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THE FOOD OF LOVE.: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR A MUSIC CRITIC

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY FRANCIS TOYE. NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR A MUSIC CRITIC. ONLY the very superior are unaffected by the New Year. The rest of us, even though we may realise that January the First marks a purely arbitrary division of time, continue to feel that there is something different about it, that it really is separated in some mysterious way from Dec. 31. So we go ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1173 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW DRAMATIST

... . MISS MORNA STUART is the author of Traitors Gate the drama of intellectual struggle presenting the last year of the life of Sir or rather Saint Thomas More, his conflict with Henry VIII. over the question of the royal divorce, and his death on the scaffold, at the Duke of 1 ork s. The piece is intensely gripping. To quote The Times critic This is a dramatist who has something to say and what ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ZAZA WITH HER FRILLIES

... ZAZA WITH HER FRILLIES. CLAUDETTE COLBERT'S latest starring vehicle is the new Paramount picture ZAZA, in which she appears as a fetching Edwardian dancer here seen in her sequined stage frock displaying ivith fascinating naughtiness what used to be called frillies. The film tells the story of how Zaza falls in love with the charming Dufresne, played by Mr. Herbert Marshall, refuses to ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 117 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MEDIUM OR MILD

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Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 34 | Page: Page 43 | Tags: Photographs 

'SANATOGEN'

... A brand of Casein and Sodium Glycero-phosphate. Made Mark) A brand of Casein and Sodium Glycero-phosphate. (Tiadc Mark) I11 the present state of medical knowledge.. To inspire confidence is, for a Doctor, a valuable part of his treatment. But the bedside manner is undergoing a change. To this wiser generation the Doctor is willing to admit that there are limits to medical science. In the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 228 | Page: Page 44 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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, up to twelve ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 521 | Page: Page 47 | Tags: Photographs 

George Melvin: Nurse to the Babes

... George Melvin Nurse to the Babes George Melvin is the nurse in charge of the Babes in the Wood in the pantomime of that name at Drury Lane urbane and eyebrow-raising, on bicycle, in nursery, or among the pie-slingers in the kitchen, he fits ideally into the show, which demonstrates pantomime tradition undisturbed. Melvin is an Aberdeen man and a theatrical by birth and Upbringing his first ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Politicians at Play

... j Spanish Grandee in Swiss Snow During General Franco's big push to put an end to the agony of Spain, his representative in England, the Duke of Alba and Berwick, did not think fit to upset his holiday arrangements and ivas duly photographed with his daughter Tana in the snows above St. Moritz Yugoslavian Premier on Swiss Ice Dr. Milan Stojadinovic, the Yugoslavian Council of Regency's first ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Ballet at the Wells: Action Studies of Two Dancers Taking Old and New Parts

... Ballet at the Wells Action Studies of Two Dancers Taking Old and New Parts To-morrow night Julia Farron will dance Columbine in Carnaval for the first time. Although far from being one of the great dancing roles, Fokine's Columbine is, nevertheless, an important character in the modern ballet tradition, one for which great dancers, like Karsavina who created it, have set the standard. At ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 267 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Round the Year: Garden Beauties of the Four Seasons

... Round the Year Garden Beauties of the Four Seasons SPRING Forsythia intermedia var. spectabilis. Clear yellow pendant flowers smother the naked branches in February and March Flower Portrait by Blanche Henrey AUTUMN Prunus subhirtella autumnalis. The winter-flowering Japanese cherry's scented white or pale pink flowers appear from November to March, weather permitting Flower Portrait by ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 122 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Gardener's Chronicle: Prelude

... Gardener's Chronicle By R. C. Jen kin son A new series of articles for tlie victims always increasing in num ber of the happiest of obsessions Prelude GARDENING during the last decade has exercised an ever-widening appeal to rich and poor alike; wherein that appeal lies, I have never been able to decide. Enthusiasm is limited almost exclusively to English- speaking people, which makes my ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 976 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs