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Debenham & Freebody

... Debenham Freebody Debenbam Freebody J? j-h 6 fgf fimC B Y DEBENHAMS Tailored three-piece suit in raisin velour cloth, combined with plaid. The short hip-length jacket buttons high to throat with small revers, and high pockets slightly flared skirt. Long slim fitting overcoat in a heavier weight velour, double breasted with wide plaid revers. Made to order from 28 gflS. complete. Suit only from ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 101 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

THE OLD SOLDIER NEVER DIES--NOR DOES HE FADE AWAY!

... THE OLD SOLDIER NEVER DIES NOR DOES HE FADE AWAY! Here 's a portrait of one of the men who are going to win the war against Nazi-ism. He typifies the British spirit which keeps on keeping on, smiling, humorous and resourceful, until his goal is reached. There 's nothing he doesn't know about scrounging, and he has all the old soldier's tricks at his fingers' ends. He 's tough as they make 'em ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 96 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING, ALTHOUGH river-banks are quiet, so many anglers being engaged on other matters than ang ling at the present, the first weeks of the war have by no means closed down fishing activities altogether. The trout season is practic ally over, but I hear that eight rods on the Houghton Club water, on the Test, killed 12% brace of trout, weighing 42% lb., last week. Also on ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 943 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: 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 

DOUGLAS NEWTON ON THE FOURTH ARM

... . I WAS in Ghent a day or so after the Armistice, 1918. An astonishing moment. The vic torious Belgians were marching in. Half Belgium was celebra ting its freedom by looking upon and cheering King Albert after four years, and seeing its own Army for the first time, for it had been raised on foreign soil, following the invasion of 1914. The city was packed with jubilant people, and some others ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1206 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE B.B.C. RUSTICATES FOR THE DURATION

... . Members of the B.B.C. staff now live in billets somewhere in the English countryside and push-bike merrily to work every morning. And here s a pretty good cycling feat for a tyro MR. DOUGLAS CAMERON transports his 'cello to the studio by bike. MR. MORAY McLAREN, Assistant Director of Features and Drama looks picturesque with an Inverness cape floating out behind. He is ivith MR. BRUCE ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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 ...