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UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN-- A.P.C

... THE GOOSE GIRL by the Rev. H. M. Hadrill. Taken with a Super- Ikonta camera. Film Selo. Exposure l-50th second at f.8. A LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINE by Mrs. K. M. Parsons. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Kodak. Exposure 1- 100th second at f.5.6. These lovely studies of children have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. They illustrate the kind of ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SUN, SHOWER AND SHADOW.-- A.P.C

... CRY BABY by Mr. W. Ellison. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-25th second at f.8. BEDTIME STORY by Mr. J. K. Rotherham. Taken with a Zeiss Nettar camera. Film Zeiss. Exposure l-25th second at j.4.5. LIGHT REFRESHMENT by Mr. Arthur B. Bishop. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 1 -100th second at f.5.6. THE FIRST WATCH By Air. G. C. Sant. Taken with a Leica ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAR LORD--WHO DREAMT OF WAR CONQUEST IN 1914--WHAT ARE HIS THOUGHTS TO-DAY?

... WAR LORD -WHO DREAMT OF WAR CONQUEST IN 1914-WHAT ARE HIS THOUGHTS TO-DAY? The European War of 1914-1918 tvas brought on us a quarter of a century ago by one man's lust for ivorld conquest. That man was the then head of the German Empire Kaiser William II. He is now an exile in Holland shorn of the power and the glory which were once the breath of his life. He plunged Europe into four years of ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

POLAND-- AMERICAN FOR INDEPENDENCE

... . By NEGLEY FARSON. Author of The Way of a Transgressor, etc. NEW and passionate ties of affection bind several million Ameri cans to the people of Europe in their present battle against disaster. It is the heroic defence of Poland. Chicago is the largest Polish city in the world outside of Warsaw. Poles there boast that, along the cosmopolitan Halstead Street, a purer Polish is spoken than ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1108 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Photographs 

ARIADNE ON NAXOS

... . This beautiful camera-study illustrates the classic legend of Ariadne. It will be remembered that she guided Theseus through the labyrinth to overcome the Minotaur, but he basely left her on the lonely island of Naxos. She mourned her lost hero until Dionysius appeared in the guise of a beautiful youth, and consoled her. CAMERA -STUDY BY JOHN EVERARD. ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 61 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Bear Brand Sy-metra

... I Brai\d ^7 ,y MxiA^4^ 6'll j'z/ ■0te^- J*^y| WHEN THE TEACUPS TINKLE. when all those tremendous trifles are discussed what is being worn now what will be worn in the future and what we can both do about it. In these fashion-wise heart-to-heart talks the question of stockings always arises surely it is no coincidence that receive such unqualified approval Personally we flatter our selves that ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 124 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

HARRODS Salom

... IriW E 11 S And so-- bustles But bustles made by our generation, emphasising the slim line we love. Maggy Rouff original is bronze taffeta, a sheath draped by cunning hands, with velvet detail. Copied in black or colours to order in the Model Gown Salon for 12k gns. Harrods Ltd London SWI ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 53 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

HOOPER & Co

... r 1, HOOPER ROLLS-ROYCE ^Uke ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 12 | Page: Page 42 | Tags: Photographs 

Covers

... PRICE ONE SHILLING THE SKETCH' September 27, 1939 PRICE ONE SHILLING BY INLAND POST, l/l J reproduced in colour from the photograph by Walter stoneman, f.r.p.s. (london). _ Canada and Newfoundland l*d. Foreign 2d. 32-3-4. ST. BRIDE STREET. E.C.-4. ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 39 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: MR. J. FRANK JOHNSON, For winning a tug-of-war with a tunny, at six pounds a minute

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MR. J. FRANK JOHNSON, For winning a tug= of-war with a tunny, at six pounds a minute. This photograph coming from Liverpool, Nova Scotia- is said to represent the teorld's biggest blue-fin tuna, or tunny, landed after a battle of 2 hours 27 minutes. Its weight was 868 lb., so Mr. J. Frank Johnson won the tug of war at six pounds a minute, so to speak. The fish broke the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GERMAN CRIME OF 1915: THE FILM NURSE EDITH CAVELL

... ANNA NEAGLE made her Hollywood debut in NURSE EDITH CAVELL, the picture reconstruction of the trial and execution of the heroic Nurse who had carried on a work of mercy by helping wounded and fugitive Allied soldiers and civilians to escape from behind the German lines. Our still shoivs Edith Cavell centre before the President of the Court (GUSTAV VON SEYFFERTITZ). The German Prosecutor ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. RECENTLY I heard an interesting story from a friend in Bath. Returning from a fishless day after roach, a well- known Bath angler met a youngster who had been fishing at Keynsham, where the River Chew runs into the Avon. Responding to an inquiry as to whether he had had any luck, the lad replied that he had caught one good one about six pounds Scarcely crediting ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1146 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs