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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 

SUITS AND THEIR SWEATERS

... SUITS AND THEIR f SWEATERS WOMEN who are doing civilian war work find I that a tailored suit makes a very practical uniform. The I model on the right is made by Aquascutum, 100, Regent Street, in grey Harris tweed, but they will copy it in various materials and colours. The high-buttoned jacket shows the new longer I line, without exaggeration, and the skirt is designed for action. OpHIS year ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 274 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LONDON CHILDREN IN AUSTRALIAN WONDERLAND

... . 44 Is it real?'* Young seavac.uees from London meet one of Australia's koalas, or Teddy Bears, in the Healesville sanctuary, and find it difficult to believe in. Did you really have to wear them Patricia and Elsie Pallis give a demonstration of gas-mask drill to their cousins, Doreen Jacobs and Anita Pallis. 44 And Melbourne *s here Elsie and Patricia Pallis have a lesson in the geography of ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE N.H. MEETING AT CHELTENHAM

... . LADY ALEXANDRA METCALFE, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, CAPTAIN M. WARDELL and MISS PEGGY HAMILTON. MRS. LOVEDAY left in a fur coat and cap) with the DUCHESS OF NORFOLK. LADY HELENA HILTON GREEN and MAJOR MITCHELL in consultation as the numbers go up. The HON. SHEILA DIGBY, daughter of I.or d and Lady Digby, with MR. Y. FITZHERBERT. MR. INNES and the HON. MRS. INNES. She ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE OFFICER ON THE RIGHT for being the first Burmese to get a commission in the Fighter Command's Burma Squadron, R.A.F. Squadron-Leader Stanford Tuck, its leader kneeling left centre shot down his 27th German plane last week. MR. HAROLD JUDD for using the Ministry of Supply as a place of entertainment for H amp stead' s dust-women. LADY MAUREEN STANLEY and MISS EVELYN ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 462 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SECOND AMERICAN-BORN WOMAN M.P

... MRS. BEATRICE RATHBONE, who has succeeded her husband, Flight Lieutenant John Rathbone killed in action as Conservative Member for Bodmin, is the second American-born woman to enter the House of Commons. She is the fourteenth ivonjan Member in the present Parliament, and will be introduced by the Chief Whip and Mr. A. C. Bossom, an old friend of the Rathbone family, who has many ties with the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 134 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs