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WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING

... BY far the most ambitious scheme for helping fish to surmount an other wise impassable obstruction in a river has been thoroughly tested and has proved success ful. Various accounts have been published of the working of the fishways on the Bonne ville Dam, situated 100 miles up the Columbia River, but these are now superseded by the facts and figures of an official report of the Bureau of ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1203 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND.-- A.P.C

... THAT 'S ENOUGH, SIS fcy Mr. L. Tyler. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-100th second at f.5.6. ONCE UPON A TIME by Mr. A. G. Hounslow. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-25th second at f.3.8. HAVE ONE OF MINE by Mr. H. G. Rolls. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-25th second at f.4. THE COOK'S SAMPLE by Mr. A. G. Hounslow. Taken with a ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FÜHRER--WHO DREAMS OF WAR CONQUEST TO-DAY-- WE KNOW WHAT HIS THOUGHTS ARE!

... FUHRER-WHO dreams of war CONQUEST TO-DAY -WE KNOW WHAT HIS THOUGHTS ARE! History has repeated itself more strangely than one would have believed possible. A quarter of a century ago the head of the German Empire cried havoc and let slip the dogs of War to-day his successor has done the same. In the words of the Prime Minister of England, when speaking of the 1939 outbreak of war We shall stand ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NO BACKYARD

... . By EDITH SHACKLETON. THE host had been showing a bunch of evacuated London children round his historic place-- the lake, the orchard, the gardens and paddocks, the garages and stables. But, asked a small boy at the end of the tour, Ain't yer got no backyard The story is one to be kept in mind by those eager to do their best for the little exiles around them, for it shows how great are the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1272 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Photographs 

VICTIM OF 1915 FRIGHTFULNESS NURSE EDITH CAVELL ON THE SCREEN

... . On out front page tee give a still of the trial scene in NURSE EDITH CAVELL, the film directed by Herbert Wilcox, uhich reconstructs a historic example of German frighlf illness in the last tear. On this page are some dramatic incidents from the picture. Here Li. Schmidt (LUCIEN PRIVAL) is surprising Nurse Cavell (ANNA NEAGLE) as she tends the icounds of a British Airman (RICHARD DEANE). ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 204 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. WITH all places of entertain ment closed, including concert- halls, the question of music that originated in enemy countries is not likely to be raised, as it was in 1914. Then, as now, a distinction was made between the German people, the countrymen of Goethe and Beethoven, and their rulers, who were then the Prussian Junkers, and are now Hitler and his ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1142 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

ALL ENGLAND GOES TO WORK AND PLAY WITH GAS-MASKS HAND ROYALTY, MINISTERS, BRIDES AND BATHERS FOLLOW THE NEW RULE

... ALL ENGLAND GOES TO WORK AND PLAY WITH GAS-MASKS HAND' I ROYALTY, MINISTERS, BRIDES AND BATHERS FOLLOW THE NEW RULE. The whole country has grown gas- mask-conscious and with cheerful and sensible obedience goes to work and play armed with the necessary I defence against possible danger from enemy raiders. Here 's a September morning scene at the Serpentine Lido with bathers seated sunning ...

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THE Austin Twelve is a truly historic vehicle, worthy of being placed on a pedestal with the Silver Chost Rolls-Royce and the Model- T Ford. It first won its name soon after the 1914-1918 war, and it is now almost a house hold word for sturdy reliability in motor-car design and performance. After the famous Austin Twelve, introduced in 1921, there came a successor in ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 933 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 56 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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