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The Grapes of Wrath: The Film of Steinbeck's Great Novel

... 66 The Grapes of Wrath The Film of Steinbeck's Great Novel i 1. In Oklahoma's dust howl farm tenants find big banks have taken over their land to work it on a large scale. In rage and despair some farmers resist being turned off the fields their families have held for generations but the cats caterpillar trac- tors drive relentlessly on, often through shack homesteads and barns. This happens ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 723 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Women in the Lighter News

... Adhle Dixon signed her name in autograph-hunt- ing soldiers' pay- books at the first night of Chu Chin Chow, at the Palace Lady Crosfield had her niece, Domini Papalexo poulo daughter of a Greek admiral, to help her pick lime flowers in her Highgate garden. The flowers are dried in the sun and then used for making lime tea, good for the digestion and nerves Sonja Henie is now Mrs. Dan Topping ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 472 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... PETER AND THE WOLF is a new ballet by Frank Staff, and shows the same inventiveness, originality, humour and skill as his Czernyana and The Tartans 1 though in a completely different style. He has used Prokofiev's musical tale and spoken commentary with most amusing effect, and Guy Sheppard has got the same nursery-fun-for-grown-ups feeling into his decor. The London premiere was on the second ...

Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane Bennett

... Maureen O Snllivan as Jane Bennett The extremely young, squash -faced bulldog nestling in Maureen O 'Sullivan's hands here is, so they say, making a similar appearance in Hollywood's film of Pride and Prejudice. Maureen O'Sullivau herself is demure Jane Bennett in the screen version of Jane Austen's novel, which Hunt Stroinberg and Robert Z. Leonard are producing and directing for M.G.M. Stars ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 110 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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