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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

... MOSS BROS V COMPANY LIMITED Officers' UNIFORMS Ready lo Wear or made lo measure in 36/48 Hours H Newly commissioned Officers as well as those requiring re placements will find at Moss Bros, every- thing ready for immediate wear. Also all necessary Equipment-- -Mackin- H toshes, Boots, Shirts, H complete Camp Kit, etc., can be obtained in one visit to Moss Bros. outfitters to the Services for ...

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

BURBERRYS LTD

... BURBERRYL BURBERRY There is a definable expression of ATCO ATS comfort and smartness in all Burberry for the tailored designs for tlie women's W.A.A.F.'s auxiliary forces. They indicate a con sistency of tailoring craftsmanship, Prices and full particulars individuality of touch, a sense of 0,1 request. Please quel 3 No. 48 weather security allied to durability. 'Grams: BURBERRY, LESQUARE, ...

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

FRAGONARD PICTURE OF LIGHTS UP!

... PHYLLIS STANLEY, who appears in C. B. Cochran's revue LIGHTS UP! at the Savoy, wears modern dress with chic, and period costume with style. Witness her appearance as the Lady in A Fragonard Picture/' a number in which she gradually unmasks her beauty discarding panniered skirts, quilted petticoats and other articles of attire, but ivith such grace and eighteenth-century style that the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A FUTURE DUCHESS

... . LADY HOWLAND is the wife of Lord Howl and, elder son of the Marquess of Tavistock and grandson of the Duke of Bedford. She is a daughter of Mr. John Bridgman and married Lord Howland in 1939. Her baby son and heir, who is not yet ten weeks old had the distinction of being born at the Ritz. PHOTOGRAPH BY F. J. GOODMAN. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 66 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... NARVIK HERO: STANNING, OF THE HARDY. Now quietly convalescent, PAYMASTER-LIEUTENANT G. H. STANNING was the hero of an outstanding deed in the first British naval action at Narvik. Binding himself the only man on the bridge of the Hardy not killed or rendered unconscious though teounded in the foot he dragged himself to the icheelhouse. took the wheel and peering through a shell-hole, steered ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 107 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. ON the loose paper cover of a new angling book just published by Messrs. A. and C. Black, appears a delightful picture of three small boys in kilts, watching intently as they are given their first lesson in salmon -fishing by an expert angler on the Taymouth Castle Hotel water on the Tay. I his picture and tiie title 01 tne book, lhe \oung Angler, sum up precisely ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1221 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

MARRIED AND GOING TO MARRY

... . MISS M. L. BUNTY SEWELL, daughter of Brig.-General H. S. Setcell of Tysoe Manor Warwick shire is to marry Mr. Patrick Geoffrey Corbett of Rossferry, Enniskillen, Ulster. Mibb makj UKit brtibHi, aaugnter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Speight, of Boscombe, is engaged to Mr. C. Henniker Heaton son of Sir John and the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton. MISS PHCEBE HOUSTON BOSWALL, child of the late Sir George ...

ROYAL FAMILIES IN EXILE

... . Another royal family exiled through Nazi aggression is that of King Leopold of the Belgiansy who remains himself in Belgium. His family of three (I. to r PRINCE BAUDOUIN, the heir-apparent PRINCESS JOSEPHINE-CHARLOTTE, and little PRINCE ALBERT OF THE BELGIANS have come to London. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 48 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GARRISON THEATRE OFF THE AIR, ON TO THE STAGE

... . At the London Palladium you will find your Garrison Theatre friends, only heard before in that well-known item of the B.B.C. programme, now seen in the flesh Jack Warner and his Littul Gel, Charles Shadwell, the Sergeant-Major, with Billy Cotton's Band, and some new, exciting turns. priVate JACK WARNER brilliantly impersonates Maurice Chevalier to an audience of pretty French Littul Gels in ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 178 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs