Ohlson's colt is bound to take some beating in the Guineas, whatever* his fate may be over the longer Derby distance. His trainer, Matt Peacock, has announced that Dant6 is likely to have his first outing of the season at Stockton on Saturday, April 7th. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 144 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

Fish, Flesh and Foul:

... Fish, Flesh and Foul By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler In most of our coastal harbours R.A.F. High-Speed Air-Rescue launches stand by to rescue ditched air-crews. The launch at instant readiness and wireless call should be under way within a matter of seconds. But if things go wrong this picture tells the story. The port after hawser has fouled the mooring bollard on the quay, the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic