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DUCHESS AND DÉBUTANTE

... DUCHESS AND DEBUTANTE. This fine portrait-study shows HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH (right) u-ilh her debutante daughter, LADY SARAH SPENCER-CHURCHILL, for whom she is giving a dance at Blenheim Palace on Friday next, July 7. The Duchess was the Hon. Alexandra Mary Cadogan. Lady Sarah has inherited her mother s chic, and her tall, graceful figure recalls that of her paternal grandmother ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW

... . IT is reported that some European nations have a notion that we are degenerate and have lost the traditional hardihood which once characterised our island race. Let such people just step over to England and see how we brave the rigours of our midsummer cold; how we don our white hats and silken frocks and sit on draughty benches at Wimbledon, or go to gusty, bracing Newmarket, dressed as for ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1935 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

SYMPHONIC BALLET-RÔLE CREATOR AND BABY OF THE BALLET: OUTSTANDING FIGURES IN THIS YEAR'S RUSSIAN BALLET

... SYMPHONIC BALLET- ROLE CREATOR AND BABY OF THE BALLET. ALEXANDRA DENISOVA, in Le Manage d'Aurore. NINA VERCHININA as CI rina, in Carnaval. OUTSTANDING FIGURES IN THIS YEAR'S RUSSIAN BALLET. ALEXANDRA DENISOVA, in Protee. PUOT0CRApH &Y HARON. ALEXANDRA DENISOVA, the sixteen-year-old baby prima ball en Vancouver. She was picked by Lichine last year for the Low and Riabouchinska in Australia ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STRIP-TEASE PARODY BY REGINALD BECKWITH

... . In this impersonation REGINALD BECKWITH adds to the gales of laughter induced by the satirical Gate Revue at the Ambassadors. Diffident, hesitant, confident, triumphant, his moods shift and change like those of any cabaret artiste or music-hall performer in an act of this sort. PHOTOGRAPHS BY YATES-MASON. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 52 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOLIDAY REPOSE AND ENERGY.-- A.P.C

... Some like repose and contemplation when on holiday others prefer the bustle of a crowded beach, or the organised athletic entertainments that can be enjoyed during a cruise. Both views of the ideal holiday are illustrated by these runner-up prize-winners in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. IN THE EVENING SUN by Lt. Zol Janko. Taken with a Voigtliinder camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-50th ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 131 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BAR REPLACES BOUDOIR FOR THE CHIC PARISIENNE

... . MADAME CHARPENTIER, well-known young Parisian hostess, has two bars in her delightful house in Paris. MADAME ELIANE LOUIS DREYFUS, daughter of Mme. Henry de Jouvenal, wife of the former French Ambassador to Rome, with her canine assistant bar-tender A view of the amusing modern bar in the home of JOHN and MICHELINE LODER, which bears their names on the panels. JOHN LODER, the film actor, and ...

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DÉBUTANTE

... A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DEBUTANTE. MISS PATRICIA RANK, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Rank, of Aldwick Place, Ald- wick, West Sussex, is a girl with many interests. Here she is with one of the horses at her father's place. An amiable donkey has poked his nose into the picture, too. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Rank own many coursing greyhounds, including the 1937 Waterloo Cup winner and the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 222 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WILLS's GOLD FLAKE

... WILLS' GOLD FLAKE WILLS' GOLD FLAKE Bill Sh Sh Sh sh IS THE MAN'S CIGARETTE THAT WOMEN LIKE ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 18 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITISH RUBBER CO. LTD

... ji t J I _ f The 1st Tee Totter f IjdjeU cj ijene'iiuiij I aw/ /A# ball c^ ictlu^ Harry Vardon, the supreme stylist, endeared himself to all by his good nature and serenity. Winner of the Open Championship six times: 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911 I and 1914 a record. A ball made for records to come is I the North British SUPERCHARGED, with the semi-liquid I core that expands AFTER manufacture, ...

TO BE MARRIED IN THE AUTUMN

... . The engagement of MISS ANNE PAGET, younger daughter of Major and Mrs. J. B. Paget, to MR. DES- MOND ARTHUR REID, younger son of Lieut. -Colonel and Mrs. Lester Reid, of Thorpe Mandeville Manor Banbury, was recently announced, and the marriage will take place in the autumn. Aliss Paget, who came out last year, is a beautiful girl of nineteen, and her fiance, who is the youngest member of ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW

... . THE glories of this last week's social chronicle are so varied and so crowded that one gasps in recollection. It's a wonder that the innocent young things who went through this gaiety are not now all wilting in nursing homes, instead of looking for winners at Good wood, but the women of our race have certainly not lost social stamina, any more than the men have forgotten their fighting ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 764 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs 

FAUSTUS FOLLOWS WIMSEY: DOROTHY L. SAYERS' THE DEVIL TO PAY

... THE DEVIL TO PAY, a version of the Faust legend, by Dorothy L. Sayers, the noted detective-story writer, and creator of that popular crime expert, Lord Peter Wimsey, was originally produced at this year's Canterbury Festival, and last week came to His Majesty's Theatre. Here Faustus (HARCOURT WILLIAMS) sees himself as a youth, with Helen of Troy (MARY ALEXANDER). It will be remembered that ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs