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... GIRLS-IN-BLUE

... sIG GIRLS-IN-BLUE. Tea and cigarettes in one of the little houses in WAAF-toivn. Right Tidying up the garden one of the evening occupations of the WAAFs. Flowers and a portable wireless make the tea-table at a WAAF-town house look very gay. Ten little WAAFs walking down the main street of the all-women town where they live. fan Left Practising at i| the dart-board in their mess with a view to ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PREMIER WATCHES THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

... . MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL last week visited the front line of Great Britain, and toured Dover and Ramsgate, eoast towns which have been bear ing, with admirable courage and calmness, the brunt of the first attacks. Wearing a tin helmet, he watched an air battle at Dover and saw seven enemy 'planes shot down in less than an hour. He inspected the shelters in the towns, saw the effect of raids ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LOVE, MURDER AND RADIO: THE BODY WAS WELL NOURISHED

... William Blake (BARRY K. BARNES r.) demonstrates the cleaner to the unwilling Reginald (ANTHONY SHAW) and his fiancee Ann (DIANA CHURCHILL). W illiam (BARRY K. BARNES) brings Ann (DIANA CHURCHILL) her wrap when he has surprised her trying on trousseau cami-knickers. Reginald finds Ann and William hunting for murder clues a search which has put them in a compromising position and rouses the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 217 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOSS BROS & CO. LTD

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Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 146 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 415 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

BRITANNIA AND EVE

... The most entertaining of all Magazines. ON SALE NOW AT A EE NEWSAGENTS AND BOOKSTAEES STORIES LIKE THESE MAKE LONGER NIGHTS BRIGHTER HEART OF BRITISH OAK Bv PETER B. K.YNE. 0 THE Lancashire Maid was in the dock at Liverpool by ten o'clock that night and Captain Hannay had young Kessler up in N his quarters for a nightcap of whisky-and- soda and stated with genuine regret that in 1 the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 900 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEW RECRUIT

... the new recruit. If this recruit to the Women s Auxiliary Air Force doesn't find foot comfort in the Service it i con t be the fault of the Quartermistress The attractii%e picture is on view at the recently opened Royal Air Force Exhibition of Photographs at the Building Centre in Netc Bond Street tc here every aspect of life with the R.A.F. is presented in admirable camera-studies. PHOTOGRAPH ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 72 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOW THE WORLD WAGS IN WARTIME

... . Left LADY CROFTON is demonstrating that strips of linen covered with architects' plans can be brought back to pristine purity and used for nurses' aprons or sur geons' masks. This bright idea emanates from the Thrift Section, W.V.S. These R.A.F. boys are (I. to r.J PILOT OFFICERS HENRY COTTON, the golfer, W. C. POWELL, the Welsh Rugger International Captain, J. V. POWELL, the English ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 292 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - U.S.A. NEWSPAPER GIRLS VIRGINIA COWLES AND HELEN KIRKPATR1CK, for calmly watching a tremendous air battle over Dover at close range so that America may know the truth. MISS VIRGINIA COWLES. MISS HELEN KIRKPA TRICK. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANGUS MCBEAK. MISS VIRGINIA COWLES, distinguished young American newspaper correspondent of the 14 New York Herald-Tribune, will be remembered as the author of ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

REVUE SHOWERED WITH STARS: APPLESAUCE!

... REVUE SHOWERED WITH STARS: APPLESAUCE I MAX MILLER singing one of his catchy netc numbers, attired in his white Homburg and his gay dressing-gown. MAX MILLER a! the keyboard, wearing immaculate evening dress. Another study of MAX MILLER, with his famous smile, giving one of his new songs. I do it with doves now, by DORIS HARE. THE DOLINOFFS and RAYA SISTERS, Dancing Dollutions in their ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 173 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HUNTLEY & PALMERS

... HUNTLEY PALMERS HUNTLEY PALMERS HURRICANE ON PATROL The magnificent part played by the R.A.F. against Germany's numerically superior Luftwaffe will live always in the glorious traditions of the British Empire c Jame Victory through Courage-- Success through Quality BREAKFAST BISCUITS the Biscuits which have enjoyed fame for over half a century ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 51 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs