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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 â– :n the seventh day of the seventh month, and is twenty-one. ese ...

FILM RECONSTRUCTION OF A VILE GERMAN CRIME: MEN OF THE LIGHTSHIP

... The boats are lowered as the attacking Nazis machine-gun the East Dudgeon crew. As the crew draw away from the East Dudgeon she is bombed and sunk by the raiders. Lightning the tortoise, is the mascot of the crew of the East Dudgeon. Getting ready to fire the distress gun, the only weapon ichich lightships carry. Fred lies in the scuppers and tcatches the raid. The part is played by Mr. C. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRITANNIA AND EVE

... 4 August 7, 1940 Sensible, informative reading for Sensible people Here is an extract from a story of an old Commander and a battered ship. He refused to be left out of the War. A Gift to the Nation By R. H. Watkins. On the filmy edge of the fog was the sub marine, black with menace, a steel thing devoid of human life. It was swinging fast. And instantly Mr. Hall got it. She was swinging to ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 952 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. I AM sorry to see that they are advertising NORTHWEST PASSAGE (Em pire) as starring the world's greatest actor. Spencer Tracy is such a fine, modest actor that I wish they could have spared him the hyperbole. I shall always remember him as I saw him last year in London, nervous, honest, clutching a sofa cushion to him as he talked, telling us of the panic he had endured ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ACTRESS SISTER OF AN R.A.F. V.C

... MISS LESLEY BROOK has appeared in Dangerous Corner, at the Westminster made a success at the Stratford-on-Avon season in 1939, and is at present in the E.N.S.A. tour of 44 George and Margaret. Her best pictures include Dead Men Tell No Tales and 44 Night Alone. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Miss Brook or, rather. Miss Lesley Learoxd to use her real-life name has ttco ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 129 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TOP OF THE WORLD PAT KIRKWOOD

... TOP OF THE WORLD PAT KIRKWOOD. PAT KIRKWOOD, the young Lancashire lass tcho zoomed to stardom overnight in Black Velvet, is a principal in TOP OF THE WORLD,' the netc George. Black show due at the London Palladium this week with Nervo and Knox Flanagan and Allen, and Tommy Trinder in the cast. She should be feeling on top of the world, too, for her marriage to Mr. Jack Lister. Jack llylton's ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 101 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TAKE ENO'S

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Published: Wednesday 21 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 11 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F.: No. 5--THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL

... CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. No. 5-- THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL. AIR CHIEF-MARSHAL SIR EDGAR RAINEY LUDLOW- HEWITT, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C., is the Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force and thus holds one of the most important posts in our youngest and very brilliant fighting Sendee. He teas born in 1886, and served in the Royal Irish Rifles before joining the R.F.C. in 1914. He served in the 1914 ...

Published: Wednesday 21 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA:: No. 19. THUNDER ROCK, THE NOTABLE PLAY AT THE GLOBE

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 19. THUNDER ROCK, THE NOTABLE PLAY AT THE GLOBE. Melanie reads aloud the memorial plaque dedicated to herself and her com panions--lost in the ship- t creek. Briggs and Miss Kirby listen in silence. Left SELMA VAZ DIAS as Anne-Marie. LL Charleston with Melanie, one of iht characters which exist only in his mind, but are ye/ ...