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Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 3 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

VIVIEN LEIGH AND LAURENCE OLIVIER PLAY ROMEO AND JULIET

... . VIVIEN LEIGH, who has made such a big success as Scarlett O'Hara in the much-discussed film Gone With the Wind/' is playing Juliet to LAURENCE OLIVIER'S Romeo in the U.S.A. production of Romeo and Juliet due this month in New York. Her Shakespearean experience includes her appearance' as Ophelia in Hamlet with Laurence Olivier at Klsinore in 1937 with the Old Vic Company and she was Titania ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 101 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. WHAT happens to a fish which breaks away with the angler's spinner or dead bait tackle firmly hooked in its jaws? In the majority of cases, as evidence has in dicated, fish can and do rid themselves of such encumbrances. When, however. the fish is hooked well inside the mouth so that the passage of food to the gullet is obstructed, the chances of the fish ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1276 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

ASCOT WITH HAROLD LLOYD HOBBY HORSES

... It 's not so easy as it looks Distinguished visitors get some tips from the charming jockeys. f. 1 1 nrwi-r- -n HIM W:. I*D0 Waiting for the ojf AMBASSADOR GIRLS ON HAROLD LLOYD y Jj 5 HOBBY HORSES. Right A good start AMBASSADOR GIRLS all going well. W' 4 /JL'CT* m Right: CONNIE M HUNGATE riding her Harold Lloyd Hobby Horse. IAXXXX Mi CONNIE HUNGATE with her horse showing its fine action. A ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THERE was a time when all good motorists would stop and offer lifts to those whom they saw trudging along the broad highway. Farmers' wives going to market; the vil lage nurse or parson on an errand of mercy; com mercial travellers who had missed the bus; or just tramps. I nave given lifts to all of these, and more. And in the giving I have had many hundreds of miles most ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1042 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA:: No. 3. LIGHTS UP!; AT THE SAVOY--ON THE STAGE AND IN ..

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: PHYLLIS STANLEY tells them one in the wings. 'A A Nobleman and a Bustled Beauty of the Gay 'Nineties in An Old Dance Hall EVELYN LAYE as Prince Charming waiting in the icings. PHYLLIS PEARCE as a Principal Dancer in A Day in the Life of a Mr. Cochran Young Lady. I didn't really never oughter 'ave went DORIS HARE as the evacuee. No. 3. ...

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. YESTERDAY-- April 30 Franz Léhar celebrated his seventieth birthday. Exactly a week later, next Tuesday, Tchaikovsky would have been a hundred if he had lived. In case some highbrow music-lover might feel tempted to pro test at my bracket ing two musicians whose title to fame is derived from different worlds, I would remind them that the creators of Viennese ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WISE VIRGINS DANCE TO BACH

... THE WISE VIRGINS DANCE TO BACH. Frederick Ashton's new ballet, THE WISE VIRGINS, was given for the first time last week by the Vic- Wells Ballet at Sadler's Wells. It is danced to music by Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by Constant Lambert orchestrated by William Walton, and with decor and costumes of baroque flavour by Rex Whistler. The theme of the ballet is the Biblical parable of the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 73 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... 1£LG KLG cyxuvckur^ PLUGS v And MILES PER MINUTE A MILE A MINUTE IN 1899 BY M. JENATZY DRIVING AN ELECTRIC CAR NO PLUGS REQUIRED 2 MILES A MINUTE IN 1906 BY MR. MARRIOTT ORiVING A STANLEY STEAM CAR NO PLUGS REQUIRED 3 MILES A MINUTE IN 1927 BY THE LATE SIR HENRY SEGRAVE ORIVING A SUNBEAM USINO K'L'G PLUGS 4 MILES A MINUTE IN 1931 BY SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL DRIVING A NAPIER CAMPBELL USINO KLG ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 126 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

FILM TRAGEDY: WE ARE NOT ALONE

... FILM TRAGEDY WE ARE NOT ALONE. W* ARE NOT ALONE, to succeed Four Wives at the Warner heatre, Leicester Square, is a tragedy based on the novel by James i ton. Dr. Newcombe 's wife, Jessica, does not understand their highly strung child. Newcombc e igages the Austrian Leni as governess, and in s her sympathetic. Gerald, the boy, trespassing in the surgery, upsets medicine, refills the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 336 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE DOG-FIGHTERS-- TYPES OF R.A.F. PILOTS

... THE DOG FIGHTERS TYPES OF R.A.F. PILOTS. This snapshot illustrates the types of R.A.F. pilots tcho are doing such magnificent work and are constantly taking on the enemy at tremendous odds in dog -fights in the air. These pilots have just returned, ruffled but undaunted from a hazardous encounter in which they have, no doubt shot down a goodly proportion of enemy fighters and bombers ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 65 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs