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Cosmopolitan Snow Christmas

... Eunice Kennedy is one of the large Kennedy family contingent staying at Suvretta House. Her intense concentration as she perched on the step of a car was devoted to the peeling of a hard-boiled egg A brother and sister from Yorkshire's chief winter sports family are Ralph and Molly Harbord. Molly is the youngest of six, and a 1938 debutante. Ralph is a Crest a rider, and two of his sisters, ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 472 | Page: Page 32, 33 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Motoring Commentary

... By Alan C. Hess THE regulations for next year's R.A.C. Rally and Coachwork Competition have now been issued by the Club. As previously reported in these columns, the rally will be held from April 25th to 29th, and will consist of a road section of approxi mately 850 miles, a number of special tests, and the Coachwork Competition. There will be four routes, competitors starting at noon on ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1077 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LADY OF THE LOVELY FINGERS

... . COUNTESS HAUGWITZ-REVENTLOW, the former Miss Barbara Hutton, lives at W infield House Regent's Park, a spacious London mansion built to her requirements, and set in its own large grounds. She is one of the best-loohing women in society, and not only has beauty of face and figure, but possesses lovely hands, with finely-shaped filbert nails which she wears without any coloured varnish. camera ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 73 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. EVERYBODY admires the common goldfish, for they are such cheerful, sprightly little fish. Without question, they are the most popular and best known of all fishes to the majority of people. Strangely enough, there is more con fusion as to their ancestry than about any other fish. I must admit that I was not too clear myself as to whether or not the goldfish was, ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1081 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs 

BEAUTIFUL FOG: OUR THIRTY-SECOND FIRST-PRIZE WINNER

... BEAUTIFUL FOG: OUR THIRTY SECOND FIRST- PRIZE WINNER. This fine photograph which illustrates a beautiful effect produced by that highly unpopular weather condition, fog, has been awarded the thirty-second first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. P. M. Rogers, with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 2 minutes at f.3.5. The runner-up prize-winning ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 73 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FIVE ...STARS AND ONE PRIV... ...ATE INDIVIDUAL!

... FIVE tl I STARS AND ONE PRI\ \TE INDIVIDUAL! Miss JOAN BENNETT, here posed with a charming golden cocker spaniel which has no stage or screen ambitions, J I Wlh i)ut is a private individual, is starring in Waller Wanger's Trade Winds at the London Pavilion. Here I/II her natural ash-blonde hair is arranged in 1939 style. In Trade Winds she appears in most sequences MM Ijjjjjj with dark brown ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE COWBOY'S LADY AS A BEACH GIRL

... . These two beautiful studies of MERLE OBERON, the British screen-star show her as a beach girl wearing a graceful wrap and in her swim-suit giving a final touch to the cap tchich protects her hair, before plunging into the Pacific. The latter picture teas taken before the shooting of a sea sequence ivith Gary Cooper in Samuel Goldwyn's The Cotvboy and the Lady, which is due for its premiere ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 103 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FAY COMPTON IN A CHRISTMAS-CARD SETTING

... FAY COMPTON IN A CHRISTMAS -CARD SETTING. MISS FAY COMPTON is the Principal Boy, Robin Hood, in the Drury Lane pantomime The Babes in the Wood. Here she is posed in a decor with a real Christmas-card atmosphere about it. Scenes from the panto are given elsewhere in this issue. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANGUS MCBF.AN ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 54 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... MEETING in the PARK. Two bright young stars of the English stage John Hep worth dismounts to have a talk with Glynnis Johns who as the young brides maid in Quiet Wedding, shows an appropriate interest in clothes and a brilliant turn for light comedy. HIDING-CLOTHES FROM MOSS BROTHERS JOHN EVERARD ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 51 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THOS. COOK & SON LTD

... THOS. COOK SON LTD THOS. COOK SON LTD. Upon either bank of the Nile is imperish- ably written in pyramid, in tomb and temple the history of ancient Egypt. 14 t 71 1 1/1 P Memphis, with its alabaster Sphinx the strange step Pyramid of Sakkara the in credible temples of Luxor and Karnak the Valley of the Tombs of Kings (circa 1700 l/t p /J y f A T B.C.) the tomb of that beauteous wife of Rameses ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 208 | Page: Page 44 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 669 | Page: Page 45 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

BUBBLE AND SQUEAK

... BUBBLE AND j SQUEAK They had only been married a few months, and were sitting down to their first Christmas dinner in their own home. Will you carve the turkey, dear she asked. Of course, he replied. By the way, what is it stuffed with Oh, 1 didn't stuff it. There was no need it wasn't hollow. the office boy was a X smart lad, and one day, after a particularly bright action, he was summoned ...