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BRIDES-ELECT AND A BRIDE

... BRIDES- ELECT AND A BRIDE. >w_ 1 I d°u6iaeis cJ^^\k tf-v Pa, R(lltUng VjS'^Laiag tSSe. 41 s°s^e HVfl ii°^sC 1 1 ^TS>' Geo'S8 MISS JOAN F. DUNCAN, youngest daughter of the Rev. John F. Matthews Duncan, of Stockbridge House, Chichester, is engaged to Lieut. D. T. McBarnet, R.N., eldest son of Mr. D. M. McBarnet. MRS. JOHN GARTON is the wife of the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Garton. She ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--THESE HOSPITAL NURSES, For having such bags of room

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THESE HOSPITAL NURSES, For [„vi„3 such bags of room. mm- tvwm u. wm mmmm -*mm wmmrwmmmmammnmmmjwvmmjrr m Jumtm qui ip^?? This remarkable photograph of two NURSES OUTSIDE A HOSPITAL which is well provided with sandbags for defence against air attack was taken from above, and is certainly a remarkable composition which would have puzzled any peace-time observer to explain ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 87 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOMAGE AT THE CENOTAPH: OUR SEVENTY-FIRST FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C

... HOMAGE AT THE CENOTAPH: OUR SEVENTY- FIRST FIRST- PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C. This fine composition, which takes one's mind back twenty-five years to that other European war which we hoped was to be the war to end wars, has been awarded the seventy-first first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. Arthur G. Dell, with a T.P. Reflex camera. Plate Ilford S.G. Pan. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 71 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LAUGHTER AND SONG OF THIS WARTIME WORLD

... . MISS JANE CARR, the stage screen and radio star, is one of the artists who have been entertaining the troops somewhere in England. Here she is lighting a pipe for a fortunate member of her audience. MISS TEDDIE ST. DENIS, star of the Victoria Palace big hit, Me and My Girl, recently married SERGEANT -PILOT R. A. CLINTON HOLME, R.A.F. On the Monday after she resumed her part in Me and My Girl ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Debenham & Freebody

... Debenham Freebody Debenbam Freebody J? j-h 6 fgf fimC B Y DEBENHAMS Tailored three-piece suit in raisin velour cloth, combined with plaid. The short hip-length jacket buttons high to throat with small revers, and high pockets slightly flared skirt. Long slim fitting overcoat in a heavier weight velour, double breasted with wide plaid revers. Made to order from 28 gflS. complete. Suit only from ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 101 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

Feminine News Reel

... In a Kitchen on Wheels Lady Marion Philipps, Miss P. Y. Betts, Mrs. H. Scott Dorrien, and Mrs. G. Ramacolti were inside the first of the mobile canteens which are to be used by W. V.S. workers during air raids. These moving kitchens are presented to the W. V.S. by St. Peter's Kitchens, of which Mrs. Scott Dorrien is the founder. She handed this one over to Lady Reading, head of the W. V.S. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 335 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DOUGLAS NEWTON ON DICTATORS AND OTHER BOGIES

... , ARE dictators so inspiring? They have in cessantly told us poor freemen that theirs alone is the effective modern method of rulership --swift to decide, sure in stroke, smashing in action. It sounded over aweing, once. But now that we have seen their swift, smashing stroke in action what? Well, from the very fine working-model of the fool-that-rushed-in-where- democracies-feared-to-tread ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1076 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAR-WEDDING RUSH CONTINUES BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS IN TOWN ... AND COUNTRY

... THE WAR-WEDDING RUSH CONTINUES p BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS IN TOW|\ A £vND COUNTRY. MR. ARTHUR HERBERT MONTGOMERY, son of Mr. H. E. Montgomery- married MISS JANE BAXTER, the well-known actress (Mrs. Feodora Dunfee), at St. George's, Hanover Square. The marriage of MR. HUGH RICHARD STIRLING, son of Mr. H. W. Stirling to MISS ZIA CAREW, daughter of Sir Thomas Palk Carew, Bt., and Mrs. H. B. C. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 324 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE 1914 SILENT FILM - VERSION OF AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME

... THE 1914 SILENT FILM -VERSION OF AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME. An object-lesson in the fate of villadom if the Germans reached England the inmates of An Englishman's Home arrested by the invaders. Just after the deed for which he ivas shot as an armed civilian John Brown jubilant at shooting a German in the defence of his home. Our children would be treated as those of the Belgians have been Brown' ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 205 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE GIRL IN AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME

... MISS MARY MAGUIRE plays the part of Betty Brown, the heroine of the new Aldwych film production of Guy du Mauriers famous stage pre-1914 war play AN ENGLISHMAN S HOME, which was due at the London Pavilion on Monday October 2. This thrilling picture presents a typical English family, the Browns, involved in an enemy attempt to use their house as a wireless beam station to direct hostile ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 112 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS

... , 32, ST. BRIDE ST., LONDON, E.C.4 THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN INSIDE KNOWLEDGE A large number of the informative dia- interesting sectional drawings are reproduced grammatic drawings, chiefly by that well-known as panoramas, EACH MEASURING OVER THREE artist G. H. Davis, which have been published FEET WIDE. They show British warship types from time to time in THE ILLUSTRATED a ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 191 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

WAR-TIME SHOWS: The Stage carries on--not as usual, but to the best of its ability

... WAR- IME SHOWS The Stage carries on not as usual, but to the best of its ability DOROTHY WARD POTS THE R.A.F. RIGHT OP IN THE AIR IN PONCH WITHOOT JODY AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, BRIGHTON (L. TO R.) HENRY KENDALL (THE ARTIST), MARJORIE RHODES AND ERNEST JAY (THE MODEL) AND SO DOES JANE CARR LADY CARNARVON (TILLY LOSCH) AND SOME LITTLE EVACOEES (ON RIGHT) PETER MORRAY HILL AND NOVA PILBEAM, ALSO IN ...