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THE LADY EVE STANWYCK SNARES SHY SNAKE-HUNTER FONDA

... . HPHE LADY EVE, new JL Paramount picture (Plaza), is a merry farce by Preston Sturges, author of Down Went McGinty and Christmas in July. HENRY FONDA has the whale of a part as rich, shy, awkward Charles, the zoologist who hunts snakes and is in turn hunted by the mothers of marriageable girls. He falls in love with Jean, daughter of phoney Col Harring ton, and decoy for her father's card ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LONDON ELECTROTYPE AGENCY LTD

... THE PICTURE OF THE YEAR GENTLEMEN, THE ROYAL AIR FORCE I By D. L. MAYS IN RESPONSE TO SO MANY REQUESTS, THIS APPEALING PICTURE, WHICH WAS REPRODUCED IN HOLLY LEAVES, HAS NOW BEEN PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FORM Special printed copies in full colour on plate sunk chromo art paper. Ready for framing. Size of picture 17 xl2 with I J margin. Price 5/- each, including inland postage. Postage abroad ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 93 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

COOL, CORRECT, CHARMING

... Cool, Correct, Charming AT last the forage cap, a shape which has always suited women, has been adapted for the A.T.S. In beech brown, piped with green and with a peach-coloured cleft, it makes an attractive finish to the uniform for informal occasions. The outfit above has been tailored by Moss Bros., of King Street, Covent Garden, for an officer in the A.T.S. They have all the correct ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

ALL QUIET ON THE BRIDGE FRONT: THE CARD-ROOM AT WHITE'S

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. The card-room at White s is one of the most famous interiors in Clubland, and till the Luftwaffe had a busy time the other night, bombing military objectives in London, its aspect had remained substantially unchanged since 1755, when the present club-house in St. James's Street was built. It is one of the oldest clubs in London, and was originally a chocolate ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 162 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MYSTERY-VISITOR HESS AS A LADIES' MAN

... . The fantastic and startling news of the arrival in Scotland by parachute of RUDOLF HESS, Deputy Fiihrer of Germany and Party Leader of the National Socialist Party, has set everyone off making his or her own Hess guess, as a witty contemporary calls private speculations on the reasons for this amazing Flying Visit, so similar to that foretold by Peter Fleming in his amusing fantasy On this ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OUR AMBASSADOR, LORD HALIFAX, IN NEW YORK

... . VlSCOUNt HALIFAX, British Ambassador to the (S.A., accompanied by Viscountess Halifax, paid a hort visit to New York, shortly after reaching the L.S.A., and spent a a vded three days, during u ich he combined the duties of a statesman with tl. pleasures of a tourist. Ji made his first public ech as Ambassador to (j. Pilgrims received journalists and answered tf: ir questions for two h rs and ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 224 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GERTRUDE AND A GAINSBOROUGH LORD NELSON

... . GERTRUDE LAWRENCE, stage and screen star, unveiled a Gainsborough portrait of Lord Nelson in the main lobby of Radio City Music Hall, New York. The picture tvas brought from Los Angeles for a special display in connection with the New York premiere of the film 44 Lady Hamilton in which Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh appear as the Admiral and his Emma. It *s an important Alexander Korda ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 75 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NOT-SO-USUAL PORTRAITS OF CELEBRITIES

... . DEANNA DURBIN, the young singing screen star is here seen on her wedding trip with her husband, VAUGHN PAUL. Their Los Angeles wedding was attended by five hundred guests, and they planned a month* s honeymoon before returning to Hollywood. ROBERT MOORE, San Francisco State College student; is mopping his brow after submitting the poor man!) to a four-minute test kiss from MARLENE DIETRICH ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NAUGHTY 'NINETIES POSTCARDS COME TO LIFE

... . T ES Photographies de Mile. Fifi, a reconstruction of 44 naughty postcards JL/ of the Gay 'Nineties, is one of the numbers in the small revue which ADAM LESLIE and EVE LYND are presenting at the Wellington Club. Adam Leslie, a twenty-four-year-old Rhodesian, won the Rhodes Trustee Prize for English Literature at an early age, and became a journalist. Then he took up painting and was ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SCHWEPPES DRY

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Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 11 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs