Discovering The Whitwar

Press Coverage

‘The Whitwar’ is the title of a magazine produced by the combined energy of a youthful Editress and her staff, in aid of the ‘Little Folks-Ward” in the North Eastern Hospital for Children, Bethnal Green, London. This is a quarterly periodical, type-written, and the current part contains an enterprising melange of prose and verse, tales, and miscellaneous contributions, with competitions, and other lively features. The title and index pages are in red, the general body of the contents being in black, and illustrations by “artists young and old” give variety to the pages.

The Editress is Miss Gladys Evelyn Warren, 17 Welbeck Mansions, Inglewood Road, West Hampstead – daughter of Mr Algernon Warren, formerly of Bristol – under whose control the March number is quite an ambitious effort, covering 44 pages, and “little folks” who are readers will no doubt find a pleasure in assisting this method of benefiting a Children’s Hospital.

The “Whitwar” is somewhat of a novelty; it is a typewritten magazine of about forty pages, published three times a year, and is the work of a number of young ladies, whose object is a very laudable one, and one worthy of success, viz, to benefit the “Little Folks' Ward” in the North Eastern Hospital for Children, Bethnal Green, London.

The magazine, which is in covers to imitate crocodile leather, is edited by Miss Gladys Evelyn Warren, daughter of Algernon Warren, formerly of Clifton, and this young lady is assisted by a staff of writers and artists, including Miss Gwendolen Whitcombe, Miss Margaret Whitcombe and Miss Dorris Gwilt Jolley, whilst several of the editresses are contributors to the magazine, which is published at one shilling.

The frontis-piece to the number before us is a tastefully executed water colour drawing of a blue iris, by Miss Dorris Gwilt Jolley, whilst some of the pages are illustrated with pictures cut from other magazines and carefully pasted in.

The contents of this novel magazine, which was first published last year, are short stories, serial and complete, poetry, translations, matter concerning puzzles and competitions and a fairy play by Miss Gladys Warren, entitled “The Fairy's Task”.

There is considerable literary merit in some of the matter, whilst the whole of it is interesting, and the magazine should find a ready sale. The editress appeals for a larger circulation of the magazine so that “The Little Folks Ward” might benefit to a large extent, and Miss Warren also calls special attention to the “subscriber contest” and to the garment competitions, particulars of which are given in the present number.