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BEAUTY AND DISTINCTION AT THE WARTIME R.S.P.P

... MRS. BIRLEY by CAPTAIN OSWALD BIRLEY, M.C., R.O.I. GENERAL EVANGELINE BOOTH by FRANK O. SALISBURY, C.V.O., R.P., R.O.I., R.I. LADY STANLEY by CAPTAIN OSWALD BIRLEY, M.C., R.O.I. MRS. S. C. KAINES SMITH by HOWARD SOMERVILLE. PRINCESSE DE FAUCIGNY LUCINGE by CATHLEEN MANN the Marchioness of Queensberry MRS. COURTENAY MITCHELL 63- SIR JOHN LAVERY, R.A. the ROYAL SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS is ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. PROBABLY there is a preponderance of oldsters in the majority of angling clubs, and praise be to them that they are rallying round well to keep the clubs going. To some it may appear a matter of indifference that angling clubs should close down as a result of the war. In fact, it would be very unfortunate if this hap pened, particularly in the case of those clubs ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1066 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE.: A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. SOME months ago I attended a performance in English of Die Fledermaus. It had its points, but the contrast with an indigenous perform ance tended to em phasise those it lacked. In the in terval one of those numerous musicians from Central Europe who have found a refuge in our midst asked me what I thought of it. My reply, Vienna after the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1130 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... THE FIGHT OF THE NINE: THE PRELUDE TO THE FAMOUS VICTORY OF THE NINE FRENCH FIGHTERS OVER THE 27 MESSERSCHMITTS A BRITISH FIGHTER DARTS OUT OF A CLOUD-BANK PURSUED BY THE NAZI CIRCUS, JUST WHEN A FRENCH FIGHTER PATROL HAPPENS TO BE PASSING. (Specially drawn for The Illustrated War News by C. F.. Turner.) The victory won by the nine French fighters over the twenty-seven Messerschmitts over ...

Graphic

... A HEAVY BOMBER ISSUED TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN LARGE NUMBERS IN 1937 THE HANDLEY PAGE HARROW WHICH, POWERED WITH PEGASUS XX. ENGINES, HAS A MAXIMUM SPEED OF 200 M.P.H. AND A RANGE, WITH NORMAL BOMB-LOAD, OF 1250 MILES. Charles E. Brown.) The Handley Page 41 Harrow twin-engined heavy bombers were ordered in large numbers for the R.A. F. in 1936 and a year later the contract had been completed ...

ROYAL EDISWAN LAMPS

... By Appointment By Appointment to the Late to the Prince of Wales King George V 1929 to 1956 Obtainable at all electrical suppliers L.370 ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 24 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

William Grant & Sons Limited

... GRANTS Sc a tck WHISKY -flgecl' Of Kdle Me Harnett* Mulrlle Mauauei* BY HOST'BY GUEST- BY ALL PREFERRED! London Agents for Grant's Liqueur Scotch Messrs Hedges Butler Ltd., Wine Merchants, 153, Regent Street, W.l. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 34 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FAIR ONE UNMASKED

... from the painting by Henry Robert Morland The beautiful wife of David Garrick, the famous actor, is believed to have sat for this portrait. She was a Viennese dancer Eva Maria Violette Veigel who made a great sensation when she appeared in London, King George III attending her D first performance. The painting was formerly in. the collection of Mr. Thomas St. John Grant, of Kilmurry House, Kil ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 95 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PAYSANDU

... DISTINGUISHED I the Tongue Par- Excellence! 'v MxCALL'S OX-TONGUES HAVE ENJOYED A DISTINGUISHED PLACE ON THE TABLES OF EPICURES AND BONVIVANTS THROUGHOUT FIVE REIGNS From early Victorian days, Paysandu Ox-Tongue has been praised and appreciated for its exquisite tastiness and tenderness, just as it still is to-day. There never was, there never will be, a tongue more appetising and delicious ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 122 | Page: Page 57 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Drambuie

... ^1 Irani linii- ilmiiihnii* 0,1 Nil PR\N^ No gift couid be more acceptable than a bottle of , made from the original recipe of Bonnie Prince Charlie and renowned since 1745 for its delicate flavour fy\B H and exquisite bouquet. The Liqueur Co. Ltd.. Edinburgh. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 46 | Page: Page 58 | Tags: Photographs 

CHRISTMAS COMES

... The Cancer Research Fund. The Imperial Cancer Research Fund is continuing unabated the investigation of the causes and possibilities of curing this dread disease which it has been conducting since the beginning of the century. Already much has been done to rid the nation of this scourge, and with the new laboratories recently built, the search for knowledge which will indeed be of the highest ...

Published: Friday 24 November 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1212 | Page: Page 84, 85 | Tags: Photographs 

NEWBURY RACEGOERS IN UNIFORM

... N . Above The HON. SHEILA DIGBY and her sister the HON. MRS. RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. LORD and LADY MANTON. Ijgp V7 T Right: LADY GEORGE SCOTT and MR. TIM BISHOP. MRS. JOHN CHRISTIAN (formerly Miss Bridget Smiley and MR. JOHN CHRISTIAN. CAPTAIN B. G. N rF/ BARNETT and v MISS MARIE WETHERBY. Below The HON. DAVID ORMSBY-GORE and MISS SYLVIA LLOYD THOMAS. The DUCHESS OF NORFOLK and CAPTAIN MORTIMER. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 170 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs