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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 

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... 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 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 73 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Photographs 

OUTWARD BOUND

... . SHIPPING offers end- I less possibilities for the camera-artist with an eye for picturesque effects and the great liner manoeuvring with f the aid of her escort of f little tugs, and the work- manlike trawlers putting out to sea en route for the fishing grounds, pro- I vided excellent subjects for studies, which have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. ...

A DÉBUTANTE LEADS CÆSAR BY THE NOSE!

... A DEBUTANTE LEADS C/tSAR BY THE NOSE! This amusing study of MISS ANNE SUTHERLAND, who is one of the most attractive debutantes of 1939 shows her apparently leading the famous bust of Julius Ccesar by the nose She is the second daughter of the late Lieut.- Colonel Robert Sutherland (Poona Horse and of Airs. Sutherland. She has just come home from Munich. Her mother is giving a dance for her. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 74 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DÉBUTANTE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

... DEBUTANTE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. MISS ANNE MACKAIL, here reflective and reflected is the younger daughter of Mr. Denis Mackail, the well-known novelist and author of Greenery Street London Lovers and many other successful books and of Mrs. Denis Mackail. She recently came home from a finishing school in Paris and her mother presented her at the first Court on March 9. She is a ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HUNGARIAN NATIONAL DRESS FOR THE COURT

... MME. DE BARCZA, wife of HIS EXCELLENCY THE HUNGARIAN MINISTER to the Court of St. James's, was granted special permission by H.M. the Queen t o wear her national costume when she presented her two daughters at the first Court at Buckingham Palace on Thursday March 9. She is a direct descen dant of Duke Franz Rakoczy Prince of Transylvania in the seventeenth century; and wore Rakoczy family ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 162 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs