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LADY FREDERICK PUTS IT OVER AT THE SAVOY

... . The young Somerset Maugham's forty-year-oid play Lady Frederick at the Savoy, artificial in plot and construction, yet presents a vivid picture of an English social background now extinct. Coral Browne plays the title-rdle with poise and style. With subtle blandishment Lady Frederick won Paradine Fouldes s bet that she couldn't charm her dressmaker into refusing a cheque. Lady Frederick ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 123 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 229 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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... ESTB. 1742 WHITBREAD Co. Ltd. Brewers of ale and stout for over two centuries I'm stocking up with Sayings j presents^! You can't do better than give National Savings Gift Tokens and Christmas Cards so that they can be exchanged for Certificates. Am I doing it Of course Everybody's wanting Savings Certificates this year. And can you wonder The existing kind, which are such a paying ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 395 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WHITE CHRISTMAS

... WHITE CHRISTINAS WHETHER IT COMES l\ SNOW OR SILK, WHITE IS THE PERFECT FOIL FOR COLOURFUL FESTIVITIES Left White draped evening gown, statuesque as a Grecian figure. A Simon Massey model from Harrods. Below White cr£pe tunic, sequin embroidered, with a slim black skirt. Peter Robinson. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 46 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 25 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 338 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 25 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 282 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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... This new portrait of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret was taken at Buckingham Palace, in the Bow Room, where the King and Queen recently gave a dance for them to which 200 guests were invited. The Princesses are greatly looking forward to a new experience-pthc South African tour with their Majesties next year. The royal party IviU sail from Portsmouth in H.M.S. Vanguard on February 1. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 79 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MARRIED, IN TOWN AND COUNTRY

... , At St. James's, Spanish Place: Li cut. -Colonel the Hon. N. A. S. Lytton-Milbanke only son of the Hon. Neville Lyllon and of Lady Went- worth married Miss Clarissa Mary Palmer, elder daughter of the late Brig. -General C. E. Pulmer, R.A., and of Mrs. Palmer, of Christchurch Hampshire. Right At St. Paul's Knightsbridge Lieut.- Colonel P. St. G. Maxwell, M.C., Highland Light In fantry, elder ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ETON'S MUD-BATTLE: THE WALL GAME

... . Eton's Wall Game on St. Andrew's Day this year was one of the muddiest ever played. Heavy rain flooded the fields round for miles spectators as well as players were thickly cased and spattered. This peculiar form of football between Collegers and Oppidans is played on a piece of ground 115 yards long by 4 or 8 yards wide; bounded on two sides by ll-ft.-high walls on the others by furrows. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 293 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO AND WE APPLAUD

... r I *HE Oxford University Rugby XV., un' aten this season, retain this distinction a? Tr a tough match with Cambridge. Left to right the photograph (back row) G. L. Cawkwell, II. Travers, A. B. Harcourt, A. van Ryneveld 0. Newton-Thompson (captain), G. A. Wilson, E C. C. Wynter, M. A. Sutton, P. B. C. Moore (fror row) D. J. W. Bridge, M. P. Donnelly, S. C. Nca -nan, D. W. Swarbrick, S. D. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 340 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Photographs 

EXPRESSIONIST JANE RUSSELL: CAN YOU PLACE HER MOODS?

... Temperamental variations flash across the lively face of this film-star. The photographer has taped her moods try it yourself then turn to page 342 and check your reactions with the cameraman's. No prize is offered for a solution. Jane Russell plays lead in 14 The Outlaw at the London Pavilion. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 58 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRENNER SPORTS

... gRENNER s 22 gRENNER sq Member of the London Model House Group , 65 GROSVENOR STREET, LONDON, W. LNP 218 9 ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 22 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs