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ENO'S 'FRUIT SALT'

... Strain and anxiety cannot be conquered by C.3 health. Get that bloodstream clean, the liver spots out of the way, the im purities out of your nervous system and you can look things full in the face, even a war. That's why you should take Eno's Fruit Salt every morning. It's the golden rule of fitness gets you up full of vigour in the morning and keeps you like that. Never did you need it, as ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 148 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

STARS GO RACING

... . II Many of the Hollywood celebrities are It racing enthusiasts and Movieland's (Ot foremost personalities gather at Holly II wood Park race-track at Inglewood, |fl California, for the meetings there. Here MR. ROBERT TAYLOR and his wife, MISS BARBARA STANWYCK, are seen \\H with (centre) MISS GAIL PATRICK. Vfl MR. WILLIAM POWELL, the famous star, is obviously a keen racing man wit ness the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 136 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BALLET GLIDE AT SADLER'S WELLS--LES PATINEURS

... I BALLET GLIDE AT SADLER'S WELLS LES PATINEURS. The girls PATRICIA GARNETT (left) and MARY HONER, dance a pas de trois with the pro. (HAROLD TURNER) whom they admire immensely. Principal dancers of the Vic- Wells Ballet ROBERT HELPMANN and MARGOT FONTEYN in a pas de deux. In the final scene HAROLD TURNER, smart aleck left all alone on the icef pirouettes round and round and round in the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 170 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE KORDAS LOOK FORWARD

... . Photographed lately at their netv Hollywood house Bel Air MR. ALEXANDER KORDA and his wife MISS MERLE OBERON, look like planning fresh projects. Mr. Korda arrived at Denham the day after Boxing Day, having flown to Hollywood to see his wife, whose new Warner Brothers picture We Shall Meet Again, is just about finished. In the summer she will make a film at Denham before sailing for ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. WHAT will the first post-war cars be like? Whether the war be short or long, it is intriguing to speculate on the shape of cars to come. Common sense indi cates that when produc tion starts again manufac turers will at first get going on replicas of their 1940 models. When war broke out in September, all their plans for this year had been completed jigs, dies and patterns ...

BEAUTIFUL BRIDE--THE FORMER PENELOPE DUDLEY WARD

... BEAUTIFUL BRIDE THE FORMER PENELOPE DUDLEY WARD. The marriage of MISS PENELOPE DUDLEY WARD, elder daughter of Mr. W. Dudley Ward and of the Marquesa de Casa Maury, to Mr. Anthony Pelissier, R.E., son of Miss Fay Compton, the actress, took place at St. Stephen's Gloucester Road. The bride, who is on the stage, and has also appeared in films, wore a white satin dress and tulle veil surmounted by ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

COMPELLING SATIRE AT THE UNITED ARTISTS' EXHIBITION. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

... COMPELLING SATIRE AT THE UNITED ARTISTS' EXHIBITION. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY By C. R. W. NEVINSON, A.R.A. Comparatively fete of the works on view at the UNITED ARTISTS' EXHIBITION at the Royal Academy Galleries, which opened to the public last week, deal with war subjects. This canvas by Mr. C. It. W. Nevinson, A.R.A. is a striking exception. Its complete title runs, The Twentieth Century ,i. c ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 112 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE ROYAL ACADEMY'S GREAT OMNIUM GATHERUM: ALL TENDENCIES OF MODERN BRITISH ART IN ONE SHOW

... THE ROYAL ACADEMY'S GREAT OMNIUM GATHERUM ALL TENDENCIES OF MODERN BRITISH ART IN ONE SHOW. LEDA by A. K. LAWRENCE, R.A. GOLDEN GIRL by DAME LAURA KNIGHT, D.B.E., R.A. Above: REGALIA; by EDV WADS WORTH. heft ICARUS by JOi ARMSTRONG. VENUS by A. K. LAWRENCE, R.A. -L. n 1 n i i-- SUN BATHERS by WILLIAM ROBERTS. THREE FORMS by BARBARA HEPWORTH. THE MAIDENS by BERNARD FLEETWOOD- WALKER, R.O.I. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 307 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - HOLIDAY celebrations on board one of the French battleships included a ballet to music by Chopin, which was performed by Mile. Marie Louise Didion and the Corps de Ballet of the Opera. The Loups-de- mer, or French Jack Tars, no doubt now include a high percentage of balletomanes. MISS JOSIE GAYE, a twenty two year old chorus girl, had the luck to play Miss Teddie St. Denis's part in Me and ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 430 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Photographs 

HEIL, CINDERELLA! WITH DIST HED AMATEURS: WILTON HOUSE COMPANY STAGE PANT COMFORT THE TROOPS

... HEIL, CINDERELLA! WITH DISI HED AMATEURS: WILTON HOUSE COMPANY STAGE PANII COMFORT THE TROOPS. The COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE as the Queen with BETTY STREET, the acrobatic dancer, as the Page. A CECIL BEATON Ugly Sister posed beside a bust of Alexander the Great in the Cloisters of Wilton House. The COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY as the Queen r with MR. CECIL BEATON as an Ugly Sister. r ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PANTO. AS USUAL! CINDERELLA AT THE LONDON COLISEUM

... PANTO. AS USUAL I CINDERELLA 'AT THE LONDON COLISEUM. A boat race at the picnic! Dottem, Skinnem and Rookem, the Broker's men (the THREE LOOSE SCREWS), and Baron de Broke (LESLIE HOLMES) as the crew with Buttons (LESLIE SARONY) as the cox. The Ugly Sisters, Julia and Trixie (JOAN and DORIS FRED-EMNEY), are spectators, and Neddie (CHARLIE J ASS) stands by. PATRICIA BURKE and JOAN COLE are the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 208 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BEAUTY STILL UNCENSORED

... BEAUTY STILL i UNCENSORED I WOMEN IN WARTIME A FUR coat is no longer a luxury it is an investment. The prices of pelts are still rising, and have, in many cases, been doubled since the war began. Some houses, however, such as the V\ est Central Fur Store, 74, Oxford Street, hold such large stocks of skins that they can still olier their coats at pre-war prices. Their coatee on the right is ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 277 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs