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NAVAL, MILITARY, DIPLOMATIC AND SOCIAL PEOPLE AND THEIR WARTIME LIFE AND WORK

... , These A.T.S. girls are making up for the third edition oj the R.A. Depot Concert Party production, Gun flashes, at Woolwich. Right THIS OFFICER OF THE KING'S AFRICAN RIFLES on the Kenya front is feeding a five-day-old Sykes monkey from a fountain-pen filler. The MAYOR OF SOUTHEND presented the National Defence League medal to PEGGY, the dog which saved GWEN WARREN by pawing plaster from her ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HIGHLIGHTS OF GEORGE BLACK'S 3RD INTIMATE RAG, BLACK VANITIES

... ZO£ GAIL and the GEORGE BLACK LOVELIES in 44 Midsummer Music, with Miss Gail as the Cherry Picker Left ZO£ GAIL and the GEORGE BLACK LOVELIES singing 44 Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries The Private (BUD FLANAGAN) challenges the Girl (EILEEN MOORE) I to a duel in Do Your Duty. Drop Me a Line One of Zo'e GaiTs numbers with the George Black Lovelies each armed with a fishing-rod. Darktown ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLACK VANITIES DAY-TIME

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY ROVE. FRANCES DAY is in splendid form in her numbers in 44 BLACK VANITIES, George Black's third intimate rag, which was due to come to the Victoria Palace last week Here you see cuts from a film of her singing 44 Much More Lovely 44 Do I Love You, Do I and 44 The Stutterer in a lovely full-skirted evening frock designed for her by Cecil Beaton. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 72 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

KNIGHTS-ERRANT GROUCHO, CHICO AND HARPO!

... KNIGHTS -ERRANT GROUCHO, CHICO AND HARPO S. Quentin Quale (GROUCHO MARX) has a flirtatious interlude with Lulubelle (JUNE MACCLOY). Quale and the Panellos hoard the train to Dodgeville a lively acrobatic sequence by the MARX BROTHERS. Eve Wilson (DIANA LEWIS) sets out in search of her legacy with the MARX BROTHERS. Eve Wilson (DIANA LEWIS) meets S. Quentin Quale (GROUCHO MARX), Joe Panelio ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FLYING-FOOT FRED AS BAND-LEADER DANNY

... . FRED ASTAIRE, of the nimble flying feet> ploys Danny O'Neil, leader of the college band, in 44 SECOND CHORUS, in which he stars with Paulette Goddard, and Artie Shaw and his band. The film was due at the Plaza on April 11, end is the gayest, freshest and most exhilarating entertainment imaginable. On our front page Fred is seen with Paulette God dard and Burgess Meredith, who makes his ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 92 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CUNNING CUNNINGHAM--VICTOR OF THE GREAT SEA BATTLE

... CUNNING CUNNINGHAM- VICTOR OF THE GREAT SEA BATTLE. The name of ADMIRAL SIR ANDREW BROWNE CUNNINGHAM, G.C.B., D.S.O., Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean will live in history as the victor of one of our greatest sea-battles, the action fought in the Eastern Mediterranean, when seven Italian warships were sunk, and our Naiy suffered no casualties. The brilliant strategy by which 44 Orion, ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AMUSING, UNUSUAL AND ATTRACTIVE PICTURES

... f . *T Driving a Post Office mail-van in London is strenu ous icork, but MRS. H. FURLEY looks as if she enjoyed it. She 's a pioneer in this job, for which women are being recruited. The Squadron to which this young Canadian officer belongs has given HITLER 169 KICKS IN THE PANTS in the shape of one for each machine shot down. Hence the spirited Squadron badge. Service with the forces has not ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 217 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW YORK MOBILISES THE STARS FOR US CARNIVAL FOR BRITAIN AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL

... NEW YORK MOBILISES THE STARS FOR US: CARNIVAL FOR BRITAIN AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL. ^TEW YORK'S biggest entertainment for the 44 Aid I Britain campaign was the great 44 Carnival for Britain which was held at Radio City Music Hall 1 in Rockefeller Centre, the world's biggest theatre, J before an audience of 6500 people. Such famous stage personalities as Helen Hayes, Gracie Fields, The vast ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 267 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RISE ABOVE IT, WITH HERMIONE BADDELEY

... . HERMIONE BADDELEY, waiting for the curtain to rise for the QUEeries act of Rise Above It. 44 Office Hours, with HERMIONE BADDELEY as the singing typist, surrounded by her colleagues, notebooks in hand. 44 Don't you know there s a war on FRITH BANBURY, AUDREY MURRAY, DAVID EVANS and GEORGINA COOKSON (I. to r.). HERMIONE BADDELEY with her cocker spaniel, Bags, in the dressing-room before ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 143 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FIRE-FIGHTING IN TU-TUS AND GAS-MASKS, STUDYING, KNITTING AND DANCING AT LODDINGTON HALL

... , Fire-fighting in the classic tu-tu, or ballet skirt: gas-masked embryo ballerinas at stirrup-pump drill. Left Claudie Leonard at work brightening the black-out curtains at Loddington Hall with gay peasant-dance scenes. One boy among eighty girls Ten-year- old John Gilpin painting a toy house while a group of ballerinas knit. J Right Shadow show of I future ballerinas a class of pupils ...

Published: Wednesday 23 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 375 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LADIES OF FAYGATE: LADY HAWKE AND HER DAUGHTERS

... . f 44 Catch LADY HAWKE and her elder daughter, the HON. CAROLINE HAWKE, enjoy a game in spring sunshine. Lady Haivke, Caroline and Ranger find something to interest them in the park. Lady Haivke is a daughter of Mr. Henry Faure Walker. 44 Swing high, swing low Lady Hawke plays with her younger daughter, the HON. ANNABEL HAWKE, in their outdoor 44 nursery The first Lord Haivke, victor of ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 200 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BEFORE AND AFTER THE RAID: BRIEFING IN AND INTERROGATION

... . map -Before ^hey. set out on Mc^long-dLunc8 %hj, bomMng -LbdCf0paotStaondg CTews mf^Uowed is' h giv by moans *h at their canteen. They have always had a good meal shortly before taking off so th/v rln i 1 purchase. This they spend as thev something to chew, largely to relieve the monotony of a long flight when a cigarette' is out of th 'If j Wlth them' bllt' likl' to have Officer makes ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 152 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs