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LEARN GIN RUMMY FROM THE STARS

... . IN RUMMY is Hollywood's version of the old-fashioned game of Rummy which has got its grip on stars and executives. All you want is a pack of cards and some money is useful Or play for love. Each player gets ten cards. One card goes face up on table the rest of the pack is face down. Non- dealer may pick up showing card 1 or take a chance on top pack card, t He then discards one, face up, and ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 468 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MARRIED--BUT SINGLE: KISS-LESS HONEYMOON COMEDY

... MARRIED BUT SINGLE: KISS-LESS HONEYMOON COMEDY. ROSALIND RUSSELL as Ann Winters in MARRIED BUT SINGLE, netv Columbia picture due at the Regal on Easter Sunday, April 13. Tice and Charlotte get entangled in a compromising situation when on a midnight swim. believes in a platonic marriage but her jealousy is roused when she finds Tice (MELVYN DOUGLAS) with pretty secretary Charlotte (BINNIE ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 94 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOTLEY NOTES: They Don't Care

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. They Don't Care. About fifty daffodils in my garden, and legions of them forming up. Crocuses nearly over. Tulips shooting up nicely. Buds and young leaves, all according to plan. Blackbirds and throstles sounding the Raiders Past in the morning. And I had nearly forgotten them!-- the first almond-blossoms. It would all be very vernal and stimulating but for two ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2319 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

ROYAL DUCHESS VISITS THE LAND GIRLS

... royal duchess visits the land girls. I H.R.tf. the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER recently visited the Women's Land Army Training a> the Institute of Agriculture, Moulton, Northants, and watched the girls doing such jobs as loading up farm-wagons. The royal visitor sees how an orphaned lamb being brought up by hand, gets its bottle from a Land Girl. Left A demonstration of the skilled art of pruning ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 89 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FUTURE LADY ANDREW CAVENDISH

... . The marriage of the HON. DEBORAH MITFORD, youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale to Lord Andrew Cavendish, Coldstream Guards, younger son of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, is fixed to take place on Saturday, April 19, at St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield. Miss Milford is here posed with a favourite whippet, which wears her pearls with grace and insouciance. PHOTOGRAPH BY YEVONDE. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 69 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NOTABLE AND CHARMING PERSONALITIES

... . MISS J. B. G. FRAZER-NASH, younger daughter of Captain. A. Frazer-Nash armament designer, is engaged to Fit. Lieut. J. N. Watts-Farmer, D.F.C., R.A.F. MISS JOCELYN MARGOT GAVIN, only daughter of Flying Officer Ian Gavin, is engaged to Captain John Miles Burton, R.A. H.R.H. the PRINCESS ROYAL stuck a flag in the Gifts from Overseas map at the W.V.S. H.Q. to mark an American Red Cross gift of ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 185 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CAMERA ROVES IN WARTIME A CHOICE HAND-PICKED PICTURE MIXTURE

... A THE CAMERA ROVES IN WAR- B TIME: urn A CHOICE HAND-PICKED PICTURE L_ MIXTURE. i wm--mmm mmn J i It was pretty chilly racing at Nottingham, so MRS. 1 PETER ALLEN (left) and MISS PEGGY JOHNSON did their racing standing by the brazier at least, during part of the day. I-- Right Hoops over MISS EVELYN FORMAN'S negro (Mammy helps her into her crinoline for the Pilgrimage Garden Club's annual ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 360 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WRENS ON THE KITCHEN FRONT: PR IONERS IN A ROYAL NAVAL COOKERY SCHOOL

... WRENS ON THE KITCHEN FRONT: PRt JIONERS IN A ROYAL NAVAL COOKERY SCHOOL, QUARTERED in the house that was once Charles Dickens's home, somewhere in Kent, are twenty girls, some of the first probationer Wrens to take the nine-weeks course in the whole art and practice of cooking, arranged for the Women's Royal Naval Service in one of the Royal Naval Cookery Schools. The girls, who will pass ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LADY OF THE LAMP--1941

... LADY OF THE LAMP-- 1941. The unflagging courage and devotion to duty displayed by nurses is one of the most inspiring features of the defence of London. Sisters and nurses on duty in hospitals have had not only to tend the sick and wounded, but on countless occasions have had to evacuate patients from badly bombed buildings, and have risked their lives by searching through shattered wards so ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 98 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GOOD BARGAINS IN A GOOD CAUSE: RED CROSS MARKET

... . The RED CROSS SHOP in Bond Street is stocked with gifts sent for sale and looks like a miniature Caledonian Market. MRS. CHARLES WOOD has just completed the sale of a piece of Honilon lace and is receiving payment from the customer. An expert in search of treasures MR. MAGGS, the famous book seller, looking over stock with NINA, COUNTESS GRANVILLE. A paradise for the bargain-hunter Books, ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 238 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOLLYWOOD'S BEST ACTOR BANQUET

... HOLLYWOOD'S BEST ACTOR BANQUET. ALFRED LUNT and LYNN FONTANNE presented GINGER ROGERS and JAMES STEWART with their Oscars. JOAN FONTAINE arriving at the banquet accompanied by BRIAN AHERNE. JOAN BENNETT and FRANK CAPRA during the banquet, which took place in the Biltmore Hotel. z i ALFRED LUNT and LYNN FONTANNE handing the Award of Merit plaques to JANE DARWELL and WALTER BRENNAN. TYRONE ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IN AND OUT OF TOWN

... IN AND OUT OF 1 TOWN 1 JS& wedaag 'J.at'S-' NEW hats can be a real economy, for they1 bring out surprising possibilities in last year's clothes. Fenwick's have an attractive and unusual collection, including the model above in pale biscuit-coloured straw, tied with veiling and a ribbon bow. This costs 39s. 6d., and can also be made in felt. They have sailor shapes, too, in striped cotton to ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs