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BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM OF LAST WEEK

... . The marriage of the HON. JOHN McLAREN, second son of and Lady Aberconway to LADY ROSE PAGET, fourth daught of the Marquess and Marchioness of Anglesey, took place week at Chelsea Old Church. The bride is a niece of L Diana Cooper of Lady Violet Benson, and of the Duke of Halloo I PHOTOGRAPH BY PAYER, 66, GROSVENOR CTRE ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 65 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEWLY-ENGAGED PAIR

... I ww/LY- ENGAGED PAIR. II 1 The engagement of MR. THOMAS COCKAYNE HARVEY, Scots Guards, younger son of the late Colonel John Harvey, and of Mrs. Harvey, of Ringstead Bury, Norfolk, to the HON. MARY COKE, younger daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Coke, and granddaughter of the Earl of Leicester, has been aniwunced. Miss Coke is doing war work at the Beaver Club. PHOTOGRAPH BY HARL1P. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 66 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE APOSTLE OF PEACE ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF MUSIC: SIR THOMAS BEECHAM CONDUCTING THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

... THE APOSTLE OF PEACE ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF MUSIC: If SIR THOMAS BEECHAM CONDUCTING THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducting, says the Oxford Companion to Music, is generalship on the battlefield of music. Forces, often large and very varied in their functions, have to be so controlled that they will combine together not only accurately, but with unity of spirit. A propos his ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 240 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE.: A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. THERE has lately been made pub lic an item of news, interest in which is shared by musicians and pugil ists, by amateurs of the arts tonal and ''noble.'' Mv friend Ernest Newman, who loves a fight, has therefore double ground for rejoicing at this news, which is of the early reopening of the Royal Albert Hall. I did not see any official ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1168 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs 

WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS

... . The marriage of MR. ALEXANDER LEES MAYALL, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M avail of Bealings End, Woodbridge Suffolk, to MISS REN£E EILEEN BURN, younger daughter of Mr. and Airs. Clive Burn, took place at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of chalk-white angel-skin and a sun-ray coronet of flowers. She was attended by Mrs. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 268 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW STAR IN NEW- STYLE CINDERELLA STORY

... . Jeannie (BARBARA MULLEN) with her miserly father (JAMES WOODBURN) and Mrs. Whitelaw (DOROTHY HAMILTON). Stanley Smith feels jealous when Jeannie decides to go out to dinner with the Count (ALBERT LIEVEN). Jeannie meets the business man Stanley Smith (ERIC PORTMAN), on the Vienna express. He drinks to her holiday she to his invention. Jeannie wears a new dress for her dinner with the Count. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SOCCER STARS IN AIR FORCE BLUE

... . Since war came, Soccer or Association football, is even more popular with the Air Force per sonnel than in peacetime. This is hardly surprising, considering that the youngest Fighting Service includes many stars of the foot ball world who will probably play in the forthcoming big match R.A.F. v. The Army at Wembley. Here are J. SMITH (Sheffield United T. BARKAS and A. J. SMITH, of Chelsea, ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 220 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CONVOY CONFABULATIONS

... . JETZT NICH J UMSCHAUEN ABER (Don't look round now but DRAWN BY J. E. BROOME. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 17 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TO HAVE ITS LONDON GALA PREMIÈRE IN TRIPLICATE: SMASH-HIT, PRIZE-WINNING ''GONE WITH THE WIND

... TO HAVE ITS LONDON GALA PREMIERE IN TRIPLICATE: SMASH-HIT, PRIZE- WINNING GONE WITH THE WIND. Above A scene of devastation during the sequences featuring the evacuation of Atlanta. Right Scarlett, now the wife of Rheit Butler, revels in the luxury of her post-war life. Scarlett thanks Big Sam (EVERETT BROWN) for having fought off her assailants during her lonely drive. Right Ashley Wilkes ...

AQUARIUM-SKIRTED STAR

... AQUARIUM -SKIRTED STAR. If you only remember ANNA NEAGLE as the Queen in Sixty Glorious Years and Victoria the Great, or in the title-role of Nurse Edith Cavell, this portrait-study may surprise you. Her idea of going to Neptune for inspiration for a sun-bathing frock is successful. Her full unbleached muslin skirt is patterned with purple octopi, sea-horses, starfish, and formalised waves. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LA TRAGÉDIE IMPÉRIALE''-- WITH HARRY BAUR AS RASPUTIN

... LA TRAGEDIE IMPERIALE WITH HARRY BAUR AS RASPUTIN. The Tsarina (MARCELLE CHANTAL) in her private apartments with the Tsarevitch (CLAUDIO), whom Rasputin (HARRY BAUR) has miraculously cured. Two of the Tsarina's daughters are at the piano. Above The horrible death of Rasputin. Having been fed with poisoned cakes and wine without suffering discomfort, the monk is finally shot. Rasputin has a ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MR. ALBERT PERRY staged a street exhibition of his works. He hired sandwichmen, who carried, instead of the usual boards with placards, paintings of his, priced from £200 to £300. One of the sandwichmen was a girl. RALPH GROOME, twenty-four-year-old Canadian ice-hockey star known as BLONDIE, is a daring rear-gunner of the R.A.F. He has flown twenty times over Germany, and wore his old ice ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs