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BEAUTY IN BLUE SEQUINS

... . LADY GEORGIANA KIDSTON, who sat for this fine camera-study wearing a lovely long-sleeved evening dress of glimmering glittering blue sequins is the only daughter of Earl Hoive and of Mary, Countess Howe. Her marriage to Lieut. Home R. A. Kidston, R.N. took place in 1935, and she has a baby son, born in 1937. Lieut, and Lady Georgiana Kidston have a London residence in Berkeley Square their ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PERFORMERS IN LONDON'S GREATEST FREE SHOW

... . The OXFORD CREW selected to meet Cambridge on Saturday, April 1, were reading from bow down): G. HUSE (Latymer Upper School and Oriel; bow), J. L. GARTON F.ton and Magdalen), A. G. SLEMECK St. Edward's and St. Edmund Hall), R. R. STEWART (Eton and Magdalen), R. D. BURNELL (Eton and Magdalen), F. A. L. WALDRON (Shrewsbury and Trinity H. A. W. FORBES (St. Paul's and Magdalen), J. R. BINGHAM ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TANQUERAY GORDON & CO. LTD

... TANQUERAY GORDON CO. LTD., TANQUERAY GORDON CO. LTD., TKis is the Grhi if made as only the purest and best Gin can be made, by the process of distillation m J//' anC^ rec^ ti°n, the secret J House Gordon Gordon's Standi Supteme J he lakge&t gin diitilkM vn the wolld GIN DISTILLERS. LONDON ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 53 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE GOLDSMITHS & SILVERSMITHS COMPANY LTD

... ■HUM* THE SKETCH-- 29? November 29, 1939 Qitriita QUff THE LATE KING GEORGE V. The choosing and giving of beautiful gifts-- will bring us more pleasure this Christmas than ever before. At The Goldsmiths Silversmiths Company you will find a profuse array of timely suggestions at prices suitable to everybody. You will be able to choose the exact, personal present for each of your friends. If you ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 200 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

County Perfumery Co., Ltd

... County Perfumery Co Ltd., , Dress hf the ritfht hair dressing- Brylcreem MODERN ARMY DRESS CALLS FOR BRYLCREEM You can't hide untidy hair under the modern army cap. It's best dressed by the right dressing Brylcreem. Right because it contains no gums or other injurious I ingredients. Right because it controls hair without stiffening or plastering it. HANDY TUBES FOR ACTIVE SERVICE Afm ALSO JARS ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 82 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

DUCHESS AND DÉBUTANTE

... DUCHESS AND DEBUTANTE. This fine portrait-study shows HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH (right) u-ilh her debutante daughter, LADY SARAH SPENCER-CHURCHILL, for whom she is giving a dance at Blenheim Palace on Friday next, July 7. The Duchess was the Hon. Alexandra Mary Cadogan. Lady Sarah has inherited her mother s chic, and her tall, graceful figure recalls that of her paternal grandmother ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW

... . IT is reported that some European nations have a notion that we are degenerate and have lost the traditional hardihood which once characterised our island race. Let such people just step over to England and see how we brave the rigours of our midsummer cold; how we don our white hats and silken frocks and sit on draughty benches at Wimbledon, or go to gusty, bracing Newmarket, dressed as for ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1935 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Bear Brand STOCKINGS

... f>£M Brai\d STOCKINGS i (>£M 6 \\A r\d STOCKINGS 3/n 4/11 5/11 6/n 8/n tea tattle talk to the tinkle of tea cups fashion's foibles friends' flirtations the Johnsons' new house and the Andersons' old quarrel inevitably comes the subject of stockings still more inevitably the blessings of Bear Brand their helpful habit of making legs look slimmer, more lovely their comforting custom of lasting ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 89 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

MAITRESSE D'ESCRIME

... MAiTRESSE D'ESCRIME. Th beautiful study oj un accomplished i cor an fencer select ing her foils shows MIS LYN TEESDALE. the 1 1 -known expert. She captained the woc n's Salle Gravf lean which recently met a side represent ing the Salle Bertrand in an assaut d' amies h id in London. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 52 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MARRIED AND ENGAGED

... . MR. GODFREY AGNEW, only son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Agnew, married MISS RUTH M. MOORE, eldest daughter A of Captain Charles M Moore, M.C., and of J I the late Lady Dorothie Moore, at the Oratory I Brompton. Captain I Moore has been 1 Manager of His Majesty's thorough V bred stud since 1937, 1 Right MISS DIANA SILVA HOWARD THOMPSON, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thompson, of Bishton ...

SYMPHONIC BALLET-RÔLE CREATOR AND BABY OF THE BALLET: OUTSTANDING FIGURES IN THIS YEAR'S RUSSIAN BALLET

... SYMPHONIC BALLET- ROLE CREATOR AND BABY OF THE BALLET. ALEXANDRA DENISOVA, in Le Manage d'Aurore. NINA VERCHININA as CI rina, in Carnaval. OUTSTANDING FIGURES IN THIS YEAR'S RUSSIAN BALLET. ALEXANDRA DENISOVA, in Protee. PUOT0CRApH &Y HARON. ALEXANDRA DENISOVA, the sixteen-year-old baby prima ball en Vancouver. She was picked by Lichine last year for the Low and Riabouchinska in Australia ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STRIP-TEASE PARODY BY REGINALD BECKWITH

... . In this impersonation REGINALD BECKWITH adds to the gales of laughter induced by the satirical Gate Revue at the Ambassadors. Diffident, hesitant, confident, triumphant, his moods shift and change like those of any cabaret artiste or music-hall performer in an act of this sort. PHOTOGRAPHS BY YATES-MASON. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 52 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs