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BEARERS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST NAMES IN HISTORY

... . The Duchess of Marlborough is here posed with four of her five children. They are the LADIES CAROLINE and ROSEMARY SPENCER-CHURCHILL, the MARQUESS OF BLANDFORD, and LORD CHARLES SPENCER-CHURCHILL. Her eldest daughter, Lady Sarah Russell, is not in the group. Lady Caroline's engagement to Major Hugo If' aterhouse, eldest son of Captain Charles Waterhouse, is announced. The name of Churchill ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE HON. VICTORIA SACKVILLE-WEST AT SISSINGHURST

... . The HON. VICTORIA SACKVILLE-WEST, poet and author, is seen standing at the garden entrance of her home, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent. Daughter of the third Baron Sackville of Knole, in 1913 she married the Hon. Harold Nicolson, author and critic, formerly in the Diplomatic, later M.P., who is now making weekly broadcasts from Paris on the Peace Conference. Among Miss Sackt'ille-JPest's ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Pin-up Girl: No. 60. Vera Zorina

... f in up Qi (Yio. 60. ^7/era ^grina Ballerina and actress VERA ZORINA terminated a three years' absence from the films by returning to co-star with George Brent and Lucille Ball in Universale Lover Come Back, directed by William Seiter. Zorina has a straight dramatic role without any kind of dancing in this Michael Fessier-Ernest Pagano produced picture. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 58 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROLLS-ROYCE LTD

... . THE BEST CAR IN THE WORLD ZONDUIT STREET. LONDON. W.I MAYFAIR 6201 ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 16 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

LOOSE BACKS

... Who would suspect that this is a utility design Beautifully cut on loose easy lines, it is made in all colours in plain and herringbone tweed. Deep armholes ensure a comfortable fit over a suit, and a wide inverted pleat centre-back adds fullness to the skirt swing. A Harella coat, on sale at Dickins and Jones, price not more than £6 2 7. Another Harella design for autumn '46 is this double- ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FROM GLYNDEBOURNE TO SADLER'S WELLS: THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA

... 44 Whenever tve are made to part Bianco (ANNA POLIAK), Lucretia (KATHLEEN FERRIER) and Lucia (MARGARET RITCHIE). NIGAn\ Sr>-at l°Ve 's t0° frail Lucretia (NANCY EVANS), Collatinus (OWEN BRAN- Llama (ANNA POLIAK), Lucia (LESLEY DUFF), Junius (FREDERICK SHARP). 44 Oh, if it were he came home again Lucia (LESLEY DUFF), Lucretia (NANCY EVANS) and Bianco (CATHERINE LAWSON). 44 Poised like a dart ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROBINSON'S

... lOBINSON'S If you'll forgive me saying so says OLD HETHERS there's a right and a wrong way of doing every mortal thing! Now, I know a lot of people who still use pearl barley for their barley water. Believe me, they're just making work for themselves. If only they'd get a tin of Robinson's 'Patent' Barley they'd make better barley water and save no end of time. It 's as ;asy to make as a pot ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 111 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITISH SCULPTOR AND DRAUGHTSMAN

... . HENRY MOORE, Yorkshire-born sculptor and draughtsman, enjoys an international reputation, and his works add volume and prestige to British exports He has been working hard on important sculpture for exhibi tion at his Leicester Galleries show, which is due to open on October 8, and a notable selection of his works will be shown in the New York Museum of Modern Art towards the end of the year ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 276 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Photographs 

Pin-up Girl: No. 61. Susan Hayward

... irl: Oln. 67. c5usa/i c^I/auwordi Svelte young SUSAN HAYWARD'S beauty and talents garnish the Universal Technicolor picture of pioneer life, 44 Canyon Passage f which has finished shooting and is due very shortly in London. Here she is as a 1946 bathing girl in a costume quite different from those which she wears in 44 Canyon Passage for the picture is set in Oregon in the year 1856 in the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 74 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MONARCHY AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR: In Europe To-day are Only Seven Thrones Which Have; Survived the Struggle ..

... WITH only one uncertainty (and that a small one) still to be regulated, it is possible to present an almost complete table of kingship as it came to be affected by Hitler's War. While not so severe as losses suffered through the first World War, casualties in Europe have been about 30 per cent. of the restricted number of monarchies that remained in 1939. Had great empires existed as they did ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1717 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

PALESTINE INCIDENT: Pictures by Air from Haifa of the Transference of 1,200 Illegal Immigrants from The Four ..

... TRANSHIPMENT AT HAIFA A British officer, with his megaphone, directs operations as some of the 1,200 illegal immigrants from the hulk, The Four Freedoms, are transferred to the Empire Heywood for transportation to Cyprus. The Four Freedoms, falling to pieces with age, was quite unseaworthy SHE CARRIED 1,200 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: The Four Freedoms alongside the Empire Heywood at Haifa as the ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 474 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FOUNTAINS ABBEY: MONASTIC RUIN OR REBUILT MONASTERY?

... No sooner had the Duke of Norfolk and his associates proclaimed their plan to restore Fountains Abbey for use as a monastery than praise and criticism poured in from every quarter, Roman Catholics, Protestants, architects and professional writers to the Press joining in what has quickly become a first-class con troversy over one of the major antiquities of the country. The Duke of Norfolk, in ...