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Governmental Film Star: Elisabeth Bergner

... Governmental Film Star Elisabeth Bergner Part of your income-tax this year goes to Miss Bergner for working in the first non-documentary Ministry of Information film ever. Raymond Massey, whose brother Vincent, High Commissioner for Canada, is co-operating in the production, is to have the chief masculine part in the film, which is tentatively called On the Ninth Parallel. In a sudden burst of ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 142 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Social Register

... Lieut. Duff and Miss Pound and the First Sea Lord A big naval wedding took place when Lieut. D. R. Duff, R.N., and Barbara Diana Pound were married at St. Michael's, Chester Square. He is the son of Admiral Sir Arthur and Lady Duff, of Var Trees, Morelon, Dorset. She is the daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, and Lady Pound. Her father, ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 685 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Dull and Very Mean: Madge Elliott as a Seaside Resort Derelict

... Dull and Very Mean Madge Elliott as a Seaside Resort Derelict o You probably think of Madge Elliott as a typical musical comedy blonde, singing sentimental June- and-moon songs and breaking into a dance between the verses with a sleek, neat-footed swain. So she was and very effectively often with her husband, Cyril Ritchard, as partner. But in Swinging the Gate she has suddenly struck new gold ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Charlwood Goes to War L.D.V. in a Surrey Village

... Charlwood Goes to War 4k L.D.V. in a Surrey Village The village crier of Charlwood, tucked away on the Surrey-Sussex border, is away in the Army, so Sam Goldsmith assumed, literally as well as figuratively, his mantle of office and announced to the village the formation of the L.D.V. He got plenty of hearers, and there was not one of them that failed to rally round to the defence of their ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Spotlight on Summer: Formal Designs and Hand-blocked Prints

... Spotlight on Summer Formal Designs and Hand-blocked Prints Small, formal designs make attrac tive prints to wear in town, and incidentally help to flatter your figure. Jay's, of Regent Street, have the close-spotted frock and coat above for five guineas, a special price for their summer sale. They have it in navy, black or wine colour, with white spots and pique collar and cuffs, and it comes ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Getting Married: The Bystander's Review of Weddings

... Getting Married j The Bystander's Review of Weddings Mr. King and the Hon. Heather Baden-Powell John King and the Hon. Heather Baden Powell, elder daughter of Lord and Iuidy Baden Powell of Paxtu, Nyeri Kenya and Pax Hill, Bentley, Hants., were married quietly at St. Mary's, Bentley. He is the elder son of Dr. and Mrs. Leslie King, of Nether Swell, Stow -on -the -Wold, Glos is serving with the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 936 | Page: Page 30, 32, 34 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOSS BROS & CO LTD

... MOSS BROS _ _ A CO LTD. MOSS BROS _ _ A CO LTD. W W.A.A.F. Olficer's Uniform in J! ■I. B/ue Barathea C/ofh. J; If your uniform comes from Moss Bros., you can be sure of two things that it conforms strictly to regulations and that it maintains your civilian reputation for elegance. Moss. Bros, can make it for you quickly and supply all accessories to standard at the same time. UNIFORMS and full ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 136 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

People in the Lighter News

... Lord and Lady David Douglas-Hamilton Their Son and Nephew The former Prunella Stack, leader of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, had her baby son just over a month ago. She and her husband, the late Duke of Hamilton's youngest son, were married in 1938, are now living in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire. With them is their nephew, the nearly-two-years-old Angus Marquess of Clydesdale. Lord ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 718 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Lady Teviot at Home

... Wife of one of England's newest peers, Lady Teviot lives with her husband and her six-year-old son, Charles, in a late eighteenth- century house near Newbury. There the household has undergone the customary wartime expansion, in this case by the addition of her baby cousin, Nicholas Villiers. Lady Teviot was Florence Angela Villiers before her marriage in 1930 to the then Colonel Charles Iain ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 169 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Czechoslovakia in England: Britain's Ally Forms Her Government in London

... Czechoslovakia in England Britain's Ally Forms Her Government in London Two years ago people in England believed that 44 peace in our time had been gained by feeding to power- hungry Hitler parts of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Bencsh, patriot President of the dismembered country, went into exile. Six months later Hitler swallowed up the fragments we had left and guaran teed. Six months after that we ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 283 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THREE FOR TRESS OUTPOSTS OF BRITAIN

... THREE FOR fRESS OUTPOSTS OF BRITAIN THE MID-MEDITERRANEAN OUTPOST OF MALTA: This famous island station is larger than one commonly supposes. The attention of the public is so often drawn by pictures to Valetta and the Grand Harbour that the impression gains ground that this is all there is-- ships, boats, and bastioned harbour. Whereas there is a considerable amount of rocky island with ...