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BEAUTY OF ANIMALS

... . The grace and elegance of the animal world is well illustrated by these fine studies of household pets and a stately swan, which have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. THE SWAN, WITH ARCHED NECK BETWEEN HER WHITE WINGS MANTLING PROUDLY by Captain F. McDermott. Taken with a Reflex Korelle camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-100th second at f.4.5. LOVE ME, ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 145 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IN BEAUTY'S PRIDE--THEY LAUNCH THE FASHIONS

... IN BEAUTY'S PRIDE THEY LAUNCH THE FASHIONS. The nine girls pictured on this page might well illustrate Drydens well-known line, In flower of youth and beauty's pride, as they are exceptionally lovely types of British girlhood. They are photographers' models for the display of fashions, and their beautiful faces have launched many a hat model while the line oj their slender and graceful ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 107 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LOVELY YOUNG BRIDE

... V MISS DIANA BETHELL, daughter of Captain Adrian Bethell and of the Hon. Mrs. Beck looks the ideally lovely young bride in her wedding dress of white slipper satin cut on Empire lines. Her marriage to Mr. Richard Purcell Blow was fixed for Monday last, April 24, at St. Paul's Cathedral. Miss Mollie Sullivan, who designed the dress, is arranging the tulle veil. PHOTOGRAPH BY SWAEBE. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 69 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SUMMER BEAUTY

... Nostalgic Clothes and a Flower-like Charm make Women look helpless and Men feel brave. Hats are so Frivolous that Heads must be Demurely Neat. PINK DAISIES AND CORNFLOWERS, set in a cluster of stiffened pink net, rest lightly among the curls of a very young coiffure. Emile brushes the hair across the brow and sweeps the ends upwards in a series of soft curls at the sides, swathing it across ...

MATITA

... Photography by Norman Parkinson. T A HE chow calls elevenses, biscuit=time but he knows it iust the same. Here snapped him escortins Airs. Richard Hart=Davis from the new Gunter's in Curjon Street. She is wearins a navy and white herrinsbone silk jersey dress with a white bow=tie and belt, and a navy wool bolero. LONDON PARIS NEWYORK sduyyos ttfxctuj'lunrt' This beautiful model can be seen ...

Fortnum & Mason Ltd

... ^^0Tb ^tyuondu k TVHHBialrUA*^nK. V\ Miami* iii i iWiM ill T-- II ml mi IIWIIII i skT r^cw C&lav Gloil.es 1. Striped jacket in heavy cotton jersey 42 gns. Navy whipcord trousers 42 gns. 2. The. new long jersey in heavy striped cotton jersey 3 gns. Gabardine shorts zipping down the sides 27/7 From the Ready-to-Wear Department 182 PICCADILLY W.l REGENT 8040 ...

STATE EXPRESS 555

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Published: Wednesday 26 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 33 | Page: Page 64 | Tags: Photographs 

MAPPIN WEBB Ltd

... WED0/ ^*7 PRINCE'S PLATE THE ONLY LASTING SUBSTITUTE FOR STERLING SILVER _£/NTHUSIASM is very contagious. So great is the demand for Prince's Plate among those who appreciate the finer things of life that over 1,000 British workpeople are regularly employed in its manufacture at Mappin Webb's Sheffield factory. It is well worth writing for a Catalogue of Prince's Plate; quality considered, its ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: Page 68 | Tags: Photographs 

Pintail

... 72/- per doz. bottles, car. paid. Sample bottle, post free, 6/-. If your merchant does not stock it write direct to Matthew Gloag Sod, Perth, SCOTLAND. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 28 | Page: Page 74 | Tags: Photographs 

N.S.P.C.C

... Ijpjocj iS^Jocj Can You Imagine Can you imagine anyone heartless enough to ill-treat this little child? Yet she was cruelly treated by her own parents until the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children intervened to secure for her a happy life. During 1938 the Society helped 121,505 child victims of neglect or cruelty, an average of nearly 2337 CHILDREN A WEEK Will you take ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 100 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Photographs 

BEAUTY IN BLUE SEQUINS

... . LADY GEORGIANA KIDSTON, who sat for this fine camera-study wearing a lovely long-sleeved evening dress of glimmering glittering blue sequins is the only daughter of Earl Hoive and of Mary, Countess Howe. Her marriage to Lieut. Home R. A. Kidston, R.N. took place in 1935, and she has a baby son, born in 1937. Lieut, and Lady Georgiana Kidston have a London residence in Berkeley Square their ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PERFORMERS IN LONDON'S GREATEST FREE SHOW

... . The OXFORD CREW selected to meet Cambridge on Saturday, April 1, were reading from bow down): G. HUSE (Latymer Upper School and Oriel; bow), J. L. GARTON F.ton and Magdalen), A. G. SLEMECK St. Edward's and St. Edmund Hall), R. R. STEWART (Eton and Magdalen), R. D. BURNELL (Eton and Magdalen), F. A. L. WALDRON (Shrewsbury and Trinity H. A. W. FORBES (St. Paul's and Magdalen), J. R. BINGHAM ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs