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WILLIAM HOLLINS & COMPANY LIMITED

... WILLIAM HOLLINS COMPANY LIMITED WILLIAM HOLLINS COMPANY LIMITED, Ready for the game, the walk, the job for any undertaking this new Viyella' Sportshirt is in tune with modern living. j Always in perfect V' style, always fresh and I unruffled, because E°a Viyella washes y, beautifully. X /pT^l In a large range of colours most good shops throughout the country. VIYELLA HOUSE, NOTTINGHAM ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 63 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT is a moot point whether the cinema audi ences of this country really want to see films about Nazi Ger many at this time. Personally, I think they don't. Most of us have already made up our minds pretty clearly about Nazi Germany. We don't need persuasion to crystallise our views. As I see it, what we are looking for in film entertainment just now is the chance to relax ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1224 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

MIXED BAG OF NEW FROM FAR AND NEAR HOW LIFE GOES BRAVELY O N THIS HARSH WARTIME WORLD

... MIXED BAG OF NEV ROM FAR AND NEAR: HOW LIFE GOES BRAVELY O N THIS HARSH WARTIME WORLD. This poster advertised the strong woman act staged by Miss Alary Arnotis in the Boer War It was uncovered by bomb blast during a recent raid on London. GEN. BEAUMONT-NESBITT, BRIG. -GEN. SCANLON, BRIG.-GEN. R. E. LEE U.S.A. Alilitary and Air Attache, the U.S.A. AMBASSADOR and All COM. BOYLE lunch to ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 440 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JOY-FLYING AHERNES

... JOY- FLYING AHERNES. 1. BRIAN AHERNE and his wife JOAN FONTAINE, go joy-flying in their private machine whenever he can take a day off from his current Universal picture, Hired Wife. Here they are at their local aerodrome before embarking. 2. The sound of an aeroplane now suggests nothing but implacable warfare to raid- conscious Britishers, but in the peaceful entourage of Hollywood there ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 100 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: BLACK AND WHITE

... WOMEN IN WARTIME BLACK AND WHITE THERE may be only one special occasion now instead of a round of parties, but it still needs a special frock. Even if you only wear it at home, a dinner dress is well worth its place in your wardrobe for its tonic effect, especially a model, like the one above, which is cut on classic lines that do not date. It will last for years, too, since its fabric is a ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IBERIAN SPARKLE AND ISLAND CHARM ... OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH BEAUTY

... IBERIAN SPARKLE AND ISLAND CHARM PES OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH BEAUTY. LA SARAZENA, the well-known Spanish dancer, is a characteristic Iberian beauty, well suited by the white mantilla, the ceremonial dress of her e°uri y. scored a success at the parly given by Lady Ironside and Mrs. Peter Ellis in aid of the Duchess of Northumberland 's benevolent and Comforts Luna J Auxiliary Territorial ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 136 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ONE SITTER--PRESENTED WITH VARIETY

... ONE SITTER PRESENTED WITH VARIETY. The infinite variety which the camera-artist can uchieve by means of difference in costume, background and pose is well illustrated by this quartet of photographic studies of a very attractive young sitter, MRS. BUSTER TONGE, the wife of Flight- Lieutenant Tonge, of the Fleet Air Arm. Mrs. Tonge was Miss Bat Barr. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 61 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BUDGET OF PLEASANT EVENTS ... PEOPLE ON OFF-DUTY OCCASIONS

... BUDGET OF PLEASANT EVENTS: STABLE PEOPLE ON OFF-DUTY OCCASIONS. MAJOR J. P. ARCHER-SHEE, 10th Royal Hussars, son of the late Colonel _ Sir Martin Archer-Shee, married MISS HENRIETTA MARY STAPLE^W^ BRETHERTON, daughter of the late Mai or F. B. Stavleton-Bretherton. a^B Members oj the ANGLO-AMERICAN AMBULANCE UNIT, which is doing splendid service in the bombed areas, have found lime to form ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 301 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAR ARTIST AT WORK

... . MISS ETHEL GABAIN (Mrs. John Copley) is here seen at work in her studio on one of the tear pictures which she is making for the Ministry of Information. The still-life group of A.R.P. clothing and gas-masks is carefully arranged. Outside a much-damaged house she talked to Airs. Merritt, who had been bombed out of her home. Left The, artist has made a number of sketches of ruined houses in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLONDE IDOL

... . The pose of this lovely model suggests an Eastern idol, but her radiantly fair beauty of ivory and gold is typically English. The camera-study is one of the thirty-two by JASON in his recently published volume Blonde and Brunette. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 41 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A TOP NUMBER OF DIVERSION 2 ON JAN. 1

... DOROTHY DICKSON, one of the principals of Farjeon's successful wartime revue Diversion, at Wyndham i, is one of the top numbers in the new edition DIVERSION 2, which is due to-day, January 1, 1941. It will help all who are lucky enough to attend the first performance to greet the New Year with plenty OJ laughter. Miss Dickson's successful songs in the original edition included her now-famous ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. THIS time last year I recorded the excellent sport enjoyed by Sir Edward Mountain's party on the Spey. From the beginning of May up to the 27th the total bag was 206 fish. This year angling conditions have been ex ceedingly difficult on the Spey during May, according to Captain T. L. Edwards, who writes to me from Delfur Lodge, where he is spending a few days with ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1141 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs