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PRESENTING THES KETCH TROPHIES
... PRESENTING THE? KETCH TROPHIES W Abate, reading e/ociuhse'V' B Peggg. dsfterofY, RuflWj' B JLnnctt.e Mi/is, 'arkw Jfl Reed, Caroline Lejeune I T -Cooke, BcHa Ruek. Whlfs, v 41 an Mr/rifle. II -i ^5|?|] ■J ^yj|| Cor/corf Sher riffs AT a gala luncheon-party at the Savoy Hotel on December 28, in a room flanked by TV equipment, glittering with arc lamps, the Editor of The Sketch made the second ...
CELEBRATING IN BALI
... Return from a hospital is a big event in Bali, so when Made Pegi, Balinese wife of Swiss-born painter Theo Meier, came back with her week-old daughter from Den Pasar Hospital, her husband decided to celebrate by throwing a party. ...
Dry Monopole
... liIHurSnffriifffi nB^rerTTBiriifi ElliiMM I a* I yHHaU 1 f f i j' 'i. u T Sole representatives: Twiss Brownings Hallowes Ltd., 5, Laurence Pountney Hill, London, E.CA ...
london pride
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MARY MALCOLM AT WORK AND AT HOME
... KNOWN to thousands of Television-viewers is the frank smile and attractive voice of programme- innouncer Mary Malcolm. Granddaughter of the telebrated Lily Langtry, whose beauty she inherits, she ivas born in Argyll, and gained a considerable amount of stage, screen and broadcasting experience before joining the staff of the B.B.C. in 1942. Her voice soon became familiar to Home and Overseas ...
KING FEISAL OF IRAQ
... CLEVEN-YEAR-OLD King Feisal II. of Iraq, now at school in this country at Harrow, spends his holidays at his English home, Stanwell Place, near Staines, with his A.D.C. and tutor. Until he comes of age, his uncle, the Emir Abdul lllah, is acting as Regent. Another uncle is King Abdullah of Transjordan. Our picture shows King Feisal leaving his Staines home to take his three dogs for a walk. ...
A FALSTAFF WHO MATTERS
... IN the strenuous title-role of Verdi's Falstaff at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, Arnold Matters gives a performance of brilliance. His sense of comedy never obscures the excellence and lucidity of his singing, and he makes of the old fat knight a figure of rollicking life yet a man of breeding withal. His farce is sly, artful, rather than broad his sense of timing admirable. And that face and ...
CHOICE OF THE MONTH: Selected by our Panel of Experts
... CHOICE OF THE MONTH Selected by our Panel of Experts RADIO. Evelyn Gibbs For editing Woman's Hour without ever ksuming that women prefer to be treated as half-wits. SCREEN. Welcome back to the screen to Robert Donat, who pro duced, directed, and plays the harassed young sergeant on leave in The Cure for Love, a broad comedy of his native Lancashire and gives a stamp of joyous authority to a ...
and PREVIEWS
... Pat Kirkwood plays the part of Irene, the leading r6le in John Argyle's latest production, Once a Sinner. This is a romantic melodrama about a high-spirited girl who, having been mixed up in the underworld of crime, marries a respectable young bank clerk and tries to settle down into suburban life and how her past catches up with her. A scene from the Gregory Ratoff production, My Daughter Joy ...
TOP OF THE SQUASH CLASS
... ONLY a cine camera could do justice to the skill of the players, but these pictures show some moments of the game on January 16, in which N. F. Borrett, a schoolmaster, decisively won the Amateur Squash Rackets Championship for*the fourth time running. In three well-fought games at the Lansdowne Club, Mayfair, he beat H. J. A. Dagnall 9 4, 9 5, 10 8. Borrett made sure of the first two games in ...
SKETCH DATE-BOOK: Our Social Diary
... SKETCH DATE-BOOK (Our Social Diary JAN. II. At the N. Northumber land Hunt Ball in Pallins- burn House, Cornhill-on- Tweed to r.) Lieut.- Col. R. Taylor and Lord Joicey, joint Masters Copt. H. R. Trotter, Berwickshire M.F.H. and the Duke of North umberland, M.F.H. the Percy. JAN. 12. Lord and Lady Milne's baby son christened lain Charles Luis at St. Mary's Church, Barnes. His god parents Mr. A ...