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GLORY OF NELSON'S DAY

... . PHOTOGRAPH DY F. J. MORTIMER. H.M.S. VICTORY, emblem of the glory of the British Navy in the days of Nelson, lies in the Royal Dockyard at Portsmouth with topmasts housed for the duration of the war. It will be remembered that this famous ship was the subject of the first drawing by Sir Muirheud Bone to be released for publication since his appointment as official Admiralty artist, and was ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 79 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING

... . TO those who may glance at this page to see how their favourite sport is faring in these un peaceful days I cannot give an inspiring picture, for but little angling is doing, and even weather conditions have sorely handicapped the few rods who have fished. The Aberdeenshire Dee has had a poor season the severe winter is blamed for holding up fish. What sport was obtained was shared in the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1147 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

SEVEN JUNE BRIDES

... . MR. QUINTIN D. T. HOGG, the Devonshire Regiment, elder son of Lieut.-Col. C. M. T. Hogg married MISS F. M. WEATHERBY, younger daughter of Lieut.-Col. J. T. Weatherhy, of Stanton House, Oxon, at St. John the Bap tist's Church, Stanton St. John. MR. DAVID H. LE ROY- LEWIS, O.C.T.U. Royal Artillery, son of Mr. S. H. Le Roy- Lewis, recently married MISS DIANA HAWDON, younger daughter of Captain ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

UNDER TWENTY-ONE STAR YVONNE MARTIN

... . Wearing her Rumba costume for Festival in Havana Dressed for the Can-Can dance in Gay Good-Night L _ As she appears in the Opening Chorus. Striking pose in her Opening Chorus dress. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN EVERARD. MISS YVONNE MARTIN is one of the stars of the Oxford all Under-graduate revue, UNDER TWENTY-ONE, presented in aid of charity at the Fortune by a cast of amateurs, all under twenty ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SWIMMING STARLETS LANA AND DANA

... . LANA TURNER is one of the most promising of the Metro-Gold wyn- Mayer starlets. Choose Your Partner the next film in which she will be seen over here with Joan Blondell and George Murphy is o gay picture with plenty of dancing sequences. DANA DALE, a fascinating TCarner starlet gave the photographer something to shoot at when she posed on the diving-board at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool, in ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Schweppes

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Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 20 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 139 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 21 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

ROOM FOR TWO--WITH FRANCES DAY

... ROOM FOR TWO-- WITH FRANCES DAY. FRANCES DAY plays Clare Spencer in the film version of the farcical comedy Room for Two, which will soon be seen in London. The stage version by Gilbert Wakefield and Victor Katona uas produced at the Comedy last September, with Hugh Wakefield and Elsie Randolph in the leading parts. Frances Day plays opposite to Vic Oliver as Michael Brent, with Basil ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 89 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GLORY OF THE PRESENT DAY

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY F. J. MORTIMKK. 1 his fine camera-study shows a typical battleship of the present day, and makes an interesting comparison toith the photograph of the Victory on our facing page. Never has the British command of the seas, on which our great, proud Empire was built up through the centuries been more vital to our existence than at the present intensely critical moment in our history. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 73 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CAMERA TAKES A LOOK ROUND WARTIME ENGLAND: PERSONALITY NEWS RECORD OF THE WEEK

... THE CAMERA TAKES A LOOK ROUND WARTIME ENGLAND PERSONALITY NEWS RECORD OF THE WEEK. MR. ERNEST BEVIN, Minister of Labour, on the way to the House of Commons with MRS. BEVIN and MISS BEVIN. MISS BARBARA D. POUND, daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, is engaged to LIEUT. D. R. DUFF, R.N. r r Left: GEORGE ROBEYtseve/Uy- one-year-old 44 Prime Minister of Mirth, is seen giving an 44 ...