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Nicoll Clothes

... K ^(Wholesale only) 8, 9, 10 LOWER JAMES STREET, GOLDEN SQUARE,' W LONDON, W.1 H. J. Nicoll Co., Ltd. Ww-t* wL c-°>f ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 22 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

LE DIABLE AU CORPS

... LE DIABLE AU CORPS, which tells the unhappy love-story of a married woman and a young student in the last year of the First World War, is a film of such an intensely intimate character that one feels like an eaves dropper in listening to it. I say listening deliberately, for there is often a strong divorce between the French dialogue and the English sub titles; and although the censor has ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 568 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Photographs 

HOOPER

... I This attractive seven-seater Limousine comes from the Hooper collection of superb bodies mounted on the Daimler Straight Eight' chassis. A Hooper body, specially built to its owner's requirements, mounted on a Hooper-recommended chassis, is the perfection of a complete car. By Appointment to H.M. the King Coach builders and Motor Body Builders COACHBUILDERS 54 ST. JAMES'S STREET. LONDON. S.W ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 65 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

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Published: Wednesday 10 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 358 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Brenner Furs

... THE CITY FUR STORE Fiu*r $ea4q(^ at4p^fl yUce* 7tatu/uz£ 9ttu?fyua?A 9&w& A wonderful collection of gloriously designed coats in fine quality Natural Musquash Flank from particularly dark skins, featuring all the newest style points. Ideal for hard wear attractively priced from 149 gns. Also in Dyed Musquash Flank from 155 gns. Dyed Musquash Back 210 gns. Scotch Moleskin 87 gns. Call and try ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 88 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Lilley & Skinner

... PiMlUi St 9klm^>JUL QMlu S 9k lT^UL Here is an unusual new twin-strap model in black gabardine by Lotus with light calf covered platform and Spanish heel 356-360 OXFORD ST., W.I OPPOSITE BOND ST. TUBE ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 35 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

GEORG JENSEN

... HOB DUKISHK HB@ .JJEIHSIIKI A GIFT FROM |j JENSEN IS NEW BOND STREET Wl (Opposite Grafton Street) This knife, fork and spoon examples of the silversmith's art applied to stainless steel are in expensive and you can buy as few or as many pieces as you like a single soup spoon for only 1 2/- or a complete set for 6 people (55 pieces) costs only £35. Send for the illustrated booklet ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 72 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

Edinburgh Festival

... Cdinburab festival By IVOR BROWN EDINBURGH, in Festival once more, is acting up to its own version of the familiar proverb: if at first you do succeed, try, try again. Last year it was the city that said Yes to a very considerable challenge, and now the admirable Yes Men have prevailed a second time. To hold, nearly 400 miles north of London, an International Festival of the Arts which ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1141 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE OPENING CEREMONY

... . EDINBURGH'S second Festival opened in historic St. Giles' Cathedral with an inaugural service rich in music, pageantry and colour. Civic dignitaries, heralds, mayors and provosts in their robes, constables of Holyrood, distinguished men of law, divinity, the arts, marched to processional strains from the organ. Sunlight glistened on maces, tabards, embroidered robes. A brilliant trumpet ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE XIVTH. OLYMPIAD

... Q£2P the XIV Olympiad the PRESIDENT, Mr. J. Sigfrid Edstrim, send s us this message You have asked me for my opinion of the Olympic Games in London. 1948. I have taken a leading part in eight Olympic Games and am glad to say that the London Games, 1948, were one of the best. The Games cannot enforce the peace for which the whole world is longing, but they give the youth of the world an ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE TORCH

... . THE ceremony of lighting the flame was performed at Olympia, Peloponnesus, by a Greek girl, from an olive-twig ignited by burning-glass from the sun's rays. Swift runners bore the Torch to Katakolon a Greek destroyer took it to Corfu it travelled by British frigate to Bari. From thence the chain of 1600 runners carried the Torch to Wembley, where the 1600th runner circled the arena before ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE OLYMPIC YACHT RACING IN TORBAY

... THE OLYMPIC YACHT- RACING IN TORBAY WE can look back on the Torbay yachting with a great deal of satisfaction at the way it was organised, and a mild feeling of disappointment that all our aces did not take tricks. Torbay is the largest tide-free stretch of calm water to be found on our coasts and, we may add, the most beautiful. It is, however, only calm when the wind is westerly. A hard ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1086 | Page: Page 18, 19, 20 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs