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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MISS BETTE DAVIS, for being likely to bring off the Hat Trick in Motion Picture Academy Awards with her splendid performance in Dark Victory. MISS BETTE DAVIS, who was awarded Motion Picture Academy Awards for her performances in Jezebel and Dangerous is noiv being strongly tipped as likely to secure another of these coveted awards for her performance in First National's DARK VICTORY, at ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 176 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SIMPLE ROUTINE FOR SUMMER BEAUTY

... MANY a woman whose complexion seems enviable enough in the winter falls far below her usual standard as soon as the warm weather arrives. Her skin flushes and the pores relax. Her make-up is inclined to look heavy, and the more attention she lavishes on her face the less kindly does it respond. It is one of the major disasters of a woman's life, for at the moment when her clothes are gay and ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: MR. J. FRANK JOHNSON, For winning a tug-of-war with a tunny, at six pounds a minute

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MR. J. FRANK JOHNSON, For winning a tug= of-war with a tunny, at six pounds a minute. This photograph coming from Liverpool, Nova Scotia- is said to represent the teorld's biggest blue-fin tuna, or tunny, landed after a battle of 2 hours 27 minutes. Its weight was 868 lb., so Mr. J. Frank Johnson won the tug of war at six pounds a minute, so to speak. The fish broke the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DRILL, ORATORY AND TACTICS.--A.P.C

... DRILL, ORATORY AND TACTICS.-- A.P.C. THE NEW DRILL-- MARCHING IN THREES by Mr. J. W. J. Underell. Taken with a Leica camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-100th second at f.4.5. THE NEW DRILL--1 'SHUN by Mr. James H. Engledou). Taken with an Ikonta camera. Film Agfa. Exposure no details received. THE PASSIVE RESISTER by Dr. W. H. Du Pre. Taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-50th ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 139 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WARTIME IS WEDDING AND ENGAGEMENT TIME

... WARTIME IS WEDDING 1 f AND ENGAGEMENT TIME. f 1 MISS ELIZABETH EVERARD, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Everard is engaged to Mr. Michael C. Stirling Halford, of the White House West Bridgeford, Nottingham. mrt-i- n-- MISS MONICA KATHERINE DRUMMOND, younger daughter of Colonel the Hon. Sir Maurice Drummond, K.B.E., of Hill Place, Farnham Common, is engaged to Mr. Francis Brian Sylvester ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 210 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

EVERYBODY'S DOING IT! BIKING AND BLACK-OUT SERVICE LIFE ON A COUNTRY ESTATE

... EVERYBODY'S DOING IT! BIKING AND BLACK-OUT SERVICE LIFE ON A COU TRY ESTATE. Lord Hesketh's place looks peaceful, but everyone there is working on National Service, except babies like his grandchildren, ANNE STOCKDALE and the HON. JOHN and JAMES BARING. The black-out regulations are most carefully followed in the little houses. MRS. FRANCIS, the wife of a tenant on the estate, is fixing her ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 361 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOOL GOES ON SERVICE

... J RATIONED fuel may mean a distinctly Arctic winter, so the Eskimo jacket on the right will be especially welcome. Burberry's, in the Haymarket, have it in beautifully soft angora, light as a feather but warm as an eiderdown. All the colours are attractive, particularly a clear cherry -red, grand with navy or black. The hood is firmly attached. FLUFFY or plain jumpers this winter have plenty ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOBBY-HORSE FOUR-IN-HAND.--A.P.C

... HOBBY-HORSE FOUR-IN-HAND.-- A.P.C. A FENCING LESSON by Miss C. Avent. Taken with a Voigtlander camera. Film Agfa. Exposure one half-second at f.6.3. TOPSY-TURVY by Mr. L. W. Sanders. Taken with a Super Ikonta camera. Film Panatomic. Exposure l-250th second at f.5.6. SUMMER FLOWERS by Mr. W. H. Blore. Taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-50th second at f.5.6. SWAN DANCE by Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 110 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DUNLOP Fort

... dun lop IFxrrt dun lop Ifort WITH TEETH TO BITE THE ROAD The knowing squirrel points a moral for the motorist. Store up security for yourself, at this season of wet roads and windstrewn leaves, by fitting the safest lyre in all the world. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 44 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: THE BRIGHTER SIDE

... WOMEN IN WARTIME THE BRIGHTER SIDE Elizabeth arden is doing her National Service by providing really practical beauty preparations. Take this leather Service Kit to camp with you. It costs a guinea, and contains all the essential equipment for efficient treatment. GIVE your friends in the A.F.S. this Elizabeth Arden Stop Red, beauty set (16s. 6d.) it exactly picks up the red on their uniforms ...

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

ROVER

... /a i The Rover car has remained substantially unaltered for the past five years. Only minor refinements have been needed to keep it in the forefront of modern precision engineering and restrained modern design. Recent examples of these have been the addition of synchromesh gears to the successful freewheel, anti-roll stabilisers to both axles of all six cylinder models and the extension of an ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 106 | Page: Page 44 | Tags: Photographs