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AS YOU ARE LANCASHIRE UNDERWEAR FUN

... . Left AS YOU ARE,' the domestic comedy with a Lancashire setting first- produced at the Aldwych is now drawing big houses at the Whitehall. DIANA CHURCHILL (right) plays the rebellious North Country wife icho has gone blonde. The re actions of her relatives played by EDWARD CHAPMAN, MORLAND- GRAHAM, and ELLIOTT MASON (I. to r.), are here illustrated. Right The characters of As You Are are ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 199 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CECIL BEATON AS AN UGLY SISTER

... . PHOTOGRAPHS BY DOROTHY WILDING. MR. CECIL BEATON, part-author tcith Mr. John Sutro of the panto mime HEIL, CINDERELLA devised for the entertainment of the troops and first presented at Wilton, appears as one of the Ugly listers and gives an amusing performance which at moments recalls t c art of Douglas By ng. Our studies show him simpering, surprised, inquisitive, and self-confident, and ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

County Perfumery Co., Ltd

... , , North Circular Rd., West Twyford, N.W.IO. tf our mm HE'S out to look his best and he always succeeds. Every morning he rubs a little Brylcreem into his hair and scalp. All day long his hair is controlled easily and naturally without plastering or gumming.' And all the time the tonic ingredients in Brylcreem are nourishing the roots. Brylcreem-ed hair is well-grown as well as well groomed.' ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 104 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITANNIA AND EVE

... BRITANNIA and EVE BRITANNIA and EVE START HERE he lost patience and cut short the discussion with this obstinate monk, threatening him 4' You shall marry. 1 shall see to it mvseli. Fra Jeronimo had expected trouble and diffi culties of many kinds, but he had not been pre pared for anything like this. He was sincerely orthodox in his principles, and intended to keep the solemn oath of celibacy ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1099 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

WIFE AND FAMILY OF THE NEW BRITISH MINISTER TO SWITZERLAND

... . PHOTOGRAPHS BY PKAKL FREEMAN. B MRS. DAVID VICTOR KELLY is the wife of the new British Minister to Switzerland Mr. David Victor Kelly C.M.G., M.C. whose ap pointment was announced in Novem ber last in succession to Sir George H arrier, the retiring Minister. Mrs. Kelly who is a daughter of Comte dc I oitrda dc Vaux was married in 1929. She is posed with BER NARD, LAURENCE, and ELIZABETH ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. MOST centen aries are in trusive. Who wants to be told that, if he were still alive, Austin Dobson would now be a hundred years old? Is it not pleasanter to think of the poet who wrote Rose kissed me to-day, Will she kiss me to morrow as still at an age when the to be or not to be of osculation would matter to both of the parties concerned ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1271 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs 

Bear Brand

... S:li jll-411 5 II 611 cJotne where 111 (Sndlaticl o ionidhif Prepared as we are to make sacrifices most cheerfully; resigned as we may be to rationing and regulations, there are few women who do not sigh with relief to learn that the sheer loveliness of stockings remains available to all. During these rather difficult days it is not only a woman's pleasure to look her best it's her downright ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 109 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 4. PARADISE LATE NIGHT FINAL--THE SHOW AND THE ..

... CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: Watching Pamela Saxby the new Sensational Danseuse Artistique. 0, C/ Left Taps and song by yr a Highland Lassie. A cabaret personality. PAMELA SAXBY begins her dance. A fine action study of PAMELA SAXBY. PAMELA SAXBY in her dance. No. 4. PARADISE LATE NIGHT FINAL --THE SHOW AND THE SPECTATORS. Trucking dozing and romanticising one can ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 205 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE GLASS OF FASHION

... MRS. HARRISON WILLIAMS, wife of an American utility millionaire, has white hair and brilliant blue eyes. Her afternoon suit is made in quilted black satin. The DUCHESS OF WINDSOR is included by the Paris fashion experts even though at present she spends her days garbed in a well-cut uniform. MRS. GILBERT MILLER, wife of the well-known American play-producer, is a very smart American woman who ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 329 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ON YOUR TOES--BALLET AND DRAMA WITH VERA ZORINA

... ON YOUR TOES -BALLET AND DRAMA WITH VERA ZORINA. The romance of Phil Dolan, junior, and Vera begins when thev are children. In the juvenile sequences DONALD O'CONNOR and SARITA WOOTEN play the hero and heroine. VERA ZORINA dances the role of Vera, and gives a superb performance. Here she is in the Princess Zenobia ballet, with CHARLES LASKY as the Dancer. A striking study of VERA ZORINA as ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 185 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SCREEN HISTORY AND STAR-RISE IN HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE

... SCREEN HISTORY AND STAR -RISE IN HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE. ALICE FA YE as Molly I Adair in the role of a 1 beach glamour girl of twenty-jive years ago. Right Molly Adair (ALICE FAYE) plays in custard-pie-throtc- ing comedies of the Buster Keaton kind. Success in romantic comedy after slapstick and custard-pie pictures Molly Adair and Nicky (ALAN CURTIS). Bathing beauties of the Mack Sennett ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 198 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs