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COILED HAIR AND CURLED FEATHER GRACE

... . ANN SHERIDAN, the screen-star icho teas seen last tveek at the London Pavilion in Walter W anger's production WINTER CARNIVAL/' is also the leading lady in Warner's City of Lost Men. Our very attractive photograph shoivs her with the amusing coiffure she wears to go with a bustle-backed formal gown of green crepe. Her hair is swept up in front and worn in a low coil at the back while a head ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TALES WELL TOLD WITHOUT WORDS.--A.P.C

... TALES WELL TOLD WITHOUT WORDS. A.P.C. H These amusing and exceedingly human animal studies have been awarded runner- up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTO GRAPHERS' COMPET ITION. It would be hard to find more expressive stories without words I'd&h WELL, GET IN BEFORE TEN O'CLOCK IN FUTURE!; by Mr. R. W. J. Norton. Taken with a Reflex Korelle camera. Film Panatomic. Exposure l-200th second at f.4.5. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 160 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL--A.P.C

... animal, vegetable, mineral-- a.p.c. NOT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED by Mr. W. F. Dick. Taken with a Kodak camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-25th second at f.6.3. THE BRITISH LION SMILES by Miss A. Chauncey. Taken with a Reflex Korelle camera with extension tube. Film Panatomic. Exposure 2 seconds at f.22. PLEASE LEAVE ME SOME!; by Miss Patience Bland. Taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera. Film Kodak. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 128 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DOUGLAS NEWTON ON BLITZENKRIEG

... . BLITZEN- KRIEG seems to be the word of the moment. It may even oust wishful thinking, as the current mouthful, to say nothing of that (unexpressed) motto of the M.O.I. literary under statement. Like most things out of Germany it is, even as an idea, slightly second hand. It is the Nazi version of the ordre du choc of the French Revolution. Then it was the herald of a new order of ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1166 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

STILLS FROM SOME OF THE LATEST FILMS GAY ROMANCE, HISTORY, FARCE, AND FLYING DRAMA

... STILLS I FROM SOME OF THE LATEST FILMS: I GAY ROMANCE, HISTORY, FARCE, AND FLYING DRAMA. FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS (Plaza). The film version of Terence Ratti gan's farce is David Rose's first big British production for Paramount. RAY MIL- LAND and JANINE DARCEY play Alan and Jacqueline. Right French Without Tears, at the Plaza. Jacqueline is a disturbing influence when she joins the anglers, Alan ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 416 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS OF THE WEEK

... . 77ielnan^e^7^IsFT^^XR^F^ALSToir^OPEr^ only daughter of Sir Harry Hope, Bt., of Kinnettles, to SQUADRON-LEADER DUDLEY LLOYD EVANS, elder son of the late Mr. Thomas Lloyd Evans, took place at Upper Heyford Church, Oxford. MISS AUDREY WARD, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. R. Ward, of Ketllewett Hill Woking, is engaged to Mr. Robert Redshaw, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. G. Redshaw, of ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 290 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 49 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

ROUTINE AND RELAXATION

... WOMEN IN WARTIME QHE was a handsome Territorial, in her A.T.S. uniform O from Moss Bros., King Street, Covent Garden. Their long experience of tailoring gives it an extra touch of smart ness on parade, though naturally they keep exactly to official specifications. Any uniform can be supplied here. better 0 ^s; v need not get {£%v drops ara \X7^ T if y°u apThis vfeU-^0^ prevent W bands r^.ng. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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 

STAGE-CRAFT: OUR THIRTY-SEVENTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER

... STAGE CRAFT OUR THIRTY-SEVENTH FIRST- PRIZE WINNER. his excellent study of a young actress engaged in making-up before going on tn the stage has been awarded the thirty-seventh first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It tvas taken by Mr. D. L. Birkin, with a Zeiss Super Ikonta camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-10th second at J.3.5. The runner-up prize-winning photographs selected ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 74 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SEASCAPES FROM THREE CONTINENTS

... . These fine runner-up prize-winning studies submitted in connection with our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION take us round the world, for they illustrate the beauty of the seaside in Japan, Sussex, New South Wales, and Italy, and thus provide a beautifully contrasted quartet of watery beauty from Asia, Europe and Australia. THE JAPANESE INLAND SEA by Mr. Albert Klestadt. Taken with a Leica ...

PORTRAIT AND SHADOW-SHOW

... PORTRAIT AND SHADOW- SHOW. This cleverly-posed portrait of LADY HELEN JESSEL shous her facing the camera, while her pet dog is seen in profile and in silhouette as part of the shadow-show provided by the bird ornaments on the graduated steps. She is the third daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry and married the Hon. Edward Jessel, only son of Lord and Lady Jessel. in 1935. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 87 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs