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MOTLEY NOTES: The Irrepressibles

... MOTLEY NOTES, By ALAN KEMP The Irrepressibles. Sherlock Holmes taught me long ago how unobservant I am, but I constantly find myself forgetting his lesson. I don't know how many times during the war I have passed along from the Strand to Fleet Street, but it was only the other day that I noticed something which struck me as rather remark able-- a little parable, on which I feel disposed to ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2362 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 119 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 05 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 0 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 266 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

MRS. MALAPROP

... MRS, MALAPROP. Oliver MesseVs decoration of EDITH EVANS as Mrs. Malaprop in u The Rivals at the Criterion could not have been bettered. Sheridan's warm-hearted vulgarian of the tongue-slipping propensities has here the perfect setting from which Miss Evans can practise her own brand of delicious guilelessness. SPECIALLY DRAWN FOR THE SKETCH BY GRANT MACDONALD. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 55 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

A KNIGHT OF THE BURNING MORTAR

... MR. KERRIGAN was a Romantic--that is to say, he had the knack of adjusting the world to suit his own particular require ments. These stretched far beyond his desk at the office, and farther still from No. 7, Acacia Road. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 40 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

JUST NICE TYPES

... / |j By BRUCE WAUGH. I THINK this is a job for the Snotties' nurse, mused the Commander of the cruiser Topsides as he read the signal lying on his desk. He put the telephone to his ear and was rewarded by a penetrating shriek that made him drop the receiver as if it had bitten him. Blast these infernal machines, he said, and the torpedo Depart ment. He pressed heavily on his much-used bell. ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1454 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES

... . By ALAN KEMP Painless us gruesome. Let s talk of worms and Extraction graves and epitaphs. They may not be considered very appropriate subjects for a scribbler who is depicted at the top of this page in cap and bells but then it is notorious that the light comedian always wants to play the heavy tragedian. My blithesome subject is the. scaffold. Mr. Shaw has protested that our form of it is ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2420 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

Please forward

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Well! So we've beaten the Germans at last, and I don't suppose I shall have to write you many more letters. All the same, writing to you has become such a habit I shall probably go on penning you long, chatty letters and dropping them over our garden wall on to your asparagus-bed. Which reminds me that I am sorry to have to tell you that Bindweed has reared ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1183 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 13 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 48 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 13 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 27 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

PORTRAIT OF A ROYAL WINNER: H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH

... . H Repeating her last year's success this year PRINCESS ELIZABETH won a first prize for the best turn-out in the Private Driving Class at the Royal Windsor Horse Show held in Windsor Home Park last month. During the afternoon her portrait by Allan Gwynne-Jones, reproduced above, was presented to her Royal Highness by the Duke of Beaufort, the President, on behalf of the Royal Windsor Horse ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations