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FOURTEEN MONTHS on HEARD ISLAND: With the Australians in the Sub-Antarctic

... Fourteen members oj the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedi tion have returned to Australia ajio fourteen months on Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic 3,500 miles south west of Melbourne. The expedition established an A -class weather aw scientific research station on the pi fr viously uninhabited island, a station that has been able to provide both flying men and agriculturists i ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1254 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

ALEXANDER'S ADVENTURE STORY: Terence Rattigan's New Play at the St. James' Theatre about Alexander of Macedon

... HT erence Rattigan's great success as a dramatist, has been mainly concerned with the lighter side of the theatre. His latest play, Adventure Story, is a serious attempt to reconstruct Alexander of Macedon's life from B.C. 336, when he began his great years of conquest, until his death fourteen years later. The play has ten scenes beginning at Delphi, where the young Alexander consults Pythia, ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 393 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

To Kenya By Air

... THESE eight Jersey calves were flown from St. Peter Airport, Jersey, to Nakuru in Kenya, calling at Blackbushe on the way to collect another fourteen calves of various breeds for the same destination. The Jersey consignment consisted of animals sent by Mr. H. W. Jean, Mr. E. F. Vibert, Mr. P. H. Brideaux, Messrs. Van de Vliet Bros., Mr. A. Barette, Mr. G. R. Le Masurier, Mr. C. D. Poignand and ...

The Grand National

... THE PARADE: Lord Bicester1 s Roimond (Aubrey Brabazon) teas undoubtedly the class horse of the field. He is foUotced by Miss Paget' s handsome Happy Home Cloncarrig and the favourite, Lord Mild may's Cromwell with his intrepid owner in the saddle RUSSIAN HERO, bred and owned by a Cheshire farmer, Mr. W. F. Williamson, and brilliantly ridden by L. McMorrow, won the coveted Aintree trophy in ...

GEO. W. KING LTD

... H ITCH I N 960 (10 lines) FARM BUILDINGS COWSTALLS WATER BOWLS ELEVATORS CHAFFCUTTERS I BINDER CANVASES PNEUMATIC GRAIN CONVEYING STORAGE EQUIPMENT C.S.H. WORKS HITCHIN HERTS KING COWSTALLS AND WATER BOWLS Above Type 9S9 X side-post Cowstalls with Camlock Automatic Water Bowls and Spring Balance Manger Divisions, manufactured and erected by King. This installation typifies many throughout ...

RENÉE ASHERSON

... RENEE ASHERSON, who has just begun filming in The Cure for Love, in which she stars with Robert Donat, scored her first big stage success in 1940, when she appeared in one of her favourite roles, that of Katheryn Howard, in a revival of Clifford Bax's famous play The Rose Without a Thorn. This was followed by a series of parts with the Old Vic Company, which in turn led to her being chosen by ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 144 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MARQUESS OF BATH OPENS LONGLEAT TO THE ... BLIC: Wiltshire's Greatest House is Restored ... War Effort

... THE MARQUESS QE IV 1 OPENS IJAGLEAT TQ THE I JBLIC Wiltshire's Greatest House is Restored Afterit: War Effort IN any list of great houses Longleat, seat of the Marquesses of Bath, would take a place among the first half-dozen. Its opening this month by the present Marquess, who has spent the last two years restoring it after its war time occupation by a girls' school, is therefore an event ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 437 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPECTATORS AT TWO DUBLIN RACE MEETINGS: The Season Opens at Phoenix Park

... SPECTATORS AT TWO III RLIA RACE MEETINGS The Season Opens at Phoenix Park Leopardstown Races Senator Cecil Lavery Attorney-General of Eire, and Mrs. Lavery Mrs. Humphrey-Clarke and Mrs. Godfrey Pike wife of Lt.-Col. Godfrey Pike, were in the Members Enclosure. Lt.-Col. Pike recently bought a Tipperary estate Miss Martha Butler, daughter of Lord Arthur Butler and niece of the Marquess of ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 200 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 06 April 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 37 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs