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What is Your Ultimate Objective?

... W ith all this discussion of War Aims, Peace Aims what about your own Personal Aims after this dismal War is over THERE is every indication that there are going to be more changes in our social horizon after this war than there were even after the last one. They might not come again by revolution (unless this struggle carries on long enough for that to begin in Germany); but most observers ...

To-day in The Bal Tabarin

... By Harry J. Greenwall This famous Parisian place of entertainment, which our grandfathers called Naughty, is now providing a satisfying meal for the equivalent of about threepence, to singers, dancers and actors, hard hit by the War THE most modern of the Mont- martre places of amusement was the Bal Tabarin, and paradoxical as it may be, the Tabarin is also the oldest of them all, yet it was ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3285 | Page: Page 27, 88, 89 | Tags: Photographs 

No Man Could Wear This Out

... tV* °tt ■\Va r*M a,t J! required 11 oz. 4-ply Femina wool; 6 buttons, and 1 pair each of No. 9 and No. 12 Stratnoid knitting needles. MEASUREMENTS Length from shoulder, 21 ins.; across back under arm, 19½ ins.; across fronts, 10½ins.; sleeve length from shoulder, 24 ins. TENSION 7 sts. to 1 in. BACK With No. 9 needles cast on 132 sts. Rib 1 in. in k. 1, p. 1. Continue in the following patt ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1238 | Page: Page 52, 53, 87, 88 | Tags: Photographs 

PERSONALITY

... now yot co-u cj uu? you>i By Louisa Kay It was thought at one time that children were born either beautiful or plain, healthy or otherwise, clever or dull. It was a question of luck and you took your chance. If Fate was against you that was that. There was nothing you could do about it. If we need any proof that this is a wonderful new world we live in, we need only consider how all this is ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 734 | Page: Page 60 | Tags: Photographs 

Yardley

... would love and be lovable Benjamin Franklin M An all occasion perfume for Daytime Daintiness and informal evening wear. The quiet, wistful beauty of English Lavender brings to your Toilette an appealing note of I refinement and charm, delightful fi to the man on leave who loves ft to entertain you. Jjtlg Lavender Soap in boxes of three tablets 2/6 Lavendomeal 3 Face Powder 2 J- Talc lj2 ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 77 | Page: Page 69 | Tags: Photographs 

Cuticura

... Fftflfihn THAT CHAFED SKIN HAS FOUND RELIEF A baby's skin is so sensitive that unless the soap you use suits it per fectly, soreness and irritation are the result. No wonder the poor little mite is so fretful and cannot sleep. If your baby's skin shows the least sign of redness, a rash, or nappy soreness, change to Soap at once and you'll have no more worry. Soap is mild and soothing, ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 155 | Page: Page 81 | Tags: Photographs 

INSIDE KNOWLEDGE

... THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN A large number of the informative diagrammatic sectional drawings are reproduced as panoramas, drawings, chiefly by that well-known artist G. H. EACH MEASURING OVER THREE FEET WIDE. Davis, which have been published from time to They show British warship types a Battleship, time in THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, are a Cruiser, a Flotilla-Leader, a Submarine, ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 190 | Page: Page 91 | Tags: Photographs 

SOLDIERS AND OTHERS AT WINDSOR 'CHASES

... . L. to r. MRS. MORGAN JONES, SIR GERARD FULLER, and CAPTAIN MORGAN JONES made three of the large crowd at the Windsor Boxing Day jumping meeting. MISS BARBARA DUNNE was out with her are MR. TIMOTHY TUFNELL (left) and MR. ROBIN WEATHERLEY. LADY ROSEMARY GRESHAM, sister of the Earl of Erroll, with CAPTAIN GRESHAM. CAPTAIN and MRS. SKENE were there. The going was dead but runners were plentiful. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HEIL, CINDERELLA REHEARSING AT WILTON HOUSE, SALISBURY A CECIL BEATON PRODUCTION FOR COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS

... HEIL, CINDERELLA REHEARSING AT |r WILTON M HOUSE, SALISBURY j A CECIL BEATON PRODUCTION FOR i COMFORTS A FOR THE 1 TROOPS. u 1 WILTON HOUSE, Lord Pembroke's magnificent place, teas an ant-heap of industry during rehearsals of the Wilton House Company for their Grand Topical Christmas Pantomime, Heil, Cinderella by Cecil Beaton and John Sutro. It teas performed at the Michael Herbert Hall, ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 350 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

H.M.S. REVENGE: OUR EIGHTY-FOURTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C

... The Naty is in the news again with this splendid photograph of a British battleship winner of the eighty-fourth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. George Taylor with a Leica camera. Film Agfa Isopan. Exposure l-100th second at f.6.3. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 52 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 38 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs