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TAKE TIME TO RELAX

... NOW that your skin is exposed to the first strong sunlight, it may show too many signs of winter to stand up to the test. Since most women now are too busy to cope with elaborate beauty treatments, Boots suggest their simple, practical, but very effective Number Seven preparations. The stand-up hogskin beauty case for three guineas, shown above, made with a detachable mirror, holds one of ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 305 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Larola

... Yjarcm 1arcrlq\ |[lg| [U I Tone the delicate skin tissues of your face and hands with I and you will have a sure beauty-defence against the I aggressions of bitter winds and cold wintry snaps. makes and keeps the skin delightfully smooth, prevents roughness, redness and chaps and thus adds immeasurably to your beauty, charm and comfort. A. It. P. Warden, women on munitions and other war ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 109 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. WE have not had a January to equal that of 1940 since the days of our grand fathers. Villages have been snowbound, lonely houses have been cut off, pipes have burst, and the Thames has been frozen over. In olden times, when main roads were no broader than many of our present- day country lanes, stage coaches were overturned or buried by snowdrifts in such weather. Had peace ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1030 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

BURBERRYS LTD

... BURBERRYS ltd. Auxiliary to Smartness Burberry A.T.S. Weatherproofs, Greatcoats and Uniforms. In best quality materials, skilfully tailored, they are the embodiment of martial clothes perfection and weather security sought by women in uniform. 1 I Burberrys have decided, as in the J Telegrams: BURBERRY, J ittSt War, to clean and re-proof I LESQUARE, LONDON j free of charge all Burberry ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 94 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. SADLER'S WELLS has restored a sense of proportion in the world of bal let with Frederick Ashton's Dante Sonata. This is not meant in dis paragement of the minor companies who have been so busy during the last three months the Ballet Rambert, Antony Tudor's London Ballet, the Arts Theatre Ballet, les Trois Arts, and Lydia Kyasht's Russian Ballet. Many of their ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1228 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs 

BREWED & BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD & CO., LTD

... BREWED BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD CO., LTD., BREWED BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD CO., LTD., MORE POPULAR THAN EVER fN tfie Mess, in Hotels, Restaurants and Bars no less tlian 1 in the Home the call is for Whithread s superb Pale Ale. Brewed from British hops and barley; appetising, refreshing, stimu= lating; Whith reads superh Pale Ale is more popular than ever. WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE LONDON, E.C.I. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 65 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THE British motor in dustry is, despite the war, very much alive. Not long ago I gave some impressive figures show ing the growth of our automobile exports, and now comes the news of increased sales on the home markets and the intro duction of new models. The Standard Motor Com pany proved their fore sight last year when they introduced their Budget models to meet the ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1148 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

NEWBURY FEBRUARY STEEPLECHASE MEETING

... . SIR HUGH and LADY SMILEY. CAPTAIN B. BARNETT (left) and CAPTAIN and MRS. F. BARNETT. LORD and LADY GEORGE SCOTT. MISS ANGELA PALMER, MR. C. F. R. BARCLAY, and MR. R. RITCHIE. CAPTAIN and MRS. A. H. OSBORNE. MR. FRANCIS COLLIN and MISS FRANCES MACLEAN. The provided racegoers with good sport, and, as usual these days, teas attended by a large number of enthusiasts, mostly wearing uniform. The ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 98 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: MR. L. W. SWAIN, owner of Rastus, for being the world's only gold=fish trainer

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MR. L. W. SWAIN, owner of Rastus, for being the world's only golcUfisR trainer. Animal trainers all over the world succeed in teaching dogs, horses, sea-lions, lions, elephants, mice, and even fleas to perform in different ways, and to go through various tricks for the amusement of their owners or the entertainment of audiences assembled round the saw-dust rings of ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 228 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. HOW pleasant it is to read in the New Zea land Fishing and Shooting Gazette that the Tongariro fished very well at the opening of the season and numbers of limit bags were taken. And again Dry fly fishing above the Huka Falls has been quite good and the condition of the fish generally has been of the best. How one envies the anglers who have had rainbow trout ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1218 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

PEERESS-ARTIST AND CROONER SITTER

... PEERESS -ARTIST AND CROONER SITTER. CATHLEEN MANN, R.O.I., R.P., the tvell-knoivn artist in private life the Marchioness of Queensberry, has just completed a portrait of MISS VIVIEN PAGET, the crooner tcho has been making such a big success at the Cafi de Paris and other places of entertainment in London. .4s the camera proves, the likeness is excellent. Lord and Lady Queensberry have recently ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 123 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: THE CAROL LYNN BALLET, for dancing a chemistry lesson

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE CAROL LYNN BALLET, for dancinS a chemistry lesson. The curtain rises on the Chemical Ballet. The chemist falls asleep before his atom-smasher and the glass sphere for examining gases, and dreams of his experiment. Breaking-up and re-arrangement of atoms. CATALYST nickel J enters the stage in metallic attire, causing molecules to form benzine represented by six ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 306 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs