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VIENNESE VIEWPOINT

... A.D. 2049. Now what 's the matter Short again (Left.) Sorry, I can't disturb hirr now important conference.' Tell him the husbanc of the important conferencf wants to see him. Drawings by LEA of Vienna ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 37 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

CAMOUFLAGING THE COLONEL'S BREAKFAST

... . Luftwaffe or no Luftwaffe, the C.O. must have his breakfast, so under elaborate cover the regimental cooks get to work and, course by course, the meal, invisible from the air, is drawn over to its appointed end, starting with an egg PRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 50 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

...AND THEN THE SOLDIER. NO. 5

... AND THEN THE SOLDIER. NO. 5. Our hardened, nimble and alert Army knows how to be gay as well as grim. These drawings by Sherriffs record some of the brighter angles of modern military life somewhere in England to-day. CARICATURES BY SHERRIFFS. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 42 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

A WIT ON WELL-KNOWNS

... . THESE caricatures of five of our most distinguished exponents in the various arts are on view at Osbert Lancaster's show at the Redfern Gallery; illustrate the excellence of his observation, the sharpness of his wit. Illl III! The Lord Berners grappling wi'.h his muse. Miss Frey'd Stark explaining to a relatively- unsophisticated audience the genius of Mr. Norman Hartnell Mr. Ardixxone ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 98 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

THE UBIQUITOUS WINSTON: NEW IDEAS FOR ARMING OUR MERCHANTMEN WITH DEPTH-CHARGES AND OTHER ANTI-SUBMARINE DEVICES

... . Mr. W. Heath Robinson's revelations of Naval devices calculated to irritate the gentle Nazis until their peace-loving dispositions become quite fierce include the inventions on this page These netc notions for arming our merchantmen with depth-charges and other anti-submarine equipment are not more fantastic than some of the ideas ichich the German Press has seriously attributed to the First ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

THE ROOF-RAISING DEFENCE TO DEFEAT DIVE-BOMBERS

... THE ROOF- RAISING DEFENCE TO DEFEAT DIVE-BOMBERS. W. Heath Robinson's latest device to defeat the dive-bombers is a roof-raising story By means of an ingenious system of cogs balloons and other lifting machinery, he believes that it will be possible completely to upset the dive-bomber pilots' calculations as to their height from the ground. DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 59 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

JUBILANT MONSTERS OF MECHANISED WAR

... . The battleship, holding a bone in its front teeth, has seated robots for turrets an admiral for control lower, and a bird- like aeroplane about to take off from a gigantic hand. Right A bellowing fighter plane roars down with clenched fists on a grinning bomber. The shoulders represent engine cowlings and the eyes are pilots. Everyone who has followed the march of mechanised armies across ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

SCRAPS OF PAPER

... . A Scrap of Paper had historic importance in 1914-- every scrap of paper now has material value for waste paper, cartons, letters, card board, cards and boxes are all essential for the war effort. They must be neither hoarded nor wasted. The £10,000 Prize Waste Paper Drive inaugurated by the Waste Paper Recovery Association for May, June and July will add further incentive to the energy with ...

Published: Wednesday 03 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Graphic 

Graphic

... THE fine exhibition of photographs by Barbara Morgan, arran of notable camera-studies of dances symbolising episodes ai pages. Many of them express fierce and tragic emotion, while 01 in 4t shaking out sin, are gay and amusing, but they are all The technique of double exposure is used in a most successful everyone else who has seen these photographs agree that they are s San Francisco to ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 128 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic 

Graphic

... ORSON, THE BEAR AMONG THE STARS (ORSON WELLES) SUMMARILY DEALT WITH BY SHERRIFFS D ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 14 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

Graphic

... CHOCLIKS DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH! THIS AIN'T BENGHAZI! DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 12 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

SO THIS IS PINOCCHIO! WALT DISNEY'S NEW BOY GETS THE ONCE -OVER

... PINOCCHIO, puppet-boy hero of WALT DISNEY'S second full-length film due at the New Gallery Regent Street, on March 18, is the netc boy in the Disney school. Here he is depicted as getting the once-over from his seniors, the other Disney creations. They lean out of their frames to inspect the boy, who, it *s rumoured, may steal their thunder as film celebrities and put them in the shade. The ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic