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Jaguar Cars, Ltd., Coventry

... T.y, Jaguar Cars, Lid., Coventry. s . THE NEW MARK V /TUQliat CJ J universally acclaimed and urgently demanded at home and overseas, the brilliant new Jaguar is a worthy successor to a long line of distinguished forerunners THE FINEST CAR OF ITS CLASS IN THE WORLD 77 Mark V Saloon and Drophead Coupe are available on 2£ and 3£ litre chassis j 2C new features include Independent front suspension ...

THE NUN

... . A NEW screen role for Margaret Lockwood is that of a girl who, losing her sight, seeks sanctuary in a convent and the film, Madness of the Heart, is an adaptation of Flora Sandstrom's successful novel. Miss Lockwood is now touring in Noel Coward's Private Lives. ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 48 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MONTACUTE HOUSE, SOMERSET

... . MONTACUTE, one of an increasing number of England's great houses which have passed from the hands of their original owners into the care of the National Trust and are open to the public, is one of her finest Elizabethan mansions. It was built between 1588 and 1601 by Sir Edward Phelips, successful lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons. It is essentially extravagant-domestic the grand ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 449 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LET'S GO RACING!

... LET'S GC RACING I REFERENCES to the uncertainties of racing are no longer con- fined to forecasting the first three horses past the post. Racing covers many fields-- in every sense To go racing used to mean, almost automatically, a day at Ascot or Goodwood or Sandown Park, ot any of a dozen famous courses where horses galloped and bookmakers! shouted and the crowds cheered, I But as horses ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 688 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO... ...AND WE APPLAUD

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO.., AND WE APPLAUD rHE three Poile sisters aged twenty-one, seventeen and thirteen years-- H all horsewomen since the age of four, have a long line of successes behind H them, and last season won over 120 prices for jumping. Recently they all three I took prizes at the West Kent Pony Club Hunter Trials at Heverham, Kemsing, I Kent Susan on Freddie, Barbara on Madam, and ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 404 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PAUL SCOFIELD

... , For hitching his stardom to a dictatorship. SOME talk of Alexander and some of Paul Scofield. Bouquets had already come his way for his work at Stratford-upon-Avon, but the imaginative understanding with which he plays Alexander the Great in Adventure Story at the St. James's brought him to the top in a night. Echoes of Olivier are caught in his manner, and his treatment of the part is both ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 98 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THREE-HOUR MAKE-UP

... . IT seems hardly credible yet it 's true that in order to strut and fret their hour upon the stage each of these players must spentf three solid hours in preliminary make-up. The elaborate camouflage is effected by the art and infinite skill of many brilliant backroom boys and girls who blush unseen in the stars' dressing-rooms. Shivashanker and Chatunni Panicker into the Lord Krishna and ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 258 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Lilley & Skinner

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Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 71 | Page: Page 39 | Tags: Photographs 

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Penury Under The Palms: In A Land Of (Not So) Glamorous Tropical Moonshine, They Found

... Penury Under The Palms By J. P. Gallagher In A Land Of (Not SoJ G lamorous Tropical Moonshine, They Found WE had read of the people who were emigrating to Australia, South Africa, Canada and decided that we, too, would see if continued austerity could not be by-passed somewhere. We decided to seek a land where we could lie in the sun and thaw out physically and mentally. After reading all ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1949
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2046 | Page: Page 15, 66, 68 | Tags: Photographs 

Little Denmark In Britain: The Story Of A Romantic Area Marked For Preservation

... Little Denmark In Britain The Story Of A Romantic Area Marked For Preservation By G. Bernard Wood FLAMBOROUGH HEAD on the Yorkshire Coast is one of the few surviving pocket kingdoms of Britain. Although comprising no more than about five square miles, the promon tory has been known for centuries as Little Denmark. More over, it has its' own brand of protective curtain-- not an iron one ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1949
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1388 | Page: Page 16, 17, 66 | Tags: Photographs 

Seen In Passing

... I. Gay accessories in plaited raffia. The bag is one from a wide selection of designs for summer use in town and country, price 28s. The wool line slippers are in all sizes, price 22s. 6d., and the belts in several colours, price 12s. 6d. 2. Fireproof ovenware as charming as this has not been seen in the stores for a long time. In clear white china, decorated with blue flower sprays. Souffle ...