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THE HOME NEWS IN PICTURES

... suggestions from all over the world) include I sturdier general construction, greater passenger comfort resulting from a wider I body, and improved braking. The wishbone-type coil spring independent front sus- I pension, used on the I i'litre model, has ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1034 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

FIFTY YEARS OF FILMS

... After seven years of this sort of thing the novelty was beginning to wear off, and the music-hall proprietors were seriously using the bioscope as a chaser to clear audiences out of the theatre, when a picture came along that revived public interest in the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1413 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

Priscilla in Paris: The Camellias Bloom Again

... drivers in the midst of the melee who had no cotton-wool to stuff in their ears, and had to use oily waste instead. I was taught a good deal about driving by a pre-World War One winner of several Austrian Alpine contests. His advice was Never touch the 'ooter ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 855 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

THE OLD GAIETY AND THE NEW

... Theatre of Enchantment. There are people here who have given us delight for 10, 20, 30. 40. 50 years there will not be a dry eye if I go on, Sir Gerald continued. The greatest jewel England has dropped from her crown is gaiety. He then kissed Gertrude ...

Published: Thursday 19 January 1950
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 806 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

LET'S SAY BOTH WERE UNLUCKY

... merely struggling afterwards Twenty-five minutes from the end, with It appearing just a matter of Lase beldam grim defender* world capitulate, centre-hall Webber was hurt and bed, to go on the right wing. Yet Southampton did not yield The man behind It all ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 957 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FROM LONDON AND THE PROVINCES: THE HOME NEWS IN PICTURES

... on the Bath Road, well known to motorists, is due to be demolished next J I The Old Magpies Inn is one of the oldest in England. It will be demolished when a J tunnel, running from the road to the central terminal area of London Airport, is constru J ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 914 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

rStags • Scr•efi • Abode • Art • nooks ...-- LIMELIGHT

... Scr•efi • Abode • Art • nooks LIMELIGHT Ixpect Sir Larry NEWS FROM VXPECT to see Sir Laurence THE WORLD Olivier and Vivien Leigh playing at the King's Theatre. ENTERTALNME Hammersmith before the New Year is out. do Oscar Wilde's Husband in the first ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: Kensington Post
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 790 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUBMARINE SALVAGE and SUBMARINE RESCUE: From the Thetis Disaster of 1939 to the Sinking of Truculent in 1950

... destroy ships of the British Fleet off the New England coast by this means. A quarter of a century later another American, Robert Fulton, produced a submarine which he suggested to Napoleon should be used as a secret weapon against Nelson's fleet. Napoleon ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1761 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

Up and down the land

... of his daughters won the Empire Cup Class and was best Guernsey in the Inspection Classes at the London Dairy Show in 1949. The bull won the Bradfield Cup, when he was best for bull and progeny over all breeds in England and Wales, in 1947. It has been ...

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... a month to come this England will be a Marble Arch tub-thumpers' pitch. Bigger newspapers, and proportional representa tion for party persuaders on the Buzz Box-- non-stop. The public has to be educated if it is to make proper use of its right and duty ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2117 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

CRIPPS WARNS REBEL BOSSES

... t on t other. We are not prepared to aban the controls that are necessary or us to see that it doesn't h here. But let me add a word of - Mg. The use-of controls mkt lead us in to a callous state of mind In which we the rnachiner7 of planning as An Account ...

Published: Thursday 19 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1494 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BY-LAW ON

... purposes was used for a trip to Petticoat-lane. tw• Hillingdon wen were fined at Uxbridge Court on Monday Stanley Gordon Graham. of Granville-road. who drove the lorry. was summoned for mis- district.' witness told the magistrates. use of motor fuel ...