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Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Illustrations 

WAR AND 'KULTUR' IN POLAND--BY A POLISH SOLDIER-ARTIST: BRILLIANT AND SATIRIC MODERN CARICATURES

... WAR AND 'KULTUR' IN POLAND-- BY A POLISH SOLDIER-ARTIST. BRILLIANT AND SATIRIC MODERN CARICATURES. Arthur szyk, a Jew and a Pole, and proud of both, is a miniaturist-illuminator of distinction hut the rape of his country by the powers of darkness, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, has in spired him to produces scries of bitter and striking caricatures, showing the war in Poland through the vic ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

MAKING THE MOST OF WARTIME FOOD

... . By X. MARCEL BOULESTIN. IT has always been a source of won derment for the foreigner to find that in England, the land of grill-rooms, there is so little grilling done at home. The English grill-rooms 1 hey used to fill us with admir ation when, as young men, we were discover ing London in the pre-war days (I mean before 1914). They sparkled and shone behind their glass screens occasionally ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1175 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

'SANATOGEN'

... SAXATOGEN sa. NERVE-TONIC FOOD ,. NERVE-TONIC FOOD How to The simple pleasures of a care-free life are unattainable in modern time v. To-day in a topsy-turvy world, we need the help of all the resources of science to maintain our health and our nervous forces. The article below tells you how you can meet the increased strain of life in wartime by taking an 8 weeks' course of Sanatogen Nerve ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 392 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SKETCH

... the ft SKETCH THE SPICE OF LIFE particularly for men on active service A LREADY these delightful pictures are well in course the activities of well-known people in town evidence in cabin, iness, and dug-out. A new and shires, one is presented by every week A subscription to is a very printed in full-colour (size 12J x 9i) all ready to be welcome gift at all times. There is a specially ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 183 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: PANTO

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. PANTO. WE have just been to the Panto., and the Younger Members have retired to supper and seclusion, exhausted by the variety of their emotions and still somewhat dazed by all the splendour. The Elders are vaguely humming the tunes, and one of them at least is still smelling that blister-gas sweetmeat which the little boy next to him, with extraordinary precision, ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1103 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON: Authors of Foreigners; or the World in a Nutshell.; No. 1. GROSVENOR HOUSE

... CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. I. GROSVENOR HOUSE. LAURA was en- chanted with the ball-room at Grosvenor House the moment she came into it. She liked the velvety, beige- coloured draperies and the walls which looked like silver mirrors, and the soft amber lighting. Yes, Leonard agreed, this dif fused ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1172 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

Debenham & Freebody

... Debenfiam FreeboJv Debenfiam FreeboJv L/ TJailoring and Dressmaking to Order at Special Prices cJebruarij 17 ng from gns. naking from 81 gns. 9 We have a collec- F tion of the very few j original French models which have reached j? London since the out break of war. We shall be copying these, and also our own exclusive designs at special prices until February 17, in the Court Dressmaking ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

TO CHEER YOU UP SECTION: THE UBIQUITOUS WINSTON: A COWARDLY ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP LORD HAW-HAW

... Qp£) TO CHEER YOU UP SECTION. OQO THE UBIQUITOUS WINSTON: A COWARDLY ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP LORD HAW-HAW. DRAWN WY W. HKATH ROBINSON. We continue our series of daring tear exploits by Mr. Winston Churchill the First Lord of the Admiralty as imagined by Mr. W. Heath Robinson. They are hardly more far-fetched than those which are attributed to him by Nazi propaganda This week his coicardly manwuvre ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Please forward overseas

... FliaM puoxmd outXMm By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Faith took it into her head to be vaccinated last week. She has a theory that the Germans are going to drop germs on us in the Spring, and wants to Be Prepared. She says that the Germans are going to fly at a great height over England and release thousands of minute parachutes laden with bacilli. The parachutes will disintegrate in descent, ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 913 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE BRISTLEWOODS SEE IT THROUGH

... . MRS. BRISTLEWOOD Darling, don't you adore our new evacuees MR. BRISTLEWOOD Yes, yes, dear but, oh hoic I HATE that one DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 30 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 236 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations