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CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No. 2.--THE FIGHTERS

... CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No. 2-- THE FIGHTERS. AIR-CHIEF MARSHAL SIR HUGH CASWALL TREMENHEERE DOWDING, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., C.M.G., is the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fighter Command. He has held this important post since 1936, and therefore much of the credit for the splendid achievements of our fighters must be attributed to his adminis tration. Sir Hugh, who was born in 1882, has ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 117 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SMILING PRINCE AND PRINCESS

... . H.R.H. PRINCE EDWARD OF KENT and his sister H.R.H. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF KENT, are the son and daughter of T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Prince Edward teas born in 1935 and his sister in 1936. It would be impossible to find lovelier or more typically English children than our youngest Prince and Princess whose latest portraits show them in a happy, smiling mood. The Duke and Duchess ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

No. 16. GARRISON THEATRE,

... No. 16. GARRISON THEATRE, Hitler Goebbels and Goering with BILLY COTTON and /lis band. Right NELSON CLIFFORD and MARIE MARION in Design for Humour Amusing Americans NELSON CLIFFORD and MARIE MARION. The Military A udiencc on the stage. NICOL and MARTIN do some remarkable things with a step-ladder. PTE. JACK WARNER, BILLY COTTON and the BAND in the. Finale. GARRISON THEATRE at the London ...

REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM

... . PTE. JACK WARNER and his audience. The smiling LONDON PALLADIUM GIRLS, in Lore Parade An excellent imitation of Hitler by one of the boys during a number by BILLY COTTON'S BAND. LOVE PARADE, with the LONDON PALLADIUM GIRLS. NICOL and MARTIN the best 44 bike team ever Left ABERDONIAN S, Conversational Acrobatic Humorists London Palladium Girls ore important members of the east, and so is ...

LEARNING HOW TO GO TO IT

... Mr. Bevin's recent appeal to married women, and to middle-class women of leisure who have never been in a factory, to go to it by learning to make munitions and thus to be able to volun teer as part-time, or week-end workers to relieve the regular shifts, has met with a big response. Here are photo graphs taken at the Beaufoy Institute where volunteers are undergoing a course which, in two ...

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 

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