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THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 17. THE VIC-WELLS BALLET IN THE PROSPECT BEFORE ..

... Monsieur Didelot (ALAN CARTER) dancing icith MUe. Theodore (PAMELA MAY), in The Prospect Before Us. Right ALAN CARTER as Didelot in The Prospect Before Us. JUNE BRAE and ROBERT HELP MANN as two of the Children of Evil in Dante Sonata to Liszt music. A general view oj Sadler s w ells from the back of the dress circle. ALAN CARTER as M. Didelot, in The Prospect Before Us or, Pity the Poor ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO-- MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON, American champion of the Allied cause, for saying that there are no neutral hearts except those that have stopped heating. Whatever may be the views of the majority of Americans, there is one valiant champion of our cause in the U.S.A. in the person of that talented political commentator, MISS DOROTHY THOMP SON. Her stirring broadcast on the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 357 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PARIS REFUGEE--MISS SHIRLEY BAIN-MARAIS

... PARIS REFUGEE MISS SHIRLEY BAIN-MARAIS. PHOTOGRAPH BY YSYOMDS. The daughter of Colonel Colin Bain-Marais, South African Minister to France, MISS SHIRLEY BAIN-MARAIS, with her father and mother, the British Ambassador and the Canadian Minister, had the thrill of an escape from France when the armistice with Germany was signed Boarding a small sardine-boat at Bordeaux, they put out to sea hoping ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LONDON WARTIME LIFE GOES ON

... . MISS MARY CHURCHILL, youngest daughter of the Prime Minister, distributed the prizes at the Hillsbrow School annual sports. Young autograph hunters queued up around her. Right MISS MARGARET CLARKE, only daughter of 'Lr Basil Clarke, works in the War Office. She is the venth child of a seventh child (Lady Clarke), teas born â– :n the seventh day of the seventh month, and is twenty-one. ese ...

FILM RECONSTRUCTION OF A VILE GERMAN CRIME: MEN OF THE LIGHTSHIP

... The boats are lowered as the attacking Nazis machine-gun the East Dudgeon crew. As the crew draw away from the East Dudgeon she is bombed and sunk by the raiders. Lightning the tortoise, is the mascot of the crew of the East Dudgeon. Getting ready to fire the distress gun, the only weapon ichich lightships carry. Fred lies in the scuppers and tcatches the raid. The part is played by Mr. C. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRITANNIA AND EVE

... 4 August 7, 1940 Sensible, informative reading for Sensible people Here is an extract from a story of an old Commander and a battered ship. He refused to be left out of the War. A Gift to the Nation By R. H. Watkins. On the filmy edge of the fog was the sub marine, black with menace, a steel thing devoid of human life. It was swinging fast. And instantly Mr. Hall got it. She was swinging to ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 952 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - The prairie MARMOT at the Zoo is obviously con scious of being photo genique. After making the patient naturalist wait a considerable time, it eventually agreed to hold this excellent pose. WARRANT OFFICERS and N.C.O.s formed a guard of honour at Shenley Parish Church for the christening of JONATHAN JU LIAN COTTERELL, son of Major and Mrs. L. E. Cotterell, and afterwards paid hom age to the ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 207 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEWS-REEL OF WARTIME SOCIETY EVE ... ENGAGEMENTS, CHRISTENING AND ... TURES

... NEWS-REEL OF WARTIME SOCIETY EVE DDINGS, engagements, christening^ AND 0 tures. MISS SUSAN SUTHERLAND, elder daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. R. Orr Sutherland, D.S.O., and Mrs. Sutherland is en gaged to Mr. Eric Hopton son of Mr. and Mrs. Ulric Hopton, of Chute Manor Andover. Left MRS. EDWARD ESMOND, wife of the well- known French race-horse owner wore a very smart figured tailor suit and ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 354 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SCOTTISH CINDERELLA FROM IRISH ARAN

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY VIVIEN SE. BARBARA MULLEN is the young actress from the wild Isle of Aran off the FT'est Coast of Ireland who has sprung to fame through her delightful perform ance in the title-role of Aimee Stuart's 44 J E ANN IE. which is enjoying such a big success at Wyndham's. 44 Jeannie the story of a modern Scottish Cinderella teas first produced at the Torch Theatre, where it proved ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SERENADE--SCHUBERT ROMANCE OF OLD VIENNA

... SERENADE SCHUBERT ROMANCE OF OLD VIENNA. Margaret (LILIAN HARVEY) dances in Schubert's ballet and is hissed by the scandalised Viennese. LILIAN HARVEY at the party in Baron Hartmann's palace, at which Schubert plays. Schubert (BERNARD LANCRET) and Margaret (LILIAN HARVEY), the young English dancer. SERENADE, the film due at the Academy Cinema on May II, u romantic episode of Schubert's youth ...

MOSS BROS & COMPANY LIMITED

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Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 154 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 70 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs