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THE MAN AT THE HELM

... . The RT. HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL, P.C., C.H., Prime Minister of Great Britain, inspires the whole Empire with trust and confidence in his strength and deter mination. He looks the typical British bulldog in this fine portrait-study When he recently celebrated his sixty-sixth birthday, messages of congratulation from all parts of the country and the Empire reached No. 10, Downing Street. Prince ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 135 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLITZ FIRST-AID GIVES ANNA ZINKEISEN A FINE SUBJECT

... . Study of a sister in charge measuring out a dose. A nurse does a little purl and plain while waiting. Study of a nurse carrying out her duties. a am MISS ANNA ZINKEISEN, whose work is so well known to Sketch readers is o V.A.D. and also paints and draws specimens for a hospital. One night at her Post she saw an operation carried out by candlelight, as during the Blitz the electricity had ...

Letter From America

... By Pamela Murray A Big Disappointment CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S Dictator is the biggest flop in New York. After a much heralded double premiere, a personal appearance by Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin (who live apart), and an almost unanimously enthusi astic Press, the public decided to stay away. This un-sheep-like disobedience (also manifested in the Election) demonstrates that what Uncle- James Agate wrote ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire

... â– ^4 By Sabretache Leading the Field THE sense of exhilaration which it engenders is terrific; but it is not always the best way to win races. If you can get a- break on them, and they are foolish enough to let you wait in front, and if you are jockey enough to know how to do it, sometimes it comes off, and you win with your toes in your boots. But usually these tactics are a rather impudent ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1366 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Cartoons  Photographs 

The Vanishing Lady

... By A. M. Burrage GEORGE APPLECHILD had never been intellectually brilliant. He was born in a West Country village where, for many generations, marriages between first cousins had been too frequent for the welfare of the hamlet's posterity. As a child there was nothing very unusual about him, except the violence of his occasional fits of temper and his unfailing kindness to animals. Nobody took ...

SCHWEPPES MALVERN

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Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 43 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Photographs 

EX-QUEEN OF TO-DAY'S BATTLEGROUND

... . QUEEN GERALDINE OF ALBANIA, wife of ex-King Zog, must be watching the struggle between Greece and Italy with passionate interest. She was Countess Geraldine Apponyi, married King Zog in 1938, and had just given birth to PRINCE LEKA Alexander when the Italians invaded Albania on Good Friday, 1939. She had to flee over the border and was very ill in consequence. Portraits of Queen Geraldine ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TAKE ENO'S

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Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 6 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 686 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WEDDINGS, ENGAGEMENTS, EAGLE SQUADRON ON BOTH SIDES LUNCH, AND PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF THE ATLANTIC

... . MISS NINA MacDOUGALL, daughter of Mr. Coll. MacDougall, is engaged to Lieut. Eric Ashley Sutcliffe-Smith, R.A.S.C., son of Lady Sutcliffe-Smith, Ingerthorpe Grange, Yorks. SECOND-LIEUT. VICTOR H. V. ROSE, Gordon Highlanders, the Manor House, Brandish, Suffolk, married MISS JANET M'GOWAN, of Sella Park, Cumberland, and Coppers Cottage, Eaglesfield, Dumfriesshire. The bride found a sword ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 418 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs