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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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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MR. ALBERT PERRY staged a street exhibition of his works. He hired sandwichmen, who carried, instead of the usual boards with placards, paintings of his, priced from £200 to £300. One of the sandwichmen was a girl. RALPH GROOME, twenty-four-year-old Canadian ice-hockey star known as BLONDIE, is a daring rear-gunner of the R.A.F. He has flown twenty times over Germany, and wore his old ice ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPRING REVEALS NEW FASHIONS

... EVEN jewellery has a military air this spring, so the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, 112, Regent St are specialising in regimental badges. The girl above has fastened her blouse with a badge brooch m diamonds and enamel On her lapel she wears a badge watch made so ?hat it can be worn as a clip or a brooch, in two-colour gold with diamonds and enamel Even her silver, engine- turned ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 224 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Racinǵ Raǵout

... f 5i sf ______ Racing Ragout HHHHHHHi ByllRequ;lcp11 THE attendances at all the recent meetings have proved that the public interest in racing, as a spectacle at any rate, has never been greater, and a clerk of the course of a south country racecourse describes recent attendances as simply staggering. Clerks of courses are like farmers, not easy to please, so when they ascend to superla tives ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1594 | Page: Page 10, 54 | Tags: Photographs 

GONE ARE THE DAYS: GONE WITH THE WIND

... GONE ARE THE DAYS- GONE WITH THE WIND At Tara, her family's lovely estate in Georgia, Scarlett O'Hara welcomes her neighbours, the T arleton twins (Fred Crane and George Reeves), from whom she is to learn of the engagement of her sweetheart, Ashley Wilkes, to Melanie Hamilton When the Civil War breaks out, Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) joins the Southern Army. Here he says farewell to Melanie ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 200 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A PRESENTATION TO MR. W. B. BLUMSOM, 80, NOT OUT!

... A PRESENTATION TO MR. W. B. BLUMSOM, 80, NOT OUT The presentation to Doctor Blumsom, the oldest member of Lord Bathurst's hunt, was more or less a surprise function and all the pleasanter for that same. It was at a specially arranged meet for his eightieth birthday at Major Gordon Dugdale's house, The Abbey, Cirencester, and it was to commemorate not only a fox-hunter's birthday, but also the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 227 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

EVELYN LAYE WARNS THE GIRLS AGAINST CHAMPAGNE--IN LIGHTS UP

... EVELYN LA YE WARNS THE GIRLS AGAINST CHAMPAGNE-- IN LIGHTS UP The champagne song in C. B. Cochran's new show at the Savoy is one of the big hits in the whole production and gets the fullest value from the beautiful and talented lady who sings it. She may not seem to be exactly practising what she preaches, but it is sure well meant Lights Up is booming, and is just what London has wanted all ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 156 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs