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MODEL: OUR THIRTY-THIRD FIRST-PRIZE WINNER

... MODEL: OUR THIRTY -THIRD FIRST -PRIZE WINNER. This distinguished and artistic camera-study has been awarded the thirty- third first -prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. W. G. Buckle with a Rolleicord II. camera. Film Agfa. Exposure one second at f.3.5. It is notable for the balance of the composition and the richness and depth of the light-and-shade effects. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 73 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FOLLOWING THROUGH

... . iron club. It appears to me that the player who is liable to cut a divot when playing a teed ball with an iron club is just as likely to cut a divot unintentionally with his driver and does it really matter if damage be done with iron or wood But whether the two crimes nominated by the Edinburgh Committee are so serious as they are apparently considered to be is another matter. I notice that ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1006 | Page: Page 42 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1006 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

TANGEE ENDS THAT PAINTED LOOK

... ANGCC I ENDS THAT PAINTED LOOK L I ENDS THAT PAINTED LOOK RESH loveliness instead of artificial loveliness J that's what Tangee gives to wise women who use it. The famous Tangee Lipstick orange-coloured in its case changes as you use it, to your own colour. Looks like j magic actually it's the scientific Tangee Colour-Change I Principle at work. No hard painted look there, but the soft blush ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 214 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE BERGNER AND HER BOBTAIL

... ELISABETH BERGNER, here posed tvith her Old English hohtailed sheepdog Woomsie, makes her return to the films in STOLEN LIFE, the Orion pro duction presented by Paramount at the Plaza, and due for its gala premiere in aid of the Lord Baldwin Fund for Refugees to-night, January 18. She takes a dual role of twin sisters and Woomsie, the bobtailed sheepdog, has a part. The story is adapted by ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 82 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS OF SCHOOL-LIFE WITH MR. CHIPS IN PEACE AND WAR

... FIFTY -EIGHT YEARS OF SCHOOL- LIFE WITH MR. CHIPS IN PEACE AND WAR. The screen version of GOOD-BYE, MR. CHIPS is being produced at M.-G.-M. British Studios. Here is the enormous quadrangle and chapel of Brookfield School built for the picture. SAM WOOD, the director is on the platform with the camera, recording a crowd scene of boys in 1870. Dr. Wetherby the Headmaster (LYN HARDING with beard) ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 232 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROBERT DONAT GROWS OLD AS MR. CHIPS

... ROBERT DONAT GROWS OLD AS MR. CHIPS. The eager young classical master in his twenties in 1870. The mature schoolmaster in 1892. The ripe and mellow old man full of years and honour in 1928. The elderly and tolerant Mr. Chips of 1908. The screen version of the successful stage play GOOD-BYE, MR. CHIPS is in production at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer British studios with ROBERT DONAT and Greer Garson ...

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THE Monte Carlo Rally, Europe's most famous winter reliability test, is now in full swing. Yesterday the he- men competitors from remote places like Athens, Umea, and our own John-o'- Groats, set off to meet goodness knows what variety of weather condi tions on their way to the sunny skies and blue seas of the world-renowned Riviera resort. The original itinerary planned by ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1148 | Page: Page 46 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 179 | Page: Page 49 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 553 | Page: Page 51 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

TAKE OUR ADVICE AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE

... : plays. FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS (Criterion). English life in a French family undergraduates and the girl. Very amusing, with an unexpected finish. AN ELEPHANT IN ARCADY Kingsway A musical effort to recapture the Golden Age on the part of an Arcadian Academy of Pisa. Eighteenth- century wit and elegance. Lyrics by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon Ernest Irving' s adaptation of music of Mozart, ...

THE SKETCH

... THE SKETCH Competition for Amateur Photographers. TEN POUNDS is offered by for THE BEST AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPH selected for publication every week until further notice. For other competitive photographs which the Editor considers worthy of publication, a sum of not less than £1 will be paid for the reproduction right. Amateur Photographers may compete every week by sending one or more prints, ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 522 | Page: Page 47 | Tags: Photographs