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Peggy Sage

... THE CASE OF THE DIAMOND FINGERTIPS Lady x rode in the Row. She played squash with abandon. She danced every night till dawn. She scintillated over Mayfair teacups. And not one of her friends (and not even one of her enemies) had detected the tiniest flaw, chip, crack or peel in her lustrous nail polish. She might, as an envious friend remarked, have dipped her nails in diamonds. In fact, of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 266 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Photographs 

The Royal Cancer Hospital

... he Royal (EancerT-footntal he Royal (EancerHostntai FAMOUS MEN PLEAD HUMANITY'S CAUSE MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL writes is doing work of which the Nation should be proud. It is fighting this fell disease trying to establish its cause and discover a cure providing beds for patients and keeping those who are inoperable free from pam. If those who have contemplated, even for an instant, the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 112 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... MISS SKETCH KEEPS A DIARY. k MISS SKETCH'S DIARy. MONDAY, MARCH 27. Weather so unpromising that decided to stay in London and hear about MELTON HUNT RACES AT BURTON LAZARS by proxy from Nora Knowall. Icy rain and very searching chilly wind did their best, she said, to spoil the fun, but a crisis-nurtured generation isn't put out of its stride by climatic vagaries. Oh, no, Sir Our weather ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 867 | Page: Page 17, 18, 19, 20 | Tags: Other  Photographs 

SCARLETT O'HARA AND HER CIRCLE ON THE SCREEN

... . The Selznick Technicolor version of the bestseller novel, GONE WITH THE WIND, is well under way. Meet the O'Haras (I. to r.) Gerald (TOM MITCHELL), Scarlett (VIVIEN LEIGH), Ellen (BARBARA O'NEIL), Careen (ANN RUTHERFORD), Suellen (EVELYN KEYES), and decide whether they resemble your mental picture of the family Rhett Butler and Scarlett defy public opinion by chatting and dancing together ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 158 | Page: Page 39 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DEANNA'S PROGRESS: HOW ONE SMART GIRL GREW UP

... DEANNA'S PROGRESS HOW ONE SMART GIRL GREW UP. Six months old, and just like her father Mr. James Durbin. Three years old, just like her mother, Mrs. Ada Durbin, and already able to sing. Deanna, a merry girl of fifteen and a screen star of international fame. Twelve years old, a student-cashier in the school cafeteria. (Extreme left; seated In Three Smart Girls Grow Up Deanna (centre) with Nan ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 242 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Other

... Ill DlAB/' 11)1 f ^SUl* FOR the woman who walks well, a Gold Cross suede Oxfordette, beautifully- balanced, and decorated with ribbed silk ribbon which emphasises its slender lines. It is made in black, Ijrown, or navy, it costs 32s. 6d., and it is called Carma. A grand looking holiday shoe which would be admirable with pastel-coloured tweeds. It is made in light tan glac6 and white nubuck, ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 46, 47 | Tags: Other  Photographs 

These Matinée

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Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 22 | Page: Page 49 | Tags: Photographs 

Johnnie Walker

... London Bridge North, South, East and West, wherever four good players sit down to a game, it's on the cards that will be on the table. For there are certain qualities that knowledgeable men naturally look for in a whisky. Maturity, mellowness, delicacy, distinction. And naturally they find them all in , because is a blend of the finest whiskies all the finest whiskies that Scotland can ...

TAKE OUR ADVICE AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE: PLAYS

... . UNDER YOUR HAT (Palace Theatre). Jack Hulbert as Secret Service agent in search of a stolen carburettor; Cicely Courtneidge as his jealous wife. Plenty of wit; tuneful music; clever chorus. What more could you ask of an excellent show? THEY WALK ALONE (Shaftes bury).- Macabre, tense portrait of homicidal maniac by Beatrix Leh- mann with a farm background. Carol Goodner as sane, ...

FOLLOWING THROUGH

... . By SANDY BUNKER. THERE are a great many players who regard Eastertide as a suitable time to begin topping drives and missing putts, and I imagine that there will be hundreds of players on the links during next week-end who have probably not played golf for months. In many instances these golfers will be surprised at their prow ess, for it has been my own experience, shared bv fellow handicap ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 931 | Page: Page 50 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 38 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. WITHOUT being un duly optimistic, I think that the com mencement of the salmon- fishing season has been sufficiently auspicious to give rise to hope of a more normal season than the last two. Taking the Wve first, as it had a particularly bad time last year, it is encouraging to find that the figures for the week ending March 19 were 223 fish and catches were well ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1117 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs