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Mrs. Gerald Heathcoat-Amory and Her Son

... Mrs. Heathcoat-Amory is the only daughter of Commodore Edward Conyngham Denison, M.V.O., R.N., and Mrs. Denison. Her father is nephew and heir presumptive of Lord Londesborough. She married in 1940 Major Edgar FitzGerald Heathcoat-Amory, of Clievithorne Barton, Tiverton, Devon, and has one son, Michael. Her husband is the second son of the late Major Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory, killed in action ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 82 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MYSELF AT THE PICTURES: A Bright Idea

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES A Bright Idea By James Agate FOR some weeks I have been tormented by a passage which I could oply half- remember and could not locate at all. A passage about an American film-producer who comes to this country to look for new talent. And then, by glorious accident, I recovered it. This was the taking up for no particular reason of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm. Here ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1351 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs 

A May Wedding in London: Major T. F. C. Winnington Marries Lady Betty Anson

... A May Wedding in London Major T. F. C. Winnington Marries Lady Betty Anson The marriage look place at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, of Major Thomas Foley Churchill Winnington, Grenadier Guards, younger son of the late Mr. Francis Winnington and of Mrs. Winnington, of Brockhill Court, Shelsley-Beauchamp, Worcester, and Lady Betty Marjorie Anson, elder daughter of the Earl and ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 286 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is Filmed

... 44 The Bridge of San Luis Rey is Filmed Thornton Wilder's famous novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927, has been filmed by Benedict Bogeaus and is now showing at the London Pavilion. The story is based on the investigations of a young priest into the lives of seven people, five of whom meet sudden death in the disaster of the San Luis bridge, two of whom are, ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 187 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire: Ladies First

... 7>^s -44 By Sabretache Ladies First TWO of them, at any rate! But not the same two we have been assured by so many people were the leaders of the band: in fact, one feels almost inclined to say that he two fallen women had not behaved as a lady should! Both Picture Play, a bad name for a racehorse, and Garden Path won their races (One Thousand and Two Thousand) in good style, and in the former ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1945 | Page: Page 21, 22 | Tags: Photographs 

With Silent Friends: The Power of the Moment

... By Elizabeth Bowen The Power of the Moment SING HIGH! SING LOW! a book of essays by Osbert Sitwell (Macmillan; 10s, 6d.), is as packed with quality as it is diverse in its subjects. The essay is no medium for those who have bleak minds, who see facts and objects like so many unrelated black dots on a white sheet, or who write thin-textured prose. It is the ideal medium for Sir Osbert, whose ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2136 | Page: Page 24, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Kodak Limited

... , Kodak House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2 , Kodak House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2 C.9F KODAK FILM is in the Shipyards ensuring faultless construction Detecting unseen flaws in steel construction work, revealing vibration stresses, and in many other critical ways, Kodak Film helps war-time shipbuilding. The variable pitch principle of Rotol aircraft propellers has now been adapted to marine use, ...

AMERICAN RED CROSS WORKER MADELEINE CARROLL

... Since 1941 MADELEINE CARROLL has been engaged exclusively in war activities, and in 1942 was appointed Entertainment Director for the United Seamen's Service. She of Irish-French parentage, was educated at Birmingham University B.A. Honours, French), and after some stage experience became a leading British screen actress. In 1936 she went to America to continue her film and radio career. Her ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PIN-UP GIRLS OF SWEETER AND LOWER

... PIN-UP GIRLS OF SWEETER AND LOWER. 44 Pin-Up Girls, blonde, dark or red-head, Over each bed-head, we 're on parade Undressed to the right to assist in the war, For that 's what Pin-Up Girls are for YVONNE JAQUES, PAULINE FRASER and MARY IRWIN in their dressing-room at the Ambassadors getting ready for their 44 Pin-Up Girls number. 44 I *m the one who 's not meant to be rude, My pose is ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 338 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WASHING FROCKS FOR THE WARM DAYS

... LINEN pure linen, too, a relic of the good old days, simply cut, trimly youthful with its Peter Pan collar and decorative bows. £4- 18 11. COTTON excellent value for money and coupons, with its clever stripe-work, its double-buckle belt, its envelope pocket. £2 13 7. CREPON a wonderful fabric for washing, yoked buck and front, the bodice becomingly full and with a neat tie collar. Pastel ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAY OF THE WAR: Waiting

... WAY #F THE WAR uBy Foresight Waiting THE King has been spending less time than ever before at Buckingham Palace and more of his days and nights in camps arid garrisons, at aerodromes and in ships. Not all his engagements have been publicly recorded, but those which have demonstrate quite clearly his deep and personal interest in the men who are going to fulfil the plans of the Allies to ...

Women in Uniform

... cnu'* Turk-H-'ft St- 1-Zt Ti *aut. if; J/ari'f ff'' Kath!^.. Yv0H'Grnrv AZ1?'' heaZarris s^ utv farrar The Hon. Mrs. Rhys wi/e o/ Lord DynevoPs eldest son, works for the Red Cross in Surrey as Assistant Division Secretary. Her husband, Capt. the Hon. Charles Rhys, M.C., is in the Grenadier Guards, and they have a son aged nine Lenarc G/O. E. F. Dacre W.A.A.F., is Staff Officer at Flying ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 178 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs