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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/ â– 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 

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 

THE CARE-TAKER: OUR SIXTY-NINTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.--A.P.C

... THE CARE-TAKER: OUR SIXTY-NINTH FIRST- PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C. Evacuation in accordance tcith the Government's wise plan to meet the national emergency has emptied London and our great city is blached-out by night, and silent and solitary by day. This study of a Westminster street which has been awarded the sixty-ninth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COM PETITION, has a thoroughly ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 80 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... ARMISTICE. DRAWN BY LUCY DAWSON. ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PLAYER'S NAVY CUT

... On the most unexpected places Thornhill-- between Cardiff and Caerphilly. Players can be purchased here as in many similar remote and picturesque places. Numerous letters from smokers tell of pleasure in finding their favourite Players on sale here, there and everywhere in the most remote places. The vast demand which alone makes this possible, also ensures their constant freshness and is ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 111 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - THESE LAND ARMY VOLUNTEERS FOR GOING A-MILKING WITH OUT A COW. Land army girl VOLUNTEERS go through an intensive course of instruction at agricultural colleges before taking up their duties on farms, and, among other tilings, learn to milk without ever coming near a cow This is done with the aid of artificial udders mounted on trestles, so as to make them just the right height for the ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 366 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... THE WORLD WILL L, 1 ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WARTIME LONDON KEEPS ON SMILING

... I##' . Steel-helmeted girl workers mock the Nazi salute as they point to the legend below which runs To the Hotel Ritz. Dinner and Dance. Music by Hitler and his Music Makers at the Organ. Goebbles will sing Danzig with Tears in My Eyes.' Great ingenuity has been displayed by the London shops over the way the sticky paper has been arranged on their plate-glass tcindows as A.R.P. protection. ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 239 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs