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SEAVACUEES MAKE CONTACTS DOWN UNDER

... SEAVACUEES MAKE CONTACTS DOWN UNDER. Our father was a soldier too M proved a password to the heart of the ex- Digger on sentry duty at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance when used as an opening gambit by two seavacuees from England. Their father is a London tailor who teas badly wounded and gassed in the last war. Their eighteen-year-old sister Dorothy, is doing war ivork in London and they ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE OSCAR SMILE BY GINGER ROGERS AND JAMES STEWART

... . GINGER ROGERS and JAMES STEWART face the camera with their faces wreathed in the 44 Oscar smile, for they are the winners of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards for the best acting of 1940 a prize known as the 44 Oscar and are holding their trophies. Ginger received hers for her performance as Kitty Foyle, and James Stewart for his icork in 44 The Phila delphia Story, in ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WARTIME WEDDINGS AND AN ENGAGEMENT

... . SECOND LIEUT. IAN BENSON STEWART, Queen's (hen Cameron Highlanders, married MISS JANE MOFFAT, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Moffat, at the Scottish National Church, London. PIPE- MAJOR ROSS piped the bridal pair from the church. MISS FELICITY LAWFORD, one of the best- known of Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies, married FLIGHT LIEUT. JAMES DUNCAN TUCKER at the Parish Church, Charley Wootl, Herts. .4s ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 179 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- SANDY HERD, famous golfing veteran, is carrying on as a full-time 44 pro. at Moor Park Golf Club until further notice, which, as likely as not, means 44 for the duration. He is seventy-three, and has been playing two or three rounds a week is caddie-master, and has one assistant to help him in club-mdking. He is kept quite busy, in spite of the war. HPHE CHORUS GIRLS ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 402 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

WHISTLER'S MISS ALEXANDER TAKES THE FLOOR

... . HARMONY IN GREY AND GREEN is the title of one of the ne w divertissements presented by the Ballet Group at the Little Theatre. This charming ballet to Mozart's Sonata in A major is based on Whistler's famous portrait of Miss Cicely^ Henrietta Alexander, which he also called Harmony -in Grey and Green, and our photograph shows how faithfully ROSE WOODLAND represents the little girl ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 79 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GREEK VASE COMES TO LIFE--A WEDGWOOD SUITE

... GREEK VASE COMES TO LIFE A WEDGWOOD SUITE. The Parabasis movement from 44 A WEDGWOOD SUITE, new ballet by the Ballet Group, at the Little Theatre. ROSE WOODLAND at the opening of the Prelude movement. The music is by the modern Italian composer Romagnoli. The Dithyramb movement, with ROSE WOODLAND and PEGGY BEST dancing to the pipes of Pan. The Pastoral movement: (I. to r., top) ELIZABETH ...

ALL THIS--AND HEPBURN TOO! THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

... ALL THIS-- AND HEPBURN TOO I THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. The first husband turns up for the wedding Dinah (VIRGINIA WEIDLER), Margaret Lord (MARY NASH) and Tracy Lord (KATHARINE HEPBURN) greet Dexter Haven (CARY GRANT) with mixed feelings. 44 George, I love you, but you look awful. Tracy Lord wrestles with her pompous self-made fianci, George (JOHN HOWARD), and tries to get some good stable ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 308 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Debenham & Freebody

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Published: Wednesday 05 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 56 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

LAWN-TENNIS ACE WHO COMMANDS THE FRENCH A.T.S

... PORTRAIT BY HAY WRIGHTSOX. MADAME SIMONE MATHIEU, the French laicn-tennis ace who so often appeared on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, is the Head of the Corps Fcminin of General de Gaulle's Free French Forces, and holds the rank of Lieutenant. The Corps Feminin is now two months old and about one hundred strong. The volunteers, who are all of French nationality, come from every ivalk of life. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 153 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LITERARY, ARTISTIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PEOPLE AND THEIR DOINGS RECORDED BY CAMERA

... LITERARY, ARTISTIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL: I-- mmrnrn^m PEOPLE AND THEIR DOINGS RECORDED BY CAMERA. J; The marriage of SEC. LIEUT. J. F. HARWOOD, son of Sir i?a/p/i|J T and Lady Harwood, to MISS EILEEN WINIFRED SMITH, daughter I of Mr. F. D. Smith, took place at West Grinstead Church. I I 44 The Trial of Mary Dugan was staged at a R.A.F. officers 1 hospital. Convalescent patients nurses and W.A ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 644 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STRIKE UP THE MUSIC WITH WIT BEAUTY AND BURLESQUE

... STRIKE UP THE V1USIC WITH WIT, I BEAUTY AND iURLESQUE. I STRIKE UP THE MUSIC, the new 44 revue of happiness at the London Coliseum, lives up to its description, as it offers a programme com pounded of spectacle, beauty, and wit combined with glorious examples of brilliant burlesque by Douglas Byng and Andre Randall, and other laughter- making scenes. ANDRfe RANDALL as Mussolino, apparently ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs