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A WIDE FIELD OF WARTIME SUBJECTS

... . r LADY MARY BERRY, FLIGHT LIEUT, the HON. LANGTON and MRS. ILIFFE and LIEUT. MICHAEL RENSHAW (I. to r.) at the wedding of Lord Hunlly and the Hon. Pamela Berry. CORPORAL HAROLD SIMS, M.M., decorated at a recent Investiture is the first American serving with the British to win an award in this war. He received his M.M. for gallantry at Dunkirk. LORD KEMSLEY. father of Lord Huntly's bride, ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE ART OF MISUSING EGGS!: NINA LEEN LOOTS THE LARDER

... THE ART OF MISUSING EGGS L NINA LEEN LOOTS THE LARDER. I A scene of pity and terror: six eggs, praying, doomed and forlorn, watch their comrade frying. I An unfortunate love-affair she is set on a pinnacle, and he has fallen down. Of unsound mind? An egg his hair standing on end, views a comrade who has committed felo de sc. A little hoy and girl are at play with their boat in a spacious pan ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ON DUTY FOR REFUGEES OF ENGLAND AND AIR-RAID RELIEF

... . APPLICANTS FOR HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT, WITH (at back, 1. to r.) the. HON. MRS. JACK CRAWSHAY, MISS DOROTHY DICKSON, and LADY ELEANOR SMITH. The HON. MRS. JACK CRAWSIIAY (left), CHAIRMAN OF REFUGEES OF ENGLAND, will! LADY ELEANOR SMITH AMONG THE DUSTBINS WHICH WAIT FOR DISTRIBUTION. rHOTOGRAPHS B' 1L BEATON. Refugees of England London, under the chairmanship of the Hon. Mrs. Jack Ctawshay, ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 205 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AFTER THE RAID

... . Wife of the Minister of Agriculture MRS. ROBERT HUDSON is one of those who devote their services in the tragic areas where homes are bombed and belongings lost. This scene in the East End is typical of many other depots where hundreds of articles of clothing and other comforts and necessities are distributed to homeless people Mrs. Robert Hudson, who is a member of the Women's Voluntary ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 80 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CONRAD'S VICTORY AS A SCREEN THRILLER

... . 44 VICTORY, the screen play by John L. Balderston, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, is the new Paramount picture due at the Plaza on March 28. The hero, Heyst, is a philosopher who lives on the island of Sanburan, proud of his detachment from all human emotion. He disdains to clear his name when his partner absconds with the last funds of the bankrupt business, and when the Makanoff ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 344 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GINGER ROGERS IN HER OSCAR-WINNING PICTURE, KITTY FOYLE

... GINGER ROGERS IN HER OSCAR WINNING PICTURE, KITTY FOYLE. GINGER ROGERS as Kitty Foyle, American 44 white-collar or business girl, whose moving story is told in the new film 44 first-person-singular technique. Kitty now the wife of Wyn, receives a cool welcome from Mrs. Strafford (GLADYS COOPER). After her marriage has crashed, Kitty resumes her successful career in the New York beauty ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 231 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BURBERRYS LTD

... BURBERRYS BURBERRYS UNIFORM by BURBERRYS There is a definable expression of comfort and smartness in all Burberry tailored designs for the women's auxiliary forces. They indicate a con sistency of craftsmanship, individuality of touch, a sense of weather security allied to durability. Grams Prices and full particulars BURBERRY7, LESQUARE, LONDON. on request. Please quote Phone WHItehall 3343. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 65 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME HOME COMMAND

... WOMEN IN WARTIME Home Command SffiK W 4 1 SMALL women naturally prefer clothes designed especially for them to cut-down versions of average fashions. They will be interested in the department at Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, which specialises in individual models planned at all points to flatter the small figure. One of their outfits is shown above, in softly blended shades of pink ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 187 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FANCIED AS AMERICA'S No. 1 GIRL FOR 1941

... FANCIED AS AMERICA'S No. 1 GIRL i FOR 1941. 1 A JINX FALKENBURG is the leading candidate for the title of America's No. 1 Girl for 1941. In retrospect one can list up 44 No. 1 Girls in the U.S.A. as far back as the days of Jenny Lind, but only within the last five years has a No. 1 Girl emerged as an annual phenomenon, never deliberately chosen, but appearing through a spontaneous canonisation ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE SHOOTING OF 49TH PARALLEL, WITH NEW-STAR GLYNIS JOHNS

... . The figures a-top the barren rock are an ESCAPED GERMAN U-BOAT CREW in Canada. The rock will look more remote and craggy when seen on the screen. 44 Grasp the phone like this snatch it frantically. There 's a man menacing you with a bayonet DIRECTOR MICHAEL POWELL acts his instructions. Author EINERICH PRESSBURGER has a chat with leading-man LAURENCE OLIVIER on the set during the shooting of ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. IMMORTAL EASE is the story of a femme fatale who did not enjoy her rôle. Victoria Rising was a poet and a very beautiful woman. She married two men and tired of them; a third, after a short time spent in her society, painted her portrait in a novel called The Ice- Cold Heart, and then com mitted suicide; but the fourth, Lloyd, the man who was in her life from the start, ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2171 | Page: Page 25, 26 | Tags: Cartoons  Photographs 

JOHNNIE WALKER

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