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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 ...

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Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 28 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

PEACETIME CROWD AT WARTIME NEWBURY

... . jlT 1 I 1 Ms In summery get-up irilA an unusual flower-ring on h- right hand MISS DIANA BARNATO went racing with MR. BRIAN ROOTES. I j SIR GORDON CARTER, Clerk of the Ascot course, talked to MRS. MORNY KENNERLEY. A March-married couple present were CAPTAIN and MRS. IVO REID. She was Miss Armida Macindoe. Right MISS RUTH PRESCOTT had CORPORAL H ZABETH GILES for a racing partner. IT IT MISS ...

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 

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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 ...