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... LAST week when my hostess in the country exclaimed with a note of exasperation: Even rationing seems to have fallen through! she was venting the general feeling of anti-climax which has us all in a mire of petty annovance and inertia. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 41 | Page: Page 4, 5, 6 | Tags: Photographs 

WOODROW

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Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 0 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Photographs 

Soden Ltd

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Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 0 | Page: Page 40 | Tags: Photographs 

NEGLEY FARSON ON AN AFRICAN MEMORY

... . COMING up from the Gold Coast last July a French planter from the Ivory Coast gave me his reserve tube of atabrin pills to hold down my malaria Then he came down with that fever himself. He was as big as a gorilla, with a narrow rim of black beard around his jaw, so that, when he imitated a chimpanzee Unh-Unh-unh hopping about the smoking-room he looked like one. He was celestially tight ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1145 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THERE is always the possibility that this passion for pooling things may die down before lubricating oil is pooled in the same manner as petrol. All we have got, so far, from the authorities is an assurance that the specified grades of lubricant will be avail able, even if the different brands cease to exist. The pooling of motor spirit has done no harm to the reputation ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1149 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

BETTE DAVIS AS MEXICO'S TRAGIC EMPRESS

... . JUAREZ, the fine Warner Brothers First National Picture re-creating the tragic drama of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, is due at the Warner Theatre on November 17. BETTE DAVIS plays the part of the Empress Charlotte (Carloto in the film), who lost her reason after her husband's execution in 1H 67, and lived in her native Belgium till her death in 1927. Paul Muni plays Juarez, Brian J ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A- FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. IN The Sketch of Sept. 27 I recorded the capture by Mr. George W. Goldie of a record blue shark, weighing 126 lb., at King's Cross, Arran. The publicity in The Sketch and elsewhere has created a great deal of interest, and I hear from Mr. Goldie that a number of Glasgow anglers have approached him, and he has promised to take some of them over to Arran when the ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1139 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MISS CLAIRE LUCE FOR MAKING I.1GHT WORK OF CARRYING THIS OUTSIZE HANDBAG, AND NOT- LET TING LOOSE THE CAT OR WHATEVER IT CONTAINED The HON. MRS. DENYS LOWSON-- FOR PROVIDING THE CITY OF LONDON WITH THE YOUNGEST SHERIFF'S WIFE WITHIN LIVING MEMORY. MR. GENE AUTRY here seen icith MISS BILLIE BERNICE j for trying to CHECK- IN HIS HORSE AS WELL AS HIS HAT AT A BROADWAY ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 341 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs