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BOMBER CREW'S DRESSING-ROOM

... . This photograph and those on the following pages tell the story of a day in the life of a bomber pilot or at least show how he starts out for a flight over enemy territory and what the procedure is on his return. Here the CAPTAIN, HIS SECOND PILOT AND THE FOUR SERGEANTS WHO FORM THE REMAINDER OF THE CREW are dressing in the crew room before the raid. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 76 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NO TIME COMEDY IN ITS FILM FORM

... I NO TIME COMEDY IN ITS FILM FORM. VTO TIME FOR 1M COMEDY, play by Sam Behrman, was due to arrive at the Haymarket last week, with Diana Wynyard, Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer in the leading roles and was also scheduled for presenta tion in its screen form with James Stewart, Rosalind Russell and Genevieve Tobin, as Gay- lord, Linda and Amanda, at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square. The ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 277 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - ANN SHERIDAN for letting the photographer get a kick out of the sitting. JANE WYMAN for finding a f till-dress ducking no hardship. MRS. MARGUERITE MEADOWS for showing perfect form over the hurdles. THESE SUMMER-TIME GIRLS for their spray solution of the bare leg question. PATTI McCARTY --for rocket- ing from secretary to star. IN a moment of ebullience film-star ANN SHERIDAN kicked off her ...

FIFTY YEARS ON IN FIVE MINUTES!

... FIFTY YEARS ON IN FIVE MINUTES I BARBARA STANWYCK wears this lovely period costume in one of the sequences of 44 The Great Man's Lady in which she appears as a young woman. Years roll by and the erstwhile young lovers become an old lady and gentleman. BARBARA STANWYCK and JOEL McCREA as the young lovers in 44 The Great Man's Lady. BARBARA STANWYCK has to age to 109 and is here seen as the ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 247 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LOOKING FORWARD, FUR FOR EXPORT: CLASSIC TAILORED SUITS

... LOOKING FORWARD. FUR FOR EXPORT, CLASSIC TAILORED SUITS. NEVER has there been a time when the classic tailored suit has been regarded with greater favour. Matita, appreciating this fact, is making a feature of the same to him must be given the credit of the model above. It is carried out in a new tweed, showing an original overcheck. He has faith in straight skirts and neatly tailored ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

VAT 69

... Sandeldond LUXURY BLEND SCOTCH WHISKY WM. SANDERSON SON LTD. LEITH ...

BEST-SELLER NOVEL CHAD HANNA FILMED

... . Chad Ilanna (HENRY FONDA) /gets the runaway-slave-catching reward from Caroline (LINDA DAR NELL) and Mrs. Tridd (SARAH PADDEN). Caroline, transformed into a glamorous circus artist, understudies for Albany Yates. Mr. and Mrs. Huguenine (GUY KIBBEE and JANE DARWELL) apologise to Caroline for having fired her husband, Chad but it is too late, Chad has gone. Albany Yates (DOROTHY LAMOUR) ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 209 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SUMMER MUST COME: WARM DAY COOL DAY

... SUMMER MUST COME WARM DAY COOL DAY WOMEN IN WARTIME SUBTLE colouring and soft texture give the frock above a pleasant appearance of luxury. It is, however, quite inexpensive, since it is made of Celan- ese printed crepe, always a good investment, since it wears so well. In spite of wartime restrictions, there is still a fine variety of Celanese materials available all over the country, but if ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 189 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: ACTING CHIEF CONTROLLER JEAN KNOX, A.T.S

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- ACT1NG CHIEF CONTROLLER JEAN KNOX, A.T.S., for being a woman of ideas who has become major= general at thirty=three. MRS. JEAN KNOX entered the A.T.S. as Company Commandant in 1939, before the ivar started. Last March, as Senior Commandant, she was appointed to the new post of ideas woman, to tour the country and lay before the War Office her suggestions for the ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 142 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--: THESE CALIFORNIAN VENUSES, for proving transcendental curves to be a matter of pure ..

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- IHESE CALIFORNIAN VEN USES, for proving transcendental curves to be a matter of pure geometry. The coritour testers of Venice, California, use the Figure-ometer to record the outline of HELENA BR1NT0N. JUANITA COLTEAUX (standing, left) enters the measurements on a chart, and other recruits wait their turn. Movie cameramen record the overall measurements of a VENICE ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 207 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROYAL DUCHESS--MOTHER OF AN INFANT PRINCE

... ROYAL DUCHESS-MOTHER OF AN INFANT PRINCE. PHOTOGRAPH nv CF.CII. BEATON. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, wife of the elder of the King's two brothers gave birth to a son, her first child, on Thursday, December 18. She was Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott is a sister of the Duke of Buccleuch, and was married in 1935. Our photograph was taktn by Cecil Beaton when her Royal Highness was ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 173 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs