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THE DIETRICH--DIRECTED BY RENÉ CLAIR

... THE DIETRICH-- DIRECTED BY RENE CLAIR. Working for an ideal camera angle DIRECTOR RENE CLAIR, the battery of cameras, and STAR MARLENE DIETRICH making a scene in Universalis new picture, THE FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS. This Joe Pasternak production is the first American picture directed by Rene Clair, who was making films in Paris when France collapsed and caught the last boat to America. The Light ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BETTE DAVIS AS A MAUGHAM MURDERESS--THE LETTER

... BETTE DAVIS AS A MAUGHAM MURDERESS- THE LETTER. UHHr 1 Leslie Crosbie (BETTE DAVIS), trembling but determined, goes out to buy the incriminating letter. Acquitted but guilty! Leslie and Howard Joyce (JAMES STEPHENSON; right tell Robert Crosbie (HERBERT MARSHALL) the truth. Murder by moonlight Leslie pours shots into the dead body of Jeoffrey Hammond. ■■■■V J* Mrs. Hammond (GALE SONDERGAARD), ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ATS

... !_/ wonder if they'd let me do my own job in the A.T.S. And give me extra training to get me on quickly And would there be any hope of getting a commission fairly soon I wonder if shorthand typists get a chance to keep their speeds up 7 Do the cookery girls really learn catering Why do they want girls who've been trained saleswomen 1 Could I really get into Radiolocation It all sounds too good ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 254 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

CHRISTENING PARTY AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY, CAIRO

... . The 44 christening party for the fine new utility car presented by Miss Ahhond V^A.D., to the 44 Cairo 4 V.A.D. foofr p/ace of t/ie British Embassy, Cairo. LADY LAMPSON, wife of H.E. the British Ambassador, is the president of the British Red Cross Society in Egypt, with Mrs. Blosse-Lynch as her assistant and is Commandant of the 44 Cairo 4 detachment raised at the beginning of the war. This ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 139 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROCKETTE MANNED! A TANK WHICH THE GERMANS HAVEN'T GOT

... . Whatever new and overpowering tanks the Germans may or may not have, it is certain that they do not possess any armour of this calibre of umpteen beauty power and oomph. The vehicle is the mighty tank in Leonidoffs gala stage production To the Colors at the Radio City Music Hall, New York, which is manned by a crew of Rocke'.tes, the famous precision dancers. When it comes to precision, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN BONEY THREATENED BRITAIN AS HITLER DOES TO-DAY!

... WHEN BONEY THREATENED BRITAIN AS HITLER DOES TO-DAY I HpHE YOUNG MR. PITT, J- important Twentieth Century Productions film directed by Carol Reed, is due for presentation at the New Gallery and Marble Arch on July 6. It is a striking historical picture, highly appropriate to the present day, for it 's a re construction of England 150 years ago, when Napoleon stood where Hitler stands now, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 313 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Photographs 

RECORD-BREAKER ANN CURTIS

... . T OOKING uncommonly like a pin-up girl, ANN CURTIS arrived home in San Francisco recently, from a Kansas swimming meet, with a triumph of eight national championships to her credit the greatest girl swimmer of the year. To welcome her a horde of 1500 fans crowded round the Fleischhacker Pool to watch the eighteen-year-old Ann demonstrate the powerful stroke that won her the 100-metre, 400 ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 220 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOLLYWOOD HIGH-LIGHTS AS THEY ARE IN PRIVATE LIFE ALL THE STARS AT A VICTORY CELEBRATION PARTY

... HOLLYWOOD HIGH-LIGHTS AS THEY ARE IN PRIVATE LIFE: ALL THE STARS AT A VICTORY CELEBRATION PARTY. jp^LSA MAXWELL, America's No. 1 Party Hostess, recently excelled herself by throwing a Victory Party to celebrate the Liberation of Paris. It took place on September 9, though Paris was freed on August 24 but the point is that Elsa sent out her invitations when the Allies were in Brittany, on Mid ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 390 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LONG SKIRTS ARE BACK AGAIN

... c v ie a O* A ptOSpCrlS tbe S°°d V jeflcC A,C£lO al V* ,e8S ri6^ m r fenine' re in m bl ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 62 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MATITA

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Published: Wednesday 10 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 14 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

KING OF THE NATION WHICH HAS FOUND ITS SOUL

... . I have great news far you and the whole country. Early this morning the Yugoslav nation found its' soul With these words, Mr. Churchill announced that the Yugoslavian Government which surrendered to the Axis had been overthrown, and that seventeen-year-old KING PETER had taken over the reins. His manifesto said Serbians, Croatians, Slovenes, at this moment so grave for our people I have ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 110 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

COLLECTION AND RECOLLECTION

... . Susan, aged four, is trying out her mother's Penny a Week Red Cross collecting-box: on the engine- driver oj a Vest Country express as it goes through her home station, and unconsciously giving a most excel ent re-creation of the famous Southern Railway poster, South for Sunshine reproduced in miniature m the corner of this page. This poster was used all over Great Britain and also on the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs