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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 AVON INDIA RUBBER CO. LTD

... SYMBOLS OF ENDURANCE War, Export and Home Production Since 1885, through crises and wars, depressions and good times, the Avon Company has continued to contribute its full share towards the evolution and development of Tyres and General Rubber Goods. Today the Company is proud to use its resources in furthering the common task, and the demands of His Majesty's Government receive absolute ...

WAIFS & STRAYS SOCIETY

... Little lives, once sad, may, with your help, be lifted up where brightness shall follow gloom, and laughfer take the place of tears. 5000 children now in our care. ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 29 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MEN WHO DID IT ALL IN NORWAY

... CAPTAIN B. A. W. WARBURTON-LEE, who com manded the destroyers which attacked the German flotilla in Narvik Fiord on April .10 and who died in H.M.S. Hardy after the brilliant action which was the prelude to the further action led bv H.M.S. IVarspite. Captain Warburton-Lee assumed com mand of the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla last July and next month he would have completed thirty years' service in ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 479 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LON BY ARTIST AND CAMERA No.1. BLACK VELVET; AT THE LON STAGE AND AUDITORIUM

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LOf IFWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA |fclo.1. BLACK VELVET; AT THE LOf loDROME-- STAGE AND AUDITORIUMJ So come and dance the polka with the whole com- i party finale of the Cafe I Royal scene. I Left I TEDDY BROWN .tricks Debrov Somers and his band. EILEEN MOORE, PAT KIRKWOOD, CAROLE LYNNE and NORMA DAWN as the Gold-diggers. My Heart Belongs to Daddy The Cold-diggers and the ...

SILKEN ROPE FOR A GANGSTER PEER: THE EARL OF CHICAGO

... SILKEN ROPE FOR A GANGSTER PEER THE EARL OF CHICAGO. Left Silky note Earl of Chicago finds his gang ster technique unequal to facing feudal formalities such as meeting his staff, marshalled by the butler (edmuhd' g w e n n). Doc. Ramsey (EDWARD ARNOLD) is tcith him. Right In plenty you had land and rent your length in clay *s now com petent. The scene in the House of Lords when the Earl of ...

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

Larola

... in \mm i!i Whether you are in uniform or not, on munitions or other Government work, don't neglect your skin because of changed conditions. Keep up the regular daily applications of to tone and nourish the skin, to keep your face and hands beautifully soft, white and smooth. . pure and free of all pore-clogging ingredients, is applied in a minimum of time it prevents red and roughened skin ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 112 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

THE AIR FORCE take part in the NORWEGIAN BATTLES: Special Sphere Drawings; and Official Photographs

... fHE Air Force take part in the Norwegian Battles Special Sphere Drawings |nd Official Photographs vMright-- AIR FORCE AND NORWEGIAN NAVY CO OPERATE This picture was taken by a Royal Air Force aeroplane near Bergen on April 9. It shows a Norwegian gunboat rounding up suspect ships to establish their identity. The gunboat is the third vessel from the bottom of the picture I WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10-- ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 753 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Maps  Photographs