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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 

ONE-DAY MEETING AT WINDSOR

... ONE-DAY MEETING i AT I WINDSOR. MRS. PETER HOLDSWORTH HUNT, snapped in conversation with CAPTAIN GOSCHEN, wore a well-cut suit. MR. D. HAGUE squired MISS PEGGY HAMILTON during a tSj walk round the paddock. MRS. MICHAEL ROBSON'S jaunty hat and short fur cape were most becoming. She is with MR. MICHAEL ROBSON.' V M The one-day meeting held at Windsor the other week-end was a I 1 great success, ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 158 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

No. 5. SHEPHARD'S PIE; AT THE PRINCES THEATRE--STAGE AND AUDITORIUM

... No. 5. SHEPHARD'S PIE; AT THE PRINCES THEATRE STAGE AND AUDITORIUM. I M! ARTHUR RISCOE and a Policeman. RICHARD HEARNE and his finger trouble. Below VERA PEARCE and RICHARD HEARNE in one of their amazing acrobatic dances in Seeing Life. ier,. .Sing m round. PHYLLIS ROBINS selecting a guest artist to help her sing. PHYLLIS ROBINS singing He s Adorable with the guest artist from the ...

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 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - The prairie MARMOT at the Zoo is obviously con scious of being photo genique. After making the patient naturalist wait a considerable time, it eventually agreed to hold this excellent pose. WARRANT OFFICERS and N.C.O.s formed a guard of honour at Shenley Parish Church for the christening of JONATHAN JU LIAN COTTERELL, son of Major and Mrs. L. E. Cotterell, and afterwards paid hom age to the ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 207 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEWS-REEL OF WARTIME SOCIETY EVE ... ENGAGEMENTS, CHRISTENING AND ... TURES

... NEWS-REEL OF WARTIME SOCIETY EVE DDINGS, engagements, christening^ AND 0 tures. MISS SUSAN SUTHERLAND, elder daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. R. Orr Sutherland, D.S.O., and Mrs. Sutherland is en gaged to Mr. Eric Hopton son of Mr. and Mrs. Ulric Hopton, of Chute Manor Andover. Left MRS. EDWARD ESMOND, wife of the well- known French race-horse owner wore a very smart figured tailor suit and ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 354 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SCOTTISH CINDERELLA FROM IRISH ARAN

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY VIVIEN SE. BARBARA MULLEN is the young actress from the wild Isle of Aran off the FT'est Coast of Ireland who has sprung to fame through her delightful perform ance in the title-role of Aimee Stuart's 44 J E ANN IE. which is enjoying such a big success at Wyndham's. 44 Jeannie the story of a modern Scottish Cinderella teas first produced at the Torch Theatre, where it proved ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs