... (p//> By Toby O'Brien MR. JOHN ROGERS and his co-directors of I.C.I, are worthy and justly esteemed gentlemen. I regret I have to report, however, that had they been present recently at a partridge shoot in Hertfordshire, where I discharged a fowling-piece, they might have run grave danger of wounding with explosives of I.C.I.'s own manufacture. For never, perhaps, has the effect of the new ...

... At the reception which preceded the ball, Lady Power (left) is greeted on arrival by the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Alderman Albert Johnson, while the Lady Mayoress, Mrs. Johnson, talks to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Power, G.C.B., G.B.E., C.V.O. Left: Sir Arthur Power receives from the Lord Mayor the fountain-pen which gave rise to all the doubts, and (right) decides it is safe for him ...

... Sir Frederick and Lady Browning look with appreciation at a gleam of English sunshine over Fowey Harbour when setting sail in the Jeanne d'Arc. The Browning family are tremendously themselves, despite the photographer, while sailing on a typical, windy Cornish morning which demands plenty of skill from the crew. The sail is neatly furled for this splendidly inaction photograph of Lady Browning ...

... By Cyril Butcher I SUPPOSE you might call it Author Psychology, really. This is how Sir Basil Bartlett summed up the functions of his recent appointment as Drama Script Supervisor of television's Drama Department. My job, he continued, is to encourage authors to write for television and to see, when they do, that they get a fair deal, technical help and courteous treatment. If you are a ...

... By THE SKETCH special photographer, Harold White, F.I.B.P., F.R.P.S. The Ironside brothers, Robin and Christopher, are responsible for the lovely d^cor and costumes of Sylvia, the newest ballet presented by the Sadler's wells Company at Covent Garden. The Sacred Wood, Orion's Grotto and the sweep of sea coast near Diana's Temple are the images of ancient Greek myth they have evolved together ...

... RAILWAY BOOKSTALLS IN THE YEAR OF OUR DEBUT ENGLAND The old W. H. Smith and Son Bookstall at Liverpool Street Station, London. SCOTLAND The old John Menzies and Co. Bookstall at Aberdeen. IRELAND Eason and Son's Bookstall at Broadstone, M.G.W. Railway Terminus, Dublin. A cross-section of the myriad bookstalls all over the British Isles which have been selling The Sketch ever since its first ...

... HAD WE FORMED THE HABIT OF TAKING OFF OUR HAT IN 1893, WE SHOULD UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE DOFFED IT TO STRIP, the fox-terrier For being such a good servant to the Crompton Electric Lighting Company, who employed her to lay their copper Strip connections along their underground culvert system. Above Strip enters the culvert and (below) emerges at the other end, having successfully completed her task. ...

... New York. February, 1893. My Dear William, Knowing your insatiable curiosity about all matters scientific, I hasten to write to you by the first steamship, for I have just seen a wonder. Yesterday I was privileged to be taken by an American gentleman of this city to visit the great inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, at his laboratory in New Jersey, and there I watched a demonstration, not only of ...

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... Beverley Baxter IT may be that a hundred years from now the then author of will turn up the files of this family journal to see what was occupying our thoughts in the year 1950. There fore, to save him trouble, I shall describe the events and experiences of a recent day as they impressed themselves on my memory. The newspapers carried the story of how a small boy had murdered his brother, how ...

... Her vast popularity demands the new language bruin (forgive us round about the Zoo's charming polar-bear cub brumas, daughter of Mischa and Ivy. Here is some of the wordage. BRUMASSISTED. BRUMASTERN. BRUMASPIRATION. BRUMASLEEP. BRUM ASSAULT. BRUMASSIGNMENT. BRUMASSURANCE. BRUMASTONISHMENT. ...

... GARDENER, POET, AND CHATELAINE: V. SACKVILLE-WEST Photographed by GISELLE FREUND. ...