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V.C.s' HANDSHAKE

... mmmm mmm f s vf . LIEUT.-COMMANDER RICHARD B. STANNARD, R.N.R., who icon his V.C. at Namsos is here shaking hands with SECOND-LIEUT. RICHARD ANNAND, Durham Light Infantry u/io was aicarded the V.C. for conspicuous gallantry on May 15-16 lr/ien f/e platoon he commanded was holding a damaged bridge across the Dyle, near Brussels. They are congratulating each other after the King had decorated ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 103 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A WEDDING SEPTET: BRIDES AND GROOMS

... . FLYING OFFICER R. MAXWELL MILNE, son of Captain R. M. Milne married MISS JOSEPHINE R. JAMES, daughter of the late Mr. Harold James, at St. Peter's, Belsize Park. The announce ment that he had been awarded the D.F.C. for leading his section with skill and courage and personally destroying seven enemy machines was made on the day before the wedding. The HON. MRS. MARY ASHLEY, younger daughter ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 280 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A VERY NAZI LIE!

... A VERY NAZI LIE I w l Jfc Here's a new line in nasty Nazi lies! We are used to the Goebbels variety, although familiarity doesn't make us any more partial to them but here is a golf one. Players on a course sometehere near London had a surprise when they t cent out for a round on the morning after an air raid, for they found a new and very disagreeably placed bunker in the middle of the first ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WIFE MEETS WIFE--WITH CARY GRANT AS THE HUSBAND

... WIFE MEETS WIFE-- WITH CARY GRANT AS THE HUSBAND. Off for an unconsciously bigamous honeymoon Bianca (GAIL PATRICK) and Nick (CARY GRANT) say good-bye to Nick's children Chinch (MARY LOU HARRINGTON) and Tim (SCOTTY BECKETT). Ellen's wardrobe is seven years old. She resurrects a dress and her dog retrieves the extra length of skirt tchich she has cut off to smarten it up Ellen (IRENE DUNNE) ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DOUBLE-PURPOSE CLOTHES

... DOUBLE PURPOSE CLOTHES BE a turncoat this autumn with a reversible model from the very practical collection at Fenwick's, 62-63, New Bond Street. The one above, for 6i guineas, is in corduroy and mohair, good- looking and extremely hard-wearing. The coat has inset sleeves, not raglan, and is completely reversible you can have it in dark brown with a light nut-brown, with nigger or with off ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 318 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 454 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

County Perfumery Co., Ltd

... >unty Perfumery Co., Ltd., Bryicreem Grooms wilhoul Gumming! When you use BRYLCREEM its pure natural oils and tonic ingredients keep the hair free from dandruff and tone up the scalp, stimulating healthy lustrous hair. That's why BRYLCREEM has taken the place of hair dressing containing gum, spirit, soap and starch and why so many men have taken to BRYLCREEM. In handy Jars, Bottles jk! Larger ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 91 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CRAFT OF THE CAMERA AT THE R.P.S

... lere is ample evidence the e Jity-fifth Annual (hikition of the Royal lotogr;. phic Society that e stre and strain of the nes have not been able distract the camera-man >in producing work of eat excellence. The amples of fine photo- Iphy on view at I Prince's Gate include case of colour trans iencies of great beauty, d the show is divided into Pictorial, Natural istory, Photomicro- aphic and ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 106 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  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 ...

Player's Please

... i _ *lKi *&mM Keep that happy expression When the problems of the day seem beyond you, light up a Player. In the enjoyment of its fragrant aroma difficulties become less formidable, and composure is restored. Remember at all times that happy expression . IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST EMPTY YOUR PACKET AT TIME OF PURCHASE AND LEAVE WITH YOUR TOBACCONIST MEDIUM OR MILD PLAIN OR CORK-TIPS 10 for ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 74 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

JOHNNIE WALKER

... IOHNNIE WALKER Good work -good whisky Born 1ft 20 still going strong ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 14 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs