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CELEBRITIES SEE NEW YORK NIGHT LIFE AT EL MOROCCO

... p Manhattan's famous 54th Street rendezvous, El Morocco, is always a magnet for notable visitors to New York who want to see the city at its gayest, and a photographic tour of its banquettes one night recently brought out a great gathering of international celebs. The ex-First Lord, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, is at present making a lecture-tour of the States, putting forward a British view of ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 240 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BACK TO THE SEA AGAIN

... BACK TO THE SEA AGAIN This page having to do with that Silent Service which has been making a dashed sight more noise than any Raeder likes, a Trappist ought to be told off to do the explanation stuff. However, there is no harm in mentioning that this Admiral has his H.Q. somewhere and that almost all his staff is com posed of officers who rejoined immediately on the outbreak, no matter what ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 224 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NOT A THOUSAND MILES FROM PICCADILLY SNAPSHOTS FROM THE WEST-END FRONT

... The idea that certain gentlemen in Berlin or even our own more Dora-minded statesmen could put the damper on the West End's night life has been pretty quickly and effec tively scotched and all quarters report a ratding good Christmas and New Year festivity, and plenty of good champagne was drunk without the encouragement of Herr von Tovarich Ribbentrop. Highlights at the Cafe de Paris, always ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 250 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... BURBERRySu, BURBERRYS,., HAyMARKET LONDON SWi Lucitliitu to ddm 1 Weatherproofs ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 77 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

LADIES' KENNEL ASSOCIATION NOTES

... These notes will appear at the beginning of a new year. There is but one aspiration in the hearts of us all, that this year will see the coming of an honourable and Lasting peace. T o this end we doggy people are pre pared to submit without grumbling to any restric tions as to breeding and shows. Open shows are not desirable. Owing to the difficulties of getting about and other reasons, many ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 627 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 387 | Page: Page 39 | Tags: Cartoons  Photographs 

Here We Are Again: Parkin's Circus at Earl's Court Keeps the Winter Tradition

... Here We Are Again Parkin's Circus at Earl's Court Keeps the Winter Tradition lsabelle provides the traditional bareback act in S. V. Parkin's cirrus at the Empress Hall, Earl's Court. She comes of the circus -famed family of Sir Robert Fossett, other mem bers of which also do an acrobatic riding act (see next picture) The Ayres Trio do an old act well the roller-skating stunts which depend ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Wartime Motoring Commentary

... Alan C. Hess AUTRE temps. It seems only a very little while ago that I was dipping my pen in vitriol and writing with appropriate venom about the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Winston Churchill, on whose initiative the Road Fund was first raided and motorists' money misappropriated to bolster up an unsound Budget. And now, here I am again writing of Mr. Winston Churchill, this time in ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 750 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

The First Lord's Daughter as a Machiavellian Heroine

... Sarah Churchill is the young wife Lucrezia in Nicolo Machiavelli's comedy Mandragola, now at the Mercury, in Ashley Dukes' English adaptation. Voltaire thought the play worth all the comedies of Aristophanes, but London critics have lacked his enthusiasm. However, the production is a collector's piece for the theatrical connoisseur, since this, after four hundred and twenty-four years, is the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

More Fragments from France

... : Brace Bairnsfather Nao, I don't mind it, mate. Whenever I gets a bit fed up, I either thinks of Poland, Finland and Czechoslovakia, or Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Rumania Bruce Bairnsfather ...

FOR R.A.F. COMFORTS: THE AUDIENCE AT THE SHAFTESBURY

... . L. to r. SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, Air Minister LADY MAUREEN STANLEY and the HON. OLIVER STANLEY were at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Also present were MRS. S. F. WYNNE-EYTON, Assistant Director W.A.A.F. AIR MARSHAL W. L. WELCH, C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C., Air Member for Supply and Organisation MISS J. H. TREFUSIS FORBES, Director, W.A.A.F. SIR EDWARD CAMPBELL, Secretary of State for Air SERGT. PILOT ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SOCIALITE SCULPTURE: THE WORK OF NICOLAUS KONI

... I_ _ _ _ _ . PRINCESS IRMA WEIKERSHEIM, in common with many lovely and well known women, has had her portrait done by the young Hungarian sculptor Nicolaus Koni who is having a very busy time of it in his London studio. Koni is fond of the long, flowing line of El Greco paintings, and you can see something of it in this bust of LADY ORANMORE AND BROWNE. A charming portrait-bust of PRINCESS ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 126 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs