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TOPS OF THE GROSVENOR HOUSE CABARET

... TOPS OF THE GROSVENOR HOUSE j CABARET. f HANK THE MULE finds LEO THE LION quite unrecognisable in mufti. YVONNE JAQUfeS doesn't look as if she has had a bad motor smash, but this is 4 her first shoiv since that event. A Beauty Competition brought her to the Stage. I HANK THE MULE is a very I funny animal imitator. He is a man. J;'-.- 1 I ilM A glamorous young dancer is EVE DRURY, of the Drury ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 157 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THRILLER AT THE ST JAMES'S: LADIES IN RETIREMENT

... THRILLER AT THE ST JAMES'S: LADIES IN RETIREMENT. A thriller 44 Ladies in Retirement is on at the St. James's Theatre. The police-dodging nephew of the Creed sisters, Albert Feather (RICHARD NEWTON), comes to the house where his aunt is housekeeper to Leonora Fiske (MARY MERRALL). Leonora 44 You see, it 's an old bake-oven. Albert Proper tomb, isn't it i ii 11 M i---------- Ellen Creed (MARY ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 165 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CINDERELLA LIBERTY: DOROTHY HYSON AT THE WHITEHALL

... Pamela Frankau 's pantomime Who's Taking Liberty at the White hall, topically takes Liberty for its Cinderella heroine. This part is grace fully played by DOROTHY HYSON. The Ugly Sisters have evil totalitarian desigtis upon the girl the rest of the show is as up-to-the-moment, too. PHOTOGRAPH BY HOUSTON ROGERS. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 57 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

EN PLEIN AIR.-- A.P.C

... (t DOUBLE SOMERSAULT DIVE by Mr. Albert Ogden. Taken with a Butcher1 s camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-500th second at f.5.6. ON THE BARS AT THE BATHING-POOL by Mr. Albert Ogden. Taken with a Butcher's camera. Film Kodak, with a yellow filter. Exposure 1 -250th second at f.5.6. Suggestive rather of summer than January in England, these excellent snapshots of suspended movement are this week's ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 80 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 495 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 4 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

THE B.E.F.'s OWN GRACIE

... . i GRACIE FIELDS has abandoned the sunshine of Capri for France, in order to sing to the men of the B.E.F. A series of concerts had been arranged lip to and including the New Year. Her Christmas Day songs were a real wow, and she proved her artistry by charming her audience with pieces so different as Fred Fannakapan and Gounod's Ave Maria. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 67 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. FROM Sept. 6 to Sept. 9 teams representing the British Empire, Bel gium, France, the United States of America, and Cuba would have been fishing hard for supremacy in the International Tuna Contest off Nova Scotia had not the war intervened, causing the cancellation of the contest. No other course was pos sible in the circumstances, but had things been other wise ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

ANOTHER CAPRA PICTURE: MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

... ANOTHER CAPRA PICTURE: MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. The new Columbia picture at the Regal, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, directed by Frank Mr. Deeds J Capra, is the story of a young, idealistic, altruistic U.S. Senator, Jefferson Smith (JAMES STEWART), who becomes entangled in, and fights, the corrupt practices of party machinery Saunders (JEAN ARTHUR) tells Jeff how to put a Bill through ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 161 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRITANNIA AND EVE

... BRITANNIA and EVE JOHN BULL'S SEA WAR by C. Patrick Thompson SCUDDING clouds over the grey sub-plots within the main plot, but, essen- 1,400,000 tons, and with enough new war- channel made the observation balloon tially, it is the story of holding Britain's craft building, from 40,000-ton battleships, look as if it were darting and diving, great defence line. swinging sixteen-inch guns, to ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 617 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. AS a general rule, the summaries of the year's events which appear at this season make rather dull reading. The events them selves are still too near to have ac quired the enchant ment proverbially associated with distance. They have ceased to be news and not yet become history. In a normal year any excuse would be good enough to avoid the annual duty-dance. But ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1178 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

ASTRONOMICAL BALLET PUZZLE!

... MAUDE LLOYD, ballerina of the London Ballet provides an astronomical puzzle by being a star transformed into a planet, for this study shows her dancing a leading role in Anthony Tudor's ballet Planets which was due for presentation by the London Ballet at their Arts Theatre Club and Ballet Club Gala on Thursday, January 4, and January 8. The Arts Theatre Club and the Ballet Club have ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs