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CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No. 3.--COASTAL

... CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No. 3-- COASTAL. PHOTOGRAPH BY BASSAXO. AIR-MARSHAL SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM BOWHILL, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., has been Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Coastal Command since 1937. This vital command of the R.A.F. is our sure shield and its machines have driven off countless raiders. Sir Frederick began his career as an officer in the Merchant Service, with a ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WORK, ENTERTAINMENT, WEDDINGS

... . CAPTAIN LORD ARDEE, only son of the Earl and Countess of Meath, married MISS ELIZABETH MARY BOWLBY, daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Geoffrey Bowlby, at the Guards' Chapel. MISS DESIRfiE ELLINGER (Mrs. G. Carte) is an A.F.S. officer. Her actress daughter, DIANA STIRETT, is engaged to Corporal W. Stirratt. MISS MARGARET VINES plays Tilania in the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, production of A ...

EVACUEE AS DETECTIVE! MODERN SPY DRAMA, COTTAGE TO LET

... EVACUEE AS DETECTIVE! MODERN SPY DRAMA, COTTAGE TO LET. COTTAGE TO LET, at Wyndham's is up-to-date spy drama. Sir John Barington (LESLIE BANKS) is having pins stuck into him to prove the efficacy of his pain-killing drug. Lady Barington (GILLIAN LIND) is not taking it seriously Charles Dimble (ALASTAIR SIM) is deeply interested and evacuee Ronald (GEORGE COLE) thinks it a lark. Dimble ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CLOTHES TO CONSIDER

... WOMEN are too busy to go into retirement for a lengthened period, especially now that expertly designed maternity clothes can solve any problems of appearance. Treasure Cot, 103, Oxford Street, suggest the dress and jacket above, to be worn as they are for the next few months and under a coat when the weather grows colder. The adjustments are very simple, and the outfit can be copied in ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 201 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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LOOKING AHEAD. CECIL BEATON DRAWS THE WORLD OF TO-MORROW

... . On a rush visit to America CECIL BEATON took a quick look at Netc ork s IT orld s Fairt and sketched General Motors' plan for The World of To-morrow. 1 his exhibit, already seen by six million people, shoivs the latest projects for solving highways-traffic problems, and the newest buildings. The public revolves in arm chairs, and behind each a wireless voice murmurs description. Mr. Beaton's ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 90 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JOHNNY APOLLO, UNDERWORLD DRAMA--WITH TYRONE POWER AND DOROTHY LAMOUR

... JOHNNY APOLLO, UNDERWORLD DRAMA- WITH TYRONE POWER AND DOROTHY LAMOUR. JOHNNY APOLLO, which is due at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on August 12, is a full-blooded U.S.A. underworld picture. Bob Cain (TYRONE POWER) is the son of an embezzling banker. Disgusted by the unfairness of his father's trial and by his fair-u-eather friends' attitude, he goes to the underworld, takes the name of ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 178 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

UP AND DOING WITH SONG AND DANCE

... . MISS PATRICIA BURKE, daughter of Marie Burke adds to the attractions of Up and Doing the Saville Theatre success with her songs and dances. Her numbers include You d Better Go Now, When You 're in Love and Day In and Day Out. She has just made her first appearance in cabaret at the Cafe de Paris. Her stage debut took place in 1933 at the Gate Theatre, and she has played in panto, and ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 17. THE VIC-WELLS BALLET IN THE PROSPECT BEFORE ..

... Monsieur Didelot (ALAN CARTER) dancing icith MUe. Theodore (PAMELA MAY), in The Prospect Before Us. Right ALAN CARTER as Didelot in The Prospect Before Us. JUNE BRAE and ROBERT HELP MANN as two of the Children of Evil in Dante Sonata to Liszt music. A general view oj Sadler s w ells from the back of the dress circle. ALAN CARTER as M. Didelot, in The Prospect Before Us or, Pity the Poor ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO-- MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON, American champion of the Allied cause, for saying that there are no neutral hearts except those that have stopped heating. Whatever may be the views of the majority of Americans, there is one valiant champion of our cause in the U.S.A. in the person of that talented political commentator, MISS DOROTHY THOMP SON. Her stirring broadcast on the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 357 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PARIS REFUGEE--MISS SHIRLEY BAIN-MARAIS

... PARIS REFUGEE MISS SHIRLEY BAIN-MARAIS. PHOTOGRAPH BY YSYOMDS. The daughter of Colonel Colin Bain-Marais, South African Minister to France, MISS SHIRLEY BAIN-MARAIS, with her father and mother, the British Ambassador and the Canadian Minister, had the thrill of an escape from France when the armistice with Germany was signed Boarding a small sardine-boat at Bordeaux, they put out to sea hoping ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LONDON WARTIME LIFE GOES ON

... . MISS MARY CHURCHILL, youngest daughter of the Prime Minister, distributed the prizes at the Hillsbrow School annual sports. Young autograph hunters queued up around her. Right MISS MARGARET CLARKE, only daughter of 'Lr Basil Clarke, works in the War Office. She is the venth child of a seventh child (Lady Clarke), teas born ■:n the seventh day of the seventh month, and is twenty-one. ese ...