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HEAT-WAVE REHEARSALS FOR THE OPEN-AIR THEATRE

... . A rehearsal for 11 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is being watched by dancers of the company. Dancers for the Open-Air Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing cooling their feet in the rock-garden pool. THE OPEN-AIR THEATRE SEASON is due to open on Saturday next with Much Ado About Nothing in which Cathleen Nesbitt plays Beatrice to D. A. Clarke- Smith's Benedick. Margaret Vines is Hero Sylvia ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 113 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A - FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. SEVERAL British anglers have had fine sport in New Zealand, judging by reports in local papers which my friend Dr. Lewis Smith has passed on to me. Mr. W. J. E. Owen, of Cheshire, fishing Fulljames Reach, on the Waitahanui, with Mr. A. J. Nimmo, a well- known Wellington angler, shared the following bag: Eleven trout, 11 lb., 8 lb., 5¾ lb., 5 lb., 4½ lb., and the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1112 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON TYPES--ASSORTED

... LONDON TYPES ASSORTED. These portrait-studies of well-contrasted types to be met with every day in the streets of London have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. The man of action, the man of peace, the talker, and the musician form a well-assorted quartet. BETTER NEWS by Mr. A. S. Bailey. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Ag fa. Exposure 1 -100th second ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ANOTHER FILM QUEEN VICTORIA; A DR. LIVINGSTONE AND A STANLEY

... ANOTHER FILM QUEEN VICTORIA; 1 A DR. LIVINGSTONE AND A STANLEY. W e are used to seeing Queen Victoria on the screen, as she was pre sented as the heroine of two great pictures, Vic toria Regina and Sixty Glorious Years. In THE LITTLE PRINCESS,'' the new SHIRLEY TEMPLE Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor film at the New Gallery, she is intro duced. but as a minor character. Sara Crewe (SHIRLEY ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 261 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TAKE OUR ADVICE: AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE

... TAKE OUR ADVICE AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE: plays. UNDER YOUR HAT Palace Theatre). Jack Hulbert, a Secret Service Agent in search of a stolen carburettor Cicely Courtneidge, his jealous wife. Plenty of wit tuneful music clever chorus. What more could you ask of an excellent show HERBERT FARJEON'S LITTLE REVUE (Little). As near perfect as revue can be, thanks to his glitter ing wit and deadly aim. ...

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Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 77 | Page: Page 43 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SKETCH DIARY OF FASHION

... The focicw Diarx- cr Fashion EDITED BY OLIVE CALEY SMITH IT is the gilt on the ginger-bread that counts. See what the jewellery and gloves do for the simple frock on the facing page. The exquisitely designed necklace, bracelet and ear-rings are in pastel pinks, pale amethyst, and tur quoise, the necklace slung on a deep-toned cord. They would look lovely with romantic evening frocks. The black ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 373 | Page: Page 42, 43 | Tags: Photographs 

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FOLLOWING THROUGH

... . By SANDY BUNKER. THE Amateur Cham pionship at Hoylake last week contribu ted, I have no doubt, an interesting sidelight upon the well-worn golf ball question; but it proved what the average golfer knew only too pain fully-- that it does not travel too far. In spite of the low scores, the bird ies and eagles, there is little doubt that to the majoritv of the competi tors the Royal Liverpool ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1122 | Page: Page 48 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 31 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 0 | Page: Page 53 | Tags: Photographs 

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DÉBUTANTE ON A YACHT

... DEBUTANTE ON A YACHT. MISS ROSAMUND FELLOWES has had the priceless advantage of a cosmopolitan upbringing. Daughter of the Hon. Reginald and Mrs. (Daisy) Felloices, ivho live in Paris, through her mother she is granddaughter of the fourth Due Decazes. Like her mother (and she is very like her), she loves yachting. Miss Fellowes deb. dance is to be held in Mrs. Peter Pleydell- Bouverie's ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 80 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs