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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 

FRAGONARD PICTURE OF LIGHTS UP!

... PHYLLIS STANLEY, who appears in C. B. Cochran's revue LIGHTS UP! at the Savoy, wears modern dress with chic, and period costume with style. Witness her appearance as the Lady in A Fragonard Picture/' a number in which she gradually unmasks her beauty discarding panniered skirts, quilted petticoats and other articles of attire, but ivith such grace and eighteenth-century style that the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A FUTURE DUCHESS

... . LADY HOWLAND is the wife of Lord Howl and, elder son of the Marquess of Tavistock and grandson of the Duke of Bedford. She is a daughter of Mr. John Bridgman and married Lord Howland in 1939. Her baby son and heir, who is not yet ten weeks old had the distinction of being born at the Ritz. PHOTOGRAPH BY F. J. GOODMAN. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 66 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PAINTERS AND THEIR PICTURES ON VARNISHING DAY

... painters and their pictures on varnishing day. MISS PEGGY FITZGERALD with her R.A. exhibit, 44 The Fitzgeralds MISS KAY BETHELL putting finishing touches to her painting, 44 Survivors. Sixteen-year-old Eton hoy, E. BRAMALL, at work on his exhibit, 44 Sloane Square. MR. ALGERNON NEWTON, A.R.A., varnishing his 44 A Suffolk Landscape. The MARCHIONESS OF QUEENSBERRY (Cathleen Mann with her ...

INCLUDING AIRMAN AND SOLDIER BRIDEGROOMS, A.T.S. AND F.A.N.Y. BRIDES

... INCLUDING AIRMAN AND SOLDIER BRIDEGROOMS, A.T.S. AND FA.N.Y. BRIDES: MR. LAURENCE URY CHARLES KENNARD, elder son of Sir Coleridge Kennard, Bt., married MISS JOAN PERSCHKE, elder daughter of Mr. W. T. Perschke, of Sidlesham, Sussex at Chelsea Old Church. MISS MOLLIE SULLIVAN, daughter of Captain and Mrs. W. P. Sullivan !j married MR. W. E. HEINEMANN, R.A., at Chelsea Old Church, FLIGHT-LIEUT. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS OF NOTABLE YOUNG PEOPLE

... . C tmm. 1 hi I mmawm tHjrma 1 1 The marriage f MISS PHILIPPA FIT Z ALAN-HOWARD, daughter of 'he late Hon I Hip Fitzalan-Hoicard and of Mrs. P. G. Riviere o SECOND LIE T. EDWARD TYLER, son of Captain and Mrs. Guy r, took place at the Oratory, Brompton. The marriage of MISS ISOLDA ROSAMOND PARKER, Junior I Com pa ny Commander A.T.S., younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey I Parker, to ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 247 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PEACE, WAR, BEAUTY AND HUMOUR AT BURLINGTON HOUSE PORTRAITS AND SUBJECT PICTURES FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY

... PEACE, WAR, BEAUTY AND HUMOUR AT BURLINGTON HOUS mil ORTRAITS AND SUBJECT PICTURES FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE SIRENS by W. G. DE GLEHN, R.A. MODEL'S THRONE by B. FLEETWOOD-WALKER. THE SINKING OF THE S.S. 'GOODWOOD,' SEPTEMBER IOTH, 1939; by LOUISA HODGSON. JUNE MORNING by HAROLD WILLIAMSON. The ROT ACADEMY opened to the public on Monday last, May 6, after the Private View on May 3 and 4. As ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: THIS COMPETITOR AT THE ESSEX HUNT HUNTER TRIALS

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THIS COMPETITOR AT THE ESSEX HUNT HUNTER TRIALS, for giving such a splendid slow^motion picture of taking a toss. SLOW-MOTION pictures of galloping horses, of ex perts demonstrating golf shots and lawn-tennis strokes are constantly presented on the screen, but an ordinary series of shapshots has here recorded the more remarkable slow- motion story of how to take a toss. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 129 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. UNDER the auspices of the Balleto manes' Club, a serial debate has been in progress on the con troversial subject of symphonic ballet; that is to say, the propriety or other wise Of using sym phonies as the basis for ballet. I was invitpfl to take nart. but refrained for the simple reason that my own attitude to the subject could be stated ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1234 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs