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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- I have now had a letter to say that They say They think They want to do my play after all. It is very exhausting having my hopes dashed up and down like this, but I suppose it can't be helped. The awful thing is that I have got to go to London to see Them, and the very thought fills me with dread. Even in the piping days of peace I never could find my way ...

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Published: Wednesday 13 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 24 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 13 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 256 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 22 August 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 95 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 14 November 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 32 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- I am dreaming of a white August, I sang, as I made a dash for the greenhouse. Lady B. followed me, panting and brushing the snow from her coat. There we found the Conductor lovingly pressing little tomato plants into pots. Conductor I gasped, quite overwhelmed by this generosity. They 're a Peace Present from Faith and Little No-well and me, said the ...

MOTHER OF TWO CHILDREN

... . Can you believe that the girl in this still from 44 The Seventh Veil, netv Sydney Box Ortus production could possibly be the mother of two children This is definitely the case though, for it's a photograph of ANN TODD (in private life Mrs. Nigel Tangye) as Francesco, a world-famous pianist, whose career from the age of fourteen to twenty-eight is the subject of the picture. Miss Todd plays ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Schweppes

... A Lady's Shoe In the early days of the eighteenth century the toast of the town was Lavinia Fenton, the original Polly of The Beggars Opera who afterwards became the Duchess of Bolton. The story goes that in a London tavern famed for the skill of its celebrated cook, Tom Pierce, a party of gallants toasted Miss Fenton in wine drunk out of one of her shoes. But that was not the end of the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 127 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 07 March 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 42 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

CLEANSING MILK BY Anne French

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Published: Wednesday 07 March 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 74 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Dear Jezebel

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Dear J ezebel. Do my eyes deceive me, or do I read in that sedate periodical, the Spectator, which nobody ever accused of being sensational, the following startling sentiment? -- In papers filled day by day with nothing but war news, I am bound to say that the case-history of a depraved woman, however lament able is something of a welcome variety. This is ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2298 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

CARLYLE LOVED CHEYNE WALK

... .* By URSULA BLOOM. THE statue of Carlyle stands in the gardens that lie before Cheyne Walk its background is the tall eighteenth- century houses, with their frequent windows, and above their dignified doors delicate fanlights. Carlyle stands supreme in cold stone. To the gardens at night come young lovers and old folks taking the air; they hover to and fro, some watch the police-boats ...