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WILD BEAUTY ON THE SEA FRONT

... . THE wild, restless and savage beauty of the sea is magnificently captured by these two runner-up prize-winners in our AMATEUR PHOTO GRAPHERS' COMPETITION. They provide a striking contrast to the note of peace and home contentment struck by the domestic studies on our facing page. Seascapes and marine subjects naturally make a strong appeal to all true-born Britons f SEA AFTER STORM; by Lt. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. LAST year I gave some particulars of modern methods of marking fish in British Columbia. The latest report of the B. C. Provincial Fisheries Department reveals that a novel method is now being used to speed up the tagging of fish. An instru ment called a tagging-gun has been invented. It looks like a cross between an automatic and a bus-con ductor's ticket-punch. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1172 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS SKETCH KEEPS A DIARY

... . ?S MISS SKETCH'S DIARy. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6. To ST A MFORD for the IN FIRM A RY BALL, j always one of the best of the county gatherings of f January. Held in the Assembly Rooms, which are not barrack-like in appearance, like some venues for country festivities, but form an attrac- ssg five d6cor. Temperature, however, was not very 1 high, and we were all glad of fur-cape fashion, I which is ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1442 | Page: Page 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MIKADO PREMIÈRE AND TWO WEDDINGS

... THE MIKADO PREMIERE AND TWO WEDDINGS. T.R.H. THE DUKE and DUCHESS OF KENT attended the gala premiere of the film i version of The Mikado in Technicolor at the Leicester Square Theatre in aid of the Boy Scouts Appeal Fund. rVSO Programme-sellers at the first night of ''The h=/V Mikado included MISS PAMELA BIRKIN, MtM h-^ daughter of Lady Edward Hay and the HON. ELIZABETH SOMERS-COCKS, ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 200 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FROM START TO FINISH: PLAYS OF THE MOMENT. NO. XVIII.-- UNDER YOUR HAT, AT THE PALACE

... FROM START TO FINISH. PLAYS OF THE MOMENT. NO. XVIII.-- UNDER YOUR HAT, AT THE PALACE. 1. Scene a film studio. The stars Jack j Millet (JACK HULBERT) and his wife, Kay Porter (CICELY COURTNEIDGE), dis- j cuss re-takes with the Film Director I J EVAN BRANDON- THOMAS right). f%. Jack Have a good rest, dear we 've a long way to go yet. 2. The stars prepare for a party for the whole company. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 466 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TAKE OUR ADVICE AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE

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

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Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 71 | Page: Page 47 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

A RUTHVEN TWIN AND HER SONS

... . The HON. MRS. PETER DAVIES is one of the daughters of a distinguished soldier, Lord Ruthven, and one of the famous 44 Ruthven twins who used to dress alike and look alike before their marriages. She married Mr. Peter Llewellyn Davies publisher, in 1932, and of her two small sons, Ruthven is five, and the baby was born last year. PHOTOGRAPH BY LEh*AREt ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 69 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW

... . JANUARY'S social whirl takes place out of London, for, though we had the Private View of the Scottish Art Ex hibition at Burlington House last week as a big event, the real gaieties were in the North. The Buccleuch Hunt Ball, for instance, held at stately Floors Castle, overlooking the Tweed, by Kelso, was a thrillingly brilliant affair, with great names, dia monds, and really good- looking ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1483 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FILM YUM-YUM

... I THE FILM YUM -YUM. MISS JEAN COLIN is the Yum- Yum in the G. and S. film version of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous light opera The Mikado, in Technicolor, tvhich is due for its gala premiere on January 12 at the Leicester Square Theatre. This first production of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera on the screen is likely to provide one of the big film thrills of 1939, and the premiere, in aid of ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 95 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MISS SKETCH felt too modest to record in her Diary that she attended the recent Fancy Dress Ball at the Grand Hotel, Torquay, and was awarded the first prize for ladies' costumes Actually she was present at this gathering in the person of MISS MONICA MILL, of New quay, Cornwall, who made the dress herself, and is thus doubly to be congratulated on her success. SWIMMING FINS-- or, rather, ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 364 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs