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MOTLEY NOTES: Scratch As Scratch Can

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Scratch As Scratch Can. The result is in the ballot-boxes, and, at this moment of writing, nobody knows what it is. As it will be known, however, very soon after these lines appear in print, it seems prudent to refrain from prophecy. Nor am I taking any bets, as I have not the faintest idea of the new political alignment, and I have not met anybody who has-- though, ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2148 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- So you really are coming home at last! I can hardly believe it. Shall we have to meet under the clock at Waterloo, each wearing a pink carnation for fear we don't recognise each other? I hope not; carnations are dreadfully expensive just now. I may as well tell you at once that my hair is streaked with grey, and there is a middle-a£e sag under my chin which I ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1080 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

THEYRE LEE-ELLIOTT ON THE BALLET

... . THE Ballet returned to Sadler's Wells yesterday, and on Monday Theyre Lee- Elliott opened his Exhibition of ballet paintings and drawings at the same theatre. We repro duce here some of the delicate sketches he is showing among larger and more ambitious paintings. This is the fifth exhibition Lee-Elliott has held at Sadler's Wells notable collectors of his work include Lady Louis Mountbatten ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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Published: Saturday 06 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 529 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: The Summer of Our Discontent

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. The Summer of Our Discontent. One of the immediate privileges of peace is that the weather is decontrolled and one can say anything one likes about it in speech or writing. Well, as the bargee observed, I won't say wot I was a-going to say, but wot I do say is that I have never known a more perversely exasper ating summer. True, all inhabi tants of these islands say ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2368 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 21 February 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 58 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 21 February 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 38 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 21 February 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 492 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 12 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 330 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Saturday 01 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 14 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Illustrations