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HUSBAND AND WIFE IN ONE ANOTHER'S SHOES!

... HUSBAND AND WIFE IN ONE ANOTHER'S SHOES I TURNABOUT, due at the Gaumont Haymarket on September 27, is a comedy presenting a husband and wife who change personalities temporarily as the result of magic. Sally (CAROLE LANDIS) here wears the trousers with grace, but Tim (JOHN HUBBARD) looks gloomy in feminine attire. Sally, in Tim's manly body, does a good deal of harm to his business, and Tim ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No.12--TECHNICAL TRAINING

... CHIEFS OF THE RAF. COMMANDS: No. 12-- TECHNICAL TRAINING. AIR MARSHAL WILLIAM LAWRIE WELSH, C.B., D.S.C., A.F.C., is the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Technical Training Command. He was Director of Organisation and Staffi Duties, Air Ministry from 1934-7, and became an Air Vice Marshal and Air Member far Supply and Organisation on the Air Council in 1937. He was born in 1891. CAMERA PORTRAIT ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 65 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - H£l£NE WOLSKA and KEITH LESTER, here seen f with ALICE LIDDERDALE for leaving the spot light to help their stage manager in her roof- f spotting work. LIEUT. R. DAVIES, George Cross here seen with MRS. ELINOR GLYN and MISS D. McNEAL^ for saying that it needed more guts to stand up and make an after-lunch speech than to deal with a bomb. MISS BETTY WARBOY here shown being lifted clear of the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 364 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BEAGLING FOR OUR-FIGHTING-FIT ARMY

... BEAGLING FOR OUR- FIGHTING FIT ARMY. MISS R. H. CHARLESWORTH and MISS R. M. BRIGHT chatting with MAJOR PALMER COOK. MAJOR R. P. H. EYRE with MISS V. CARLETON. CAPTAIN R. T. CADBURY, MR. P. J. EGGAR and LIEUT. JOHN GARLE, Master of the West Kent Foxhounds. The opening meet of the ALDERSHOT COMMAND FOOT BEAGLES took place last week at Aldershot. A LIEUT. R. S. GILCHRIST, CAPTAIN D. HANCOCK, and ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 206 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SUIT-CASE CRADLE IN A TUBE STATION DORMITORY HOW MODERN LONDONERS SEEK SAFETY AND SLEEP O' NIGHTS

... SUIT -CASE CRADLE IN A TUBE STATION DORMITORY: HOW MODERN LONDONERS SEEK SAFETY AND SLEEP O' NIGHTS. spi eighteen-months-old baby, its feeding-bottle beside it, reposes peacefully on a pile of coats a pillow and a mattress. Uneasy sleep in the capital of the Empire a Loiul huddle together, while a child rests on a rug. photograph; BEATON. This were a bed but cold to sleep s'u Blitzkrieg was ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 157 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... Cradled in a suit-case, with cups arranged by the hinge a mother watches over her crowing child. ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 17 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Peggy Sage

... f A FINGER-TIPS IN UNIFORM (AND IN MUFTI) Finger-tips in uniform are discreet. Most service women who come to the Salon choose from the subtle range of pale polish shades. Women in the non- military services favour whimsy, a lovely subdued rose. But when women are in mufti (and what an exciting flavour that dull word has now that women have stolen it from men!) they gaily take their finger ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 170 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW MEMBER OF THE WAR CABINET: SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, P.C

... NEW MEMBER OF THE WAR CABINET SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, P.C. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. Changes in the Government were announced last week consequent on the resignation of Mr. Neville Chamberlain. The Prime Minister invited SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Ernest Bevin to be members of the War Cabinet, and made other changes in the composition of the Cabinet. Sir Kingsley Wood ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 122 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHELSEA V.A.D

... MISS SUSAN BLIGH, younger daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Noel Bligh and sister of Miss Jasmine Bligh, the Television Announcer-Hostess is working hard as a V.A.D. She trained for her duties at the Lambeth Hospital, and is note attached to a first-aid post in Chelsea. She is a very good-looking girl and her beauty is enhanced by the simple severity of her uniform. PHOTOGRAPH BY YEVONDE. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 68 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BEAUTIFUL WIFE OF AN ENGLISH HAMBRO

... . MRS. ALEC HAMBRO, formerly Miss Baba Beaton is the younger of Mr. Cecil Beaton's two sisters and is the wife of Mr. Alec Hambro, a member of the great international banking family. The English Hambros are related to M' Carl Joachim Hambro, the courageous President of the N one eg i an Storting, or Parliament and the founder of the Hambro Bank in London in 1839 was also called Carl Joachim ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 123 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. IN this country not only do we regard politics and the arts as separate worlds, but it does not even occur to us to con nect them, however remotely, in our minds. If a com poser gives us good music, we do not care two hoots to what political creed he may owe allegiance. We simply cannot conceive any music as being politically tainted. In the totalitarian ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1093 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Peggy Sage

... WAR-TIME FINBER-TIFS BY PEGGY SAGE. Long wear that Is the important thing about your nail polish in war-time', says . And that is why thousands of busy women are using 's polishes simply because they wear like diamonds, chip, peel and flake-proof for days. Every polish is composed of two fine films, closely welded together. One grips and nourishes the nail fibres, and enables the visible film ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 168 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs