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BARON'S BAR BY THE TANKS

... BARON'S BAR BY THE TANKS. 14 BARON'S BAR is the Tanks' own pantomime in aid of the Lord Mayor's Air Raid Distress Fund. CONRAD SCHUTTE, an architect in civil life and LANCE CORPORAL JOHN DA VIES, a peacetime landscape artist, designed and painted the scenery. BANDMASTER A. SWIFT, musical director TROOPER J PIGOTT, producer, and formerly business manager to Sonnie Hale and TROOPER LINDSAY ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 215 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PANTO. BY ORDNANCE AND A.T.S.: SINBAD THE SAILOR

... PANTO. BY ORDNANCE AND A.T.S.: SINBAD THE SAILOR. ''SINBAD THE SAILOR is the Royal Army Ordnance Corps own pantomime and teas produced with great success by a station somewhere in England. Here the Rajah of Zong (GEORGE JONES, R.A.O.C.) is surrounded by the beauties of his harem. Left The whole cast, with Princess Zaidee (JOAN PALETTE), Sin- bad (JOAN HARNDEN, A.T.S.), the Rajah, the Old Man ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 150 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A CHIP OF THE OLD BROOKE!

... MISS ROSEMARY BROOKE is a C.S.M. in the Women's Transport Service F.A.N.Y. She is with her C.O. MISS B. B. HUTCHINSON. C.S.M. MISS BROOKE in her office. Handing a message to ORDERLY-SERGEANT MRS. DESMOND JAMES. Tea in the Leaders Mess-room MISS BROOKE, with SECTION-LEADER MRS. GEOFFREY GRACE and SECTION-LEADER MISS ELSIE MOBERLY. A practical demonstration ASST. ADJUTANT MISS RUTH HOLMES ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S WARTIME BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH 197 CANDLES WARTIME DÉBUTANTES ASSEMBLE AT THE GREAT HOSPITAL BALL

... QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S WARTIME BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH 197 CANDLES: WARTIME DEBUTANTES ASSEMBLE AT THE GREAT HOSPITAL BALL LADY CAROLINE SPENCER-CHURCHILL and her cousin, MISS DIANA GILMOUR. MISS MARY CHURCHILL, youngest daughter of the Premier. MISS LOVEDAY BOLITHO, MISS PATRICIA DAWSON, MISS AVICE DAWSON. and the HON. ANN RUSSELL (I. to r.). The HON. ROSEMARY SCOTT-ELLIS, fifth daughter of Lord U ...

LAUGHTON AND LOMBARD IN THEIR NEW PICTURE

... . THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED, the new RKO Radio adaptation of the late Sidney Howard'1 s Pulitzer Prize play, comes to the Plaza on January 3. CHARLES LAUGHTON plays Tony, stout, rich, plain and lovable Californian vine-grower. CAROLE LOMBARD is the lovely penurious waitress. She is having a painful scene with her enraged landlady, RICCA ALLEN. Her financial troubles induce her to accept ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW YEAR NEEDS: AT HOME AND ON SERVICE

... NEW year needs AT HOME AND OH SERVICE f the h*eW YSfT material f°r H^v>^^S£|Slf SS there should he n one uniform and a- .=e appremate Covent Garden. every detail. and as they lete your King -f iw cut and correct m isingly short can easily pUcation. beautifully cur in a sur d sbirts, y sent on ayp of the women g 5 Eluding g£ *gj prices, v,ould rigblaCArSstrated booklet, 1 outfit. An WOMEN B \N ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 77 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PREMIER MARQUESS OF SCOTLAND AND HIS FIANCÉE

... THE PREMIER MARQUESS OF SCOTLAND i AND HIS FIANCEE. The engagement of the HON. PAMELA BERRY, only daughter of Lord Kemsley to the MARQUESS OF HUNTLY, 'The Gordon Highlanders ivas announced last week. Lord Huntly who is the twelfth Marquess and Premier Marquess of Scotland, was born in 1908, and succeeded his great-uncle, the eleventh Marquess, in 1937. He is descended from Sir Adam Gordon of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FLOWER-TRIMMED HATS: MAYFAIR POSIES TO HARMONISE THE CLASSIC TAILORED SUIT

... Flower -Trimmed Hats MAYFAIR POSIES TO HARMONISE THE CLASSIC TAILORED SUIT NOWADAYS fashions are more or less quintessential. Nevertheless, there are slight changes, including the higher neck-line and slightly longer skirt. There are many variations on suits of the classic character. For instance, the one pictured above was designed and carried out by J. Nicoll and Co., of 120, Regent Street, ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 234 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PACIFIC PORTRAIT OF CLAUDETTE COLBERT

... . CLAUDETTE COLBERT, here sunning herself by the blue Pacific can only enjoy such relaxation for very short spells. When the snap teas taken she had just finished 44 Arise My Love, and teas having a short holiday before starting on 44 Skylark. 44 Arise My Love is the new Paramount picture which is to follow 44 North- West Mounted Police, at the Carlton. Claudette takes the part of a ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 89 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - THE Military Medal has been conferred on ACTING- CORPORAL JOAN HEARN-AVIS, W.A.A.F. The London Gazette states that, during an enemy air attack, several heavy bombs fell alongside a block where she was working alone controlling telephones. Every window was blown in, and one of the main walls of two rooms was badly cracked. Throughout, Corporal Hearn-Avis remained at her post in a building ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 403 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS--INCLUDING BRIDES BRIDEGROOMS, WAR-WORKERS, AND THE NEW CHIEF WHIP AND HIS WIFE

... ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS INCLUDING BRIDES, BRIDEGROOMS, WAR-WORKERS, AND THE NEW CHIEF WHIP AND HIS WIFE. Hfti' JL *1 JSJ MISS TINA BURNETT (left) and MISS P. GLYNNE-PERCY, Mechanised Transport Corps drivers serving with the British-American Red Cross ambulances, spent their afternoon off duty at Nottingham Races. Right CAPTAIN the HON. JAMES GRAY STUART, M.V.O., M.C., M.P., has been appointed ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 417 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE R.A.S.C.'S OWN PANTO.--ALADDIN AT SOUTHERN COMMAND GARRISON THEATRE

... THE R.A.S.C.'S OWN PANTO.- ALADDIN AT SOUTHERN COMMAND GARRISON THEATRE. THE Army chose the ever-popular story of 44 ALADDIN for its own panto., produced by the ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS in the Southern Command Garrison Theatre, which they buil t themselves. The scenery was designed by Driver L. G. Piggott, the I architect stage manager, j and painted by an officer who is a peacetime artist, j ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 258 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs