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CLARK GABLE AND HEDY LAMARR IN COMRADE X

... V asiliev, Secret Police Chief (OSCAR HOMOLKA), McKinley B. Thompson Mac (CLARK GABLE), and Emil von Hofer (SIG RUMANN) in a tense scene. Mac is playing a dangerous game. Mac (CLARK GABLE) has been forced into trying to induce Theodore (HEDY LAMARR), a convinced Communist who is, however in danger to come to the U.S.A. CLARK GABLE as McKinley B. Thompson known as 44 Mac,** the American ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 292 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BOMBER CAPTAIN AND HIS SECOND PILOT

... iOMBER CAPTAIN AND HIS SECOND PILOT. This magnificent portrait-study shows the captain of a bomber at the controls, with his second pilot standing beside him. They are about to start for a raid over enemy territory. This captain, typical of the Royal Air Force, is i9J years of age, has made thirty flights over Germany and Italy, and won the D.F.C. The programme of a bomber-pilot's working day ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE BERNHARDT OF ATHENS--TORPEDOED IN THE ATLANTIC

... THE BERNHARDT OF ATHENS TORPEDOED IN THE ATLANTIC. MADAME PAXINOU, distinguished Greek actress, came to England two years ago with the Royal Greek Theatre Company and appeared in Electra and Hamlet, and also as Mrs. Alving in an English performance of Ghosts. She was recently in a ship which was torpedoed. She was rescued by a British destroyer and reached England again. Her adventures are ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 136 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE GYM. WAY BACK TO HEALTH: R.A.F. REHABILITATION

... THE GYM. WAY BACK TO HEALTH: RAF. REHABILITATION. The R.A.F. officers who have just paused in the middle of a game of basket baU are 44 playing themselves back to health 44 in the 44 gym. 44 at an Officers 4 Convalescent Hospital which specialises in the most modern methods of 44 rehabilitation 44 of battle casualties. This R.A.F. officer is not operating some secret and important engine ...

Published: Wednesday 23 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 296 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BALLERINA'S GOOD-NIGHT

... . This dancing study with a young ballerina sur les pointes looking up at a group of coryphees posed on the steps of a fine caned staircase might well be a new ballet divertissement. It is actually a real-life picture of Joan Bowser, one of the pupils of the Cone-Ripman School of Dancing, practising a ballet pose in front of six other admiring students before going to bed. The dancing school ...

Published: Wednesday 23 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROAD SHOW, CIRCUS FUN; VIRGINIA, SOUTHERN ROMANCE

... ROAD SHOW, CIRCUS' FUN;' VIRGINIA, SOUTHERN ROMANCE. V ROAD SHOW, due at the London Pavilion on April 7, is a high- spirited comedy of circus life. Colonel Carraway (ADOLPHE MENJOU) is playing the 44 big cat in a rehearsal of the lion-taming act of Drogo Gaines (JOHN HUBBARD). Road Show Penguin Moore (CAROL LANDIS) owns the circus which Drogo has joined on escaping from the sanatorium in ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LADY IN THE DARK FOR LONDON WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE UP AGAIN!

... LADY IN THE DARK FOR LONDON WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE UP AGAIN I GERTRUDE LAWRENCE has made -on immense success in New York in Lady in the Dark the new Moss Hart Kurt Weill Ira Gerschwin musical play. At the Carnival to Britain Miss Lawrence had a conversation with C. B. CochrSn across the Atlantic telephone. This talk was amplified and relayed across the States. During their chat, Miss Lawrence ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GREAT LADIES, FAMOUS MEN, BRIDES AND BRIDES-ELECT PICTORIAL SURVEY OF PEOPLE AND THEIR DOINGS

... . The PRIME MINISTER, Chancellor of Bristol University t conferred honorary degrees upon MR. MENZIES (left), the I Australian Premier and MR. WINANT, I the American Ambassador (right), I at Bristol. Right H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT I inspected a collection of models being I sent to the United States by the Export Group of the Federation of British Industries. CAPTAIN GERALD OSBORNE, the Black ...

Published: Wednesday 23 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 402 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NAZI-RULE HORROR OF SO ENDS OUR NIGHT

... NAZI -RULE HORROR OF SO ENDS OUR NIGHT. y A, ■■Mil ■Iji I vi ..HHra- iT^liCrwSk Ludivig Kern (GLENN FORD) and Ruth Holland (MARGARET SULLAVAN) play the political refugee and the girl who loves him in So Ends Our Night, the new anti-Nazi film Josef Steiner (FREDRIC MARCH), former German Army officer, faces the dread Gestapo Colonel (FREDRIK VOGEDING). Josef Steiner (FREDRIC MARCH) in the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 146 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HIGHLIGHTS OF LADY IN THE DARK: GERTRUDE LAWRENCE AT THE ALTAR, DREAMING, AND IN THE BIG TOP

... HIGHLIGHTS OF LADY IN THE DARK: GERTRUDE LAWRENCE AT THE ALTAR, DREAMING, AND IN THE BIG TOP. Liza (GERTRUDE LAWRENCE right has a dream flash-back to schooldays and hears the Mapleton High Choral sung by High School graduates. Left: Liza's Circus with GERTRUDE LAWRENCE as the proprietor. The ringmaster and .ensemble are singing The Greatest Show on Earth in the circus lent, or 44 Big Top. ...

Published: Wednesday 23 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 334 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs