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SHAVIAN MAJOR--BY WENDY HILLER

... SHAVIAN MAJOR-- BY WENDY HILLER. A PHOTOGRAPH BY BARON. WENDY HILLER, who made such a big success in the screen version of G. B. Shatc's well-known play 44 Pygmalion, takes the name-part in another Shavian picture, the film presentation of 44 MAJOR BARBARA, which is being shot at Denham. It is being produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal. Our fine study shows Major Barbara after her ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SOLDIER AND SAILOR BRIDEGROOMS AND THE BRIDES; AND SOME NOTABLE ENGAGEMENTS

... SOLDIER AND SAILOR BRIDEGROOMS AND THE! SRIDES; and some notable engagements. MISS SONIA SYERS, daughter of the Countess of Enniskillen married MR. DAVID COLE, son of the Hon. Galbraith Cole, at Killesher Parish Church, Florencecourt. Co. Fermanagh. m ,-mm lwi su f t u fTT The marriage of SECOND-LIEUT. R. S. WILSON-SMITH, R.E., son of the late Major P. P. 0. Smith, to MISS JANE BRODRICK, ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 330 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE GIPSY GIRL WHO WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP

... . A T the luunching of the destroyer H.M.S. GIPSY in November 1935, Miss Dorothy Rutherford, an artist friend of Commander Mark Thornton, painted a picture of a gipsy girl as a mascot for the ship. The work was hung in the ward-room and was the toast of the mess. When H.M.S. Gipsy was sunk by a mine in November 1939 the picture went down too, but was recovered when the ship was salvaged. The ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 228 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BURBERRYS LTD

... BURBERRYS o BURBERRYS D BURBERRY UNIFORMS tor the A.T.S. Women at war do not lose their inherent taste for dignity of cut and quality of materials in the clothes they choose for duty. Burberrys' tailoring skill and unexcelled Barathea or Whipcord cloths for A.T.S. Officers are at their command. Service Jacket £6.10.0 Skirt £2.15.0 Cap Badge £1.5.0 'Grams: Burberry, Lesquare, London 'Phone: WHI ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 73 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No. 4.--MIDDLE EAST

... CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No. 4.-- MIDDLE EAST. PHOTOGRAPH BY KENNETH COLLINS. AIR CHIEF-MARSHAL SIR ARTHUR LONGMORE, K.C.B., D.S.O., is the Commander-in- Chief of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East the man uyho got the first blow in against Italy by bombing air bases in Libya and Italian East Africa u ithin four hours of Italy's entry into the war. He began his career in the Royal ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

YOUNG NOTABLES

... . T.R.H. PRINCESS IRENE and PRINCESS BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS, the baby daughters of H.R.H. Princess Juliana and grand-daughters of H.M. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, are too young to feel any distress at their enforced evacuation to Canada. They are here seen at the Seigniory Club, in the Province of Quebec where they spent some time on their arrival from England. Later they went to ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 179 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 18. MARGIN FOR ERROR, AT THE APOLLO

... i . A/T ARGIN FOR ERROR, the new play by Clare Boothc, author °f The Women, has been chosen for the eighteenth subject of our pictorial and literary reviews by The Sketch critics' team. Here are Topolski's drawings and Baron's photographs, and on another page the Hon. Theodora Benson and the Hon. Betty Askwith discuss the piece in a witty article. It is a spot- thc-murdcrer mystery with a ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 203 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FIRST LIVING V.C. OF THE WAR AND OTHER BRAVE MEN RECEIVE THEIR HONOURS

... . CAPTAIN HENRY HARRISON-WALLACE, R.N., who received the D.S.O. with his wife and daughter. CAPTAIN CREASY, R.N., who received the D.S.O. with his wife and son. The first living V.C. of the war: CAPT. HARALD MARCUS ERVINE- ANDREWS, with his wife and parents. Left WARRANT ENGINEER F. WESTNUTT, who received the D.S.C. with his wife and daughter, Janet. Right FLIGHT-LIEUT. JOHN SIMPSON, R.A.F., ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 307 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GARY'S WAY WITH THE GIRLS

... . GARY COOPER makes another cowboy appearance in NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE, the new Cecil II. de Mille Technicolor production which will soon be seen in the West End. The picture has a very star cast, which includes PAULETTE GODDARD as a tough little Wild Westerner. In one sequence she has a knock-down, drag-out battle, to quote the official description, with Lynne Overman. She was prepared ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 99 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Bear Brand

... JjemJjjuiMl JjemJEutml the^ weafr. Not only are stockings as beautiful as ever but (happy thought) they still retain their love for long, hard wear. In fact you can revel in their loveliness simultaneously with being most virtuously economical. Obviously one must always insist quite firmly on these days. I PURE SILK STOCKINGS J ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 57 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

... THE BRITISH I SAILORS' SOCIETY earnestly appeals for help to enable them to keep pace with the urgent and increasing cost of maintaining Homes and Hostels in ports all over the Empire for our Seafarers' needs Donations welcomed by Hon. Treasurer, the Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Sylces, P.C., 680 Commercial Road, London, E. 14. Mr. Herbert E. Barker, Gen. Secretary. YOUTHFUL BEAUTY I IS NO LONGER ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 582 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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... HOW WAS YOUR HEAD THIS MORNING? When you wake up with a head you can hardly lift, when your brain won't concentrate and you hate the thought of getting up, it 's a sign of acidity. Something you 've done, overwork, overworry, getting too tired, smoking too much, even drinking too much, has caused an acid condition. It 's not much good taking some thing to ease this pain for half an hour, if it ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 315 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs