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BURBERRYS

... BURBERRY! tURBERRlS By Appointment Makers of Weatherproof Clothing to the Late King George VI THE BERBERRY NUMBER WEATHERPROOF In coloured gabardine of exquisite pastel shades cut on classi cally simple lines to give perfect freedom and protection. Hat and Shoes by Burberrys. IHAYMARKET LONDON SW Ttltpha k: WHInhall 3343 ITI i Appointed Agents in every Town throughout Great Britain ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 60 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs 

MURDOCH HILLSON LTD

... , 73 MITCHELL STREET. GLASGOW, C.I Featuring the new wasp waist and S 3 S S 3 37SSSS5S really flattering full skirt in Rose Flame, w mm m m m Emerald, Moonshine, Purple Leaf, Style D 5052 Sixes 36, 38* and 40 Iced Lime, Berwick Brown, Royal Blue. Priced approx. £5.10.0 If in any difficulty, write for name of nearest Stockist to ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 67 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs 

W.B. LIMITED

... , , iaddox house, regent St., London, wi (Wholesale only) mmmm I iy Jf mr Aw m wi Mr MF A wjgIM ii^h I An almost boneless girdle as kind to the not-so-slim as it is to the slender! That's what we wanted to make. So we took marvellous American Leno the coolest, lightest, strongest thing out and combined it with smooth, stretching satin j Lastex. These materials are what makes our 1 980' such a ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 94 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Photographs 

ASTRAKA LTD

... ., l 12 gns. accord ins to style. I A further advancement of the fabulous FURLEENS-- obtainable at \v Dickins Jones Swan Edgar D. H. Evans Selfridges Peter Jones Bentalls, Kingston Kendal Milne Manchester Rowntrees, Scarborough Watt Grant Aberdeen Binns Darlington Beatties, Wolverhampton Whitfield Coventry etc., etc. nittrihiitrA thrnuchnut th wo rlrl hv th tnlr mnerstionnires 19-23 Wells ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 67 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

Our Motley Notes

... (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 ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1894 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Photographs 

A PRESENTATION SETS A PROBLEM

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 529 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

On the ketch Jeanne d'Arc with GEN. SIR FREDERICK BROWNING, DAPHNE DU MAURIER and their family

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 347 | Page: Page 19, 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TALKING OF TELEVISION

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1608 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

BEHIND SYLVIA

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 154 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Debenham & Freebody

... I 1 etoenbo^ An exclusive model in lustrous satin with rich diamante and crystal embroidery Made in our own workrooms for THE GAINSBOROUGH ROOM AUTUMN COLLECTION (Debenhams Ltd.) ■'■a orest..onv- in r^rwrT i v Langham 4444 ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 36 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Photographs 

Gorringes

... C-^loViZ wqes Splendid Simplicity 44 ASHFORD Featuring the new off-shoulder neckline with dropped bclow-elbow sleeves graceful even stately, and yet a rfreshing break- away from formalism. Full-length dinner dress, with full-cut skirt the whole in Black Wine shot Ottoman. Hip sizes 3S and 40 in. 17 gns. vie 6666 f 4/ OF VICTORIA BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD, LONDON, S.W.I ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 58 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Photographs 

HAPPY THE BRIDE

... Happy the bride the sun shines on. however autumnal it may be. and it certainly shed the long, enchanting beams of the waning year upon the delightful wedding of ihe Hon. Davina Mary Cecil to the Hon. Harry John Neville Vane when they were married at St. Margaret's. Westminster, on October 8. He is the elder son of Lord and Lady Barnard she the eldest daughter of Lord Burghley. heir to the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 126 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs