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... SEABISCUIT, an old bay horse with rheumaticky legs, emerging from retirement at stud, wins the 100,000 dollar Santa Anita Handicap, one of America's richest races, and becomes the biggest money-making horse in racing history, with a total of 437,730 dollars nearly 110,000 in six years. The win stirred America, for only 18 months ago Seabiscuit's legs had broken down. But Mr. C. S. Howard, his ...
... Experiment in Duck Shooting Punt with a Silent Motor DR. O. B. Deiter, the well-known London osteopath, has made a duck-shooting experiment of great interest at Brightlingsea, Essex. He has fitted his punt with an outboard electric motor which is absolutely silent and enables him to glide within very close range of his quarry. Last season was Dr. Deiter's first attempt at the sport and though ...
... IHU=r,CS'Sr OU O^-TripleX-^hU, Friday, MAY 3. 1940. The Illustrated SPORTING and DRAMATIC News ...
... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- CHIEF PETTY OFFICER GEORGE COCK, of H.M. Destroyer HARDY, of the first attack on Narvik, for being unsinkable. Digging for victory when at home, so that the spuds will be ready for his next leave Believe it or not, the special jumper sent for Tubby proved TOO BIG Recounting his great adventures to friends in the local. _J i Thumbs up after the epic adventure of Narvik ...
... FILM, RUGGER AND RESTAURA WARTII jlrs THE CAMERA LOOKS ROUND Ion. CADET G. B. HORSBRUGH London Scottish and Scotland the Army for ward is here seen with MRS. HORSBRUGH before the Army v. Great Britain Rugger match. The Army won by 23 points to 15. Right: CAPTAIN R. H. O'BRIEN went to the Army v. Great Britain Rugger match with MISS JOAN FRYER, V.A.D. Right The EARL OF EUSTON, elder son of the ...
... DARK BRILLIANCE OF THE PHCENIX: PH UM INCANDESCENCE AT THE LYRIC. E. JESSIE MATTHEWS, dark-haired brown-eyed, vivacious star, is making yet another big hit in COME OUT TO PLAY the new song, dance and comedy show in which she appears at the Phcenix I heatre with her husband, Sonnie Hale. Gaumont-British films have made her one of the most popular screen actresses, and to theatre-goers' ...
... SAINT JOAN FOR THE RED CROSS WISE RA1NER. UISE RAINER as Joan of Arc seeking to inspire the Dauphin icith a sense of the great part he must play. The Maid of Orleans on trial. A poignant study of LUISE RAINER as the Saint when accused of witchcraft. Saint Joan, swayed by fear of death at the stake, signs the recantation presented to her by the monk. The Maid prefers death at the stake to ...
... FACING THE BATTERY FEARLESSLY I Though JERRY WARNICK is facing the battery fearlessly in this snapshot it takes us right away from the tear angle as it shows amateur photographers gathering round her to get some good close-ups during the pre-vietv of a Beauty parade at Long Beach California U.S.A. ...
... . By H. E. SYMONS. ONE does not expect, when serving with the B.E.F., to be able to carry out road- tests of 1940 models. Yet our Army and Air Force are so well equipped with the latest type of car that, as often as not, one finds oneself at the wheel of a machine one has long wanted to try. Not so lone aeo I paid tribute to the stamina and performance of a Hillman Hawk saloon which had given ...
... By A. Croxton Smith THIS week's picture, taken at the Old Berkeley's hunter trials at Great Westwood, near King's Langley, brings to mind a subject that is mainly aesthetic in its bearings. If we keep more than one dog, should they be of the same breed or different? As far as appearances go, and they do count for something, I should prefer to have them all alike, matched in size as well as ...
... , FALMOUTH This picture shows but a third of the Hotel, and of the view from our windows. Come Down and Enjoy the Whole! , ...
... ONE of the most bloody battlefields of all in the_Spanish Civil War was the Royal Puerta de Hierro golf course two miles outside Madrid. Only just over a year ago, after twenty months' siege, Madrid surrendered to General Franco to-day they are playing golf again over that famous course, though it still bears the ugly scars of war as a grim reminder of the terrible days of so little time ago. ...