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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 

CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No. 7.--MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND

... CHIEFS OF THE R.A.F. COMMANDS: No. 7.-- MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND. AIR COMMODORE FORSTER HERBERT MARTIN MAYNARD, A.F.C., w the Air Officer commanding R.A.F. Mediterranean, a position of very great importance at the moment, when the war in the East is hourly expected to blaze up into a fierce struggle. He teas born in 1893 and educated at St. John's, Leatherhead, and University College, London. He ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA No. 22. THE BODY WAS WEL NOURISHED, AT THE LYRIC

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDO REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 22. THE BODY WAS WEI NOURISHED, AT THE LYRIC The Sketch critics' team has chosen THE BODY WAS WELL NOURISHED, comedy thriller by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, at the Lyric, as the subject of their twenty- second pictorial and literary theatrical review. On these pages we give the striking photographs and vivid sketches of Baron ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - SQUADRON LEADER EDWARD PEARCE, seen with MRS. PEARCE, who is an officer in the W.R.N.S. teas awarded the O.B.E. PILOT OFFICER REGINALD TAYLOR, the Essex cricketer here seen with MRS. TAYLOR, received the D.F.C. SQUADRON LEADER OLIVER, awarded the D.S.O. and also the D.F.C. SQUADRON LEADER L. A. STRANGE, with MISS SUSAN STRANGE (r.) and MRS. HARCOURT PAINE (I.), was I awarded a Bar to 1 the D ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 378 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Bear Brand

... JjmkMtd JjfMM'mdj f tfTti imy weak* 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. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 54 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

BURBERRYS LTD

... BURBERRYS BURBERRYS Auxiliary To Smartness. Burberry A.T.S. Weather- proofs, Greatcoats and Uniforms. In best quality materials, skilfully tailored, they are the embodiment of martial clothes perfection and weather security for women in uniform. 1 i I i Full particulars and prices on request. 1 Please mention The Sketch. i i 'Grams i Burberry, Lesquare, London 'Phone: WHI 3343 HAYMARKET, ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 65 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

DOUBLE CROSS DICTATOR: CHARLIE CHAPLIN

... . THE GREAT DICTATOR, long-awaited picture in which CHARLIE CHAPLIN exploits his resemblunce to the Fiihrer in order to satirise Totalitarian States and all their ways is due for U.S.A. release this month. Here the Double Cross Dictator has been double-crossed, for the Jewish barber who so closely resembles him is addressing a meeting and reversing till the Double Cross principles. Other ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 471 | Page: Page 3, 4, 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BY OLIVER MESSEL FROM JEAN COCTEAU: LEUEEN McGRATH'S SPHINX

... BY OLIVER MESSEL FROM JEAN COCTEAU LEUEEN McGRATH'S SPHINX. I PHOTOGRAPH BY ANGUS MCBEAN. LEUEEN McGRATH is to play the Sphinx in Jean Cocteau's 44 The Infernal Machine due at the Arts Theatre Club to-morrow, September 5. The chief character is an old actress, based on Rtjane, treated brilliantly and very wittily, though not in Cocteau's surrealist manner. Oliver Messel, who note has ,a ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 158 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LILY LANGTRY IN THE WILD WEST: TEXAN DRAMA WITH GARY COOPER

... . THE WESTERNER is a drama of the struggle between the cattlemen and the homesteaders in Texas during the 'eighties, and introduces amid its wild and woolly Western drama the origin of Langtry, the Texan town called after the Jersey Lily. Cole Harden (GARY COOPER) and Jane-Ellen Mathews (DORIS DAVENPORT) stand amid the ruins of her fatker's ranch. Cole Harden has discovered that Judge Bean, ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 340 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A TIME TO RELAX: OFF-DUTY FROCKS AND HATS

... A TIME TO RELAX OFF-DUTY FROCKS AND HATS WOMEN IN WARTIME THE little black dress, almost a civilian uniform for informal parties, is still cut with individual charm and distinction. Swan and Edgar, Piccadilly Circus, have the model above, in a black material like georgette, cleverly pleated over its own slip. Fan pleats in the skirt sway as you dance, and the same fan effect is repeated on ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 199 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs