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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO-- M0ISS CHRYSTABEL LEIGHTON=PORTER, for Being the Pink of Perfection

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MISS CHRYSTABEL LEIGHTON PORTER, for Being the Pink of Perfection. MISS CHRYSTABEL LEIGHTON-PORTER was recently judged to be The Perfect Girl at the 11th Annual Physical Excellence Competition organised by the Health and Strength League at the London Palladium. The jury who selected her for this title consisted of artists, physical culture experts, and doctors. 44 ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 77 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FOLLOWING THROUGH

... . By SANDY BUNKER. THE word garden- ing is to the golfer a word of derision. To remark that a player has been indulging in a little gardening is to reproach him and to offer, perhaps, a mild insult to the conceit which is in cluded in the make-up of most golfers. It seems to imply that the person so addressed has been en gaged in digging up the course by fluffing his way through the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 954 | Page: Page 44 | Tags: Photographs 

Swan & Edgar

... a-..** A Useful Suit for many Occasions The Ritz. Two-piece Suit in a new wool material with clever detailing on skirt ot dress. Coat lined throughout to tone. In green, brown, dusk rose, blue or navy. _ Black, and other pastel shades to special order, Hip sizes 38, 40 and 42 ins. 2 GNS. wwr PICCADILLY CIRCUS, W.1 ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 58 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Photographs 

Peggy Sage

... PEGGY SAGE'S FORECAST OF FINGER-TIP FASHION FINGER-TIPS REALLY WILL BE FLAKE-PROOF 's new polishes are specially blended to a new formula and they wear like iron. is a realist. She knows that her clients have busy fingers fingers that ride, write, dance, play the piano, play golf and the rich, glowing colours for which is famous would be of litde account without their amazing capacity for ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 248 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS SKETCH KEEPS A DIARY: MISS SKETCH'S DIARY

... J il MISS SKETCH KEEPS A DIARY. MISS SKETCH'S DIARy. FRIDAY, MARCH 3. To Leighterton for the DUKE OF BEAU FORT'S HUNT POINT-TO-POINT MEET ING, in sunshine, but with a strongish chill wind blowing. However, this year's treated us well for our point-to-pointing expeditions, as most of the days have been dry and just invigoratingly nippy. I do like it cold enough to justify a sizeable cherry ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1393 | Page: Page 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Graphic

... THE SKETCH HOROSCOPES: No. III.- FOR THOSE BORN UNDER ARIES. FROM THE DRAWING BY ERTE The third of The Sketch special illustrated horoscopes (which no one is asked to take seriously as a guide to life and conduct is for those under the sign of ARIES, or the Ram that is, men and women born between March 21 and April 20. They are natural fighters; energetic, and at times aggressive. They are ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 155 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW

... . THE rush of events induced by the early social season, consequent on March Courts, made it hard to decide how to spend last week: should one follow the established rule of going to Cheltenham, the Ascot of the National Hunt season, or stay in London to enjoy some of the parties and attend the wedding of Miss Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, niece of her Majesty, to Mr. Harington? I did Cheltenham on ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1705 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Photographs 

NORMA SHEARER AS A PHONEY BUT EXOTIC COUNTESS

... MISS NORMA SHEARER plays j the leading role of Irene in the M.-G.-M. screen version of Robert E. f Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, 41 Idiot's Delight. This part, which was created by Miss Lynn Fontannc, and played in London by Miss Tamara Gevar, is that of a little acrobat who masquerades as 44 a very phoney but very exotic Countess (to quote from the official description which ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRITISH BALLERINA FOR THE ROYAL COMMAND GALA AT COVENT GARDEN

... . MISS MARGOT FONTEYN, British ballerina of the Vic Wells Company, will dance Princess Aurora in the excerpts from The Sleeping Princess, the famous Jchaikowsky ballet, to be given at the Royal Command Gala at Covent Garden on March 22, when the performance will be watched by their Majesties the King and Queen and their guests, the President of the French Republic and Mme. Lebrun and an ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 106 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 01 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 57 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs