Sunday Pictorial dated Sunday August 15th
1926
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I must admit that on reading this headline ‘England scores
280 first innings’ I had no idea whether it was a ‘Hooray for England’ or a ‘England
team let us down again’ headline. I don’t understand cricket scoring.
A look on this web page
told me England won the 5th Test in 1926 by 289 runs.
Ask me in 5 minutes who won and by how many runs and I will
have forgotten, but I am sure there are people out there that will find these
pages interesting.
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The death of John Thomas Derham resulted from a fight with
his friend Alphonso (or Alphonse) Smith over Smith’s wife Catherine.
Smith was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter in
November 1926 but sentenced to 12 months for possession of a firearm with
intent to injure. The comparatively lenient sentence was passed because the
judge believed that Smith only intended to kill himself.
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In fact the Reverend John Alexander Smith died of his head
wound the next day.
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At least this fire in a paint factory in Southwark ended
without loss of life and even three cats were saved.
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In June 1916 Lord Kitchener sailed on the battle cruiser HMS
Hampshire for a diplomatic mission to Russia, but the ship struck a mine laid
by U-boat U-75 and sank. Kitchener, his staff, and 643 of the crew of 655 were
drowned or died of exposure. His body was never found.
In
1926, a hoaxer, Frank Power, claimed that a Norwegian fisherman had found
Kitchener’s body. Power brought a coffin back from Norway and prepared it for
burial in St. Paul's. At this point, however, the authorities intervened and
the coffin was opened in the presence of police and a distinguished
pathologist. The box was found to contain only tar for weight. Power was never
prosecuted.
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I have a funny feeling that whoever tried to fill this in
didn’t stand an chance of winning that rather nice Bullnose Morris Cowley, and
should have sent off for the 64 page booklet on how to complete crosswords.
Rather an odd feature of this grid is the use of clues marked ‘actual’ so
R.T.B. (actual) is literally RTB. The other oddity I’ve noticed is 20 across
and 20 down is the same isolated square with a ‘D’ pre-printed.
The first crossword to appear in a UK newspaper was only 2
years previously in 1924.
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Arthur Ferrier was born and started working as a cartoonist
in Glasgow, then he moved to London and drew joke cartoons for newspapers
and magazines.
In 1930 he created Britain’s first ‘glamour’ cartoon strip
called ‘Film Fanny’. The most famous ‘glamour’ strip was the Daily Mirror’s
‘Jane’. The Sunday Pictorial also published his ‘Our Dumb Blonde’ strip, which
ran from 1939 to 1946, followed by ‘Spotlight on Sally’ and ‘Eve’.
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“By Gad, Sir! Whatever next? They’ll be teaching the little
blighters to use the Interweb, what ever that it. A damn good thrashing would
do them a sight more good. Pass the cane!”
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Only 13 years before World War II and, apart from talk of
getting rid of horses, this could be from World War I.
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Probably the Bristol Bulldog single seater biplane fighter
introduced into service in 1927.
The racing seaplane mentioned here is the Gloster VI, which
was entered for the 1929 Schneider Trophy race, but was beaten by the
Supermarine S6.
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Ah, the old ‘daring-short-skirt-flat-chested-coal-scuttle
for a hat’ look. Although the one on the right has gone for the mis-tossed
pancake hat. Nice drawings though by Renee Maude.
