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THE FOOD OF LOVE: A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. WHEN the B.B.C. be gan some years ago to put Bach regularly on the air, loud was the outcry among those who would restrict that institution to catering for the majority. But the B.B.C.'s advisers were really wiser than they knew. They prescribed Bach as being good for our musical health and generally wholesome, but it is doubtful whether even ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1194 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GIRL WHO CAN MEET HERSELF THIRTEEN TIMES IN THE R.A

... the girl who can meet herself THIRTEEN TIMES IN THE R.A. MIS RA\ FULLER has been described as England's most frequently painted fi .'I. She is twenty-two years of age, has sat to artists for fourteen years, and I is now rhaps the most sought-after model. She may meet herself thirteen I times ii. Iiis year s Royal Academy, for she figures in the work of twelve artists and H also as i' mermaid ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  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 

SCARLETT OF THE SCREEN TEACHES THE TORCHES TO BURN BRIGHT

... I must hear from thee every day in the hour, For in a minute there are many days Juliet (VIVIEN LEIGH) bids farewell to banished Romeo (LAURENCE OLIVIER). The American production, with the British stars in the title-roles, was presented at San Francisco prior to a tour in the Middle West, and is due this month in New York. Then move not, while my prayers' effect I take. Thus from my lips by ...

ROMANTIC CAMERA-PORTRAITS OF A BEAUTIFUL PEERESS

... ROMANTIC CAMERA -PORTRAITS OF A BEAUTIFUL PEERESS: !CIL BEATON. These camera-studies of the youn century portraits by a great masl who mc.rried the ninth Karl in Jersey, who is serving with the his Jine Adam seat near Londoi Last year Osterley Park, with iti Lord Jersey has just reopened the nave all the grace and romanticism of eighteenth- wpresentations of a lovely subject. Lady Jersey ...

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE--LAWLESS PASSION

... THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE -LAWLESS PASSION. Frank (FERNAND GRAVET) and Cora (CORINNE LUCHAIRE) visit Nick (MICHEL SIMON), whom they have tried to murder. Cora (CORINNE LUCHAIRE) tells Frank (FERNAND GRAVET) that she is to have a child. FERNAND GRAVET and CORINNE LUCHAIRE as the lovers who murder Nick at the second attempt, by means of a fake car smash. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FASHION TAKES TO PIECES: BLOUSES AND BOLEROS

... FASHION TAKES to PIECES BLOUSES AND BOLEROS WOMEN IN WARTIME VARIETY, the spice of a wardrobe, is easily and economically found if you collect blouses, to wear with suits by day, with long skirts at night. Before you start your own collection, however, be sure and see Walpole's, in New Bond Street. They have the chiffon blouse above, threaded with gleaming gold lame, shirred across the yoke ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 388 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs