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Queer Jobs for Birds and Beasts

... Queer J obs for B irds and B easts B y Andrew R. B oone EACH afternoon shortly before dusk, property men in a dozen Hollywood moving picture studios grab their phones. To a score of animal trainers scattered through nearby valleys they utter strange demands. Squirrel to lead like a dog stage ten at nine. One cat must make love to an eagle. Two chimpanzees for hold-up scene. Raven, to tell a ...

The Land of the Ethiopian

... 1 T he l^and of the X^thiopian 1 Some littie known facts about ?iow destined as a result of the become once again an Abyssinia Africa's oldest empire present co?iflict against Italy to independent kingdom By Harold J. Shepstone AS a result of the revolt in Abyssinia it looks as if this ancient African kingdom will, with British help, be able to throw off the Italian yoke and once again regain ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2117 | Page: Page 30, 31, 56 | Tags: Photographs 

Making Separation Allowance

... ^ At one time the average mother, asked to face indefinite separation from her children in time of danger, would probably have told you it was impossible. It is one of the impressive facts of life that we endure the unendurable and, stranger still, when the ordeal is past, discover that even suffering has its compensations. In this case the compensations are hard to realise, but they do exist. ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1586 | Page: Page 32, 33 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITISH HISTORY IN STONE: General James Wolfe

... No' 4 ^0%v General James Wolfe V* General James Wolfe THE house had three gables-- as it has to-day-- and it stands at the foot of the little hill leading up to Westerham Green. A pleasant Elizabethan manor house, had thought Colonel Wolfe. His wife liked it, too, although, when the time came when the infant James was due to arrive, she spent the fateful hours a hundred yards up the street at ...

London's Weavers of Deliverance

... 1 ■T$Sr S SB r- I^Hi&^^HB' aagSSr jask^M H^^n| MTwa g^ mk S^rfll No fewer than five Continental Countries, with a population of over seventy million people, have their free and legitimate Governments now established in England By Ferdinand Tuohy LIBERATION is on the way. The only thing is, should it be merely awaited or should one help in achieving it? I hear you reply, without hesitation, ...

HOUSE-TO-BE

... i By Winifred Lewis We each have our war aims. Some we share with the world at large, some have a private and more personal significance. All of them are based upon the knowledge that bad old systems are to-day tumbling about us like nine-pins, old prejudices are melting like snow before a fire, and that the future offers us a chance for reconstruction that we dare not miss. To begin with ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1462 | Page: Page 42, 43 | Tags: Photographs 

Sports Sweater

... MAKE IT IIS WHITE FOR DASH AND DISTINCTION MATERIALS 9 oz. Copley-Smith's Excelsior 4-ply white; a pair each of No. 9 and No. 11 needles; press studs. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 ins. sleeve seam, IS ins. length, 20 ins. TENSION 8 sts. and 10 rows to 1 in. BACK AND FRONT ALIKE Cast on 1 14 sts. with No. 1 1 needles. Work 6 ins. in follow ing patt. 1st row. K. 2, p. 6 rep. from to end of row, ...

Greenland

... The Orphan Isle By Harold J. Shepstone WILL America take over Green land? That is the question which is exercising the minds of states men in Washington. It is suggested that she should buy from Denmark just as she purchased Alaska from Russia and develop it. That she is concerned over the ultimate fate of this far-flung Arctic possession of Denmark is obvious. Within a few days of the German ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1806 | Page: Page 22, 66, 67 | Tags: Photographs 

Jamal

... for waves that women envy and men admire No wires, electricity or machines are needed to make your hair incomparably lovely the way. Safe, accurate, is the coolest, most comfort able permanent you could wish for. Specialists show the Yellow Check Box. THE FREEDOM WAVE ...

Told On A White Piano

... A Trio of yielodies, Grave and Gay By Christine Tope-Slade I SHALL put it on wheels and take it out into the streets, said Toni Lesco. Dorothy Lesco turned over on a grubby pillow and burst into tears. Troubadours and minstrels sang their lay, said Toni pitifully, and there was no loss of prestige in it. Bards and minstrels with small harps in the old days; going across the country; and ...

True Blues

... T rue Blues HAH Y AM) AZCHE MAKE A FLATTERING DRESSY JEMPER MATERIALS 3 oz. Copley-Smith's Excelsior 2-ply in pale blue; 2 oz. of same wool in darker blue; a pair each of No. 9 and No. 11 needles; Press studs. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 ins. length, 20 ins. sleeve seam, 5J ins. TENSION 7 sts. and 10 rows to 1 in. THE BACK Cast on 120 sts. with dark wool and No. 11 needles. Work k. 2, p. 2 rib ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 802 | Page: Page 47, 81 | Tags: Photographs 

Henny Sees It Through

... H enny Sees 1 1 ^Through A German Kir man D is covers to his T>ismay that Ridicule is disarming By Margaret Ferguson I'M afraid it's going to be terribly lonely, Henny, Joan said anxiously. Just two women and four small children in a little country cottage stuck all by itself in a frightfully remote part of Dartmoor. There isn't another house within two miles so far as I can make out, but ...