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The Bystander

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... WHEN YOU'RE TIRED AND HEADACHY Don't let shopping or work or worry get you down. There 's no need to come home tired out and with a head that 's fit to burst. And it 's no good just taking something to relieve the pain. What you 've been doing has brought on what doctors call an acid condi tion, and if you want to get fresh and alert you must correct that acidity. Here 's the way to do it. ...

French Sailor British Soldier

... Out of the dozens of photographs, dramatic, tragic, pathetic, comic, that were taken of the Battle of Dunkirk, of the embarkation of the B.E.F. from those now historic beaches, and of their arrival in England, we have chosen these two as symbolic of all the others. Here are unquenchable gaiety and love of life on the one hand on the other, exhaustion, dogged endurance, and a grim humour of ...

Home Front: War Work, and Some Social Events

... Home Front War Work, and Some Social Events Racing: Two Young Marrieds Lieut, and Mrs. Adair Wigan were at the recent Hurst Park meeting. They were married last autumn. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Denis Wigan, live in Suffolk and hers are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gordon of Boveridge Park near Salisbury Flags Three Sellers and a Customer On Red Cross Flag Day last week, Lady Ellis was one of the ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 629 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Summer Accessories

... A new hat is as good a tonic as ever, and Gorringes, Buckingham Palace Road, have a collection that will give lresh life to your summer clothes. The model above, made entirely of geranium flowers, with long satin ribbons, looks charming with prints or as an unexpected finish to a black suit. Another hat here is in chalk-white jersey, firmly stitched, with grapes and vine-leaves curling over ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 214 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell THE Prime Minister rose to his greatest heights of oratory, unsurpassed even by himself, when he described the miracle of the evacuation of Dunkirk. He was especially moving and noble in his tribute to the few thousand airmen who made the miracle possible by holding back the enormous German Air Force. The Knights of the Round ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2030 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Photographs 

Are You Being Served?: The Bystander Goes Round the Canteens; Nos. 9, 10, 11. Y.M.C.A. Canteens at Plymouth, ..

... Are You Being Served? The Bystander Goes Round the Canteens Nos. 9, 10, 11. Y.M.C.A. Canteens at Plymouth, Yeovil and Exeter Plymouth is very proud of its large, modern Y.M.C.A. Centre, in Union Street, under the Presidency of Lady Dunbar- Nasmith, whose husband, Ad miral Sir Martin Dunbar- Nasmith, V.C., is C.-in-C. at Plymouth. It consists of a big canteen, an annexe used as canteen, ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 758 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Robert Montgomery--Ambulance Driver

... Robert Montgomery Ambulance Driver Film-star Robert Montgomery left England two weeks ago to join the U.S. Field Ambulance Corps in France as a driver. Above, Roswell I. Sanders, an American volunteer veteran of the last war, gives the novice a line on map-reading. Bob Montgomery was over here to make Busman's Honeymoon when war broke out, went back to America with his wife when all our ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 170 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Beatrice Appleyard: Non-Stop Ballet Dancer

... Beatrice Appleyarcl Non-Stop Ballet Dancer Beatrice Appleyard is a Windmill Theatre star she dances, sometimes sings, and is the resident ballet mistress there. Iter own training as a dancer was thorough she went to Ninette de Valois to learn classical ballet and mime when she was four teen, was one of the' original Vic- Wells dancers when the first tiny company was formed, stayed there till ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 214 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Getting Married: The Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements

... Getting Married The Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Cory-W right Elwes The wedding of Captain Julian Cory-Wright, Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Susan Esterel Elwes took place quietly at St. Mary's, Cougham, Nor folk. He is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Cory-W right, of the Manor House, Knebworth, Herts., and the Cottage, Brancaster, and she is the eldest daughter of ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 808 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Craft Conquest: Some New Industries Brought to Great Britain by Her Refugee Guests

... Craft Conquest Some New Industries Brought to Great Britain by Her Refugee Guests Great Britain has always been the gainer in the long run from her hospitality to refugees, and in century after century many a flourishing craft or business owed its success to the brains or manual skill or manu facturing secrets of some fugitive from Continental oppression. Lately the same thing has been ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 725 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs