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W M. SANDERSON & SON, LTD

... WM. SANDERSON SON, LTD. W M SANDERSON SON, LTD. Mf UiL f ST 7 LUXURY BLEND SCOTCH WHISKY L E I T H ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 23 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

Ferranti radio 145

... H*ranti radio 145 When we designed and made the famous transformers _ for the British National Grid, we had to solve electrical problems compared to which designing first WSSSSBm rate radio is well, comparatively simple. All our ^JgSjj pre-war and war time experience goes into the new 145 A.C. All-Wave Superhet. A good set through i-- and through. A set you can trust. gH|Hg £15 plus £3 4s- 6d. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 74 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

STAGE CAMEOS

... . By JOHN RUSSELL. THEATRICALLY this has been a meagre, mitigated Christmas, with few of those costly exuberances which, under the generic name of pantomime, formerly expressed the whole richness and generosity of the season. For several kinds of performer the season of pantomime was the natural harvest of the year, the fullest, ripest expression of talents carefully tended during the other ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1269 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... 'air '4i - MLLE. ANTOINETTE MEYER, for giving good practical ski-ing tips photographically. 'TLm Z:,\ V VI HPHE Swiss slopes are open again; and the British Minister an his wife and other members of the Diplomatic Corps are enjoying a resh the thrills of ski-ing. Twent\ -one hotels at St. Moritz are now opei and the Cresta Run will soon be cady again. While nothing can tak; the place of the ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 291 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HEAD OF THE V. & A.--MR. LEIGH ASHTON

... HEAD OF THE V. A. MR. LEIGH ASHTON. MR. ARTHUR LEIGH ASHTON, appointed Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum last year, is one of the best-known connoisseurs in the country. While his special field is Oriental art, his interests cover a wide range of European fine and applied art. He is perhaps best known to the public as having arranged the great Chinese Exhibition at Burlington House in ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 113 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MEN WHO MAKE THE STARS: FILM PUNDITS IN THEIR OFFICES

... . MR.SELZNICK is respon sible for making 44 Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, 44 Since You Went Away, and countless famous films. He won the 44 Oscar for the best production in 1939 and 1940, and the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award for most persistent high quality of production in 1939. Mr. Goldwyn was born in 1884 in Warsaw, and raised as an orphan. He emigrated to the U.S.A. when he was eleven, ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 254 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HIGH EXPLOSIVE AT TWON NATIONAL GALLERIES

... l^ununucu uyyvatH-. HIGH EXPLOSIVE AT TWON IATIONAL GALLERIES. girl in a tree (dreaming). 1903. THE VEGETATION STIRS. 1938. THE WILD MAN. 1922. IDIOT DWARF IN A TRANCE. 1927. A GIRL POSSESSED. 1924. A BULL'S HEAD. 1931 THE ASTERS' FESTIVAL. 1921. SMALL CHILD WITH FLOWERS. WOMAN WITH FISH HAT. SEATED WOMAN. ROYAN. WOMAN ON SOFA. WOMAN WITH GREEN DRESS. WOMAN IN ARM CHAIR. ...

... ARCH PRESERVER

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Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 57 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

DEWAR'S White Lable WHISKY

... A)} ^Ufa. g^SSi Jy 7/^' A, j M neWi value) /y Maximum retail prices t /y 25/9 per bottle 13/6 half bottle f (as fixed by the Scotch Whisky Association ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 30 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

AVON

... getting better and better Every day Avon production is increasing, every week more and more tyres are made to satisfy the j| Nation's urgent needs. Happily, the day is i j; approaching when materials and labour will be less restricted and more motorists will enjoy the ii j comfort and safety of rts ocrat oj The Avon India Rubber Co,, Ltd., Melksham, Wilts. Estd. 1885. y^JJjJJJ ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 66 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

PIN-UP PERFECTION BY SELECTION: ANTHOLOGY OF BEAUTY BUILT FROM FOUR LIVING GIRLS

... . Right 4* Sweet be real proud of that rich hair Fairy Folkes. twenty-one-year-old business girl was chosen to supply the Perfect Pin- Up Girl with lustrous curly golden hair. Pocket Venus Dawn 4nderson, 5 ft. 2 ins. in height, with a 31-in. bust, 32-in. hips and a 21 -in. waist, supplied the legs for the composite Pin-lip. N,B. A Coloured plate is inserted in thin issue And this is the IDEAL ...

SWEET SEVENTEEN

... Picture frock or chiffon sheath Both are lovely for the young girl starting out on the great adventure of being grown up Audrey (on the left) has chosen Debenham and Freebody's lovely picture frock. It is of apple-green taffeta with a pretty, full bodice and an informal neckline June, a little taller than Audrey, prefers the straight skirt. She found her first real evening dress in the Junior ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 74 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs