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MODEL BEAUTY-DARK AND FAIR

... . These beautiful studies are taken from the fine set of thirty-two pictures by JASON just published by Chapman and Hall in the volume BLONDE AND BRUNETTE. They were made to illustrate the contrast between the typical English type of the blonde models, and the almost Hawaiian and French types of the brunettes. J5KMESiSB mm LIP SERVICE. ELEVENSES. WATER BABY. BEAUTY AT THE PROW. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 67 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHRISTMAS SHOW FOR THE R.A.F. SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND

... . MIKI HOOD was one of the artists who appeared at a special slap-up Christmas show organised by young Jimmy Woolf, son of C. M. Woolf for his R.A.F. buddies at a camp in England. In the front row of the stalls a satisfied group j including WING-COM MANDER WARDMAN, AIR MARSHAL BARRETT and AIR COMMODORE COLE- HAMILTON. Right CAROL LYNNE singing at the mike during the performance which ivas ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 147 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RELATIVITY PLAY, BERKELEY SQUARE REVIVAL

... , JEAN FORBES-ROBERTSON in her original idle of Helen Pettigreic, the girl who falls in love with a modern man who has 44 stepped back into the eighteenth century. Helen Pettigrew gazes into the eyes of Peter Standish, and realises that by some strange magic he is a man who has strayed into her life from the future. Mr. Throssel (TARVER PENNA), terrified by the strange stories which Peter ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE R.A.F. OUT OF THE BLUE AT CAMBRIDGE

... THE RAF. OUT OF THE BLUE AT CAMBRIDGE. 44 OUT OF THE BLUE, in aid of R.A.F. charities at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge. PILOT OFFICER WATERALL better known as Ronnie Waters sang 44 You Should See Me Dance the Polka. with an Edwardian Beauty Chorus. A Ballet Divertissement by A.C.'S IRISH, RAMSEY, THOMPSON, SMITH, WISEMAN and MAYGOTHLING was one of the numbers in the show which was devised ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 814 | Page: Page 31, 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOW I GOT MY START BY KISS THE BOYS GOOD-BYE CINDY LOU: MARY MARTIN SINGS THE STORY IN A STRIP-TEASE SEQUENCE

... . 44 Once I met a dry-goods drummer, Never was a drummer dumber 44 And now my wardrobe *s ample here fs a sample. And that 's how I got my start. 44 I got this bit of knitting merely sitting, And that s hoxv I got my start. 44 Why is it they re so kind to me, Men who have all made a mint 44 Nobody f on me, 1 m jusi the air 44 Why do they act so 1 'ml Couldn t somebody dr Here 's the full ...

CHARM IN PANTALETTES

... . We 're used to seeing beauty in slacks here 's an example of charm in pantalettes, as the frilly trousers worn under crinolines used to be called. It 's a portrait of MARY MARTIN in her new Paramount picture, 44 KISS THE BOYS GOOD-BYE, which is noiv in production. She ivas recently seen in 44 Love Thy Neighbour, at the Carlton and will appear next in 44 Neiv York Town with Fred MacMurray ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WEDDINGS, A NEW COMEDY, SPORT AND NOTABLE PERSONALITIES

... WEDDINGS, A NEW COMEDY, SPORE AND NOTABLE PERSONALITIES: Students at the SCHOOL FOR AIRCRAFT DRAUGHTSWOMEN inaugurated by Mrs F. G. Miles, the aeroplane designer visit the factory during their training, to see the planes under construction. LOVE IN A MIST, at the St. Martin's, is the comedy of an interrupted honeymoon. Rose (ANNA KONSTAM left) and Pat (ANN TODD) are trying to restrain Howard ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HARD-PLAYING GINGER ON A HOLIDAY SET

... 9 . In the great Del Monte pool GINGER ROGERS enjoys floating lazily in the ivarm water. Sailing on Carmel Bay in an 18-footer boat belonging to Stuart Haldorn of Monterey. Ginger didn't restrict her bathing to the Del Monte pool, but enjoyed many a dip in the ocean. A crack shot at sheet, Ginger uses a specially built Belgian gun. Ginger had never before done much sailing, but soon learnt the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 268 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 03 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 6 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

NAVAL, MILITARY, DIPLOMATIC AND SOCIAL PEOPLE AND THEIR WARTIME LIFE AND WORK

... , These A.T.S. girls are making up for the third edition oj the R.A. Depot Concert Party production, Gun flashes, at Woolwich. Right THIS OFFICER OF THE KING'S AFRICAN RIFLES on the Kenya front is feeding a five-day-old Sykes monkey from a fountain-pen filler. The MAYOR OF SOUTHEND presented the National Defence League medal to PEGGY, the dog which saved GWEN WARREN by pawing plaster from her ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HIGHLIGHTS OF GEORGE BLACK'S 3RD INTIMATE RAG, BLACK VANITIES

... ZO£ GAIL and the GEORGE BLACK LOVELIES in 44 Midsummer Music, with Miss Gail as the Cherry Picker Left ZO£ GAIL and the GEORGE BLACK LOVELIES singing 44 Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries The Private (BUD FLANAGAN) challenges the Girl (EILEEN MOORE) I to a duel in Do Your Duty. Drop Me a Line One of Zo'e GaiTs numbers with the George Black Lovelies each armed with a fishing-rod. Darktown ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLACK VANITIES DAY-TIME

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY ROVE. FRANCES DAY is in splendid form in her numbers in 44 BLACK VANITIES, George Black's third intimate rag, which was due to come to the Victoria Palace last week Here you see cuts from a film of her singing 44 Much More Lovely 44 Do I Love You, Do I and 44 The Stutterer in a lovely full-skirted evening frock designed for her by Cecil Beaton. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 72 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs