Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... The 1940 Estimates Owners to Spend a Million and a Half National Horses at Haydock Park THERE has been much talk recently in the House, on the air and in the newspapers of the Navy's effort, the Army's effort and that of the R.A.F. There have also been Estimates. Estimates are optimistic guesses about the cost of impending events. They always amount to far too much in the first place and are ...
... THE Household Brigade Draghounds are still carrying on, being out on Wednesdays and Fridays, and will continue to about the end of the month. The twenty couple of hounds, however, have been reduced to nj couple as a wartime measure. A line of about seven miles, with a check half-way, is generally run in a day. This is, of course, a private pack, no subscriptions being accepted except from ...
... â– MBMUIB Lights Up! at the Savoy Mr. Cochran Sees for Himself LIGHTS UP! having settled down at the Savoy Theatre to a vast success (Miss Evelyn Laye has returned to the cast after an attack of 'flu), Mr. C. B. Cochran has been feeling justified in taking a sort of busman's holiday and seeing some other shows. The other night I sat in a box with him at the Apollo Theatre, to see London's big ...
... THE setting-out of small plants has always been a laborious, back-aching job, as those who do their own gardening well know. When it comes to the market gardener or farmer with acres and acres to plant, the job, unless he can call upon big teams, seems endless. It is true that a good man, with a boy to bring the plants, will put in 5000 a day, but this is one of those deadly tasks which the ...
... Rapier on Racing Two-year-olds to look out for Owen Tudor the best as yet Perryman's Harvest at Windsor A Link with Fred Archer IT is perhaps early as yet to think about the coming Ascot meeting. One hardly dares to look very far ahead, in any case, just now. The meeting, however, if and when it comes, will be very welcome in more ways than one. I am thinking particularly of the two-year-olds ...
... CAPTAINS AND REFEREE Left, C. Bicknell West Ham), the Referee, G. Dutton (of Warwick), and right, W. Crook Blackburn Rovers). Bicknell, one of the finest captains the Hammers have ever had, is a War Reserve policeman, j Crook is a sergeant-instructor in the Army. THE WEST HAM GOALKEEPER Herman Conway, challenged by L. Butt, the Rovers' inside- right. Conway is a deputy London A.R.P. chief. ...
... Summer Wedding A WHITE wedding need not be expensive if you consult Harrods, of Knightsbridge, about your frock. They have wedding dresses from 69s. 6d., and can, of course, provide all the accessories, an important point if your plans have to be made in a hurry. The simple frock shown above, in a very attractive flowered lace, costs 4I guineas the skirt falls gracefully into a train at the ...
... Old-Fash ioned Harriers By A. Croxton Smith UNIQUE pack of West Country Harriers wanting a Master for next season. Good guarantee: Apply Miss Aston, Court, Exford, Somerset. This advertisement in the personal columns of The Times caught my eye just before Hitler began his great push. It was obvious that it related to the Quarme Harriers, a pack that has always interested me, because, by ...
... 1: BY APPOINTMENT TO M M.K.IH6 GEORGE VI tUrtionfrflTr.f. tszMbZSjre.2 Agencies everywhere. Write for illustrated catalogue. ...
... The Canadians Give Us a New Game Soft Ball Demonstrated for Our Readers. WITH the Canadian Expeditionary Force has come a new game called soft ball, first cousin to baseball and akin to our own rounders. Its popularity is already spreading beyond the ranks of the Canadians in this country, as it is a game that requires little equipment and can be played in any open space. These pictures were ...
... LIEUT. -COL. F. A. MACARTNEY hopes for trout on Sir Henry Tate's stretch of the Usk at Abergavenny. MRS. I. A. FOWLER'S so-pounder was the first salmon to be landed by a lady on the Usk this season. COL. P. S. WHITCOMBE, who is A.Q.M.G. of the 38th Division, also tries for salmon in Sir Henry Tate's stretch at Abergavenny. A GOOD CATCH Fishing in private waters near Banbury, Mr. M. Bennett and ...
... Good Men Sleep at Home (Shaftesbury 8.40) IF the delighted and obviously sincere yelps and chortlings of a first-night audience mean anything-- and it stands to reason that they do-- this farce by Mr. Walter Ellis stands a good chance of winning the success in this war which his A Little Bit of Fluff did in the last bit of trouble. The chief merry- makers in the Fluff piece, by the way, ...