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SKETCH DATE-BOOK: Being Our Social Diary

... SKETCH DATE-BOOK (Being Our Social Diary.) SEPT. 7. Among those who had ringside seats at the Aboyne jj Games were left to right Miss Zoe D'Erlan- ger, Lord Glentanar, his I daughter, the Hon. Jean Coats, and the Hon. James Bruce. SEPT. 8 .--At Holy Trinity Church, Brcmpton', Viscount Gwynedd, son and heir of Earl Lloyd- George of Dwyfor, and of Mrs. R. Eijion Evans, married Miss Ruth Mar ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 820 | Page: Page 15, 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 28 September 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

READING UNLIMITED

... IMAGINE the extremities of Charing Cross I Road as a couple of book-ends with Foyle's countless volumes between them a laby rinth of aisles, honeycombed with shelves, browsing customers of all ages and nation alities lost to the world. Books books books on every subject, in every language carefully classified or heaped higgledy-piggledy. Something for everybody first editions for collectors, ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 95 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Sketch-Book

... Beverley Baxter SO telephoning is going to cost us more. Well done, Sir Stafford! I hope that you will hold out against the forces that are trying to make you reverse your decision. What a tyrant the telephone is with its peremp tory ring and its utter lack of tact. It waits until we just get into the bath, and then summons our immediate dripping presence. No one has the strength of mind to ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1510 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

AT THE PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION BALL

... .i PRINCESS ELIZABETH and the Duke of Edinburgh, who is President of the National Playing Fields Association, were guests of honour at the ball held in aid of the Association's Silver Jubilee Campaign at the Dorchester. Other guests were Lady Brabourne, Lady hmel Mountbatten, and Lady Margaret Hay. They danced to Bill Savill's band; there was a tombola with prizes and Jack Train acted as ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 199 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PERIPATETIC

... . HEATHER THATCHER'S background gives some idea of how far she has travelled to entertain the Forces both during the war and since. Last September she pioneered a venture sponsored by the R.A.F. under the aegis of Lord Tedder, and, starring in Little Lambs Eat Ivy, she covered all the air-lift and military bases travelled over 4000 miles, playing to thirty-four units in six weeks of one-night ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

EASTER PARADE

... I . SHE wore an Easter bonnet, Feathers set upon it and flowers, too, and veils, on Easter Day in Hyde Park. For the ideal weather brought fashion out in its finest post-war flowering, and a crowd of many thousands converged on Rotten Row. A light dust hung above, stirred from underfoot the trees were flushed with green there was colour in the flower-beds a feeling of festivity in the sunlit ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 133 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHOICE OF THE MONTH: Selected by Our Panel of Experts

... CHOICE OF THE MONTH Selected by Our Panel of Experts IITFRATURE. Miss Winifred Felce, whose book Apes is uncomfortably full of human interest. 9^-r^ SCREEN. Jos6 Ferrer, whose capital performance of the vacillat ing Dauphin in Joan of Arc stands out from a cast which seems generally resigned to mediocrity. RADIO. Miss Dorothy L. Sayers For her series, The Man Born to be King, which moves ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 11 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

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