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COLMAN - KIPLING: THE LIGHT THAT FAILED

... COLMAN KIPLING THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. Paramount 's screen version of Rudyard Kipling's famous story THE LIGHT THAT FAILED is being made with MURIEL ANGELUS as Maisie the girl whom the artist-hero, Dick, loves so devotedly. RONALD COLMAN plays Dick, the artist who loses his sight. He is with Bessie (IDA LUPINO) in the studio overlooking the river. These actual rooms, near Charing Cross, are ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 107 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WAR THROUGH ENEMY EYES: HUMOUR AND ACTUALITY IN GERMANY

... . I *m afraid that all the places are taken here darling let 's go and sit in a tram the romantic side of Berlin s black-out Left Benefits of the dark trek home by tram A Fraulein or a Frau can kick off her tight shoes icithout anyone being the wiser and is she happy How Berlin protects her art treasures. Members of the Hitler Jugend have sandbagged up the temple of Pergamon to protect the bas ...

WITH ZEAL, AND NOT ALTOGETHER WITHOUT RELISH

... A This magnificent photograph of destroyers on submarine patrol illustrates our naval might which was referred to in such stirring terms by Mr. Winston Churchill in his broadcast address on The First Month of the War. He said, referring to the U-boat menace, that the Royal Navy is hunting them day and night I will not say without mercy because God forbid we should ever part company with that ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 111 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEGLEY FARSON AMONG THE NEUTRALS

... SHE was a Norwegian girl, and was, of all things, a dress- designer in Paris! She was wearing one of her creations. It was a black knitted jacket, and on it, in green and rose, was a map of the world. Her figure was not globular, and she was geographically incorrect-- for the British Isles appeared in at least three different places. You seem rather fond of England I asked. Ah she laughed. You ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1355 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

CRAZY GANG FUN: THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, FOR THE LONDON PALLADIUM

... . THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, devised and produced j by George Black, is I the Crazy Gang's new show, which is j due to open to-day, October 11, at the I London Palladium, I a piece of news to hearten theatre goers Since its presentation at I Brighton, this enter- I tainment, in which I all the Crazy Gang, I Nervo and Knox, I Flanagan and Allen, I and Naughton and I Gold and most of I the other ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DRILL, ORATORY AND TACTICS.--A.P.C

... DRILL, ORATORY AND TACTICS.-- A.P.C. THE NEW DRILL-- MARCHING IN THREES by Mr. J. W. J. Underell. Taken with a Leica camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-100th second at f.4.5. THE NEW DRILL--1 'SHUN by Mr. James H. Engledou). Taken with an Ikonta camera. Film Agfa. Exposure no details received. THE PASSIVE RESISTER by Dr. W. H. Du Pre. Taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-50th ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 139 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WARTIME IS WEDDING AND ENGAGEMENT TIME

... WARTIME IS WEDDING 1 f AND ENGAGEMENT TIME. f 1 MISS ELIZABETH EVERARD, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Everard is engaged to Mr. Michael C. Stirling Halford, of the White House West Bridgeford, Nottingham. mrt-i- n-- MISS MONICA KATHERINE DRUMMOND, younger daughter of Colonel the Hon. Sir Maurice Drummond, K.B.E., of Hill Place, Farnham Common, is engaged to Mr. Francis Brian Sylvester ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 210 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

EVERYBODY'S DOING IT! BIKING AND BLACK-OUT SERVICE LIFE ON A COUNTRY ESTATE

... EVERYBODY'S DOING IT! BIKING AND BLACK-OUT SERVICE LIFE ON A COU TRY ESTATE. Lord Hesketh's place looks peaceful, but everyone there is working on National Service, except babies like his grandchildren, ANNE STOCKDALE and the HON. JOHN and JAMES BARING. The black-out regulations are most carefully followed in the little houses. MRS. FRANCIS, the wife of a tenant on the estate, is fixing her ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 361 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOOL GOES ON SERVICE

... J RATIONED fuel may mean a distinctly Arctic winter, so the Eskimo jacket on the right will be especially welcome. Burberry's, in the Haymarket, have it in beautifully soft angora, light as a feather but warm as an eiderdown. All the colours are attractive, particularly a clear cherry -red, grand with navy or black. The hood is firmly attached. FLUFFY or plain jumpers this winter have plenty ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. UNDER normal con ditions, with the trout season over and the salmon season having but a few weeks of the back-end to go, October is a com paratively quiet month for anglers. After a month of war, one might expect that angling would now be at a standstill. This is not the case, as I have reports from various parts of the country of sport both in \xro4-or a n H in ...

SAIL AND STEAM.--A.P.C

... SAIL AND STEAM.-- A.P.C. THE TALL SHIP by Mr. Harry Cart lidge. Taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera. Film Kodak. Ex posure 1 -250th second at f.6.3. Right EVENING ON THE CLYDE by Mr. William A. Ramsay. Taken with a Voigtlander B es s a camera. Film Verichrome. Exposure l-50th second at f.6.3. These runner up prizewinners in our AMATEUR PHO TOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION illustrate most effectively the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHELSEA A.R.P. CABARET

... p . The first cabaret for A.R.P. workers given by the Civil Defence Entertainment Committee with a view to raising funds for games and sports equipment, was held at the Chelsea Town Hall. The HON. JOCELYNE HOTHAM, daughter of the sixth Lord Hotham, LT.-COL. S. BOYLE, M.C., the Hon. Treasurer, and MISS M. BULLER, Divisional Director of the County of London, are shown in our snapshot. L. to r. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs