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HEAT-WAVE REHEARSALS FOR THE OPEN-AIR THEATRE

... . A rehearsal for 11 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is being watched by dancers of the company. Dancers for the Open-Air Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing cooling their feet in the rock-garden pool. THE OPEN-AIR THEATRE SEASON is due to open on Saturday next with Much Ado About Nothing in which Cathleen Nesbitt plays Beatrice to D. A. Clarke- Smith's Benedick. Margaret Vines is Hero Sylvia ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 113 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A - FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. SEVERAL British anglers have had fine sport in New Zealand, judging by reports in local papers which my friend Dr. Lewis Smith has passed on to me. Mr. W. J. E. Owen, of Cheshire, fishing Fulljames Reach, on the Waitahanui, with Mr. A. J. Nimmo, a well- known Wellington angler, shared the following bag: Eleven trout, 11 lb., 8 lb., 5¾ lb., 5 lb., 4½ lb., and the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1112 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON TYPES--ASSORTED

... LONDON TYPES ASSORTED. These portrait-studies of well-contrasted types to be met with every day in the streets of London have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. The man of action, the man of peace, the talker, and the musician form a well-assorted quartet. BETTER NEWS by Mr. A. S. Bailey. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Ag fa. Exposure 1 -100th second ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ANOTHER FILM QUEEN VICTORIA; A DR. LIVINGSTONE AND A STANLEY

... ANOTHER FILM QUEEN VICTORIA; 1 A DR. LIVINGSTONE AND A STANLEY. W e are used to seeing Queen Victoria on the screen, as she was pre sented as the heroine of two great pictures, Vic toria Regina and Sixty Glorious Years. In THE LITTLE PRINCESS,'' the new SHIRLEY TEMPLE Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor film at the New Gallery, she is intro duced. but as a minor character. Sara Crewe (SHIRLEY ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 261 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TAKE OUR ADVICE: AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE

... TAKE OUR ADVICE AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE: plays. UNDER YOUR HAT Palace Theatre). Jack Hulbert, a Secret Service Agent in search of a stolen carburettor Cicely Courtneidge, his jealous wife. Plenty of wit tuneful music clever chorus. What more could you ask of an excellent show HERBERT FARJEON'S LITTLE REVUE (Little). As near perfect as revue can be, thanks to his glitter ing wit and deadly aim. ...

Harrods Ltd

... I i* -/vr ¥kfc i 1/m mJ Hulitj Sheer white lisse with an air of youthful romanticism and old-world charm Miss Junior's breath-catching dance dress has frills, furbelows and the rustling gaiety of a billowing taffeta-lined skirt. 1\ Gns. White linen that feels as cool as it looks, for Miss Junior's Summer-line tailored suit. Sturdy and fresh, with a figure-hugging jacket and a graceful ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 77 | Page: Page 43 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... I - DURING the shoot ing of the flood sequences in the film, A MODERN CIN DERELLA, difficult boating operations had to be conducted in the hall of a house. MISS ANNE GWYNNE once appeared in an under water swim in a news reel. As a result of taking a small r61e in a Hollywood Little Theatre she has been offered a film contract. MA R L E N E DIETRICH, who was in Paris for the Quatorze Juillet ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 458 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 26 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 20 | Page: Page 49 | Tags: Photographs 

THE QUEEN SEES HER DAUGHTERS' SWIMMING SUCCESSES

... . The competitors for the Children's Challenge Shield for girls over nine and under fourteen, which was won by H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH, were (I. to r. bach row MISS ANNE BARLOW, MISS SALLY BACKUS, MISS PENELOPE HAWKINGS, MISS CLAIRE BULL, and MISS ROSEMARY GRIMSTON and (in front) PRINCESS ELIZABETH, MISS KATHERINE COKE, MISS TUNE BARRIE. MISS MAUREEN DILLON. MISS DAWN HOLMAN RICHARDS. The ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PLAIN AND COLOURED.--A.P.C

... PLAIN AND COLOURED-- A.P.C. These studies of well-contrasted types have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. The Italian cab-driver will wake up ii he sees a customer the Medicine Man conies from Zanzibar the Vagabond from Suffolk, and the gentleman with rugs was plying his trade in Belgium. FORTY WINKS CAPRI by Mr. E. Richardson. Taken with a Rolleicord ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 131 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - I THESE MEMBERS OF THE ETON EIGHT FOR GOING FLAT OUT FOR VICTORY AT HENLEY REGATTA. MISS MONA FRIEDLANDER FOR BEING AN ATTRACTIVE NIGHT-FLYING TARGET THAT NO ONE SHOULD MISS. MISS PEARL TURNER and MISS EVELYN ANDERSON FOR BEING SUCH A PRETTY PAIR THAT THE GAUMONT- BRITISH HEALTH AND BEAUTY CUP JUDGES COULDN'T DECIDE BETWEEN THEM. LADY DAVID DOUGLAS-HAMILTON FOR GETTING A REAL KICK OUT OF ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 372 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LADY ELEANOR SMITH FINDS LIFE A CIRCUS

... . Author of about eight novels, the brilliant elder daughter of the late F. E. Smith first Earl of Birkenhead has written her autobiography. Basing its title on her affection for the sawdust ring, Lady Eleanor calls it Life 's a Circus. It will be published on July 10. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANGUS MCBEAN. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 59 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs