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WAR-TIME FINGER-TIPS

... BY PEGGY SAGE Long wear that is the important thing about your nail polish in war-time', says Peggy Sage. And that is why thousands of busy women are using Peggy Sage's polishes simply because they wear like diamonds, chip, peel and flake-proof for days. Every Peggy Sage polish is composed of two fine films, closely welded together. One grips and nourishes the nail fibres, and enables the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 176 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

SOLDIER AND SAILOR BRIDEGROOMS AND THEIR BRIDES

... . SURGEON LIEUTENANT J. C. B. BESFORD, R.N., the Olympic sivimmer, married MISS PATRICIA LEVEAUX at St. Barnabas's Church, Addison Road. The bride is also a keen swimmer, and is a member of the Mermaids' Club. SECOND-LIEUT. A. T. VANNECK BORRETT, elder son of Captain P. R. Borrett and of the Countess of Leitrim, married MISS EILEEN MARY GRAHAM WATSON, daughter of Mrs. Stewart Johnson. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 215 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ASCHWITZ REVUE AT THE COMEDY

... \SCHWITZ REVUE AT THE COMEDY. First Night, in which CHARLES HAWTREY, JUDY CAMPBELL, FRITH BANBURY, HAZEL JENNINGS, ERIC MICKLEWOOD and ALICE COTY appear. Left Evolution oj the Detective with SIDNEY BROMLEY and JEREMY HAWK as Watson and Sher lock Holmes, in the 44 Literature phase. THE FRANCO-BRITISH SWING number. CHARLES HAWTREY and JOHN BENTLEY as Natasha and IJelmuth in 44 Under Which Flag? ...

SCRAP-IRON INTO ... FORGING STEEL FROM JUNK

... SCRAP-IRON INTO JN: FORGING STEEL FRO JUNK. This horrible collection of old junk or scrap-iron collected from all over the countryside looks pretty useless, but it 's of immense value. The grab-crane is handling part of a consignment of waste metal at a British steel-works, where it will go into the furnaces to forge new guns, for which it provides the best material. The long, long barrel of a ...

IN AND OUT OF UNIFORM

... NO one has any time now for difficult fabrics, so this charming off-duty frock, in Tested-Quality Duco fabric made with Courtauld's rayon, is especially welcome. In this year's favourite pin-spot, with scalloped collar, cuffs and patch pockets, it is tailored enough to be worn without a coat in town. ANOTHER practical model, also of Tested-Quality fabric made with Courtauld's rayon, is shown ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 154 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HUNTLEY & PALMERS

... Detitb^ GOLDEN BIX Bd ABOUT 140 II I S 0 II 1 T S I HALF TO THE POUND POUND fc GOLDEN BIX ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 23 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

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 ...