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WILLIAM HOLLINS & COMPANY LIMITED

... WILLIAM HOLLINS COMPANY LIMITED WILLIAM HOLLINS COMPANY LIMITED, Ready for the game, the walk, the job for any undertaking this new Viyella' Sportshirt is in tune with modern living. j Always in perfect V' style, always fresh and I unruffled, because E°a Viyella washes y, beautifully. X /pT^l In a large range of colours most good shops throughout the country. VIYELLA HOUSE, NOTTINGHAM ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 63 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT is a moot point whether the cinema audi ences of this country really want to see films about Nazi Ger many at this time. Personally, I think they don't. Most of us have already made up our minds pretty clearly about Nazi Germany. We don't need persuasion to crystallise our views. As I see it, what we are looking for in film entertainment just now is the chance to relax ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1224 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

MIXED BAG OF NEW FROM FAR AND NEAR HOW LIFE GOES BRAVELY O N THIS HARSH WARTIME WORLD

... MIXED BAG OF NEV ROM FAR AND NEAR: HOW LIFE GOES BRAVELY O N THIS HARSH WARTIME WORLD. This poster advertised the strong woman act staged by Miss Alary Arnotis in the Boer War It was uncovered by bomb blast during a recent raid on London. GEN. BEAUMONT-NESBITT, BRIG. -GEN. SCANLON, BRIG.-GEN. R. E. LEE U.S.A. Alilitary and Air Attache, the U.S.A. AMBASSADOR and All COM. BOYLE lunch to ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 440 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JOY-FLYING AHERNES

... JOY- FLYING AHERNES. 1. BRIAN AHERNE and his wife JOAN FONTAINE, go joy-flying in their private machine whenever he can take a day off from his current Universal picture, Hired Wife. Here they are at their local aerodrome before embarking. 2. The sound of an aeroplane now suggests nothing but implacable warfare to raid- conscious Britishers, but in the peaceful entourage of Hollywood there ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 100 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: BLACK AND WHITE

... WOMEN IN WARTIME BLACK AND WHITE THERE may be only one special occasion now instead of a round of parties, but it still needs a special frock. Even if you only wear it at home, a dinner dress is well worth its place in your wardrobe for its tonic effect, especially a model, like the one above, which is cut on classic lines that do not date. It will last for years, too, since its fabric is a ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The NAVY Sweeps the MEDITERRANEAN: Eighteen Hundred Miles Swept Clear of Enemy Craft, During Recent Operations ..

... I I w V _ I no II tLuwiu UI iiianvAuvi c nuo guai aniccu UJ mc aci upiallco Ul L II (J r ICC I nirnrill The NAVY Sweeps the MEDITERRANEAN Eighteen Hundred Miles Swept Clear of Enemy Craft, During Recent Operations by the Royal J^lavy AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS ASSIST THE ROYAL NAVY IN ITS HUGE SWEEP OF ITALIAN WATERS: in its 1,800 miles sweep just concluded, Britain's Mediterranean Fleet was assisted ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 306 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRITAIN TO HAVE CLOSER RELATIONS WITH THE BELGIAN CONGO

... BRITAIN TO^ HAVE pHE great Belgian highway, which is one of the remarkable 1 man-made features of the country, is well described by Captain Owen Tweedy in his By Way of the Sahara, a volume in which he describes his journey in a small car from Rejaf to Algiers. The route goes by way of Aba to Buta which is a great central position for African traffic. The Belgians are justly proud, writes ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 961 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

The PROBLEM of AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION

... AIR COMMENTARY BY CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane) The JTuisance Bomber must be Beaten in the Workshops Here are some of the Methods Already in Operation to Achieve this MORE and more, week by week, the fact is being driven into the people of this country that this is a man-hour war. And the Germans know it. The nation which can keep up the man-hours worked in its armament ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2792 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON'S TWO GREAT CATHEDRALS DAMAGED: The High Altar at St. Paul's Destroyed; and the Henry VII Chapel Damaged ..

... LONDON'S TWO GREAT CATHEDRALS DAMAGED The High Altar at St. Paul's Destroyed and the Henry VII Chapel Damaged by Bombs A WINDOW OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY DAMAGED BY BOMB BLAST: The leaded glass of this window was pock marked from top to bottom by splinters and by blast 'The guardians of London's historic buildings have been having some anxious nights recently for it is evident that the German ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 481 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 59: LOOKING EAST

... a war newsletter-No. 59 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4 LOOKING EAST.-- Broadly, the air blitzkrieg on Britain has already and defi nitely failed. Clearly the victory was to be attained in a matter of a few weeks. England was to be brought to her knees by the total dislocation of her war effort at the chief centres and the abandonment of London by the King and his Government was a clearly ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2250 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

ROYAL INTEREST IN LONDON DON'S STEADFAST STAND

... ROYAL INTEREST IN lOl DON'S STEADFAST STAND THE KING AND QUEEN CHAT WITH THE DRIVER OF Al AMBULANCE: Their Majesties have presented four ambulance] and two mobile canteens to the L.C.C. for use by t'J defenders of London and here they are inspecting the una ENTERTAINING THE CROWDS OF REFUGEES IN A TUB STATION In the night air-raid shelter at Aldwych Station, crowc now gather nightly to get ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 263 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WM. SANDERSON & SON, LTD

... VV M_. _A.N DERSON SON, LTD M_. £_A.N DERSON SON, LTD. fjMm RB f ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 24 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs