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STAR IN SUNSHINE

... . Lovely JOAN BLONDELL looks enchanting in fier stvim suit, tcith a striped parasol as background. Miss Blondell teas once typed as a chorus-girl performer, but she has proved her dramatic ability and gives a splendid performance in Paramounls I 11 ant a Divorce, her new film. In this picture she appears with her husband Dick Powell. They have been in the same film before, but this is the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 101 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  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 

WHY EVERYONE WILL WANT TO TRAVEL BY BUS!

... If all the girl conductors engaged by London Transport are as attractive as the recruit in this snapshot there 's likely to be a boom in bus travel She is already in possession of' her uniform cap and is getting a few tips from one of the male 'conductors at a London depot. Girls are to replace men called up for national service, and will operate on the country lines. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHELSEA THREE ARTS A.R.P. POST

... . The CHELSEA A.R.P. POST can boast a per sonnel recruited from the three Arts, for well- known London actresses, artists, writers and musicians are among the hard-working members who have earned for it the title of a model post. In addition to achieving efficiency in their duties, their activi ties have included the production of two suc cessful stage shows, well up to West End stand ards, ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 289 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE KING WITH NEW ZEALANDERS; THE PRIMATE WITH GUNNERS

... . The full group of HIS MAJESTY THE KING and MR. W. J. JORDAN seated with the New Zealand Officers and detachment of N .Z. A. S. girls. At the first camp the King, who wore Field- Marshal's uniform, was received by Major-General D. G. Johnson, V.C., and Major-General C. B. Freyberg, V.C., who accompanied him during the tour. A third officer who has the V.C., Lieutenant- Colonel L. If. Andrew, ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 349 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FILMING A SEA FIGHT

... . THE new British naval film, Convoy, in spite of the war, or perhaps because of it, is setting up records in its first week at the New Gallery. The great fight between the British destroyer Apollo and the Deutschland, the submarine attack on the convoy, the terrific explosions on deck and amidships are exciting audiences already supremely Navy-conscious. And what everybody is asking is-- ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1107 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs 

EARTHLY PARADISE TO BE GOVERNED BY THE DUKE OF WINDSOR

... . THE BAHAMA ISLANDS to which H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor will shortly proceed to take up his appointment as Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in succession to Sir Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas, Governor-designate of Uganda, is an earthly paradise. The Bahamas are an archipelago of the British West Indies. They were the gateway by which Columbus entered the New World, in October 1492. The ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALL THE FUN OF THE FARCE--WOMEN AREN'T ANGELS

... ALL THE FUN OF THE FARCE WOMEN AREN'T ANGELS. WOMEN AREN T ANGELS, a new farce by Vernon Sylvaine is due at the Strand Theatre to-morrow, July 18. ROBERTSON HARE, as Wilmer Popday, gives another of his famous impersonations of the little man in hot water. He is here falling a victim to the spy, Olga (ELIZABETH KENT). ALFRED DRAYTON, once again teamed tcith Robertson Hare in rollicking ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 162 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

REBECCA'S FIRST-RATE HEROINE--JOAN FONTAINE

... REBECCA'S FIRST-RATE HEROINE JOAN FONTAINE. An enchanting success in the film version of Daphne du Mauriets 44 Rebecca Gaumont Hay market )t JOAN FONTAINE perfectly fits the part of the second Mrs. de IT'inter. She is the right romantic complement for Laurence Olivier' s romantic moody, Bronleish de If inter, with her freshness as the companion, her passion and guucherie as his second wife ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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HOW THE WORLD WAGS IN WARTIME

... . Christening group at Warbleton Parish Church, with (I. to r.) MR. FRASER LLOYD, LADY HEYGATE, holding baby RICHARD GEORGE LADY VIOLET POWELL, PRIN CESS HELENA YURIEVITCH, SIR JOHN HEYGATE, BT., the novelist, and a village onlooker. THE QUEEN visited Christie's for a pre-private view of the Red Cross Sale gifts. MR. TERRY McKENNA and SIR ALEC MARTIN are left and right. LADY PATRICIA FRENCH ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 228 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OXFORD BALLERINA MANNER

... . Here are seven of the Undergraduettes who appeared in the show Their names (I- to r. standing are MISS NANCY LIVERSIDGE, MISS JOAN COOPER, MISS BETTY I SYMES, the Assistant Ballet Mistress MISS CLAUDIA FURNEAUX, and seated J MISS ANNE CLOAKE, MISS MARGARET CLOAKE and MISS DIANA STEWART. PHOTOGRAPHS MY JOHN KVKRARD. MISS JOCELYN JACOBY is the leading ballerina of the all-Oxford undergraduate ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 135 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs