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Johnnie Walker

... Our learned friends, to do them justice, certainly know what's what. Observe the whisky in the glasses (Exhibits A and B). It is . And if anybody asks What is ? he is obviously no judge of fine whisky. is not merely a fine whisky. It is all the finest whiskies of Scotland, aged and mellowed in the wood, and most skilfully blended into one. Gentlemen! your Brief interlude ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 77 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

TCHAIKOVSKY'S THE SLEEPING PRINCESS AT THE WELLS

... MARGOJ FONTEYN dances the part of the Princess Aurora in the new Sadler's Wells production of Tchaikovsky's THE SLEEPING PRINCESS in its entirety, which was due for its gala premiere on Thursday last, February 2, in aid of the Housing Centre. H.M. Queen Mary arranged to attend this performance. JUNE BRAE as the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Princess The whole of the Vic-Wells Ballet appear in ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PERFUME'S HAUNTING ALLURE

... Perfume's ID ft HAUNTING ALLURE NEARLY every woman in the world can seem more lovely than she is, and if she makes no effort to be so, then surely she proves herself insensitive to the delicate vibra tions that can make life so sweet and so bewilderingly full of unsuspected beauty. It is mainly a matter of the spirit, and certainly it has nothing to do with artificiality, though it may owe ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 402 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

MORRIS MOTORS LIMITED

... , COWLEY, OXFORD , Sole Exporters Morris Industries Exports Limited, Cowley, Oxford, England M.350 MORRIS RECORD SALES are the finest *mA%,cr when buying a car On the goodwill of each separate owner, Morris have built the greatest sales the British car industry has ever known. This goodwill, spread sincerely by word of mouth, by obvious enthusiasm in the car, has become in its cumu lative ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 193 | Page: Page 47 | Tags: Photographs 

FOLLOWING THROUGH

... . By SANDY BUNKER. WHEN a howling north-easter drives a scurry of snow across the landscape and week-end golf is out of question, an amusing and probably fruitful hour or two may be spent in the golfer's library. It has always been my opinion that more can be learned in half an hour with a com petent tutor than by hours of reading. I have no inten tion of belittling the efforts of the experts ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 947 | Page: Page 52 | Tags: Photographs 

Player's

... GOOD TASTE marks lier choice in most things. With cigarettes her preference is 6 cork-tipped but for good taste she knows /$m\ they must always be j mud N.C.0.486H ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 29 | Page: Page 65 | Tags: Photographs 

RENAULT

... HIGH PERFORMANCE WITH LOW RUNNING COSTS --and to the motorist seeking a replacement *H for a high-powered car this Renault 12 h.p. 2/3 seater Convertible Coupe supplies the perfect answer. In performance it easily outstrips its rivals of equal rating, in run- ning cost it keeps well within the limits rT1 imposed by a moderate income. Its 'con- vertible' coachwork, so ideally suited to the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 196 | Page: Page 66 | Tags: Photographs 

Covers

... PRICE ONE SHILLING THE SKETCH' September 27, 1939 PRICE ONE SHILLING BY INLAND POST, l/l J reproduced in colour from the photograph by Walter stoneman, f.r.p.s. (london). _ Canada and Newfoundland l*d. Foreign 2d. 32-3-4. ST. BRIDE STREET. E.C.-4. ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 39 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Photographs 

H. G. WELLS MEETS A DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS

... H. G. WELLS MEETS A DUCK BILLED PLATYPUS. This striking study of MR. H. G. WELLS, the distinguished novelist, shows him making friends with a remarkable creature, Jill, the duck-billed platypus. When passing through Melbourne on his way to Canberra, Mr. Wells expressed a desire to see a live duck-billed platypus so was taken to the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary at Healesville, where he met ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. SOME time ago I made reference on this page to the somewhat cur ious theory that the presence of eels in a lake tended to make trout surface-feeders. In the case of lakes pos sessing limited areas of shallow water the theory impresses me as a plausible one, and the converse is even more acceptable. That is to say, it eeis are exter minated in a lake, then the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1164 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW PAINTERS PARAPHRASE THE OLD MASTERS: SOME FAMOUS WORKS IN THE MODERN IDIOM

... . The most illustrious painters have enjoyed painting 44 free copies or translations into their own individual idiom of the work of earlier masters. Rubens, for instance, painted versions of Mantcgna and Titian. Rembrandt of Diirer and Mogul miniatures, Degas of Bellini, Poussin, and Lawrence. And so on. In the Storran Gallery's EXHIBITION OF PARAPHRASES (FREE COPIES) will be found a series of ...

FOLLOWING THROUGH

... . By SANDY BUNKER. MODERN clubs and balls have made golf artificial, said Sandy Herd, the famous veteran ex- champion, during a speech at the Herts Alliance din ner. Now Herd is not the type of man to throw his Scottish caution to the winds moreover, he is the finest golfer of his age living to-dav. At seventv Herd could probably give most players ten years and a beating, since he still ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1140 | Page: Page 46 | Tags: Photographs