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TULIP, GARDENIA, MAGNOLIA, ROSE

... . LADY ROSE PAGET is here framed in a floral setting of spring tulips, gardenias complete ivith their lacquered green foliage, and artificial magnolias. She is the fourth daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Anglesey, and is in her nineteenth year. She has one brother, the Earl of Uxbridge, ivho is the twin of her youngest sister, Lady Katherine Mary Veronica Paget. Lady Anglesey is a ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 86 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FROM START TO FINISH: PLAYS OF THE MOMENT. NO. XX.--THEY WALK ALONE, AT THE SHAFTESBURY

... FROM START TO FINISH. PLAYS OF THE MOMENT. NO. XX.-- THEY WALK ALONE, AT THE SHAFTESBURY. 1. Scene: the household of a gentleman- farmer the family gets ready to go to a party. Bess Stanforth (CAROL GOODNER) Larry Tallent, ^1 her brother (JIMMY HANLEY) Julie Tallent, her sister (RENE RAY). Bess If you go on staring at your face in the mirror, Larry, you '11 very likely fall in love with it 2. ...

THE FOOD OF LOVE.: A MUSIC ARTICLE; AN OLD FRIEND AT SADLER'S WELLS

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY FRANCIS TOYE. AN OLD FRIEND AT SADLER'S WELLS. I EXPECT that a good number of my readers will be attending the re vival of II Trova tore at Sadler's Wells, for II Trova tore, after all these years, remains one of the irresistible operatic magnets everywhere. Moreover, the present revival is well worth a visit, for it is indubitably the best perform ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1132 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SKETCH DIARY OF FASHION

... Jm SlXTCU I DlAC/ m F ASUIIIIDN EDITED BY OLIVE CALEY SMITW SHEEN OF SATIN, reflecting beneath the lights the softest, glowing pink, falling richly in graceful folds, its long lines accen tuated by encrustations of heavy lace embroidered with glittering pink beads. A dress that is kind but full of dignity. It comes from Marshall and Srielgrove. SHIMMER OF SILVER, woven into an oyster-blue lame ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: Page 42 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TRIUMPH COMPANY LTD., COVENTRY

... . . TRIUMPHDOLOMITI his beautiful model which was introduced last summer met with such an immediate and overwhelming reception, that it was quite impossible to accept many of the orders that were offered conditional upon quick delivery being given. With the approach of the touring season we earnestly recommend intending purchasers to place their orders at once if they wish to avoid ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 182 | Page: Page 53 | Tags: Photographs 

FERDINAND THE BULL COMES TO THE FILMS; THE BULL WHO PREFERRED FLOWERS OF THE FIELD TO BOUQUETS OF THE RING

... . Walt Disney's new R.K.O. Radio Technicolor film, FERDINAND THE BULL, will be in the programme with 44 Gunga Din at the Gauinont, Haymarket, on February 28. The Duke and Duchess ol Gloucester have arranged to be presept at this gala premiere, which is to be held in aid ol St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The film is taken from the famous 44 Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 460 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FROM START TO FINISH: PLAYS OF THE MOMENT; NO. XXI.-- GAS LIGHT, AT THE APOLLO

... FROM START TO FINISH. PLAYS OF THE MOMENT. NO. XXI.- GAS LIGHT, AT THE APOLLO. 1. Mr. Manningham (Dennis Arundell) Mrs. Manningham (Given Ffranggon-Davies) j and Nancy (Elizabeth Inglis). Mr. Manningham and you might as well light the gas, Nancy. This darkness in the afternoon is getting beyond endurance.'* 2. Mr. Manningham to his wife before going I to a play Which would you choose j ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 366 | Page: Page 30, 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE.: A MUSIC ARTICLE BY FRANCIS TOYE; THE GLORY OF HANDEL

... THE FOOD OF LOVE.' A MUSIC ARTICLE BY FRANCIS TOYE. THE GLORY OF HANDEL. READERS may remember that when I began my recent wireless talks on Music I Enjoy I ventured to chron icle here certain per sonal reactions to wards the music of the two Scarlattis. Now that they have come to an end, 1 should like to repeat the procedure with regard to Handel. Of the six talks, the last three were ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1092 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. FROM a Cheltenham schoolboy I have re ceived an interesting account of a pike-fishing incident which occurred while he was in Scotland with a school friend recently. They were told of a pond, reputed to hold big pike, in the Castle Douglas district. Making their way to the pond they found that, except in one place, it was hardly possible to fish owing to a wide ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1218 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs 

MOSHULU: OUR THIRTY-EIGHTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER

... . This fine study of the square-rigged steel four-masted barque Moshulu has been awarded the thirty-eighth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. James Croskery tvith a folding Kodak C camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-25th second at f.8. The Moshulu which was built on the Clyde in 1904, is a vessel of 3116 tons engaged in trade between Europe and Australia. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 70 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STILL-LIFE AND DESIGN

... STILL -LIFE AND DESIGN. MOUNTAIN ASH by Mr. H. T. Morris. Taken with a Zeiss lea 5 camera. Film: Kodak. Exposure: one second at f.ll. DESIGN FOR LACE by Mr. Clarence Ponting. Taken icith a Sanderson quarter-plate Field camera. Plate Imperial Eclipse Ortho. Magnesium ribbon for exposure at f.ll. j RAINDROPS ON. ASPARAGUS by Mr. Clarence Ponting. Taken I with a Sanderson quarter-plate Field ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 155 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - I TV/TISS LUCY I iVl WEBB transforms j bread from or- dinarv cottage I loaves into flowers of every description and paints them by hand. The j I bread is then hardened by a special process and becomes unbreakable. DURING the Florida orange festival, MISS JANE MOORE was able to j aquaplane along a river filled with golden grape-fruit. MISS THYRA SAMTER WINSLOW cooked her prize-winning dainty, ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 271 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs