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CHILDREN OF THE STORM

... : All England has taken an interest in the two small daughters of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands. Preceding her mother, Queen Wilhelmina, she arrived in London last week with her husband, Prince Bernhard, two-year-old PRINCESS BEATRIX, and PRINCESS IRENE. The exiled family of the Grand Duchess of Luxemburg consists the PRINCESSES ALIX and ELISABETH, PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE. and PRINCESS ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DRESSING FOR DINNER: WOMEN IN WARTIME

... DRESSING FOR DINNER I WOMEN IN WARTIME THE casual, short-skirted evenings of the first war months are over, and long frocks are back again. Even on a wartime budget, a new dinner dress seems an economy when you can buy the one above for 59s. 6d. at Swan and Edgar s, Piccadilly. In a matt-surfaced crepe, the bodice and the sweeping fullness of the skirt are skilfully draped into a deep ...

SCARLETT OF THE SCREEN TEACHES THE TORCHES TO BURN BRIGHT

... I must hear from thee every day in the hour, For in a minute there are many days Juliet (VIVIEN LEIGH) bids farewell to banished Romeo (LAURENCE OLIVIER). The American production, with the British stars in the title-roles, was presented at San Francisco prior to a tour in the Middle West, and is due this month in New York. Then move not, while my prayers' effect I take. Thus from my lips by ...

ROMANTIC CAMERA-PORTRAITS OF A BEAUTIFUL PEERESS

... ROMANTIC CAMERA -PORTRAITS OF A BEAUTIFUL PEERESS: !CIL BEATON. These camera-studies of the youn century portraits by a great masl who mc.rried the ninth Karl in Jersey, who is serving with the his Jine Adam seat near Londoi Last year Osterley Park, with iti Lord Jersey has just reopened the nave all the grace and romanticism of eighteenth- wpresentations of a lovely subject. Lady Jersey ...

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE--LAWLESS PASSION

... THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE -LAWLESS PASSION. Frank (FERNAND GRAVET) and Cora (CORINNE LUCHAIRE) visit Nick (MICHEL SIMON), whom they have tried to murder. Cora (CORINNE LUCHAIRE) tells Frank (FERNAND GRAVET) that she is to have a child. FERNAND GRAVET and CORINNE LUCHAIRE as the lovers who murder Nick at the second attempt, by means of a fake car smash. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FASHION TAKES TO PIECES: BLOUSES AND BOLEROS

... FASHION TAKES to PIECES BLOUSES AND BOLEROS WOMEN IN WARTIME VARIETY, the spice of a wardrobe, is easily and economically found if you collect blouses, to wear with suits by day, with long skirts at night. Before you start your own collection, however, be sure and see Walpole's, in New Bond Street. They have the chiffon blouse above, threaded with gleaming gold lame, shirred across the yoke ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 388 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. IN some respects conger- fishing is a branch of the sport which appeals only to a somewhat limited though extremely enthusiastic section of the angling public. No doubt conger- fishers experience great ex hilaration in pitting their strength against these powerful brutes, and ex citement, too, when gaffing one about 6 ft. in length and reducing it to inac tivity ...

WEDDINGS, HEROES, A NEW DUKE AND A DÉBUTANTE

... WEDDINGS, HEROES, A NEW DUKE AND A DEBUTANTE. The netc DUKE OF RUTLAND, formerly Marquess of Granby, a second lieu tenant in the Grenadiers, is nearly tiventy-one. He has just succeeded his father, the ninth Duke and third Baron Roos of Belvoir. MR. BRIAN GRIMSTON, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Grimston, of Greycoats Haslemere, married MISS MONICA DRUMMOND, daughter of Colonel the Hon. Sir Maurice ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 292 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BEYOND COMPÈRE LOW HIGHBROW AND HIS FAMILY

... BEYOND COMPERE LOW HIGHBROW AND HIS FAMILY. RONALD FRANKAU, sometimes called the Low Highbrow, after the song which he gives in his successful new show, Beyond Compere, at the Duchess, is a very versatile artist. He has devised, written and produced Beyond Compere, and takes a leading part in the performance, f while his wife, MISS RENEE ROBERTS, is also an important member of the cast. Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 200 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY and MISS CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, for portrayinS Dorothy L. Sayers' famous M^imscys on the screen. Lord Peter Wimsey. the famous blue-blooded detective hero of Dorothy L. Sayers detective novels is one of the most popular sleuths in fiction and he teas equally successful tehen portrayed on the stage by Dennis Arundell in the dramatised version of 44 Busman's Honeymoon ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 128 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A-FISHING

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. FOR fifty years or more anglers from the British Isles have in- vaded Norway during the summer months, and these fishing excursions have forged a strong bond of food fellowship between the two countries. The know ledge of the country which those anglers possess who are over there now on other and less pleasant business with the N.W.E.F. may prove very valuable. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1178 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA No. 4. UP AND DOING; AT THE ...-- STAGE, AND STREET ..

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON EVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA; No. 4. UP AND DOING AT THE AVILLE STAGE, AND STREET EXCURSION. The Pukka Sahibs (LES LIE HENSON and CYRIL RITCHARD) have to make an excursion into the street and enter the theatre by the main door to get to their box without being seen by the audience. Right Chez Hen- son. LESLIE HENSON presents a guest artist BINNIE HALE as Evelyn Laye ...