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MAE WEST AS A BANDIT'S HAUL IN MY LITTLE CHICKADEE

... MAE WEST as glamorous Flower Belle Lee and W. C. FIELDS as Twillie. Twillie, discovering Flower's past assignations with a masked bandit, goes to hqr room disguised in a mask, but his nose poking through gives him away. v v \i una* w Twillie, ivho has been gadding about the country with wads of phoney banknotes in his carpet-bag, is about to be hanged. The masked bandit, who has held up the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 162 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SCREEN VERSION OF THE WEST END HIT GEORGE AND MARGARET

... Malcolm (NOEL HOWLETT), lovable, vague member of the Garth-Bander family, exasperates his wife (MARIE LOHR) by spreading himself on the floor to read the papers when George and Margaret are expected for lunch. George and Margaret are due to arrive at any moment, and everything goes wrong in the kitchen. Gladys (ANN CASSON) tries to console Frankie (JUDY KELLY), who has had words with her ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 143 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: THESE CHARMING AMERICANS

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THESE CHARMING AMERICANS, tor showing us the phosphorescent way to beat the black=out. Illuminated coiffures are the latest fashion fad in New York. While the. light is on they are reminiscent of poxcdered head-dresses of the rococo period. The luminous powder is particularly effective when allied with a heavily waved style of hairdressing. A glamorous effect is ...

THE PREMIER'S DÉBUTANTE DAUGHTER AND HER MOTHER

... THE PREMIER'S DEBUTANTE DAUGHTER AND HER MOTHER. The youngest member of Mr. Winston Churchill's family, MISS MARY CHURCHILL, is a wartime debutante, aged eighteen. She fully shares the family good looks lacks none of its character. Her sister, Diana, is married to Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P., and the Premier's second daughter, Sarah, is Mrs. Vic Oliver, wife of the witty American compere. MRS. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 126 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SHAW'S HISTORY LESSON AT THE NEW

... . ERNEST THESIGER plays Charles II. with Restoration wit and charm in In Good King Charles's Golden Days, at the New Theatre. Shaw's play had its premiere last August at the Malvern Festival, where it was the chief production. In it he gives a life and intellect mostly denied to stage Merry Monarchs, who as a rule revolve, puppet-like, round the centre-piece of Nell Gwyn. Charles sits (right) ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 154 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ONE-DAY MEETING AT WINDSOR

... ONE-DAY MEETING i AT I WINDSOR. MRS. PETER HOLDSWORTH HUNT, snapped in conversation with CAPTAIN GOSCHEN, wore a well-cut suit. MR. D. HAGUE squired MISS PEGGY HAMILTON during a tSj walk round the paddock. MRS. MICHAEL ROBSON'S jaunty hat and short fur cape were most becoming. She is with MR. MICHAEL ROBSON.' V M The one-day meeting held at Windsor the other week-end was a I 1 great success, ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 158 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

No. 5. SHEPHARD'S PIE; AT THE PRINCES THEATRE--STAGE AND AUDITORIUM

... No. 5. SHEPHARD'S PIE; AT THE PRINCES THEATRE STAGE AND AUDITORIUM. I M! ARTHUR RISCOE and a Policeman. RICHARD HEARNE and his finger trouble. Below VERA PEARCE and RICHARD HEARNE in one of their amazing acrobatic dances in Seeing Life. ier,. .Sing m round. PHYLLIS ROBINS selecting a guest artist to help her sing. PHYLLIS ROBINS singing He s Adorable with the guest artist from the ...

THE FOOD OF LOVE: A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. WHEN the B.B.C. be gan some years ago to put Bach regularly on the air, loud was the outcry among those who would restrict that institution to catering for the majority. But the B.B.C.'s advisers were really wiser than they knew. They prescribed Bach as being good for our musical health and generally wholesome, but it is doubtful whether even ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1194 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GIRL WHO CAN MEET HERSELF THIRTEEN TIMES IN THE R.A

... the girl who can meet herself THIRTEEN TIMES IN THE R.A. MIS RA\ FULLER has been described as England's most frequently painted fi .'I. She is twenty-two years of age, has sat to artists for fourteen years, and I is now rhaps the most sought-after model. She may meet herself thirteen I times ii. Iiis year s Royal Academy, for she figures in the work of twelve artists and H also as i' mermaid ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PEACE, WAR, BEAUTY AND HUMOUR AT BURLINGTON HOUSE PORTRAITS AND SUBJECT PICTURES FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY

... PEACE, WAR, BEAUTY AND HUMOUR AT BURLINGTON HOUS mil ORTRAITS AND SUBJECT PICTURES FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE SIRENS by W. G. DE GLEHN, R.A. MODEL'S THRONE by B. FLEETWOOD-WALKER. THE SINKING OF THE S.S. 'GOODWOOD,' SEPTEMBER IOTH, 1939; by LOUISA HODGSON. JUNE MORNING by HAROLD WILLIAMSON. The ROT ACADEMY opened to the public on Monday last, May 6, after the Private View on May 3 and 4. As ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: THIS COMPETITOR AT THE ESSEX HUNT HUNTER TRIALS

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THIS COMPETITOR AT THE ESSEX HUNT HUNTER TRIALS, for giving such a splendid slow^motion picture of taking a toss. SLOW-MOTION pictures of galloping horses, of ex perts demonstrating golf shots and lawn-tennis strokes are constantly presented on the screen, but an ordinary series of shapshots has here recorded the more remarkable slow- motion story of how to take a toss. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 129 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs