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To Star in a Thriller: Ann Todd

... 1 o star in a 1 hriller Ann 1 odd Ann Todd will play her original role in Loltie Dundass, the murder-in-the-theatre thriller, by Enid Bagnold, which opens at the Vaudeville Theatre on July 21. She created the part when the play was presented at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, last October. By way of contrast, this versatile young actress played Peter Pan last Christmas. Born in Cheshire and ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 133 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MYSELF AT THE PICTURES: A Brilliant Suggestion

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES A Brilliant Suggestion By James Agate IF the film were really the intellectual thing our highbrow critics make it out to be, it would take its courage in both hands and tackle, say, Ibsen's Master Builder which has just been revived at the Westminster Theatre. Since Ibsen's later plays have this in common with the counties of Scotland and German irregular verbs-- that ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1253 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs 

Distinguished Dancers: Alicia Halama and Czeslaw Konarski

... Distinguished Dancers Alicia Halama and Czeslaw Konarski Holota aS 1 the p fl tuguese p estival Dn ^vnce Czeslaw Konarski and Alicia Halama do their Portuguese dance at the Festival, finally gyrating like a humming-top until the audience feel giddy Piety encounters Evil. Halama and her partner in the ballet which forms part of Gay's new show at the Mogador Theatre, Paris ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 62 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

N. I. A. B

... NIAB THE National Institute of Agricultural Botany carries on its very valuable work under a council composed of members nominated by the Ministry of Agriculture and by all the large associations interested in the work of supplying farmers with pure tested seeds and new varieties of agricultural crops. The Institute also acts as an advisory centre for all purposes connected with the many ...

Chemical Weed Control

... THE difficult problem of efficient weed control on arable land, with the shortage of labour, has made the ordinary farmer disinclined to embark on the cultivation of any crop that requires more hand labour than the normal. For this reason the Government appeal for an additional acreage of onions has not met with a very ready response. Labour and production costs are high and agricultur alists ...

W.L.A. Festival at Guildford

... LADY DENMAN, Honorary Director of Ji Women's Land Army, was the guest at tH week-end of Lord and Lady Onslow, *3 gave facilities at Clandon Park, Guildford, forB rally of Surrey W.L.A., in conjunction with tffl Surrey W.A.E.C. The Rally, or Festival, wasB tremendous success and attracted a crowd of 8,0 Demonstrations included general forestry (includi#! loading, cross-cutting and measuring) by ...

Up and Down the Land

... Gwicf ^^ozon. GROWERS are concerned over the development of de-hydrating pro cesses as applied to fresh vegetables. Large supplies of cabbage, spinach, carrots arid peas are being shipped every day from home to the Forces overseas; one East Anglian firm alone is producing 250,000 tins of dried peas daily for this purpose; 50 tons of cabbage, de-hydrated, become one ton nett. This is splendid ...

Breeders' Gift to Red Cross Agriculture Fund

... IN common with breeders of all pedigree stock, breeders of bloodstock continue to look forward to the time when the export market will again be open to them. It is probable that there will be a very limited trade with Europe in the early stages of re construction. Priority in shipping will go to cattle, sheep and pigs. JtSut it should not be long before the ships will be carrying blood stock ...

The Standard Motor Company Ltd

... , rhe Standard Motor Company Ltd., adaptability Her day is a hard one, her work heavy and fatiguing. But she shoulders her unaccustomed tasks with cheerful vigour. And success- We can't all be women railway porters. But we can all remember their example of willing adaptability. We can think of them when faced with war-time jobs that seem new and strange and unsuited to our strength. We can all ...