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THE PRINCESSES' WORK-PARTY

... THE PRINCESSES' WORK- PARTY. All over the country tcomen are knitting, and the King's daughters T.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH and PRINCESS MARGARET, are among the most assiduous of the workers. Our snapshots show that they take their wool and needles with them whether on the terrace or in the garden. Princess Elizabeth who is fourteen years old, is expert, and in one photograph may be seen ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 80 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BACK FROM DUNKIRK WITH THE B.E.F

... So this is England A truckful of stray dogs rescued by men of the B.E.F. Stray dogs who followed the British soldiers and got safely to England. Bight Taking a look out of their truck Belgian and French pets brought here as refugees. REPRODUCED BY COURTESY OF BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWS. ^OT only did 335,000 men of the B.E.F. escape from the ring of steel in which the Germans hoped to imprison ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 153 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON No. 8. HAW-HAW!--LAUGHTER REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: HOW AT THE HOLBORN EMPIRE

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON No. 8. HAW-HAW I LAUGHTEt EVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: HOW AT THE HOLBORN EMPIRE. HAW-HAW!, George Black's New Laughter Show at the HOLBORN EMPIRE, is the subject of the eighth of our pictorial and literary riG London's wartime shows. Here arc the drawings and photographic impressions of some of the excellent turns and sketches of it by Fcliks lop0 n|h artist, ...

IN THE WINGS OF THE THEATRE OF WAR

... . .VINDOW-CLEANING ON A WHITLEY BOMBER Getting a good polish on the bomb-aimer's look-out. DRIVING A TANK WITH A BABY'S COMFORTER IN HIS MOUTH a wise precaution against the effects of great vibration. NOT OFF FOR THE WEEK-END but starting on a dangerous trip over _ enemy territory. A MEMBER OF THE CAMEL CORPS MAIDS HIS COMRADE-IN-ARMS Winding a man into his long sash. Right NOT PLAYING WITH ...

BRYLCREEM

... Bryicreem When you use , its pure natural oils and tonic ingredients keep the hair free from dandruff and tone up the scalp, stimulating healthy lustrous hair. That's why has taken the place of hair dressing containing gum, spirit, soap and starch and why so many men have taken to . In handy jars, bottles and tubes Larger bottles, 1/6, 1/9, 2 6 County Perfumery Co., Ltd., North Circular Road, ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 77 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

SUMMER IN TOWN: BOLEROS AND FORMAL PRINTS

... SUMMER IN TOWN BOLEROS AND FORMAL PRINTS BALANCING your own dress budget is a pressing prob lem this year, so Fenwick's, 63, New Bond Street, have started a Budget Room especially to solve it. There are three prices, 49s. 6d., 59s. 6d., and 69s. 6d., and an exciting variety of frocks. The two-piece above, for 69s. 6d., is in a matt-surfaced crepe, with a flaring skirt built up to a high ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 181 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... . A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. IN case I should appear to be devoting to the ballet more than its fair share of atten tion, the explanation is to be sought, not in my enthusiasm, though I have no lack of it, but in the present barrenness of other fields. Opera is dormant. There is little new music to be heard, but we scribes make the most of what there is. The rest of current musical ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1238 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

ALL SMILES--ROYAL AND R.A.F

... ALL SMILES ROYAL AND R.A.F. This study in smiles teas taken at a tear emergency hospital for Allied soldiers sometchere near London and shows HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT chatting with LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN L. MOSSON when she visited the hospital last week and had a word icith a number of the inmates. A Belgian soldier is standing in the centre background. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 63 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

UNRATIONED H.P

... UNRATIONED HP. Rural England has become pony-and- trap-conscious now that joy-riding by car is a thing of the past. Here the ft members of the Driving Club recently S* formed in Berkshire are off for a picnic after a meet in Wokingham. MRS. WILLIAMSON and MR. MALLETT in a governess cart at the meet. MRS. CREASE and MISS GRAY. Right MRS. PETHWICK i in her carriage M made for one. M MRS. MALLETT ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 173 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ARMY AND R.A.F. BRIDEGROOMS AND THEIR BRIDES

... . The marriage of MR. R. V. C. WESTMACOTT, Grenadier Guards elder son of Captain Westmacott to MISS F. A. McCLEAN. elder daughter of Sir Francis McClean, took place at Nuffield Parish Church. LIEUT. F. R. WEBSTER, R.A., the Pole -Vault champion married MISS BERYL OTLEY, of Johannes burg, South Africa, at St. Mary- Magdalene's, Taunton. MISS PATRICIA DICK-LAUDER, only daughter of Lieut.-Col. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

UNIFORM AND MUFTI, WEDDINGS AND WORD SNAPSHOT WARTIME PERSONALITY REVIEW

... UNIFORM AND MUFTI, WEDDINGS AND WORI SNAPSHOT WARTIME PERSONALITY REVIEW. MRS. WINSTON CHURCHILL and MISS MARY CHURCHILL returning to Downing Street after listening to the Prime Minister's fine speech expressing his good hope of final victory. MISS KATHLEEN SINCLAIR, daughter of Sir Archibald Sinclair Bt., the Minister for Air and MR. CHARLES HARDING attended the first night of Gaslight, at ...

MOTOR DICTA

... . By ROTOR OWNERS who have laid up their cars have often won dered where to put them for the maximum amount of safety, and have also been asking what com pensation, if any, they were likely to receive if they were damaged through circumstances directly at tributable to the war. In the first place, it is generally realised that the normal insurance policy excludes war risks. Any recompense ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1049 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs