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BEAUTY ALLIES

... A PERFUME, skilfully used, can become your own special atmosphere, expressing your individuality with its fragrance. The Bouquets made by Lentheric are light and lingering, gay, subtle scents that seem the essence of summer. Tweed is an out-of-door fragrance, while before your party it is a good idea to freshen the air by spraying Miracle round the room. They may be bought all over the country ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 234 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 35 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITANNIA AND EVE

... START HERE! Ray Singer could talk. It was a part of his job. And that night he let himself go. He had the whole thing cut and dried. It was three or four months since he had first seen Peggy Doran at a small Hollywood restaurant called The High Kick. Peggy had been working there as a waitress. He had noticed the likeness right away, but without being much impressed. Holly wood was full of ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1065 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

In Search of the Local

... By Ashley Courtenay EDWARD ARDIZZONE and Maurice Gorham are men after my own heart. They are seekers out of pubs. Not merely historic hostelries or Dickensian inns, but what we engaged in the chase can term as locals. Small and large taverns in main highways, up narrow alleys or in a mews, all frequented by regulars in every walk of life. When Messrs. Ardizzone and Gorham's book first came ...

R.M.S. QUEEN MARY

... R.M.S. Ol l i:\ MARY R.M.S. OlIliEN MARY There are few things more intriguing and instructive than these movable deck models of . Deck by Deck the ship's wonderful interior may be examined. Correct and to scale, all decks are numbered, and details can be identified very easily by reference to a guide supplied. The model is 12 inches long, price 3/6, postage and packing inland 9d. extra. ...

Mill Hill Athletes Break Records at St. Bees

... S. C. TINNERS LEY showed himself an out standing long-distance runner with comfortable victories in the senior 880 yards and the mile. But this year's running times were slower than last, probably because the races were run on grass instead of cinders as at Mill Hill. RECORD WELL BROKEN: D. A. Richards, throwing the javelin 147 ft. jJ in. to win the junior event, beat the previous record by a ...

First Day of Cricket at Oxford

... I NEW COLLEGE GROUND provided a tranquil setting for the first Freshmen's match at Oxford between an XI. captained by R. E. Luyt (Trinity), acting captain of cricket, and an XI. led by E. K. Scott (Lincoln), the acting secretary. The final trial finished yesterday, and one of the matches that have been arranged for the next month will be against a British Empire XI. on June 14 and 15. This, ...

MAYTIME VERDICT

... Maytime Verdict DIGGING for victory has its effect on beauty as well as the vegetable supply, for gardening can take inches off your hip-line. Preparing the soil, pushing a barrow full of rubbish, lifting the watering- can, all exercise just those hip muscles which tend to become set. For weeding or setting seeds, your weight will be on your knees, so it is a good thing to use a pad. The one ...

Graphic

... THE FAVOURITE WINS! That it's all over bar the shouting can be seen from this picture of Djebel going away from the field near the post. M. Marcel Boussac's colt won easily by two lengths and thus gave his owner his first classic success in England. There was a close struggle for second place, which the Aga Khans Stardust (H. Wragg up) gained by a head from the Maharaja of Kolhapur's Tant ...

A Very Pleasant Affair at Weybridge

... IT has been a difficult time for rowing clubs, but thanks to the great efforts by the older members of some of the tideway and up-river clubs, rowing has been kept going throughout the winter, and last Saturday we had the i first up-river regatta since the war. It was a modest affair at Weybridge, with out bands and frills, but a great success. Besides the race between the Weybridge and ...

It's a Date

... THEY haven't yet married off Deanna Durbin or even let her fall seriously in love, but obviously that calamity isn't far off, for Deanna was seventeen last December, and they can no longer keep her out of long evening gowns. In the new film at the Leicester Square Theatre, Deanna falls a little for Walter Pidgeon, who loves her mother (Kay Francis), but is pretty easily consoled with a nice ...