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Published: Wednesday 11 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 467 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Aloft and Alow

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Aloft and Alow. London is not my habitat, but I love her, and have ever loved her, from afar-- not very far, but far enough to lend a little enchantment to the view. I look at her now with astonishment and gratitude, contrasting her as she is with what she might have been. Before 1939 there were all sorts of imaginative anticipations of modern air warfare; most of ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2256 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Cartoons  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 26 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 68 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

AMANDA OF PRIVATE LIVES-- KAY HAMMOND

... AMANDA OF PRIVATE LIVES KAY HAMMOND. SPECIALLY DRAWN FOR THE SKETCH BY GRANT MACDONALD. From one Coward play to another passes KAY HAMMOND with brilliance and very individual talent. Since the revival of Private Lives at the Apollo a year ago, she has played Amanda to John Clements' s Elyot. Before that she was the shadow wife of Blithe Spirit and in this portrait you can almost detect a ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 107 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: The Gulf Between

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. The Gulf Between. Never the twain shall meet, and all that-- and I suppose it is well-nigh impossible for the Westerner to fathom the Oriental mind. I have tried it, without success, with certain intelligent Indians, and I once heard a long discus sion between Mr. Gandhi and a number of earnest English questioners. It seemed to me that not a single question was ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2369 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 50 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE COLONEL GOES HOME

... fTTHiTcOLONEL GOES HOME?]] By DONALD COLLENETTE. IT was warm and quiet in the little caravan and the sickly-sweet fumes of the oil-stove, merged with tobacco-smoke, had smeared the windows with a film of condensation. Outside, the rain fell vertically into the ridges of mud and into the channels between. The caravan stood in the garden of a bleak, crumbling villa, con nected to it, and to two ...

Published: Wednesday 11 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1929 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 24 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 433 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

Please Forward

... fha*jp2. 2^ By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- I have written a Play, and if you 'Il stop laughing I'll tell you about it. The idea came to me while weeding. The best, and also the worst, of weeding is that it doesn't really occupy your mind-- at least, it only occupies a part of it. The more active part just goes steadily on worrying about the war, and your children, and your husband being ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1226 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 13 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 28 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Greeting!

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Greeting A hearty Boxing Day to all! A Boxing Day free from bile, acidity, vain regret or what is called in history books, intestine strife. A Boxing Day of recovery and reconstruction and of planned leisure-- yes, planned leisure, please; get it firmly fixed in your mind, and let it be your good resolution for the New Year, that nothing is really any good unless it ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2366 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 26 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 57 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations