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W. O. PEAKE LTD

... , Made by RODEX Fine Coats in Exclusive Fabrics Wholesale and Export ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 19 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

WILD GIRL OF DARK OF THE MOON

... COPPER-HAIRED, vital Sheila Burrell plays the wanton lover of a witch-boy in Dark of the Moon. From the Lyric, Hammersmith, Peter Brook's imaginative and speedy production was due to arrive at the Ambassadors Theatre yesterday, April 12. Photocraphed by ANTHONY BUCKLEY. ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 48 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Sketch-Book

... Beverley Baxter TWENTY-ODD years ago a play was produced which added a new word to our vocabulary. It dealt with a scientifically produced mechanical man known as a Robot. The word became a part of the jargon of the day, and was recklessly applied to men who were lacking warmth, humour, delicacy and understanding. Then if passed and both the word and the idea were forgotten. Yet once more we ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1652 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

SPOTLIGHT ON BRITAIN

... . SO we 're all Londoners-- see glamorous and unra iBed'i ^ecree °f the Ministry of Fuel. The premidre coincided with the return of B.S.T., and huge crowds of th If ^'ccadilly Circus to gloat over the come-back of the winking, flashing signs in gold and white and colours I C li are fresh|y floodlit aspects of Brighton's Palace Pier; London's Houses of Parliament; Piccadilly Circus; 0lseum; ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 79 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GAFFE!

... GAFFE By Charles Cochran. COME years ago, be- >J fore Constance Cummings became Mrs. Benn Levy, and, I think, before she had played in England, Benn Levy brought her one day to I a little house we had in the country. My wife and I, and our guests, were all enchanted by her personality. Her name was unknown to us. During the evening, I summoned up courage to ask her if she had ever been on the ...

Graphic

... |F Easter weather is kind the light wool dress which can be worn without a coat will make its debut. These two models have been designed by Debenham and Freebody for early summer. Both are in navy lightweight wool. The dress in the smaller picture has a detachable bolero. Hats from the Model Millinery Salon. Photographed by John Cole. ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 59 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Simon Massey

... Hal by Kissot ravy at most leading stores Member qf the London Model House Group i-- ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 16 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

MME CAESAR RITZ

... , who recently celebrated her fiftieth anniversary as a hoteliere in the Place Vendome, still receives her innumerable friends in her sunlit flat above the most celebrated hotel in Paris. It was she and her late husband who gave the word Ritz to the world. Madame Caesar has been described variously as a pioneer, a magician and a counsellor, and manages to sustain all these titles with an ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 85 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... Col. Napoleon Brincknian D.S.O.. son of the late Sir Theodore Brinckman. with his wife in the paddock promenade at Auteuil for the last chase of the season Mnie Paul Lafarge on the steps of the Club stand at St. Cloud, with Mrs. Aubrey Raphael of Ascot. Mme I.afarge is the owner of Mildiou which run in the Prix du Manoir At St. Cloud M. Jean Jourdain's Postman is led from the paddock for the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 93 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GREAT BRINGTON WAS THE SETTING FOR THE PYTCHLEY POINT-TO-POINT: Midland Riders to Hounds Enjoy an Exhilarating ..

... GREAT BRINGTON WAS THE SETTING FOR THE PYTCHEEY POINT-TO-POINT Midland Riders to Hounds Enjoy an Exhilarating Afternoon Miss Peggy Wright, who wo t the Adjacent Hunt Ladies Race, with Miss Audrey Saunders Mrs. If. Allsop talking ta the huntsman, Stanley Barker, in between two of the five races Mr. L. Shea shy's Peg's Playtime, Miss Peggy Wright up, on the way to the start Miss M. V. Stewart on ...

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court news

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL v--- Court IRews: The remarkable public enthusiasm which marked every stage of the two-day tour of Lancashire by Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh surprised even those who made the arrangements for it. The immense success of this, their first provincial tour together, is the best of auguries for the increasing number of such excursions which the young Royal couple ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1955 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Pilgrimage to Myopia

... It. C. Robertson-Glasgrow (Scoreboard) PICTURESQUE nomenclature, my ancient history tutor used to say, as, wiping a tear from his eye, he lowered my weekly essay into his waste-basket, is a characteristic, so to speak, of the United States of America. Oh, yes, decidedly so, Mr. Robertson. And then, propping a lethal cigarette into an invention of his own which had started as a pipe and ...