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... Hundreds and hundreds of officials in the Postal Censorship Depart ment carrying out their examinations Even typists are pooled these days. A section of the department which works for the whole Censorship Office The packets having been examined are ready for delivery HOW THE POSTAL CENSORS WORK.-- These pictures come from one of the busiest of all war-time departments, the Postal Censorship ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 187 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BELGIUM PREPARES: Against the Possibilities of a Situation Fraught with Danger to the Smaller Nations

... BELGIUM PREPARES Agaios*r the Possibilities of a Situation Fraught with Danger to the Smaller Nations A BELGIAN SOUND LOCATOR ON A HIDDEN MOTOR CARRIAGE THE ARDENNES CHASSEURS SWEAR TO HOLD THE FOREST COUNTRY Belgium, like hep Dutch neighbour, has experienced a period of tension, the Cabinet and the King discussing the situation at special sessions, and the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Clive ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HARRODS

... CART YOU CAN PUSH OR PULL ALONG. The uprights are detachable SOLDIER SET. English Regiments of Cavalry and infantry packed so all sorts of things can be carried in it. Sorbo tyres. in a tw°-|aYer box. /I* (Made in U.S A.). TO 74 PoP/TP TO 76 X RUBBER TOY SETS. The latest idea in harmless, noiseless toys. This is a Racing Car Set in all rubber. Suitable for children from i_ k/i -j i i c a t r\ ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 372 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

LIBERTY'S and Confid

... ence LIBERTY'S of REGENT STREET have such confidence in their country, their customers (and themselves) that their Christmas Catalogue for 1939 has been made more beautiful and useful than ever before. Send for a copy; you will find the prices of everything very low and the quality of everything as high as ever. LIBERTY CO. LTD. REGENT STREET, LONDON, W.I Telephone Regent 1234 0 AVOID c liMXW ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 354 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - EVERYONE knows that an Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor away, but at Winchester, Va., where 7,500,000 bushels of Virginia apples have been produced this year, the MISSES KITTY BAKER and JONEDITH HENRY are telling the world that if one apple keeps one doctor away, it 's only sense that more fruit will rout more medical men EACH pair of BINOCULARS in tended for the troops is tested by the human ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 277 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A PERSONABLE PAIR FOR ETERNALLY YOURS

... A PERSONABLE PAIR I FOR ETERNALLY YOURS. DAVID NIVEN plays opposite to Loretta Young in Walter Wanger's. new romantic comedy, Eternally Yours. He takes the part of the Great Arturo, an amazing magician and he certainly looks as if he thoroughly well understood the noble art of charming LORETTA YOUNG ivears this black wig, in one of the theatrical illusion sequences ■crested cockatoo on her ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 144 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALL MY OWN WORK : OUR SEVENTY- EIGHTH FIRST- PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C

... ALL MY OWN WORK: OUR SEVENTY- EIGHTH FIRST- PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C. This appealing study of a street artist's wistful-looking dog has been awarded the seventy-eighth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. Hubert Sibley with a Thornton- Pickard camera. Film: Isochrom. Exposure: 1 '150th second at f.5.6. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 52 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MUSICIAN WITH A PUNCH-- GOLDEN BOY SCREENED

... MUSICIAN WITH A PUNCH GOLDEN BOY SCREENED. js the Columbia COLDES boy. J, *y%.A. fln-v Prilt'r,'ZeJ'dslonJiBS. ^a*r boUgflt0iniei 1,fl' e? WllirffiiW 1^ ,Uca h^ f ^aI^BKESS5^^ he ha* k^oV a^'e Moo£U'c ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Bear Brand

... D£&r $rar\J $rar\J. FOR CERTAIN CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS Husbands who are wise in the ways popularity by giving shoals of sheer, of women, and of wives in particular, lovely stockings. A will tell you that the Christmas Christmas gift to gladden (and soften) gift problem is rather like Santa the heart of any woman. Claus it doesn't exist unless you In fact certain men about town believe in it ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 115 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Charities at Christmas: Some Deserving National Causes

... Charities at Christmas Some Deserving National Causes FIRST among the Christmas charities at home that we urgently recommend you not to forget, however troubled the farther horizons, is Dr. Barnardo's Homes. Under their Charter No destitute child ever refused admission, Dr. Barnardo's have in seventy-four years given a home to over 124,000 destitute children, and since the outbreak of war ...

Published: Friday 24 November 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 692 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

Christmas and Mr. Gibson

... By Peter Traill MR. GIBSON'S woman-who-did-for- him came into his bedroom, or, rather, she advanced into it, because once she had made up her mind where her duty lay, she did it with a reckless abandon that is the mark of the brave, if foolhardy, company commander. Mr. Gibson, lying in his narrow bed, had marked her progress down the passage from the moment when she had banged his breakfast ...

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... The Snow Maiden High Above Europe's Clashes, She Laughs Meerkamper ...

Published: Friday 24 November 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 10 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs