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SANTA'S PROGRESS: A SEASONAL MORALITY SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE SKETCH

... panel.] Em naturally, my approach to pantomime as such, or rather, qua se, is plastic rather than emotional, and plastically speaking, in terms of the tangible, I found this production quite dreadful. I would call it an achromatic orgy of sur passing fumidity ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3629 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

Schweppshire Post

... needed. further proof that yet another OST campaign should not be (lowed to join the realm of lost a uses. Where Schweppshire SPEAKS to the World Our 2,000th Registered Reader will meet the Editors of 'POST' Everyone in Cirenschwepster (j knows the POST ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 363 | Page: 3 | Tags: Illustrations 

TALKING OF TELEVISION

... human speaking voice as a musical instrument. Sir Godfrey is to be thanked for reminding us. On the other hand, we could not award many marks for vocal beauty or restfulness to Sir Thomas Beecham, when he appeared in the first of The Conductor Speaks series ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1179 | Page: 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

JAGUAR

... lands in many languages the world's press has paid generous tribute to the Jaguar. Let their words on the Mark VII Saloon speak for themselves. Indescribable beauty remarkably modern, yet in impeccable good taste.' Irs roomy body seats six in comfort ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 114 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

Our Motley Notes

... important in the cold war as a tank in the hot. Basil, with his charming wife Laura, visits this country once a year. He speaks English with more fluency, more enthusiasm, but with less accuracy as year suc ceeds year than any of my foreign friends. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1695 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

Four Walls Adorned

... people have made their voluntary confinement easy on the eye through the centuries. Four walls and adorning windows too, not to speak of ceilings. A corner of Sparrow House. Ipswich. Doors, so functional, can be beautiful too. This one is discreet beneath the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

Great Britain & Ireland), Ltd

... reassure you I am not this size really. Oh dear, no! I'm being amplified by the loudspeakers here G. K. CHESTERTON an cigar speaks for itself Made by W. D. H. O. WILLS ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 64 | Page: 48 | Tags: Illustrations 

CHRISTMAS AT DINGLEY DELE

... the land. A wedding is a licensed subject to joke upon, but there really is no great joke in the matter, after all we merely speak of the ceremony and beg it to be distinctly understood that we indulge in no hidden sarcasm upon a married life. Mixed up with ...

Published: Thursday 13 November 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9867 | Page: 52 | Tags: Illustrations 

Our Motley Notes

... wonder whether there is any single community more delightful than the sherry people the Gonralez, Domecqs and the like, all speaking perfect English, all inter-mcrried and all the most charming hosts. In the Gonzalez bodega we drank some of the Methuselah ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1683 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Taking Stock--Horses and Jockeys

... long-legged, tin-scraping young devil. Archer seemed to communicate something of his impetuous nature to the horse. His record speaks for itself. He won the Derby five times, the Oaks four times, St. Leger six times, and the One Thousand Guineas twice 2,749 ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1554 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations