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ROYAL LADIES, BRIDES, TENNIS STARS, MUSCULAR GIRLS UICK REVIEW OF WOMEN AT WORK AND PLAY IN WARTIME

... ROYAL LADIES, BRIDES, TENNIS STARS, MUSCULAR GIRLS JfCK REVIEW OF WOMEN AT WORK AND PLAY IN WARTIME. The marriage of MISS PATRICIA RANK, daughter of the late Mr. Rowland Rank, to LIEUT. CHARLES COMPTON, R.N., took place at Chichester Register Office. Right H.I.M. THE EMPRESS OF ETHIOPIA, whose husband, Haile Selassie, has been j restored to his kingdom, attended the All- I Services and Allied ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 415 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

W.A.A.F. OFFICERS ON INTENSIVE TRAINING

... . Posed beside a Ming stone Kylin two W.A.A.F. officers' on a refresher course held in a beautiful country house. Eyes RIGHT The march-past with two instructors taking the salute. General inspection takes place every morning before the routine of 1 1 1 L 1 11 daily study starts. The young officers are standing smartly at attention. Lecture-room study. A typical W.A.A.F. officer at her desk. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LOVELINESS À L'AMÉRICAINE: GLORIFIED ZIEGFELD GIRLS AND EARL CA BEAUTIES

... LOVELINESS A L'AMEiRICAINE GLORIFIED ZIEGFELD GIRLS AND EARL CA L BEAUTIES. GEORGIA CARROLL was chosen from among 600 applicants as one of the twelve outstanding Ameri can beauties for M.G.M.'s 44 Ziegfeld Girl and was selected by photographer Clarence Bull as one of his two ideal Ziegfehl girls. She was formerly a famous John Powers model from New York. Left HARRIET BENNETT, all ostrich ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 173 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CATEGORY C--VERY FRIENDLY ALIENS

... CATEGORY C- VERY FRIENDLY ALIENS. Right 44 This has been a very chilly spring f MAXIMILIAN and TRUDY approve of the electric radiator. k4 Save water Certainly but don't do me out of my bath and beauty treatment SmiZin' thro\ TRUDY gazes sentimentally up at her bath attendant whilst being dried. Manicure must not be neglected even in wartime TRUDY has her toenails clipped. Getting ready to go ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 187 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

UP AND DOING IN LONDON AGAIN

... . PATRICIA BURKE, charming young star of UP AND DOING, the successful Firth Shephard show whichhas just returned to London for a run at the Saville Theatre, finds time to scribble a letter a long one too in between the scenes of a performance. LESLIE HENSON and CYRIL RITCHARD as the Pukka Sahibs who interrupt the Elocutionist giving The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God. Left A long pull ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME COATS AND FROCKS FOR YOUR COLLECTION

... WOMEN IN WARTIME Coats and Frocks FOR Your Collection CLOTHES this summer have to be adaptable. For many women a complete new outfit might be an unjustified expense, but a coat or frock that will go with other things is a practical addition to the wardrobe. The model above from Gorringes, Buckingham Palace Road, is in a soft biscuit shade that could be worn over almost any frock. Simply cut, ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 190 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE REST IS SILENCE

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. This ruined amphitheatre is all that the Luftwaffe have left of the QUEEN S HALL, London's most famous concert hall the home of the Proms., and the building where great conductors, including the incomparable Toscanini, have given concerts to closely packed audiences, and to listeners-in all over the world. The building was opened in 1893 with a concert by the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 205 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SIR COLENSO RIDGEON--BY RAYMOND MASSEY

... SIR COLENSO RIDGEON-- BY RAYMOND MASSEY. RAYMOND MASSEY wears this immaculate morning coat and grey topper as the fashionable specialist. Sir Colenso Ridgeon, in The Doctor's Dilemma, ivhich has been revived by Katharine Cornell at the Shubert Theatre, Neto York. It will be remembered that in this play George Bernard Shaiv turns himself loose on the medical profession and presents a group of ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 99 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE DIETRICH--DIRECTED BY RENÉ CLAIR

... THE DIETRICH-- DIRECTED BY RENE CLAIR. Working for an ideal camera angle DIRECTOR RENE CLAIR, the battery of cameras, and STAR MARLENE DIETRICH making a scene in Universalis new picture, THE FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS. This Joe Pasternak production is the first American picture directed by Rene Clair, who was making films in Paris when France collapsed and caught the last boat to America. The Light ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BETTE DAVIS AS A MAUGHAM MURDERESS--THE LETTER

... BETTE DAVIS AS A MAUGHAM MURDERESS- THE LETTER. UHHr 1 Leslie Crosbie (BETTE DAVIS), trembling but determined, goes out to buy the incriminating letter. Acquitted but guilty! Leslie and Howard Joyce (JAMES STEPHENSON; right tell Robert Crosbie (HERBERT MARSHALL) the truth. Murder by moonlight Leslie pours shots into the dead body of Jeoffrey Hammond. ■■■■V J* Mrs. Hammond (GALE SONDERGAARD), ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALL-STAR DEPORTMENT DISPLAY

... . Here's an all-star deportment display by JUDY GARLAND (nearest camera HEDY LAMARR (centre), and LANA TURNER from Metro-Goldivyn- Mayer's -new musical, ZIEGFELD GIRL. The exercise of tcalking up and doivn stairs with a book balanced on the head tvas considered by our grandparents to be an infallible method for insuring graceful carriage. These front-line favourites of the screen can carry ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 68 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SLEUTHING WITH GHOSTLY HELP: TOPPER RETURNS

... Saved by a ghost The materialised presence of murdered Gail (JOAN BLONDELL) saves Cosmo Topper (ROLAND YOUNG) from death. Topper in trouble with Mrs. Topper (BILLIE BURKE). He is trying to prevent Gail from materialising in his wife's room. Rowed by invisible hands through mysterious caverns Cosmo Topper in search of the ship where Gail's corpse is hidden. The ghost of the murdered Gail ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 208 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs