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THE FASTEST FEET IN FILMDOM LEARN NEW STEPS

... . Long-legged ann MILLER is reputed to have the fastest feet in filmdom. Her footwork *s so good that she can do five taps merely by dropping her foot to the floor, and can immediately get the rhythm for any new number if Pan Hermes hums it to her. Three years ago she left her native Texas to try her luck in Hollywood, and after dancing at stag dinners and amateur shows she landed a big part ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 199 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPARE A COPPER STAR IN CORDUROY

... . DOROTHY HYSON, who is starring with George Formby in SPARE A COPPER new Michael Balcon picture due at the New Gallery last Sunday, March 16 looks very sweet and serious in this great big armchair wiih Renaissance-style carved arms and back The neat and becoming corduroy turban which she wears is relieved by jewelled clips, and there 's a very 1941 watch brooch pinned on to her plainly cut ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 92 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE ROYAL NAVY

... THE ROYAL AAVY THE ROYAL AAVY BR I T I S H WA RSHIPS Completely illustrates and describes -The Navy is to-day as it always has been in our history, Aircraft Carrier and Cruiser ill the British Navy, the first line of defience of these islands and of that Great Empire ag weU illustrati(ms Qf every tvpe 0f Destroyer, which was built up by the toil and the enterprise of our fathers. 0| 1 i c Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 481 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

A CHIP OF THE OLD BROOKE!

... MISS ROSEMARY BROOKE is a C.S.M. in the Women's Transport Service F.A.N.Y. She is with her C.O. MISS B. B. HUTCHINSON. C.S.M. MISS BROOKE in her office. Handing a message to ORDERLY-SERGEANT MRS. DESMOND JAMES. Tea in the Leaders Mess-room MISS BROOKE, with SECTION-LEADER MRS. GEOFFREY GRACE and SECTION-LEADER MISS ELSIE MOBERLY. A practical demonstration ASST. ADJUTANT MISS RUTH HOLMES ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S WARTIME BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH 197 CANDLES WARTIME DÉBUTANTES ASSEMBLE AT THE GREAT HOSPITAL BALL

... QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S WARTIME BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH 197 CANDLES: WARTIME DEBUTANTES ASSEMBLE AT THE GREAT HOSPITAL BALL LADY CAROLINE SPENCER-CHURCHILL and her cousin, MISS DIANA GILMOUR. MISS MARY CHURCHILL, youngest daughter of the Premier. MISS LOVEDAY BOLITHO, MISS PATRICIA DAWSON, MISS AVICE DAWSON. and the HON. ANN RUSSELL (I. to r.). The HON. ROSEMARY SCOTT-ELLIS, fifth daughter of Lord U ...

THE PREMIER MARQUESS OF SCOTLAND AND HIS FIANCÉE

... THE PREMIER MARQUESS OF SCOTLAND i AND HIS FIANCEE. The engagement of the HON. PAMELA BERRY, only daughter of Lord Kemsley to the MARQUESS OF HUNTLY, 'The Gordon Highlanders ivas announced last week. Lord Huntly who is the twelfth Marquess and Premier Marquess of Scotland, was born in 1908, and succeeded his great-uncle, the eleventh Marquess, in 1937. He is descended from Sir Adam Gordon of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LONDON CHILDREN IN AUSTRALIAN WONDERLAND

... . 44 Is it real?'* Young seavac.uees from London meet one of Australia's koalas, or Teddy Bears, in the Healesville sanctuary, and find it difficult to believe in. Did you really have to wear them Patricia and Elsie Pallis give a demonstration of gas-mask drill to their cousins, Doreen Jacobs and Anita Pallis. 44 And Melbourne *s here Elsie and Patricia Pallis have a lesson in the geography of ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE N.H. MEETING AT CHELTENHAM

... . LADY ALEXANDRA METCALFE, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, CAPTAIN M. WARDELL and MISS PEGGY HAMILTON. MRS. LOVEDAY left in a fur coat and cap) with the DUCHESS OF NORFOLK. LADY HELENA HILTON GREEN and MAJOR MITCHELL in consultation as the numbers go up. The HON. SHEILA DIGBY, daughter of I.or d and Lady Digby, with MR. Y. FITZHERBERT. MR. INNES and the HON. MRS. INNES. She ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE OFFICER ON THE RIGHT for being the first Burmese to get a commission in the Fighter Command's Burma Squadron, R.A.F. Squadron-Leader Stanford Tuck, its leader kneeling left centre shot down his 27th German plane last week. MR. HAROLD JUDD for using the Ministry of Supply as a place of entertainment for H amp stead' s dust-women. LADY MAUREEN STANLEY and MISS EVELYN ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 462 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SECOND AMERICAN-BORN WOMAN M.P

... MRS. BEATRICE RATHBONE, who has succeeded her husband, Flight Lieutenant John Rathbone killed in action as Conservative Member for Bodmin, is the second American-born woman to enter the House of Commons. She is the fourteenth ivonjan Member in the present Parliament, and will be introduced by the Chief Whip and Mr. A. C. Bossom, an old friend of the Rathbone family, who has many ties with the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 134 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A WIDE FIELD OF WARTIME SUBJECTS

... . r LADY MARY BERRY, FLIGHT LIEUT, the HON. LANGTON and MRS. ILIFFE and LIEUT. MICHAEL RENSHAW (I. to r.) at the wedding of Lord Hunlly and the Hon. Pamela Berry. CORPORAL HAROLD SIMS, M.M., decorated at a recent Investiture is the first American serving with the British to win an award in this war. He received his M.M. for gallantry at Dunkirk. LORD KEMSLEY. father of Lord Huntly's bride, ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE ART OF MISUSING EGGS!: NINA LEEN LOOTS THE LARDER

... THE ART OF MISUSING EGGS L NINA LEEN LOOTS THE LARDER. I A scene of pity and terror: six eggs, praying, doomed and forlorn, watch their comrade frying. I An unfortunate love-affair she is set on a pinnacle, and he has fallen down. Of unsound mind? An egg his hair standing on end, views a comrade who has committed felo de sc. A little hoy and girl are at play with their boat in a spacious pan ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs