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Bear Brand STOCKINGS

... f>£M Brai\d STOCKINGS i (>£M 6 \\A r\d STOCKINGS 3/n 4/11 5/11 6/n 8/n tea tattle talk to the tinkle of tea cups fashion's foibles friends' flirtations the Johnsons' new house and the Andersons' old quarrel inevitably comes the subject of stockings still more inevitably the blessings of Bear Brand their helpful habit of making legs look slimmer, more lovely their comforting custom of lasting ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 89 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

THE TRAGEDY OF THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AS A FILM PAUL MUNI, BRIAN AHERNE AND BETTE DAVIS IN JUAREZ

... THE TRAGEDY OF THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AS A FILM: 3 PAUL MUNI, BRIAN f AHERNE AND BETTE DAVIS IN i JUAREZ. JUAREZ, the Warner Brothers picture version of the tragic story of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico is due for pro duction at the Warner Theatre on Friday, November 17. PAUL MUNI plays the name- part, and is an impressive figure as the honest statesman and President. A still of Bette ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 287 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEEL, WING, SAIL, STEAM.--A.P.C

... WHEEL, WING, SAIL, STEAM.-- A.P.C. SHIPSHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION by Mr. Douglas M. Simmonds Taken with an Exahta camera. Film Agfa. Exposure one half-second at fill. STEAM by Mr. Douglas Alston. Taken with an Ikonta camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-250th second at f.5.6. GOING UP by Mr. Douglas M. Simmonds. Taken with an Exakta camera. Film Agfa. Exposure three-quarters of a second at fill. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AT HOME AND ON PARADE

... IT X ARTIME brides should look at the photograph below for their perfect VV ensemble, which they will find at Marshall and Snelgrove's, Oxford Street. The pale beige coat, with its panels and draped collar of phantom beaver, is worn over a beige satin dress, cut to follow the lines of the coat and intricately worked. The same satin is used to line the coat, and the outfit is completed with a ...

BRIDES, BRIDEGROOMS, AND A BRIDE-ELECT

... . CHRISTINE, VISCOUNTESS CHURCHILL, widow of the first Viscount Churchill, married Sir Lancelot Oliphant, K.C.M.G. the British Ambassador to Belgium, at St. Columba's Church of Scotland last week. She is here posed with her children, the HON. SARAH and the HON. VICTOR SPENCER. i I ADMIRAL LORD CHATFIELD, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, gave away his niece, MISS PAMELA CHATFIELD, ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 180 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  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 

THE SAVILLE THEATRE'S MUSICAL-- RUNAWAY LOVE

... THE SAVILLE THEATRE'S MUSICAL-- RUNAWAY LOVE. Peter Fenton (GEORGE GEE), Air Force honey- mooner No. I, talking to Marie, the maid (MOYA GEE, George's daughter making her London debut in Runaway Love, at the Saville. Act II. of this amusing musical unleashes the most un restrained laughter, for at the McTavishes' cot tage at Invergussie the honeymooners find iron beds and lack even iron ...

THE ACROBAT: OUR SEVENTY- SEVENTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C

... This splendid action study of an acrobatic dancer has been awarded the seventy-seventh first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS* COMPETITION. It ivas taken by Mrs. B. Rodney Bryant with a quarter-plate Klito camera. Plate Imperial Press. Exposure l-75th second with Sashalite bulb. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 50 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs