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... The Secret Agent's Wife by Olga L. Rosmanith Harry said formally, Sheila, this is Mr. Guise and this is Mr. Hendrikson. Gentlemen, Mrs. Warren my wife. They rose and bowed stiffly. Sit down again, please, she said. Don't mind me. I 've come back for a warmer coat and I 'm going right out again. I think not, said the dark, swarthy one. Adding, as he saw her look of swift anger, I mean I ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 935 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

Social Register

... ut a*. iMJMmmiJiS&mt.mb'zr i Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone Major-General the Earl of Athlone, is the neic Governor- General of Canada and he will leave with Princess Alice Countess of Athlone, shortly. In 1914 he teas about to take the same office when war broke out and he went on active service. The Earl of Athlone was a highly successful Gov ernor-General of South Africa during a ...

Who? Not Queen Victoria, Surely?

... Who Not Queen Victoria, Surely Anna Neagle is one of the few stars in Hollywood who can come and go as they like, without gawping fans on their heels. That 's for the plain reason that Californians don't yet know what she looks like, having only seen her draped and padded as Queen Victoria, austere and middle-aged as Nurse CavelL But her precious incognito is over as soon as Irene is shown. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 502 | Page: Page 15, 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Advertisements

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Three Generations in A House in the Square

... Three Generations in 44 A House in the Square Margaret Rawlings, Lilian Braithwaite and Janet Johnson are mother, grandmother and daughter in A House in the Square, at the St. Martin's Theatre Diana Morgan's first straight play. She has previously given us several witty lyrics and sketches for Gate revues (written in collaboration with her husband, Robert McDermott), and was part author of ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Article

... The Passing Hour Continued J ex-ftreman and twenty chums who spend their time wrecking trains, railway lines and bridges, and dodging the armoured cars of the great experimenters. In eighteen months they have destroyed ninety-five engines, eighteen armoured cars, twenty-five bridges, and a hundred miles of permanent-way. One of the most striking passages of Mr. Churchill's broadcast was his ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1207 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs 

Show Celebrities

... Three Stars of the Air Peter Cressicell produced the radio version of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with James Edmunds as Mr. Smith, James Steicart's film part. Here Cressicell watches Edmunds release a pigeon in a match between fanciers of Romford and Golders Green for the Frank Capra Cup. Mr. Smith, in the film, used pigeons to send letters home to his mother in the Middle West Grade Fields ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 314 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Stephen Murray as Abraham Lincoln

... The London Mask Theatre has done well to put on Abraham Lincoln at the Westminster at this moment. First, because line after line, speech after speech in John Drinkwater's play express the thoughts and arguments of to-day, about war, about the necessity and the time for meeting aggression with force, about reprisals, peace terms, post-war reconstruction. Then because the ideals, actions and ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Citizen of the World: An Oxford Conference Plans Peace

... Citizen of the World J An Oxford Conference Plans Peace Goldsmith's citizen was a desoriente Chinese, but in these strife-torn days when the world has been made at the same time (and possibly by the same process) geographi cally intra-accessible as a unit and politically split into watertight boxes, there are many movements afoot to plan a peace after this war that will make the ordinary man a ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 434 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Jersey Lily: A play about Lily Langtry at the Gate Theatre

... The Jersey Lily A play about Lily Langtry at the Gate Theatre The Gate Theatre company returned to their home in Villiers Street, and the section of the Auxiliary Fire Service that had taken over when war started left a few weeks ago. The first war-time production of Norman Marshall's intelligent and progressive theatre is The Jersey Lily, a play which deals with the private life of Lily ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 265 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Are You Being Served?: The Bystander Goes Round the Canteens

... Are You Being Served? The Bystander Goes Round the Canteens No. 1. The Y.M.C.A. Canteen at Euston More amateurs are cooking and serving meals and washing-up plates and mugs these days than at any time since the last war. Canteen workers develop a jealous loyalty to the place of their labours, compare notes eagerly or prices and methods with their rivals. In this new Bystander series we cover ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 911 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Films of the Day: An American Tragedy--Of Mice and Men

... Films of the Day An American Tragedy Of Mice and Men liy George Campbell PERHAPS you read Of Mice and Men in book form, or saw the play. If so, I need only tell you that the film does justice to a story of extra ordinary originality and power. The pro duction by Hal Roach, the former slap stick king, sacrifices none of the original's realism, and makes no concessions to sentimentality or the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1077 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Photographs