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STARS AT THE GONE WITH THE WIND SMASH-HIT PREMIÈRE

... STARS AT THE GONE WITH THE WIND SMASH -HIT PREMIERE. lANA TURNER, new red-headed screen discovery with her fiance GREGORY BAUTZER. tORETTA YOUNG and WILLIAM POWELL. i NORMA SHEARER and GEORGE RAFT. J I CHARLES BOYER and MME. BOYER (left) and RONALD COLMAN and his wife BENITA HUME. TYRONE POWER and his wife> ANNXBELLA. MAUREEN 0 'SULLIVAN and her husband JOHN FARROW. JOCK WHITNEY, MRS. DAVID ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 199 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MR. ALBERT PERRY staged a street exhibition of his works. He hired sandwichmen, who carried, instead of the usual boards with placards, paintings of his, priced from £200 to £300. One of the sandwichmen was a girl. RALPH GROOME, twenty-four-year-old Canadian ice-hockey star known as BLONDIE, is a daring rear-gunner of the R.A.F. He has flown twenty times over Germany, and wore his old ice ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPRING REVEALS NEW FASHIONS

... EVEN jewellery has a military air this spring, so the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, 112, Regent St are specialising in regimental badges. The girl above has fastened her blouse with a badge brooch m diamonds and enamel On her lapel she wears a badge watch made so ?hat it can be worn as a clip or a brooch, in two-colour gold with diamonds and enamel Even her silver, engine- turned ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 224 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING

... PERIODICALLY the question whether fish can feel pain is dis cussed in the angling Press. Within the past few weeks, various letters from anglers have been published bearing witness to the observation that, if fish can feel pain, they give no evidence of it in their behaviour after re ceiving severe injuries. It is not my intention to enlarge on this aspect of the subject, though not for lack ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1050 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

Debenham & Freebody

... Debenbam FreeboJy Debenbam FreeboJy /f /mj JLudrnJ-,. A charming Halo in stitched material. Can be made in many lovely colours. The new arrival of models from the latest Paris collection the Buyer of our Model Millinery having recently returned from a visit to Paris to ensure that we are au couranf with Fashion's latest decree in hats now to be seen in our Model Millinery Salon on the First ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 78 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

Covers

... PRICE ONE SHILLING THE SKETCH' September 27, 1939 PRICE ONE SHILLING BY INLAND POST, l/l J reproduced in colour from the photograph by Walter stoneman, f.r.p.s. (london). _ Canada and Newfoundland l*d. Foreign 2d. 32-3-4. ST. BRIDE STREET. E.C.-4. ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 39 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Photographs 

BURBERRYS LTD

... BURBERRYS ltd. Auxiliary to Smartness Burberry A.T.S. Weatherproofs, Greatcoats and Uniforms. In best quality materials, skilfully tailored, they are the embodiment of martial clothes perfection and weather security sought by women in uniform. 1 I Burberrys have decided, as in the J Telegrams: BURBERRY, J ittSt War, to clean and re-proof I LESQUARE, LONDON j free of charge all Burberry ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 94 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. SADLER'S WELLS has restored a sense of proportion in the world of bal let with Frederick Ashton's Dante Sonata. This is not meant in dis paragement of the minor companies who have been so busy during the last three months the Ballet Rambert, Antony Tudor's London Ballet, the Arts Theatre Ballet, les Trois Arts, and Lydia Kyasht's Russian Ballet. Many of their ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1228 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs 

BREWED & BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD & CO., LTD

... BREWED BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD CO., LTD., BREWED BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD CO., LTD., MORE POPULAR THAN EVER fN tfie Mess, in Hotels, Restaurants and Bars no less tlian 1 in the Home the call is for Whithread s superb Pale Ale. Brewed from British hops and barley; appetising, refreshing, stimu= lating; Whith reads superh Pale Ale is more popular than ever. WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE LONDON, E.C.I. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 65 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

CHILDREN OF THE STORM

... : All England has taken an interest in the two small daughters of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands. Preceding her mother, Queen Wilhelmina, she arrived in London last week with her husband, Prince Bernhard, two-year-old PRINCESS BEATRIX, and PRINCESS IRENE. The exiled family of the Grand Duchess of Luxemburg consists the PRINCESSES ALIX and ELISABETH, PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE. and PRINCESS ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DRESSING FOR DINNER: WOMEN IN WARTIME

... DRESSING FOR DINNER I WOMEN IN WARTIME THE casual, short-skirted evenings of the first war months are over, and long frocks are back again. Even on a wartime budget, a new dinner dress seems an economy when you can buy the one above for 59s. 6d. at Swan and Edgar s, Piccadilly. In a matt-surfaced crepe, the bodice and the sweeping fullness of the skirt are skilfully draped into a deep ...

SCARLETT OF THE SCREEN TEACHES THE TORCHES TO BURN BRIGHT

... I must hear from thee every day in the hour, For in a minute there are many days Juliet (VIVIEN LEIGH) bids farewell to banished Romeo (LAURENCE OLIVIER). The American production, with the British stars in the title-roles, was presented at San Francisco prior to a tour in the Middle West, and is due this month in New York. Then move not, while my prayers' effect I take. Thus from my lips by ...