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Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 187 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOSS BROS & COMPANY LIMITED

... (moss BROS V company limited J GREAT COATS for all the Services READY -TO WEAR Said a Dominion pilot who came in to us the other day Maybe it's because it's such a little island, hut we find the Old Country very draughty in the Winter. Could you fit me out very quickly with a greatcoat? He had his greatcoat within the next five minutes for the Moss Bros, range of greatcoats for officers in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 191 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

HOW TO CAPTURE A FEW MORE ITALIAN DIVISIONS: THE OASIS TRAP

... . Our armies in Egypt have already captured a good quota of Italian prisoners, but, of course, you can't have loo much of a good thing, and here 's a W. Heath Robinson suggestion for roping in a few more Wops by means of the Oasis Trap. This natty device is guaranteed as infallible for securing thirsty detachments of Blackshirls in the desert. DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

A POLISH ARTIST VIEWS THE ANGLO-POLISH BALLET

... 44 KRAKOWIAK one of the series of dances from different districts in 44 Cracow Wedding A POLISH ARTIST VIEWS THE ANGLO- POLISH BALLET. Topolski, the brilliant Polish artist, had this week what must have been a very congenial subject for his page of wartime London sketches as he illustrated the ANGLO -POLISH BALLET at the Apollo Theatre. The ballet is under the direction of Alicja Halama and ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 231 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

Room for Improvement: THE BEDROOM

... ['If Every room of Hie liousr suggests tli need table and a host of beaut.v question* assail and beauty treatments, as you linger in the its question quota, lie know this is so, by ever alive with questioning- letters relating a recent survey of these letters we have representative of those subjects with which the If any of them interest you, write to us, and for improvement. You sit at your ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1360 | Page: Page 34, 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

MISS BETTY BAXTER

... , The Silver Lady Canteens are helping to feed London's hungry and homeless. We also have Canteens on the Coast for members of H.M. Forces. Please help by sending a gift of money to: The Silver Lady Fund, 0 I UUUK blKfctl, LUINUUIN, fc.U.I ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 46 | Page: Page 53 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 41 | Page: Page 63 | Tags: Illustrations 

Middle Sea: The Pageant of the Mediterranean

... Middle Sea T he Vageant of the M editerranean B y C. F ox Smith NO one, of course, can do much more than guess at precisely what period in the world's growth what we now know as the Mediterranean came into being. Before that time, no doubt, strange beasts-- fearsome of aspect, but possibly a good deal more inoffensive than the humans which were presently to replace them-- roamed the wooded ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2730 | Page: Page 18, 19, 55, 56 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Matter of Persuasion: For the Finer Points of Observation, Choose a Jealous Woman

... A Matter of L Persuasion For the Finer Points of Observation, n Choose a \ealous Woman By Stanley Jackson WHEN Adolf Hitler began slash ing at the map of Europe something like a game of musical chairs developed in His Britannic Majesty's Diplomatic Ser vice. With half the capitals crowded with goose-stepping Nazis there were not enough jobs to go round. Some of the older diplomats had to ...

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... hat with the early blackout and other disturbances of the normal English routine, high tea swings across the border from Scotland to take its place as a national wartime custom. High tea can be either a grand new acquisition or a dreary makeshift, the difference depending upon the cook. She cannot hope, these days, to match the splendours of a Scottish high tea such as my old grandmother used ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1027 | Page: Page 49, 67 | Tags: Illustrations 

PURCHASE TACTICS

... f# >ts j Miss Zena Daysh reckons that ninety per cent of us females are unfit. Ouch! And who is she to speak? Well, she's a stick of dynamite who, working from a West End beauty parlour, has been putting lightness, life and slimness into bodies where none bloomed before. Now, she is y practising her gospel of health through figure perfection to an outside London audience. She plans to open at ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 849 | Page: Page 50 | Tags: Illustrations