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AUTUMN COATS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR WEDDING PRESENTS

... COLOUR must make up for frivolous accessories this autumn, strong, glowing colour with its tonic effect. Jaeger have used it to the full in their new autumn collection, which includes the coat above in a clear cherry red. This is tailored in smooth-surfaced tweed, with a military row of buttons. From any of their branches, or from 204, Regent Street. WEDDING presents are meant to last, and ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 230 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BULLDOG FIGHTER--SQUADRON-LEADER BADER WITH HIS WIFE

... BULLDOG FIGHTER-SQUADRON- LEADER BADER WITH HIS WIFE. Even in days which teem with brave and brilliant doings, SQUADRON-LEADER DOUGLAS R. S. BADER caught the imagination recently when piloting a Hurricane in a week-end raid he brought down a Dornier 17, in spite of having lost his legs in a 1931 crash. Before his accident he teas a stunt ace, played Rugby for the R.A.F., the Combined Services, ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MR. OR, Boy! Oh, Boy!) CHARLES GARDNER, for the originality of his broadcast saga of R.A.F. aerial victories. MR. CHARLES GARDNER, B.B.C. Observer at the micro phone with MR. E. L. LYCETT, engineer at the controls. MR. CHARLES GARDNER broadcasting battle news from his studio. MR. CHARLES GARDNER, mike in hand, interviewing pilots for a B.B.C. news bulletin. TWO PILOTS being interviewed ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ETON WINS THE WAR ETON AND HARROW AT HARROW

... . Left Eton won the one- day Eton and Harrow match, played at Harrow instead of its peacetime venue, Lord's, in a dramatic manner. Har row was dismissed for 185 and with the last man in Eton needed six runs to win. A boundary by A. D. Gibbs brought the Eton score to 189. Our group shows MR. DAVID DUCKHAM, t cho played for Eton, with MR. TIMOTHY HEADLEY, MISS LUCIA LAWSON and MR. DAVID DICKSON ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 173 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK--AS NEW YORKERS WILL SEE IT

... THE EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK-- AS NEW YORKERS WILL SEE IT. The Department of Overseas Trade has arranged for striking mural paintings of the historic EVACUATION FROM DUNKIRK to be made by well-known artists and exhibited at the New York Fair. This is a composition by MR. CHARLES PEARS, R.O.I. showing an aerial battle in progress above a troopship. Right The DUNKIRK ARMADA of liners, troop ships, ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 149 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

REBECCA FOLLOWS JEANNIE: BARBARA MULLEN'S NEW RÔLE

... REBECCA FOLLOWS JEANNIE BARBARA MULLEN'S NEW ROLE. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN EVERARD. MISS BARBARA MULLEN, the young actress from the Isle of Aran who sprang to fame through her excellent performance in the titlerrole of Jeannie, has notv taken Miss Celia Johnson s place in the name-part of REBECCA, the successful Daphne du Maurier play at the Queens. Miss Mullen undertook the role at four days' ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 112 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TWO ANGLES ON ANN SHERIDAN IN TORRID ZONE

... The next film in which you trill see ANN SHERIDAN is Torrid Zone a picture says the blurb of hot tempers and fiery love in the tropical country around Puerto Aguilar the scene being chiefly laid in Panama. She plays a wow song girl and card-player called Lee Donley and her opposite is James Cagney, as plantation manager, with Pat O'Brien as his boss. There is a statuesque beauty about this ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... I ELEANOR POWELL, as Clare Bennett, in one of the lovely dancing sequences of her nete picture. ELEANOR POWELL and FRED ASTAIRE have a splendid series of dancing sequences in their new picture, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940, which opened at the Regal, Marble Arch, on June 26. This Metro-Goldwyn-Maver film tells a back-stage story. Johnny Brett (Fred Astaire) and King Shaw (George Murphy) arc ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 132 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTLEY NOTES

... . By ALAN KEMP. SO now we face it alone. Our former allies, either on their own account or as funnels for Their Master's Voice, denounce us and even seem disposed to give us a backhander or two while the Big Bully is getting in his blows. Let us not be excessively surprised at that. It is always painful and undignified when former friends fall out and descend to recriminations, and some- ...

THE BOYS OF STOWE AS FARMERS' LADS: HALF- HOLIDAY HAY-MAKING AND TRACTOR -DRIVING

... THE BOYS OF STOWE AS FARMERS' LADS: HALF- HOLIDAY HAY- MAKING AND TRACTOR -DRIVING. R. S. Cross J. D. S. Roivntree and D. A. L. Holden are rolling churns to the pasteurising plant of a local farm, watched by other Stowe boys. Right Everyone t cants to drive the tractor the mechanised unit of farming. C. Griffith is at the wheel. STOICS working on the hay harvest in fields belonging to local ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 263 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A REVIEW OF WARTIME ACTIVITIES

... . MISS HERMIONE HANNEN, the young actress, has r been appointed as an announcer for the B.B.C. has had mike experience giving plays over the air. NIPPY, as the waitresses of a well-known firm are called, and GEORGINAS, the girls who are replacing the tea-shop porters who fxave been called up, do fire-fighting practice with stirrup-pumps. Left DR. EDITH SUMMERSKILL, the M.P. who tried rifle ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs