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ONE SITTER--PRESENTED WITH VARIETY

... ONE SITTER PRESENTED WITH VARIETY. The infinite variety which the camera-artist can uchieve by means of difference in costume, background and pose is well illustrated by this quartet of photographic studies of a very attractive young sitter, MRS. BUSTER TONGE, the wife of Flight- Lieutenant Tonge, of the Fleet Air Arm. Mrs. Tonge was Miss Bat Barr. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 61 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BUDGET OF PLEASANT EVENTS ... PEOPLE ON OFF-DUTY OCCASIONS

... BUDGET OF PLEASANT EVENTS: STABLE PEOPLE ON OFF-DUTY OCCASIONS. MAJOR J. P. ARCHER-SHEE, 10th Royal Hussars, son of the late Colonel _ Sir Martin Archer-Shee, married MISS HENRIETTA MARY STAPLE^W^ BRETHERTON, daughter of the late Mai or F. B. Stavleton-Bretherton. a^B Members oj the ANGLO-AMERICAN AMBULANCE UNIT, which is doing splendid service in the bombed areas, have found lime to form ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 301 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAR ARTIST AT WORK

... . MISS ETHEL GABAIN (Mrs. John Copley) is here seen at work in her studio on one of the tear pictures which she is making for the Ministry of Information. The still-life group of A.R.P. clothing and gas-masks is carefully arranged. Outside a much-damaged house she talked to Airs. Merritt, who had been bombed out of her home. Left The, artist has made a number of sketches of ruined houses in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLONDE IDOL

... . The pose of this lovely model suggests an Eastern idol, but her radiantly fair beauty of ivory and gold is typically English. The camera-study is one of the thirty-two by JASON in his recently published volume Blonde and Brunette. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 41 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A TOP NUMBER OF DIVERSION 2 ON JAN. 1

... DOROTHY DICKSON, one of the principals of Farjeon's successful wartime revue Diversion, at Wyndham i, is one of the top numbers in the new edition DIVERSION 2, which is due to-day, January 1, 1941. It will help all who are lucky enough to attend the first performance to greet the New Year with plenty OJ laughter. Miss Dickson's successful songs in the original edition included her now-famous ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE REST IS SILENCE

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. This ruined amphitheatre is all that the Luftwaffe have left of the QUEEN S HALL, London's most famous concert hall the home of the Proms., and the building where great conductors, including the incomparable Toscanini, have given concerts to closely packed audiences, and to listeners-in all over the world. The building was opened in 1893 with a concert by the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 205 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SIR COLENSO RIDGEON--BY RAYMOND MASSEY

... SIR COLENSO RIDGEON-- BY RAYMOND MASSEY. RAYMOND MASSEY wears this immaculate morning coat and grey topper as the fashionable specialist. Sir Colenso Ridgeon, in The Doctor's Dilemma, ivhich has been revived by Katharine Cornell at the Shubert Theatre, Neto York. It will be remembered that in this play George Bernard Shaiv turns himself loose on the medical profession and presents a group of ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 99 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE DIETRICH--DIRECTED BY RENÉ CLAIR

... THE DIETRICH-- DIRECTED BY RENE CLAIR. Working for an ideal camera angle DIRECTOR RENE CLAIR, the battery of cameras, and STAR MARLENE DIETRICH making a scene in Universalis new picture, THE FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS. This Joe Pasternak production is the first American picture directed by Rene Clair, who was making films in Paris when France collapsed and caught the last boat to America. The Light ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BETTE DAVIS AS A MAUGHAM MURDERESS--THE LETTER

... BETTE DAVIS AS A MAUGHAM MURDERESS- THE LETTER. UHHr 1 Leslie Crosbie (BETTE DAVIS), trembling but determined, goes out to buy the incriminating letter. Acquitted but guilty! Leslie and Howard Joyce (JAMES STEPHENSON; right tell Robert Crosbie (HERBERT MARSHALL) the truth. Murder by moonlight Leslie pours shots into the dead body of Jeoffrey Hammond. ■■■■V J* Mrs. Hammond (GALE SONDERGAARD), ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ATS

... !_/ wonder if they'd let me do my own job in the A.T.S. And give me extra training to get me on quickly And would there be any hope of getting a commission fairly soon I wonder if shorthand typists get a chance to keep their speeds up 7 Do the cookery girls really learn catering Why do they want girls who've been trained saleswomen 1 Could I really get into Radiolocation It all sounds too good ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 254 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

KING OF THE NATION WHICH HAS FOUND ITS SOUL

... . I have great news far you and the whole country. Early this morning the Yugoslav nation found its' soul With these words, Mr. Churchill announced that the Yugoslavian Government which surrendered to the Axis had been overthrown, and that seventeen-year-old KING PETER had taken over the reins. His manifesto said Serbians, Croatians, Slovenes, at this moment so grave for our people I have ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 110 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

COLLECTION AND RECOLLECTION

... . Susan, aged four, is trying out her mother's Penny a Week Red Cross collecting-box: on the engine- driver oj a Vest Country express as it goes through her home station, and unconsciously giving a most excel ent re-creation of the famous Southern Railway poster, South for Sunshine reproduced in miniature m the corner of this page. This poster was used all over Great Britain and also on the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs