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MOTLEY NOTES: Show Me Your Tongue

... MOTLEY NOTES By ALAN KEMP. Show Me Your Tongue. Do you hate the human race, including yourself and all those near and dear to you? Are you suffering from spots before the eyes, creaking joints, fallen arches, sense of impending doom, and botulism? Is your hair falling out by handfuls, or, if not, have your raven locks turned white overnight? Are you fed up, frazzled, frus trated and browned ...

Published: Wednesday 28 November 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2176 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Once Wrong, Never Right

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Once Wrong, Never Right. The Mother of Parliaments is not given to distributing bouquets with an open hand, and gratitude is neither a notable virtue of democracy nor a common element of political life. (There are very eminent persons among us who can testify to that fact.) Seldom is gratitude a soldier's lot. His is a merciless profession, for one error of judgment ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2231 | Page: Page 2, 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

Please forward

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- The War is over, and the Home Fires are, to some extent, Burning, but I do wish the Boys would Come Home. Bill is still in India and likely to stay there, as far as I can Make out, and although you said you were coming home shortly, and I bought a new dinner dress on the strength of it, you haven't turned up yet. As for the Linnet's Philip, he is group 22, and ...

Please forward

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- I dare say you have for gotten all about my Play, and I wish I had, because it has begun to turn my hair much greyer than it was before. Sometimes they write to say it is going to be put on, and sometimes they write to say it is all off, and my spirits soar to the skies and then sink to the depths, in a manner which I find exhausting and depressing. Once I got ...

Published: Wednesday 28 November 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1134 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

SALUT D'AMOUR

... T* BY ANTHONY GITTINS. IN the officers' room at headquarters the Duty Staff Officer, with the telephone to one ear, was listening with the other to the nine o'clock news, glancing through an illustrated weekly and humming Salut d'Amour, when the N.C.O. on duty came and asked him what time he would like to be called in the morning. He said, Oh, about seven-thirty, and added, Who 's on the ...

FERRANTI

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Published: Wednesday 14 November 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 51 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 14 November 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 177 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

YOUNG GIRL'S DARLING

... (P YOUNG GIRI^DARLING.' BY ALAN GRAY. CHARLES BROWN? Of course, I remember him. Glad you brought his name up. Mind you, I liked Charles; always did-- till I met him on a P. & O. coming home in 1940. And then the difference! I made a face. My friend Trevelyan and I sat gossiping, and it was obvious that he had heard something about Brown. Come on, Harry, he said, open up and drop the hush ...

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Published: Wednesday 28 November 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 229 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

Clarks

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