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GRANT'S

... GRANTS GRANTS LJ catch WHISKY oj $aze M( %nUte uoiujud i re BY HOST BY GUEST- BY ALL PREFERRED W M GRANT O SONS. LTD.. DISTILLERS. DUFFTOWN, S C O T L A N O. London Agents for Grant's Liqueur Scotch Messrs. Hedges Butter, IJd„ Wine Merchants, 153, Regent Street, W. I. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 52 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

SPARKLE, COMEDY AND BEAUTY OF STRIKE UP THE MUSIC

... ANDRE RANDALL at the top of his form as *4 Benito a nn ptr'/ed mood. v JBHH m A spectacular dance number in progress at the I ondon Coliseum. AGNETTE AND SILVIO give their striking speciality dances in 44 Land of Memories and 44 Land of the Sun In the latter they appear f A first as Dawn and then as Apollon j and Daphne. j Jpj A MAVIS and MARGOT made up for their 44 dual role, with Hitler and ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 197 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PEOPLE OF YOUTH, CHARM, DISTINCTION IMPORTANCE AND TALENT

... PEOPLE OF YOUTH, CHARM, DISTINCTION, IMPORTANCE AND TALENT.- SQUADRON LEADER LOUIS STRANGE, D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C., is said to be the brain behind our parachute troops, whose existence was dramatically revealed as the result of their raid on Southern Italy. The paratroops are all picked men. VISCOUNTESS WEYMOUTH and a friend in the paddock at Plumpton. I H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER paid a ...

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 

WEDDING SMILES--CAPTAIN AND LADY IRIS O'MALLEY

... WEDDING SMILES- CAPTAIN AND LADY IRIS O'MALLEY. PHOTOGRAPH DY F. B. BARKER. 7 he marriage of LADY IRIS MOUNTBATTEN, only daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Carisbrooke, and great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria ■to CAPTAIN HAMILTON O'MALLEY, Irish Guards eldest son of the lute Lieut.-Col. Middlelon 0' Malley-Keyes, of Ross House, IV est port, Ireland and of Mrs. (T M alley- Key es, ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALL-STAR RODEO FOR THE SEAVACUES

... . British seavacue hoys and girls were entertained at a rodeo at B. Bar H. Ranch Palm Springs organised in their honour by Hollywood screen stars. NBC actress IRENE RICH and (on horse back) JERRY COLLONA are with some of the young guests. Light refreshment Marshmallows and Vienna sausages toasted together by the fire sound an incredible mixture, but the combination is much enjoyed in the U.S.A ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THESE SAILORS, AIRMEN, NURSES AND CIVILIAN (or tho slorious deeds which have won them decorations and honours. AT one Investiture his Majesty con ferred the D.S.O. on twelve officers of the three Services the D.F.C. on fifty-five R.A.F. officers while one was awarded the D.F.C. and bar. At another Investiture two R.A.F. officers received the D.S.O. and thirty others the ...

SPORT IN EXCELSIS BY THE R.A.F

... a r (r.) nd hh roaul An uhich runs on ^nners nse .t s 0 g A civilian instructor is explaining to a batch of air-gunners hou 'ar stoppages of various sorts in a Browning. Gunners as well as pilots must know how to rented) pages in the shortest possible time. I INSTRUCTIONAL GREYHOUND RACING. Mother rack.ju„ ij)ce ,l rfc/niit ,h h^ onh h°W Q/ for gunner, seres a, °S a stoifu PHOTOGRAPHS ECIL ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 164 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHIEF OF THE CLAN MACLEAN AND HIS FIANCÉE

... CHIEF OF THE CLAN MACLEAN AND HIS FIANCEE. The engagement of SIR CHARLES HECTOR FITZROY MACLEAN, eleventh Baronet of Duart and Morvern, Scots Guards, of Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, twenty-seventh Chief of the Clan Maclean, to MISS ELIZABETH MANN, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mann, of Woodside House, Windsor Forest, Berks, has been announced. Sir Charles, who teas born in 1916, ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 101 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DANCERS--EAST TO WEST

... DANCERS -EAST TO WEST. MAYURO, a Balinese dancer, at the 44 Royal Netherlands Forces Afternoon at the Officers' Sunday Club, talking to representatives of the Dutch Navy and Army. Wartime London has' for some months been enlivened by lunch-time Ballet entertainments. The latest is provided by the Ballet Group under the direction of Pauline Grant, in association with I Lionel L. Falck, at the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 219 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE GAMUT OF GLAMOUR

... - BY MARLENE. MARLENE DIETRICH'S new film, SEVEN SINNERS, a Joe Pasternak produc tion directed by Tay GarneU, was due at the Odeon Leicester Square, on Monday last, February 24. Miss Dietrich appears as a cafe singer, Bijou, whose charms arc so great that she is deported from every South Seas island she visits on account of the desperate fights which her beauty provokes among the tough-- but ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 131 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs