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Mothers' Milk

... THE human Milk Bureau, founded by Miss E, G. Dare, Matron of Queen Charlotte's Hospital, collects milk from approved nursing mothers for distribution to forty-eight hospitals, and also to other institutions all over the country. Miss Dare, who founded the Bureau four years ago, and who got it going again after it had been closed at the outbreak of hostilities, has studied at first hand in ...

RABBIT-KEEPING SIMPLIFIED: Where there is a Lawn

... RABBIT-KEEPING SIMPLIFIED Where there is a Lawn FOR some years we have been rearing young rabbits on grass alone through- out the summer months when the grass is long and juicy; the results have always been good. There have been no deaths by disease; growth and weight of meat have both been satisfactory and the fur has always benefited, being close and glossy with none of the looseness and ...

Playbill Looks at the Shows

... Rain (St. Martin's) IT is seventeen years since Rain, the play founded on Somerset Maugham's short story of the South Seas, Sadie Thompson, was first produced in London. I have seen in the leading part Miss Jeanne Eagels, Miss Tallulah Bankhead, Miss Olga Lindo and Miss Claire Luce, all of whom brought out the sadness of poor Sadie, who, although she could flare up at times in a flash of ...

FOUR NEWS PICTURES OF THE WEEK

... Our News Pictures of the Week JUST AFTER THE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE (476 to 25) The Prime Minister and his daughter back at No. 10, Downing Street from the House of Commons. Sergeant Mary Churchill of the A.T.S. had received seven days leave, which covered her father's return from the U.S. and the debate in Parliament CAPTURED IN LIBYA AND EN ROUTE FOR CANADA Germans of a Panzer Divisioi leaving ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHAT IS AIR SUPERIORITY?: Did we Have it in Libya; and Did we Use it Correctly?

... WHAT IS AIR SUPERIORITY? Did we Have it in Libya and Did we Use it Correctly? By PATRICK HAMILTON IF the last Libyan campaign is looked at as consisting of two separate phases-- prior to the fall of Bir Hacheim and afterwards-- several rather puzzling features become a little clearer. Particularly does this apply to the air superiority question. Many are asking if we ever in fact had it, ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1574 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Photographs 

MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS: An Experiment in Autobiography--XIV

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- XIV By J. G. A COUNTRY HOUSE.-- I suppose almost every Briton forms in early youth from a tried model the picture of country life which delights and comforts him and gives him his pride and glory in England (or Scotland or Wales) as long as he lives. He may visit a hundred beauty spots and experience the delights of a score of country ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1507 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

Sonnie Hale's New Part

... AT the Coliseum, Sonnie Hale told us how his rabbit farm at The Old House, Hampton, came into being. When war started, his gardener's wife became housekeeper, and as she had to live in she asked if she might bring with her five pet rabbits from which she was inseparable. There's nothing to worry about, sir, they're all gents, were the actual words she used. Permission was given and when ...

The Chow Chow World

... By A. Croxton Smith ONE by one old friends who helped to make dog-showing what it is are passing away, links with the past are being snapped, and in a short time those of us who came into the sport while the founders of the Kennel Club were still active will be regarded as survivals of an age that is almost extinct. Within the last few weeks we have had to note regretfully the death of Lady ...

Rapier on Racing: A Derby Winner Takes the Gold Cup at Last

... A Derby Winner Takes the Gold Cup at Last THE success of Owen Tudor in the Gold Cup-- a triumph which even his great sire, Hyperion, failed to accomplish-- is an event of more than ordinary importance. The last Derby winner to bring off the double was the brilliant Gainsborough, Owen Tudor's grand sire, in the wartime series of 1918. it may oe tnat (Jwen 1 udor was not opposed by a very good ...

CHRISTENING PARTY AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY, CAIRO

... . The 44 christening party for the fine new utility car presented by Miss Ahhond V^A.D., to the 44 Cairo 4 V.A.D. foofr p/ace of t/ie British Embassy, Cairo. LADY LAMPSON, wife of H.E. the British Ambassador, is the president of the British Red Cross Society in Egypt, with Mrs. Blosse-Lynch as her assistant and is Commandant of the 44 Cairo 4 detachment raised at the beginning of the war. This ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 139 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROCKETTE MANNED! A TANK WHICH THE GERMANS HAVEN'T GOT

... . Whatever new and overpowering tanks the Germans may or may not have, it is certain that they do not possess any armour of this calibre of umpteen beauty power and oomph. The vehicle is the mighty tank in Leonidoffs gala stage production To the Colors at the Radio City Music Hall, New York, which is manned by a crew of Rocke'.tes, the famous precision dancers. When it comes to precision, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN BONEY THREATENED BRITAIN AS HITLER DOES TO-DAY!

... WHEN BONEY THREATENED BRITAIN AS HITLER DOES TO-DAY I HpHE YOUNG MR. PITT, J- important Twentieth Century Productions film directed by Carol Reed, is due for presentation at the New Gallery and Marble Arch on July 6. It is a striking historical picture, highly appropriate to the present day, for it 's a re construction of England 150 years ago, when Napoleon stood where Hitler stands now, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 313 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Photographs