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COUNTRY HOUSE AS A F.A.N.Y. RECRUITS' TRAINING COLLEGE FUTURE MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S TRANSPORT SERVICE

... COUNTRY HOUSE AS A F.A.N.Y. RECRUITS' TRAINING COLLEGE: FUTURE MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S TRANSPORT SERVICE. Lectures on car construction and maintenance are an important part of the curriculum. They take place in the library of the country house 44 college Taking the wheel off an ambulance may be a tough job, but the F.A.N.Y.s easily manage this and many other more difficult running repairs. All ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LADY DIANA'S SEVEN WARTIME HORSES

... . I-AQY DIANA COOPER, wife of the Minister of Information, Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C., D.S.O., practises petrol economy by using a baby car when she drives round London. Here she is at the wheel of her Austin Seven, perfectly satisfied that it will take her anywhere she wants to go, and make driving in traffic the easiest thing in the world. V-XT- PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 71 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JANE AUSTEN'S MOST FAMOUS NOVEL MAKES SCREEN STORY

... : Lady Catherine de Bourgh (EDNA MAY OLIVER) patronises Elizabeth Bennet (GREER GARSON). She is unaware that her nephew, Darcy, is in love with Elizabeth. Left Elizabeth arrives to stay with Mrs. Collins (KAREN MORLEY), formerly Miss Lucas. The Bennet girls file up to bed Elizabeth (GREER GARSON), Lydia (ANN RUTHER FORD), Jane (MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN), Kitty (HEATHER ANGEL) and Mary (MARSHA HUNT) ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 324 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Peggy Sage

... RSV HSH 3k 3FINBER-TIPS M. 1H UNIFORM m W} {AND IN MUFTI 4M Finger-tips in uniform are discreet. Most service women who come to the Salon choose from the subtle range of pale polish shades. Women in the non-military services favour whimsy, a lovely subdued rose. But when women are in mufti (and what an ex citing flavour that dull word has now that women have stolen it from men they gaily take ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 181 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

IN ENGLAND TO-DAY

... . FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH BV HAROLD WHITE, F.I.B.P., ON VIEW AT THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHERS* EXHIBITION, 49, GORDON SQUARE, W.C.I. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 23 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... 44 Spit and polish is part of the soldier's daily round, fail to shine their shoes and their Sam Brownes up to and F.A.N.Y.s never Guards standards. No F.A.N.Y. must lose her way and when she's been through the map-reading course she's guaranteed to be able to find the best route to anywhere in the shortest time Practical work is undertaken as well as theoretical, for the F.A.N.Y. doesn't mind ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 87 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - THESE SPITFIRE PILOTS, for being of the undaunted and unwearied few to whom the many owe so much. It is well over two months since the Prime Minister paid his now- famous tribute to the work of the R.A.F. in the Battle of Britain. The battle goes on, and so does the heroism of our 44 Spitfire pilots, who, 44 undaunted by odds, unwearied by their constant challenge and mortal danger are ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FIRST-RATE PLAYS THIRD-RATE--BEE LILLIE AND VIC OLIVER AS THE RED PEPPERS

... FIRST-RATE PLAYS THIRD-RATE BEE LILLIE AND VIC OLIVER AS THE RED PEPPERS. Angus McBean caught these two stars for a fleeting moment at the Prince's Theatre Bristol on tour with the Noel Coward playlets. Noel's RED PEPPERS a third-rate musical turn on a fourth-rate tour--might prove a diflicult feat for probably the finest performers in their line on the stage but they play it marvellously. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 69 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: ROUTINE AND RELAXATION

... WOMEN IN WARTIME ROUTINE AND RELAXATION WAR workers out of uniform, who cannot spare time to change between their many engagements, are choosing suits that can be worn all day long, from one committee to another. A dress-and-jacket makes a practical outfit for the winter, by itself in the sunshine, under a fur coat on really cold days. Walpole's, of New Bond Street, suggest the cleverly ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 331 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

PAINTER'S EQUIPMENT

... . FROM THE STUDY MASTERPIECE, BY G. SCOTT BUSHE, F.I.B.P., ON VIEW AT THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHERS' EXHIBITION, 49, GORDON SQUARE, W.C.I. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 24 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AN ARTIST VIEWS LONDONERS FACING UP TO THE BLITZKRIEG

... . A study of the enchanting DOROTHY DICKSON. EDITH EVANS reading Ralph Hodgson's poem The Bull. JOHN MOTT and CORNELIUS FISHER as The Aspidistras at the piano. VIDA HOPE giving her number A Nude on the Dole. u Post War Cavalcade. with JOAN STERNDALE- BENNETT and DILYS REES as the Cissie Sisters. Madame ,1 JOHN MOrt (r° giing son8' E The ^^ldlStr aS EDITH EVANS as the Cockney Hop-picker ...

THE WOMAN'S ANGLE ON ARMY LIFE

... . A little private soup-tasting One of the A.T.S. Volunteers gets advance news on the day's menu and evidently approves of it! Come to the Cookhouse Door has sounded, and, after a hard morning's work the Volunteers need no second summons a meal-time study of A.T.S. girls at a camp somewhere in England. Left Five dozen plates is some load but she can take it with a smile. Housey-Housey party, ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 123 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs