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Pamela May Is Engaged

... f dancers of the Vic-Wells ballet company, has just announced her engagement Pamela May, one of the leading da Marines painton g C(,well> cidcst son of Mr. and Mrs. Painton Cowen. to a young Lieutenant in the J Mr and Mrs R H May, of 53, Lee Terrace, Blackheath. ol Mawchi, Burma. e is _ Pamela May is not giving up her career as a dancer. She is to have They are to be married ^soon ncJ bal,(.t ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 157 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell AS I write, the German invasion of Scandinavia has only just begun, and by the time this appears in print almost anything may have happened. Rumours succeed rumours every hour or so. At one moment the Gneisenau has been sunk by coastal batteries in the Oslo Fjord, and five minutes later the Gneisenau is steaming northwards to ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2336 | Page: Page 4, 6, 7 | Tags: Photographs 

The Country Wife: Opening Herbert Farjeon's Restoration Season at the Little Theatre

... The Country Wife Opening Herbert Farjeon's Restoration Season at the Little Iheatre The Pinchicifes are played by Charles Victor, a gruff, stuffy, wooden- headed picture of a jealous husband, and Hermione Baddeley, who makes Margery Pinchwife into the silliest, naughtiest minx imaginable, sometimes to the point of burlesque. The last time Wycherley's comedy was produced in London-- at the Old ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Thrills in a Shepherd's Bush Fjord: Gainsborough's new film For Free-dom covers the Altmark incident

... Thrills in a Shepherd's Bush Fjord dom covers the Altmark incident 3. The Altmark incident concludes the film. Here Captain Dahl (well guarded tells the British prisoners that Germany will win 4. British prisoners play dominoes on an upturned crate, while the Altmark hugs the Norwegian coast on its way back to the Fatherland A reconstruction of Josing Fjord, where H.M.S. Cossack cornered the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 65 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Aintree Outing: Some of the People Who Saw Lord Stalhridge's Bogskar Win the Grand National

... Aintree Outing Some of the People Who Saw Lord Stalhridge's Bo^skar Win the Grand National Lady Alexandra Beasley wife of the jockey, Pat Beasley, and sister of the Earl of Wilton, teas talking to Mrs. Harold Cayzer, Mrs. Nicholas Cayzer and Major Harold Cayzer. Mrs. Nicholas Cayzer Betty Williams that teas is the wife of Sir August Cayzer s heir, and niece by marriage of the Harold Cayzers ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Canadians Give Us a New Game: Soft Ball Demonstrated for Our Readers

... 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 ...

Salmon-- Trout-- Pike

... 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 ...

Round the New Shows

... 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, ...

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MARSHALL & SNELGROVE

... MARSHALL A SAELGROVE Furs that blossom anew This season we say, You will thank us later if you buy NOW-- and so you will. Prices are still very favourable but markets are rising and present levels will soon be a dream. Incidentally furs have never been more charming than now and our collection is particularly extensLve and interesting. Wilh characteristic verve our designers introduce a new ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 134 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

VANI-TRED

... V U^ll-TRED That's how it teels when you're wearing shoes, Hard pavements seem to give to every step. The secret is in the in-built features, which give you a greater tread area and a restful compensation for high heels. You have never walked in such feather lightness before. They're such dashing shoes too sophisticated styles that make your friends think you've been shopping in Fifth Avenue, ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 130 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Photographs