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LITERATURE, ART, ROMANCE AND SOCIETY

... . he marriage of MISS ESTELLE HORSLEY-CARR, randdaughter of the 9th Lord Belhaven and tenton, to LIEUT. GERALD HERBERT CROSS, jn of Mr. C. N. Cross, of British Columbia, took place in Edinburgh. MISS THELMA LEIGHTON SEAGER, W.R.N.S., is a daughter of Sir Lcighton Seager, President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom and an ex- High Sheriff of Monmouthshire. LADY SEAGER, wife of ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 204 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HAMLET, AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE WITH JOHN GIELGUD AND PEGGY ASHCROFT

... HAMLET, AT THE HAYMARKET I THEATRE, WITH JOHN GIELGUD AND PEGGY ASHCROFT. 44 T TAMLET alternates with 44 The Circle and Congreve's 44 Love for Love, at the Haymarket, where John Gielgud and his company recently opened their season. 44 A Midsummer Night's Dream and Webster's masterpiece, 44 The Duchess of Malfi, are to be added to the repertory in the New Year. 44 Hamlet is directed by ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SYDNEY'S PRETTIEST GIRL? BOB HOPE'S CHOICE--AND RIVALS

... SYDNEY'S PRETTIEST GIRL? BOB HOPE'S CHOICE-- AND RIVALS. Right When Bob Hope visited Australia he conferred the title of the jirettiest girl in Sydney on twenty- year-old BETTY DAWES, of Point Piper. Netty, however has rivals. This is twenty -year-old MAIDIE HANN, of BeUevue ill. She's blonde and blue-eyed, works in her mother* s butcher* s shop and does some commercial modelling. Then there ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAY OF THE WAR: Record

... WAY OF THE WAR By 'Foresight Record PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has smashed all precedents in the history of the United States by his re-election for a fourth term. Historians will doubtless refer to this remarkable period of American affairs as the Roosevelt dynasty. Never before has a President remained in the White House for so many years. Never before has one man been able to maintain such a ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1905 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

On and Off Duty: A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country; At 10, Downing Street

... /)*Jy A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country At 10, Downing Street WHEN the King sees the Prime Minister twice within a few days, it is fairly certain that something of importance is in the wind; and though few people outside the inner circle of the Cabinet had any idea of what was being prepared, the fact that His Majesty drove to 10, Downing Street to dine with Mr. Churchill only a day ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2456 | Page: Page 10, 11, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

A Hamlet to Remember: Gielgud Gives a Great Performance at the Haymarket

... A Hamlet to Remember Gielgud Gives a Great Performance at the Haymazket Hamlet 44 I will watch to-night Perchance, 'twill walk again Horatio tells Hamlet of the apparition which has thrice appeared on the castle battlements by night a figure like his father, the dead King (Francis Lister, John Gielgud) Ophelia 44 There 's fennel for yon, and columbines there 's rue for you and here 's some for ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 465 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

With Silent Friends: Red Indians

... By Elizabeth Bowen Red Indians FRANCIS PARKMAN was just twenty-three and still fresh from Harvard when, in the spring of 1846, he undertook a hazardous, but rewarding, journey. At college he had been reading law; and partly, perhaps, in youthful, adventure-loving reaction, he now sought great open spaces and the red men. He had already conceived the ambitious project of a history of the Old ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2040 | Page: Page 24, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

TAILORED TOWNCOATS

... TAILORED TOWUCOATS Down the steps of Bush House, in the Strand, comes Joan, on her way to an important date. She is wearing a Windsmoor coat, made of a finely ribhed material, new and most attractive, with fitted waistline and outsize pockets. From Derry and Toms Kensington. In several colours. Price £16 17s. 4d. approx. Photographs by Dormer Cole Walking in the autumn sunshine outside ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 182 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

AIR EDDIES: The P.B.P

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart The P.B.P. THE poor British public is so pushed about by the conflicting forces of propaganda that it can take its place beside the infantry as being per petually in a state of being sat upon. I do not know whether the P.B.P. or the P.B.I, is the more deserving of sympathy. After having been told repeatedly and in the loudest tones that the German air force was all ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 978 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

BATTLE SCENES from HOLLAND

... FIGHTING IN THE STREETS OF A DUTCH CITY BRITISH HEAVY MORTARS IN ACTION AMONGST THE HOUSES OF HERTOGENBOSCH BEFORE THE GERMAN RESISTANCE PETERED OUT. Following the drive by General Dempsey's men, the greater part of Hertogenbosch was in British hands by October 27, but at one or two places parties of Germans were then still fighting fiercely to hold what was left to them. Fierce fighting, ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 705 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GREAT DAYS AHEAD FOR CIVIL AVIATION: The Part that the British Overseas Airways Corporation is Playing To-day ..

... FLYING personnel of the R.A.F.'s Coastal Com mand, Bomber Command, Transport Command, and even Fighter Command, must be wondering what place there may be for them in post-war civil aviation. They will have read about the conferences on civil aviation, the latest of which has been taking place in Chicago. Many of them, of course, will be glad to return to their peacetime jobs; yet others will ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1647 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs