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WINGED FEET AND FEATHERED HEADS OF AMERICA'S RESIDENT BALLET: CORYPHÉES WHOSE AUDIENCE RUNS INTO A TOTAL OF ..

... WINGED FEET AND FEATHERED HEADS OF AMERICA'S RESIDENT BALLET CORYPHEES WHOSE AUDIENCE RUNS INTO A TOTAL OF MILLIONS. These lovely photographs shotc some of the members of America's famous CORPS DE BALLET OF THE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, NEW YORK. It is the only resident ballet in America, and is directed by Miss Florence Rogge. Thirty or forty different ballets are given annually, and it has been ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. FRANCE, the happy hunting-ground of so many British motorists, is not-- out wardly and visibly, at any rate-- changed very much as regards motoring conditions. Petrol, though restricted, is not rationed to anything like the. same extent as in England, and as there is no vehicle tax one still sees a laree num ber of cars on the road. With characteristic common sense the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 938 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MR. ALBERT PERRY staged a street exhibition of his works. He hired sandwichmen, who carried, instead of the usual boards with placards, paintings of his, priced from £200 to £300. One of the sandwichmen was a girl. RALPH GROOME, twenty-four-year-old Canadian ice-hockey star known as BLONDIE, is a daring rear-gunner of the R.A.F. He has flown twenty times over Germany, and wore his old ice ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPRING REVEALS NEW FASHIONS

... EVEN jewellery has a military air this spring, so the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, 112, Regent St are specialising in regimental badges. The girl above has fastened her blouse with a badge brooch m diamonds and enamel On her lapel she wears a badge watch made so ?hat it can be worn as a clip or a brooch, in two-colour gold with diamonds and enamel Even her silver, engine- turned ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 224 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LON BY ARTIST AND CAMERA No.1. BLACK VELVET; AT THE LON STAGE AND AUDITORIUM

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LOf IFWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA |fclo.1. BLACK VELVET; AT THE LOf loDROME-- STAGE AND AUDITORIUMJ So come and dance the polka with the whole com- i party finale of the Cafe I Royal scene. I Left I TEDDY BROWN .tricks Debrov Somers and his band. EILEEN MOORE, PAT KIRKWOOD, CAROLE LYNNE and NORMA DAWN as the Gold-diggers. My Heart Belongs to Daddy The Cold-diggers and the ...

SILKEN ROPE FOR A GANGSTER PEER: THE EARL OF CHICAGO

... SILKEN ROPE FOR A GANGSTER PEER THE EARL OF CHICAGO. Left Silky note Earl of Chicago finds his gang ster technique unequal to facing feudal formalities such as meeting his staff, marshalled by the butler (edmuhd' g w e n n). Doc. Ramsey (EDWARD ARNOLD) is tcith him. Right In plenty you had land and rent your length in clay *s now com petent. The scene in the House of Lords when the Earl of ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Larola

... in \mm i!i Whether you are in uniform or not, on munitions or other Government work, don't neglect your skin because of changed conditions. Keep up the regular daily applications of to tone and nourish the skin, to keep your face and hands beautifully soft, white and smooth. . pure and free of all pore-clogging ingredients, is applied in a minimum of time it prevents red and roughened skin ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 112 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. JUST before his departure for Australia, Sir Thomas Beecham gave on the radio a gramophone recital of his Delius records, and at Queen's Hall a Sibelius concert. In the course of the former he described how completely the pedants of the Leip zig Conservatoire had failed to destroy Delius 's originality. The next day Sir Henry Wood, after ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1236 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Photographs 

AUX ARMES CITOY JEAN RENOIR'S FRENCH REVOLUTION LA MARSEILLAISE

... AUX ARMES Cliot IE AN RENOIR'S FRENCH REVOLUTION 1 LA MARSEILLAISE. LA MARSEILLAISE, the new film of the French Revolution, is due at the Academy Cinema on April 20. Here the barrel of gunpowder is set ablaze. Paris rises to invade the Tuileries. Members of the Swiss Guard shot down in the galleries of the Tuileries. The Swiss Guard make their famous last stand at the Tuileries. The mob ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 297 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ENGLISH, DANISH AND RUS BALLERINAS IN NEW YORK ALL OF THE BALLET DE MONTE CARLO

... ENGLISH, DANISH AND RUi ballerinas in new york- ALL OF THE BALLET DE MONTE CARLO. The BALLET RUSSE DE MONTE CARLO has been enjoying its usual big success in New York, where it was presented by S. at the Metropolitan Opera House, On these pages we give new photographs of some of the ballerinas who are so well know greatly admired in London. They include the London-born premiere danseuse, ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 96 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AN AMERICAN HEIRESS DOWN A CANADIAN GOLD-MINE

... .^ MR. JAMES H. R. CROM WELL, the recently appointed Minister of the United States of America to the Dominion of Canada, whose pro-Ally speech recently created something of a sen sation, has been studying every phase of Canadian life. With MRS. CROMWELL, he recently visited the gold- mining town of Val d'Or, Quebec, and as guests of the president of the Siscoe Gold Mines they went down to the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 257 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

W.A.G.S.--CLUB OF THE W.R.N.S., A.T.S. AND W.A.A.F.S

... W.A.G.S.-- CLUB OF THE W.R.N.S, A.T.S. AND W.A.A.F.S. The W.A.G.S. is the title of the new club in Sloane Street for women of the three Services the W.R.N.S th- P.S. and the W.A.A.F.S. The initials stand for If ofnen's Auxiliary Grail Services as the club is the war-tcork of the Grail, but it is entirely unde- nom. national, and open to all women serving with the orces, without membership fee. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 232 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs