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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 

KESTOS

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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 

Tooth's First War Exhibition

... Tooth's Gallery, where Sir Hugh Walpole has described his pur chase of my 'White' Utrillo, bought in a passion of excitement one morning from my friend 'Dick' Smart in the little back room has given London picture lovers an exhibition worth waiting for. Sine Mackintosh's is the first show since the war. When it broke she was painting in Brittany with artist hus band, Rupert Fordham, her ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 856 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Photographs 

A BEAUTIFUL DEBUTANTE OF THIS YEAR

... MISS MAXINE BIRLEY Debutante is a word with rather a hollow ring this year with war clamping down on the Courts and usual functions of a London season, hut there are many beautiful girls coming out in the quieter fashion appropriate to the time, none more beautiful than the daughter of Captain Oswald Birley, the famous artist, and Mrs. Birley, who was Miss Rhoda Pike. Miss Birley was ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NOTABLE APRIL WEDDINGS

... ELWES MARTIN-SMITH The marriage took place on April 27 at St. Mark's, North Audlcy Street, of Mr. Robert Philip Henry Elwes, 16th/5th Lancers, eldest son of Mr. Robert H. A. Elwes of Coughain House, King's Lynn, and of the late Mrs. Elwes, and Miss Vivien Elizabeth Martin-Smith, daughter of the late Captain Everard Martin-Smith and of Mrs. Martin-Smith, of Lane House, King's Walden Tyler ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 394 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

REBECCA, AT THE QUEEN'S: SPECTRE OF A MURDERED WIFE HAUNTS; DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S MELODRAMA

... REBECCA, AT THE QUEEN'S SPECTRE OF A MURDERED WIFE HAUNTS DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S MELODRAMA Mrs. Danvers (Margaret Rutherford) heads the servants at Manderley in attempting to haunt the second Mrs. de Winter (Cclia Johnson) with the ghost of Rebecca, her dead predecessor. Here she offers to dress her new mistress for the Manderley midsummer-night fancy-dress ball in a costume that 44 hasn't been ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 226 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ADMIRALTY HOUSE'S CHARMING CHÂTELAINE: Some Intimate Pictures of the Wife of the First Lord

... ADMIRALTY HOUSE'S CHARMING CHATELAINE Some Intimate Pictures of the Wife of the First Lord Since the outbreak of the Second German War only the two top floors of Admiralty House are being used by the Rt. Hon. and Mrs. Winston Churchill, all the rest being devoted to offices for departments of the great sea service, at whose head Mr. Winston Churchill is for the second time in the course of his ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 128 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

UP AND DOING: AT THE SAVILLE

... UP AND DOING AT THE SAVILLE A safe bet for wartime popularity is Firth Shephard's Up and Doing at the Saville. And that does not mean that it needs a war and its lowered standards of revue discrimination to make a success of it. 44 Fish-face Leslie Henson (whose ex pression is exquisitely perpetuated in the night-club decor that provides the finale of Part I.) is producer and star, which is ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 383 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs 

PICTURES IN THE FIRE

... By SABRETACHE Smokin' me pipe in the mornin' up in the mountains cool, Me in me old brown gaiters along o' me old brown mule IT was learned that the British forces are making full use of officers who have had experience of mountain warfare on the North-West Frontier of India. The conditions, climatically, are different, but in many respects the Norwegian operations are similar to those to ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1605 | Page: Page 30, 56 | Tags: Photographs 

TIGHT LINES! ON TWEED AND WYE

... Ladies at Wye cliff The Hon. Mrs. Oscar Guest, aunt of Lord Wim- borne, was watching Mrs. Richard Law casting in the Wye. The husbands of both of these ladies are M.Ps., the Hon. Oscar Guest for Camberwell, and Mr. Richard Law, son of the famous Bonar Law and one of the most prominent young Conser vatives in the House, for Kingston upon Hull Border Fisherman Big fish are to be found among the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs