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ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL--A.P.C

... animal, vegetable, mineral-- a.p.c. NOT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED by Mr. W. F. Dick. Taken with a Kodak camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-25th second at f.6.3. THE BRITISH LION SMILES by Miss A. Chauncey. Taken with a Reflex Korelle camera with extension tube. Film Panatomic. Exposure 2 seconds at f.22. PLEASE LEAVE ME SOME!; by Miss Patience Bland. Taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera. Film Kodak. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 128 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DOUGLAS NEWTON ON BLITZENKRIEG

... . BLITZEN- KRIEG seems to be the word of the moment. It may even oust wishful thinking, as the current mouthful, to say nothing of that (unexpressed) motto of the M.O.I. literary under statement. Like most things out of Germany it is, even as an idea, slightly second hand. It is the Nazi version of the ordre du choc of the French Revolution. Then it was the herald of a new order of ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1166 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

STILLS FROM SOME OF THE LATEST FILMS GAY ROMANCE, HISTORY, FARCE, AND FLYING DRAMA

... STILLS I FROM SOME OF THE LATEST FILMS: I GAY ROMANCE, HISTORY, FARCE, AND FLYING DRAMA. FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS (Plaza). The film version of Terence Ratti gan's farce is David Rose's first big British production for Paramount. RAY MIL- LAND and JANINE DARCEY play Alan and Jacqueline. Right French Without Tears, at the Plaza. Jacqueline is a disturbing influence when she joins the anglers, Alan ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 416 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS OF THE WEEK

... . 77ielnan^e^7^IsFT^^XR^F^ALSToir^OPEr^ only daughter of Sir Harry Hope, Bt., of Kinnettles, to SQUADRON-LEADER DUDLEY LLOYD EVANS, elder son of the late Mr. Thomas Lloyd Evans, took place at Upper Heyford Church, Oxford. MISS AUDREY WARD, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. R. Ward, of Ketllewett Hill Woking, is engaged to Mr. Robert Redshaw, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. G. Redshaw, of ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 290 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 49 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

ROUTINE AND RELAXATION

... WOMEN IN WARTIME QHE was a handsome Territorial, in her A.T.S. uniform O from Moss Bros., King Street, Covent Garden. Their long experience of tailoring gives it an extra touch of smart ness on parade, though naturally they keep exactly to official specifications. Any uniform can be supplied here. better 0 ^s; v need not get {£%v drops ara \X7^ T if y°u apThis vfeU-^0^ prevent W bands r^.ng. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LAST SNAP IN THE OLD HOME

... . IV hen ROYE had his photographic studio badly damaged by one of Coeriw's Luftwaffe pilots engaged in their indiscriminate bombing of civilians, °he gave a plucky example of how to carry on. Before taking leave of the wrecked building, he took this self-portrait in a mirror which had escaped damage, and produced not only a historic camera-study, but a decorative composition.' His new book of ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - THESE CIVILIANS, for the outstanding deeds of valour and devotion to duty which have won them the King s new mark of honour. IN his recent broadcast the King announced the creation of a new mark of honour for men and women in all walks of civilian life, and said, I propose to give my name to this new distinction, which will consist of the George Cross, which will rank next to the Vic toria ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 522 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HITCHCOCK TELLS McCREA HOW TO COME DOWNSTAIRS

... . This remarkable movie-set photograph illustrates the importance of detail, and the immense amount of care which great directors expend on getting things exactly as they want them. The camera, which is to be seen on the boom, on the left, has suspended operations while DIRECTOR ALFRED HITCHCOCK (lower foreground white shirt goes into a disquisition on how the stairs are to be negotiated by ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 89 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WINGED FEET AND FEATHERED HEADS OF AMERICA'S RESIDENT BALLET: CORYPHÉES WHOSE AUDIENCE RUNS INTO A TOTAL OF ..

... WINGED FEET AND FEATHERED HEADS OF AMERICA'S RESIDENT BALLET CORYPHEES WHOSE AUDIENCE RUNS INTO A TOTAL OF MILLIONS. These lovely photographs shotc some of the members of America's famous CORPS DE BALLET OF THE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, NEW YORK. It is the only resident ballet in America, and is directed by Miss Florence Rogge. Thirty or forty different ballets are given annually, and it has been ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. FRANCE, the happy hunting-ground of so many British motorists, is not-- out wardly and visibly, at any rate-- changed very much as regards motoring conditions. Petrol, though restricted, is not rationed to anything like the. same extent as in England, and as there is no vehicle tax one still sees a laree num ber of cars on the road. With characteristic common sense the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 938 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

LADY BRECKNOCK, HER DAUGHTER AND FUTURE SON-IN-LAW

... . LADY MARY CLEMENTINE PRATT is the only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Brecknock. She is engaged to Flight Lieut, the Hon. H. Osteoid Berry. The COUNTESS OF BRECKNOCK, in her uniform. She is a member oj the Women's Transport Sendee the branch of the F.A.N. Y .5 which now works with the A.T.S. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT the HON. H. OSWALD BERRY is the fifth son of Lord Kemsley. His engagement to ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 99 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs