Six Portraits
... I Mrs Peter Thin was married in May to Capt. Peter Thin, M.C., The Royal Dragoons. She is the daughter of Col. Mark Sykes, O.B.E. M.C. ...
... I Mrs Peter Thin was married in May to Capt. Peter Thin, M.C., The Royal Dragoons. She is the daughter of Col. Mark Sykes, O.B.E. M.C. ...
... Guinness! Guinness! I feel like a 7 you were! G.E.I209.A ...
... Lady Wimborne, younger daughter of the Earl of Ilchester, was married in 1938 to the Hon. Ivor Guest, and a year later her husband succeeded his father as Viscount Wimborne. Their son, Ivor, was born in 1939. and his sister, Ann, is three years younger. Lord Wimborne, a Major in the North amptonshire Yeomanry, was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for ...
... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Plans MR. CHURCHILL, back from his eighteen- day visit to the Italian battlefields, stayed in Downing Street just long enough-- as one of his somewhat disgruntled entourage put it-- to get a change of linen. Then his special train was ordered, and off he went on the way to Quebec. So often is this special train needed nowadays, and so short is the notice usually ...
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... The C.-in-C. Anti-Aircraft Command at an A. -A. Brigade H.Q. Just over a year ago this A. -A. Brigade created a world record by shooting down a German aircraft flying at 34,000 ft. A few weeks later Gen. Sir Frederick Pile came down to present trophies to the batteries concerned, and Sir Charles Little, C.-in-C., Portsmouth, was also present. Front row Major H. R. Haughton, R.A., Major-Gen. R. ...
... A I 11 EDDIES By Oliver Stewart C.omposita THE statement made by Mr. Duncan sandys a couple of weeks ago on the flying-bomb campaign was a model of what such things should be. It was properly supported by figures and there was a welcome absence of those shadowgraph displays with which ministers nowadays so often give the substance an enlarged or a diminished appearance according to their own ...
... Lady Rosemary Nutting and Davina Cotnpion Collier Lady Rosemary Nutting was photographed in the autumn with her three-year-old daughter, Davina Rosemary Lmd, at Badminton, Gloucestershire, where she is living. She is the elder daughter of the sixth Karl of St. Germans and of Lady Blanche Douglas, and the widow of Captain Edward Nutting, seco.id son of Sir Harold Nutting, Bt and Lady Nutting, ...
... Arc de Triomphe Mary Ellis Delights London in Ivor Novello's Play with Music Mr. Ivor Novello's play with music, Arc de Triomphe is at the Phoenix Theatre. It is an ambitious production ambi tiously presented by Miss Leon- tine Sagan. It tells of a young girl of the Auvergne who comes to Paris to seek the fame and fortune which lie in her voice. She is successful, but her suc cess costs her ...
... By Douglas Wales Admiral Sir Henry Pridham-Wippell, K.C.B. C.V.O. Admiral Pridham- Wippell became Flag Officer Commanding Dover last year. Previously second in command Mediterra nean Fleet, he com manded a force of cruisers and de stroyers in that sea in 1940-41, and was flying his flag in H.M.S. Barham when she teas sunk Admiral Sir James Somerville, K.C.B. K.B.E., D.S.O. Right Admiral ...
... Barbara White First Film Find of 1944 The under-understudy who became the star such is the fairy story come true of Barbara White. Not so very long ago Barbara was under study to Mary Llewellin, who understudied Glynis Johns in Quiet Week-end. When Glynis left the cast and Mary was away, Barbara got her chance. She was spotted by author-producer Victor Skutezley, given a screen test by him and ...
... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Fairbairn Sweet Cdr. Alan Bernard Murray Fairbairn, elder- son of Vice- Admiral B. W. M. Fairbairn, C.B.E., and Mrs. Fairbairn, of The Lodge, Brixham, near Plymouth, married Miss Adeline Hilda Sweet, daughter of U.-Col. E. H. Sweet, C.M.G., D.S.O., and the late Mrs. Sweet, of Oaklands, Crowthorne, Berks., at Holy Trinity, Brompton Edwards-M oss ...