Beauty Battles for Britain (Kay Stammers)
A sports-page feature shows a large drawing of tennis player Kay Stammers mid-stroke, ringed by small comic panels (a sports editor, opponents, a Wimbledon match) with captions on her looks and her semifinal results. The technique tell is weak: flattering, laudatory wording ('beautiful', 'glamour') presented as sports coverage, with no political aim.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- July 7, 1939
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Media and information
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, local ID 5743111 (NAID 5743111).
Text on the object
Kay STAMMERS... BRITAIN'S BEAUTIFUL BID FOR INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HONORS------ MUST BATTLE OUR OWN MARVELOUS MARBLE IN THE WIMBLEDON FINALS TOMORROW....! SPORTS EDITOR WOT TH'--?!?--: "THE 4 MOST BEAUTIFUL LEGS IN SPORT FLASHED ACROSS WIMBLEDON'S FAMED CENTER COURT, AND LONG LASHES CARESSED A SOFT ENGLISH CHEEK ---AH! 40-LOVE!--- --NERTS---40,000 LOVE !"--- OH-OH! SERVES ME RIGHT FOR FORGETTING ANYBODY ELSE'S BACKHAND IS HER FOREHAND! THERE SHOULD BE SOME WARM WORDS WINGING OVER THE ATLANTIC WHEN SCRIBES COVER THIS MATCH BETWEEN THE GLAMOUR GALS..... --P'RAPS A BIT UNLIDYLIKE BUT AWFTER AWL--A POINT FER H'ENGLAND IS A POINT ! KAY'S COURT TECHNIQUE IS FULL OF "WIM, WIGOR AND WITALITY"...... SARAH FABYAN LOST A TOUGH MATCH TO THE ENGLISH LASSIE WITH THE SOUTHPAW SWING....... VEDDY SODDY OL' THING--AS THEY SAY OVER HERE---BUT I'VE A DATE TO SIP A SPOT OF ORANGE PEKOE !... ALICE HAD'EM IN WONDERLAND WHEN SHE FLATTENED THE HUSKY SPERLING--6-0, 6-0, IN RECORD TIME TO GAIN THE FINALS....... JIM BERRYMAN
