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SOLDIERS AND OTHERS AT WINDSOR 'CHASES

... . L. to r. MRS. MORGAN JONES, SIR GERARD FULLER, and CAPTAIN MORGAN JONES made three of the large crowd at the Windsor Boxing Day jumping meeting. MISS BARBARA DUNNE was out with her are MR. TIMOTHY TUFNELL (left) and MR. ROBIN WEATHERLEY. LADY ROSEMARY GRESHAM, sister of the Earl of Erroll, with CAPTAIN GRESHAM. CAPTAIN and MRS. SKENE were there. The going was dead but runners were plentiful. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HEIL, CINDERELLA REHEARSING AT WILTON HOUSE, SALISBURY A CECIL BEATON PRODUCTION FOR COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS

... HEIL, CINDERELLA REHEARSING AT |r WILTON M HOUSE, SALISBURY j A CECIL BEATON PRODUCTION FOR i COMFORTS A FOR THE 1 TROOPS. u 1 WILTON HOUSE, Lord Pembroke's magnificent place, teas an ant-heap of industry during rehearsals of the Wilton House Company for their Grand Topical Christmas Pantomime, Heil, Cinderella by Cecil Beaton and John Sutro. It teas performed at the Michael Herbert Hall, ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 350 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

H.M.S. REVENGE: OUR EIGHTY-FOURTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C

... The Naty is in the news again with this splendid photograph of a British battleship winner of the eighty-fourth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. George Taylor with a Leica camera. Film Agfa Isopan. Exposure l-100th second at f.6.3. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 52 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOSS BROS AND COMPANY LIMITED

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Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 38 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

FOR R.A.F. COMFORTS: THE AUDIENCE AT THE SHAFTESBURY

... . L. to r. SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, Air Minister LADY MAUREEN STANLEY and the HON. OLIVER STANLEY were at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Also present were MRS. S. F. WYNNE-EYTON, Assistant Director W.A.A.F. AIR MARSHAL W. L. WELCH, C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C., Air Member for Supply and Organisation MISS J. H. TREFUSIS FORBES, Director, W.A.A.F. SIR EDWARD CAMPBELL, Secretary of State for Air SERGT. PILOT ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SOCIALITE SCULPTURE: THE WORK OF NICOLAUS KONI

... I_ _ _ _ _ . PRINCESS IRMA WEIKERSHEIM, in common with many lovely and well known women, has had her portrait done by the young Hungarian sculptor Nicolaus Koni who is having a very busy time of it in his London studio. Koni is fond of the long, flowing line of El Greco paintings, and you can see something of it in this bust of LADY ORANMORE AND BROWNE. A charming portrait-bust of PRINCESS ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 126 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. IT so happened that one of the last concerts I attended before Christmas was that of two-piano music given at the National Gallery by Myra Hess and Irene Scharrer. Also, some of the ballets that have been perform ing for our delec tation have been accompanied on two pianos. The two circumstances have combined to bring the subject of this kind ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1110 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs 

ON DUTY--ON LEAVE--AT HOME

... ON DUTY-- ON LEAVE AT HOME WITH cold weather still to come and possible night alarms, warm dressing-gowns are as important as ever. Burberry, in the Hay- market, have these tailored models. The check one is in camel cloth with a cashmere finish, cut with raglan sleeves and edged with corded braid. The other also has a braid edging, but is buttoned up to a Peter Pan collar. Children will love ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 223 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THE motor taxation returns for this quarter will make interesting reading. When it was first announced that, in order to help meet the enormous expenditure on defensive armaments, the horse-power tax would be increased from 15s. to 25s. per h.p., it was fore cast that the number of large cars in use would fall to a mere fraction of its normal figure. The few optimists who ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 815 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MADAME DE GRIPENBERG, wife of the Finnish Minister, for playing her part in a war suggestive of the fight between David and Goliath. MADAME DE GRIPENBERG, wife of his Excellency \fons. G. A. de Gripenberg, the Finnish Minister is using the draicing-room of their house at 42, Bryanston Square as an office for the collection of funds and supplies for the Finnish Red Cross. The magnificent, ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A GALLERY OF THE ROYAL CHILDREN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS

... A GALLERY OF THE ROYAL CHILDREL jREAT BRITAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS. This new picture shows the Dutch Royal Family with the latest addition, tiny PRINCESS IRENE, on the knee of her grandmother QUEEN WILHELMINA. Her mother, PRINCESS JULIANA, heiress-apparent to the Dutch throne, is bending over PRINCESS BEATRIX, nearly two years old. Her husband, PRINCE BERNHARD, is on the right, and KING LEOPOLD ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs