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Old Berkeley Hunter Trials

... A RECORD ATTENDANCE of over 800 and perfect weather made the trials a great success. This event was the Open Novice Class and the rider taking the fence is the winner, Mrs. Delahooke, on Martinette. Mrs. Delahooke hunts with the Whaddon Chase. LUNCHEON INTERVAL Miss Marjorie Wild, Miss Anne Handley Page (Joint-Master of the Aldenham Harriers), her sister Mary, and Mr. Sid Lawrence, who has now ...

Pony Club Out With The Eridge

... MOVING OFF TO SAXONBURY There were many members of the Pony Club in the large field for the last regular meet of the Eridge at Pocock's Gate. The young followers were able to enjoy a good day's sport, hounds killing two foxes. The Eridge tally for the season is seventeen brace. LORD AND LADY CAMDEN have taken on the Eridge Hounds from the Committee and will be Joint- Masters next season, when ...

Other Week-End Sporting Events

... FOUL The Thames Amateur Rowing Association held a regatta at Barnes on Saturday, and this picture shows a Fours cox sadly at fault. Iris R.C.'s crew centre station) have gone into Horseferry Irish R.C.'s water and have fouled them. Disqualification follows. Clapham Warwick R.C. (left) were leading and won the heat. In the Fours final Britannia R.C. was successful, and Panther R.C. won the ...

SPORT AND SUNSHINE

... Sport j AND Sunshine THEY call it buffalo cloth, but it looks as white and soft as an Easter lamb. The present feeling for light, rough-surfaced coats is expressed in the charming model above from Dickins and Jones, Regent Street. This one, finger-tip length, costs 94s. 6d., but there are others of the same cloth in different designs. An attractive idea for a tennis coat, and looks well over ...

Round the New Shows

... Up and Doing (Saville 7.45) THEATRICAL mimicry is only too often a case of taking in one another's washing. You go to one theatre to see Miss So-and-So and to another theatre to see Miss Something-else imitating her, and it is all rather good fun, even if one is travelling in a circle. But not a vicious circle. That is the snag so far as I am concerned; for I have a taste for vicious circles ...

Soft Tops in America

... By Highwayman DROPHEAD, or soft top, coupés, as they picturesquely call them, have suddenly become popular in the United States. Almost every maker lists at least one model, from the quality class like Packard to the popular low-priced makes, and they make as much fuss about them as if they had unearthed something entirely new. The only novelty about the general design in our eyes is that ...

THE FIRST LORD WITH THE MEN OF THE HARDY AND ECLIPSE

... THE FIFTY-THREE SURVIVORS OF THE FLOTILLA LEADER HARDY, WITH THEIR OFFICER, LIEUT.-COMMANDER MANSELL (IN SKI ING SUIT), BEING ADDRESSED BY MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL ON HORSE GUARDS' PARADE ON THEIR RETURN TO LONDON AFTER THEIR EPIC ADVEN TURES DURING THE FIRST NAVAL BATTLE IN NARVIK FIORD, WHERE THEY LANDED TO CARRY THE WAR INTO ENEMY TERRITORY. (On right A close-up of Lieut. -Commander Mansell) ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 257 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell IN the debate on the Government's actions in the Russo-Finnish war, one speech stood out far above all the rest. Mr. Harold Macmillan, the Conservative Member for Stockton-on-Tees, had just come back from Finland, and authori tatively and inexorably he blew sky-high the Prime Minister's claim that, so far as arms were concerned, ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1935 | Page: Page 4, 6 | Tags: Photographs 

Rasputin--Harry Baur

... Rasputin Harry Baur Every decade or so, someone is going to make a film about Rasputin the extraordinary and sinister drama of his appearance, personality, powers and story better any invented scenario. And every decade or so there will probably be an actor of the tremendous calibre necessary for playing the Russian monk on the screen. This time it is Harry Baur who takes his part, and a ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Bystander visits the Royal Egyptian Embassy

... The Bystander visits the Royal Egyptian Embassy The war has brought increased business to most Embassy doors. The Egyptian Embassy has had its full share, and with the bitter conflicting interests of belligerents shifting south and east once more, from Scan dinavia to the Balkans and the jNear East, the firmly established friendship and alliance between Egypt and Britain assumes a more and ...

Getting Married The

... Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Milne-Watson Bagnall Michael Milne-Watson, younger son of Sir David Milne-Watson, Bt., and Lady Milne Watson, of Ashley Chase Abbotsbury, Dorset, and 73, Eccleston Square, S.W. and Mary Ltsette Bagnall, younger daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. Bagnall, of Auckland New Zealand, were married at St. Barnabas s, Pvnhco Patricia Louise Badham Is ...

INSIDE KNOWLEDGE

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

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 193 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs