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IBERIAN SPARKLE AND ISLAND CHARM ... OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH BEAUTY

... IBERIAN SPARKLE AND ISLAND CHARM PES OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH BEAUTY. LA SARAZENA, the well-known Spanish dancer, is a characteristic Iberian beauty, well suited by the white mantilla, the ceremonial dress of her eĀ°uri y. scored a success at the parly given by Lady Ironside and Mrs. Peter Ellis in aid of the Duchess of Northumberland 's benevolent and Comforts Luna J Auxiliary Territorial ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 136 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RUTH DRAPER

... BY ANGUS McBEAN. The celebrated American diseuse who opened a four-weeks' season on Nov. 10 at the Criterion is the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor who used to entertain largely. A guest failing one night, she sat next an empty chair started to talk to an imaginary figure. All the other guests stopped talking to listen, and later they began to invite her out specially to repeat the ...

Published: Wednesday 12 November 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 99 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ONE SITTER--PRESENTED WITH VARIETY

... ONE SITTER PRESENTED WITH VARIETY. The infinite variety which the camera-artist can uchieve by means of difference in costume, background and pose is well illustrated by this quartet of photographic studies of a very attractive young sitter, MRS. BUSTER TONGE, the wife of Flight- Lieutenant Tonge, of the Fleet Air Arm. Mrs. Tonge was Miss Bat Barr. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 61 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BUDGET OF PLEASANT EVENTS ... PEOPLE ON OFF-DUTY OCCASIONS

... BUDGET OF PLEASANT EVENTS: STABLE PEOPLE ON OFF-DUTY OCCASIONS. MAJOR J. P. ARCHER-SHEE, 10th Royal Hussars, son of the late Colonel _ Sir Martin Archer-Shee, married MISS HENRIETTA MARY STAPLE^W^ BRETHERTON, daughter of the late Mai or F. B. Stavleton-Bretherton. a^B Members oj the ANGLO-AMERICAN AMBULANCE UNIT, which is doing splendid service in the bombed areas, have found lime to form ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 301 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAR ARTIST AT WORK

... . MISS ETHEL GABAIN (Mrs. John Copley) is here seen at work in her studio on one of the tear pictures which she is making for the Ministry of Information. The still-life group of A.R.P. clothing and gas-masks is carefully arranged. Outside a much-damaged house she talked to Airs. Merritt, who had been bombed out of her home. Left The, artist has made a number of sketches of ruined houses in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLONDE IDOL

... . The pose of this lovely model suggests an Eastern idol, but her radiantly fair beauty of ivory and gold is typically English. The camera-study is one of the thirty-two by JASON in his recently published volume Blonde and Brunette. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 41 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A TOP NUMBER OF DIVERSION 2 ON JAN. 1

... DOROTHY DICKSON, one of the principals of Farjeon's successful wartime revue Diversion, at Wyndham i, is one of the top numbers in the new edition DIVERSION 2, which is due to-day, January 1, 1941. It will help all who are lucky enough to attend the first performance to greet the New Year with plenty OJ laughter. Miss Dickson's successful songs in the original edition included her now-famous ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SKETCH DATE-BOOK: Being Our Social Diary

... SKETCH DATE-BOOK (Being Our Social Diary.) SEPT. 7. Among those who had ringside seats at the Aboyne jj Games were left to right Miss Zoe D'Erlan- ger, Lord Glentanar, his I daughter, the Hon. Jean Coats, and the Hon. James Bruce. SEPT. 8 .--At Holy Trinity Church, Brcmpton', Viscount Gwynedd, son and heir of Earl Lloyd- George of Dwyfor, and of Mrs. R. Eijion Evans, married Miss Ruth Mar ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 820 | Page: Page 15, 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... ENCHANTMENT- IN CAMERA ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

READING UNLIMITED

... IMAGINE the extremities of Charing Cross I Road as a couple of book-ends with Foyle's countless volumes between them a laby rinth of aisles, honeycombed with shelves, browsing customers of all ages and nation alities lost to the world. Books books books on every subject, in every language carefully classified or heaped higgledy-piggledy. Something for everybody first editions for collectors, ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 95 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LORD CROMER'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW: VISCOUNTESS ERRINGTON

... . Lady Errington is the wife of Major Viscount Errington, M.B.E., who served in the Grenadier Guards and is now in Baring's Bank and daughter of the second Viscount Rothermere. During the war she worked as a nurse with the St. John's Ambulance, and also in a canteen. Lady Errington has a daughter, Lana, born in 1943, who is learning dancing a son, Evelyn, born last year. Most of her time now ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 113 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs