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FICTION OF THE WEEK

... preserved intact; but not, we leam, the details his life and character. The story is neither history nor biography. It will not speak of the past as we are able to imagine it; the scenery life a hundred years ago in a foreign country is strange to us. and an ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 516 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

The Casket Of Romance

... which shone for all to see was simple Daly's. And strangely enough, although at that time London was a very British city speaking its own tongue with its own native accent, that name was American. For the building which bore it was a theatre which had ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3100 | Page: 86 | Tags: Photographs 

ECHO AND NARCISSUS

... Henceforth the tongue that has cheated me shall be in thrall. No more may you speak as you wish, from your own mind. You may only repeat the last words that others speak. That others speak, sighed Echo, for the snell was alreadv nrtnn her So she became a sad ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1728 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

TOURING ABROAD WITH £25: How to Keep Within the Government Limit During a Fortnight's Stay

... restaurant. In country districts, a Swedish-English phrase- book will be found useful, for not everyone speaks a foreign language. When seeking information, speak English to young people, for English is now the first foreign language learned in the schools try ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1675 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

Appointment in Utopia

... there we waited, with four guards between us, lolling against the walls, smoking hand-made cigarettes. I decided to risk speaking. Look, I said, when they question us you'd best let me do the talking. Somebody pushed the uncomfortably hard business ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5216 | Page: 70 | Tags: Illustrations 

Grandma and the plum tree: A short but delightful story of an old woman's belief in the unfailing justice of ..

... crack and it buckled in the middle. I GLANCED up at Grandma and saw that her eyes were blazing in a colourless face. Without speaking, she went over slowly to the wall and stopped, a dark, menacing, silent figure. I don't know what Mr. Calhoun read in her ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2977 | Page: 62 | Tags: Illustrations 

DEVELOPING THE FRENCH CAMEROON: PART OF HER MASTER PLAN FOR THE OPENING UP OF VAST AREAS OF FRENCH EQUATORIAL ..

... CREATING A NEW TRANSPORT LINK IN A HITHERTO ALMOST ROADLESS LAND Governor Soucadeaux, High Com missioner of French Cameroon, speaking after he had laid the first stone of the new bridge across the Wourri River, a tremendous project which will traverse the ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2522 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

OH, THOSE CLASSROOM

... reaching the stage of potty in country, declared Mr Fred Harris. M.P. for Croydon West, at the Civic Hall, Croydon, on Tuesday Speaking at a Young Conservative Rally. he that considerable savings could be made In the administration of the educational system ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHEN THE WINE HAS REACHED LONDON: Handling Hogsheads and Bottles in the Cellars of a Big French Wine Shipper

... preferable to rack the wine passing it from one cask to another to separate it from the lees and to aerate it. Generally speaking, wine does not improve to any appreciable degree in cask after shipment to this country, and that is why it should be bottled ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 968 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 294 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE ORIGINAL

... Shakespeare to come. The audience at the Vie, where this comedy is unfamiliar, took to it with delight. One expects good speaking from a Bristol cast; the verse was phrased accurately by Pamela Alan and Gudrun Ure (the Julia and Silvia) and Laurence Payne ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1971 | Page: 32 | Tags: none