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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 

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 

GOLF CLUBS AND GOLFERS

... --By MEL Said to owe its inception to a happy thought of Commander Hillyard as he looked out of his bathroom window one morning soon after coming to live in Pulborough, the West Sussex Golf Club is set in a perfect golfing pocket of sand, amid clayey golfing deserts. Just in this small area, white sand blows across heather to delight the golfer's heart, while distant downs go to make up a ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 151 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

DESTROYER DIFFICULTIES

... No. 7 FOULED ANCHORS BY WINC-COMMANDER E. C. OAKLEY-BEUTTLER There is nothing fantastic about this, as all sailors know What has happened may be explained like this. So often, when letting go your anchor on a bottom of which you are not quite certain, you may easily pick up a cable also. With two anchors out, wind and tide sometimes cause the ship to swing in a circle, and if the anchor-swivel ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

FIGHTING UNITS: No. 18

... FIGHTING UNITS No. 18 THE Nth BATTALION THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT By MEL This week our artist returns from his excursus to the skies and the men that look after them and brings us back to the sort of fighting man who has been going on ever since the first caveman dotted his neighbour one on the nose the P.B.I. Not that I. is necessarily so P.B. nowadays when they have buses like the one in the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic