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TUB, GRUB AND LOVE!

... ISN'T IT MY TURN YET by Captain W. S. Duke. Taken with a Zeiss Super Ikonta. Film Agfa. Exposure l50th second at f.ll. YOUR TURN, PETER by Mr. L. Tyler. Taken with an Ensign Cameo camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-50th second at f.8. MUTUAL ADORATION by Mr. S. Yarrow. Taken with an Ensign camera. Film Selo. Exposure l-50th second at f.6.3. BATH, PLEASE by Miss C. R. Summers. Taken with a ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 145 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

INGESTRE HALL CHRISTENING HOUSE-PARTY

... INGESTRE HALL f CHRISTENING HOUSE- PARTY. MAJOR HUMPHREY BUTLER (a godfather), the COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY (holding the infant LADY CHARLOTTE SARAH ALEXANDRA CHETWYND TALBOT, and the EARL OF SHREWS BURY (I. to r.) faced the camera after the christen ing ceremony, which took place at Ingestre Church, Stafford. LADY URSULA STEWART, sister of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and MR. TONY CROFTON. LADY ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 219 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEWS REEL OF WEEK

... NEWS REEL OF THE WEEK. f The marriage of CAPTAIN RICHARD WYNDHAM-QUIN GOING, King's Own Scottish Borderers, to the HON. DIANA BETTERTON, elder daughter of Lord Rushcliffe, took place at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. MRS. DOUGLAS LITTLE, formerly Miss Dorothy Round, is f^==- here posed with her baby son, IAN, aged seven months. Mrs. Little has decided to return to lawn tennis. She will enter the ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CONSTANCE BENNETT AS A LOVELY LIVELY GHOST

... CONSTANCE BENNETT AS A LOVELY LIVELY GHOST. I TOPPER TAKES A TRIP, the new Hal Roach picture, is to have a gala performance to-night, February 15, attended by the Duke and f Duchess of Gloucester, in aid of Islington Slum Clearance. Its run I starts at the Odeon on March 6. The hotel manager (FRANKLIN f PANGBORN) and Mr. Topper (ROLAND YOUNG) here register surprise at the pranks of Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 232 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SHIRLEY AS A CHORISTER

... . This charming natural-colour photograph of MISS SHIRLEY TEMPLE shows her posed as a chorister. Her latest picture Just Around the Corner,' a 20th Century Fox production, was due for its premiere at the Gaumont, Haymarket, last night, February 14. In this, she plays the part of Penny Hale, a little rich girl who finds her father reduced to poverty by the trade slump. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 67 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

R.F.C. GALLANTRY FILMED IN THE DAWN PATROL

... 1 THE DAWN PATROL, the new Warner Brothers picture due 1 at the Warner Theatre on Thursday, February I6y is a drama I of air-warfare in France in the old days of the Royal Flying I Corps when British machines were rather inadequate but British airmen were the soul of gallantry and dare-devil courage. This illustrates a successfid raid, undertaken contrary to orders Courtney (ERROL FLYNN left) ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 167 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE SKETCH DIARY OF FASHION

... Fw Ihxtciu mm DiiAcy cr f asiicn EDITED BY OLIVE CALEY- SMITH SLENDER and tall, and with the simplicity of complete sophistication, this Neil Roger dress, designed for their Majesties' Courts (the first of which is to be held on the 9th of March) is made in white Manchukin, the hem and train weighted with gold cord embroideries. The tiny Directoire bodice blazes with crystal jewels, and the ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 77 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FOLLOWING THROUGH

... . By SANDY BUNKER. ACCORDING to a famous amateur golfer, who is a regular com petitor in tournaments and championships, a player who takes up the game seriously needs an in come of about £5000 a year. That is a rather disturbing thought, especi ally as the town-dweller is facing the possi bility of an increase in the cost of his golf! But fortunately this estimate is not the popular idea. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 932 | Page: Page 44 | Tags: Photographs 

THE DAIMLER COMPANY LIMITED

... , COVENTRY. LONDON DISTRIBUTORS STRATSTONE, 2 7 PALL MALL AND 40 BERKELEY STREET SkaM taAz ove#- tMougk toww? 1 MOVEMENT INSTEAD OF 4 OLD WAY For every stop you 1. brake, 2. de clutch, 3. move gear lever into neutral, 4. release clutch. For every start you I. declutch, 2. go into gear, 3. let in clutch, 4. accelerate. DAIMLER WAY To stop you BRAKE (engine idles in gear). To start you ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 224 | Page: Page 49 | Tags: Photographs 

ISSUED BY WORTHINGTON AND CO. LTD

... , , B U R T O N O N T RE NT ENGLAND ftbts finglanb Oxfordshire from the Chilterns nr. Stokenchurch CRY not too swiftly with the good Dr. Johnson upon words not yet refined from the grossness of domestic use. For many are much older than we who find them new. When you rummage among words (an Elizabethan term for stowing the hold of a ship) you find that the chap or chapman who is your ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 163 | Page: Page 51 | Tags: Photographs 

INCOMPARABLE ZAZA BY CLAUDETTE COLBERT

... . MISS CLAUDETTE COLBERT'S latest part is the title-role of ZAZA the new Paramount picture which was due at the Plaza on February 10. The story is set in Paris in 1900, and the heroine is a fascinating young actress who is adored by every man, and envied by every woman. Miss Colbert gets every ounce of value out of the stage and back-stage scenes of this drama of love when the century was ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 103 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs