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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - A/fRS. WINSTON CHURCHILL, MR. 1Vi HERBERT MORRISON, and MISS ELLEN WILKINSON inspected one of the new steel indoor table shelters which the Government has now approved and will shortly begin to issue. When in use, steel netting transforms the shelters into the semblance of cages. Mattresses can be placed in these shelters, and one will accommodate a small family. Mrs. Churchill said that she ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 404 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ONLY A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY!

... The photograph on this page is enough to bring tears to the eyes of even the most stoical, for the sight of five onions on a plate is, to most of us, only a beautiful memory, and as everyone interested in good food knows, it is prac tically impossible to cook without these invaluable and at one time somewhat despised vegetables, which have now disappeared from our horizon. PHOTOGRAPH BY STUDIO ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 76 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE UNATTAINABLE!

... And here is another study of something tchich we once all took for granted that has now become unattainable a nice collection of juicy lemons and in the centre a refreshing-looking glass of squash complete ivith straws. If you want any of this delicious citrus fruit at the moment well it must be admitted that the answer is just a lemon, and likely to remain so at present PHOTOGRAPH BY STUDIO ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 74 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PIONEER-GIRL JEAN ARTHUR IN ARIZONA

... PIONEER- GIRL JEAN ARTHUR IN ARIZONA. JEAN ARTHUR as rhcebe litus decorative tough-girl heroine of ARIZONA. WARREN WILLIAM as Jefferson Carteret double-crossing villain who nearly ruins Phoebe. JEAN ARTHUR as Phoebe with her devoted lover Peter Muncie (WILLIAM HOLDEN), Love at first sight Peter meets Phoebe, who is selling pies xoith a view to raising enough capital to be a ranch-owner one ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 206 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OTHER CAN DO IT TOO!

... M Here \s a very amusing family group showing LADY DAVID DOUGLAS-HAMILTON and her son, HUGH DIARMID DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, at home. The baby clutches his toes as infants of his age always do, and his mother formerly Prunella Stack, the keep-fit girl is showing him that she can do it too and rather better than he can Lord David Douglas-IIamilton is the youngest brother of the Duke of Hamilton and ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. ALTHOUGH you may have your own private opinions about the sanity of many of the heroines you see on the screen, you will agree, I think, that it's a long time since we saw a beau tiful girl go really mad, quite ha-ha-ha loony, in pictures. Such, however, is the edifying spectacle that little Ida Lupino presents us with in THE ROAD TO 'FRISCO (Warner), and it is startling ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1178 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

AN ARTIST VIEWS THE COUNTRYSIDE IN WARTIME

... AN ARTIST VIEWS THE COUNTRY SIDE IN WARTIME. Feliks topolski, the brilliant artist whose pencil has been recording various aspects of wartime life in this country, here gives his im pressions of a rural scene. The sketches on this page and the facing one were made at the home of Major Victor Cazalet, M.C., who has been Con servative member for Chippenham since 1924, I and was formerly Pai- i ...

STUDIES OF MOVEMENT IN BLACK AND WHITE

... . Speed and grace of the dance-team BOYER and RAVEL is illustrated by these splendid pictures. They are perhaps the most talked-of ballroom dancers of the day. They recently returned from a five-months South American tour, including a season at Rio de Janeiro where they took the whole of the Grosvenor House show 44 So This is Charm. They have just finished a successful five weeks at the Caf6 ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 214 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOLLYWOOD'S WHO'S WHO AT A COSTUME BALL

... Hollywood has the name of being the city of colour magnificence beauty and dazzle and it lived up to its name the other night, when Rex St. Cyr gave a masked J costume supper-dance at which not only the guests y but the orchestra, the waiters, and everyone else was in fancy dress. The party took place at Giro's and was attended by every famous personage in the Hollywood 44 Who s Who. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 167 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME THE MARCH OF SPRING

... THE traditional tonic of a new spring hat is still as potent as ever. Harrods, of Knightsbridge, suggest clear, bright colours to give vividness to spring suits. The sweeping felt above is emerald green, with red and blue arrow-heads worked in wool on one side, but it could be copied in other colours. For the country they have a felt Homburg, pierced with two extra long quills, and amusing ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

REAL-LIFE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS STORY--WITHOUT GLAMOUR!

... REAL-LIFE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS STORY-- WITHOUT GLAMOUR! HERE 'S to-day s real life South Seas island story, with out glamour, but with plenty of courage about it. In December Nazi raiders landed several hundred people, among them seventy seven women and children, on the tiny island of Emiru, in the South Pacific. They were survivors from ships sunk by the raider's guns. Aided by natives they put ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 256 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALL IN THE HOME FRONT WAR NEWS

... . MR. WATERSON, High Commissioner for S. Africa, MRS. WATERSON and MRS. MIDDLETON, wife of the Joint-Master of the Enfield Hunt toast the mobile canteen presented by a S.A. Ladies 9 Hockey Union. COLONEL SYMONDS, Chief Technical I Officer, Fire Prevention Executive, shoics I MISS MURIEL PAVLOW the latest type of incendiary bomb. AIR-RAID WARDEN MISS J. AUCUTT giving a demonstration of how to ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs