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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 

Swarming Means Loss of Honey

... WHEN bees begin to prepare for the great exodus, all work in the hive slows down. The queen is given less food by her at tendants, with the result that she pro duces fewer eggs, and so, being less heavily burdened, is better able to accompany the swarm on its flight. We want, it possible, to avoid this slackening off and we try to so arrange matters that the bees never develop this upsetting ...

Silage from Playing Fields: A Rugby Football Pitch Will Give 10,000 Glasses of Milk

... Silage from Playing Fields A Rugby Football Pitch Will Give 10,000 Glasses of Milk EVERYONE who owns or controls even a few acres of grassland must take up silage-making in the vital interests of the nation, for only a week or two back it was announced that 300,000 head more of stock must be slaughtered and that milk would have to be rationed this winter. Clearly, every possible acre must be ...

Rapier on Racing

... Breeders' Shipping Problems Beckham pton's Classic Double The Merits of Mieuxce THE position as regards bloodstock breeding, and therefore as regards racing, has not improved as the result of a recent statement. This is to the effect that certain shipping companies are not accepting further bookings for livestock for India, Ceylon and the Malay States. There is only a limited number of ...

Up and Down the Land

... THE German military machine is less flexible than its political organisation. The Nazi troops are swarming into the Ukraine while the wheat fields are still green because they are hungry for the oil which lies to the east. A large-scale invasion such as that now in progress --before the harvest has been gathered, is almost unprecedented in military history. Hitler, in his neea ior on, nas Deen ...

Way of the War: Germany, What Next?

... By Foresight Germany, What Next? AS the United States swing majestically into line with the British Empire and Allied Forces we find ourselves asking what is to be the next move by the enemy. So far there has been little evidence to suggest that the German drive into the Middle East is being mounted on a determined scale, although it is true that an important part of the army co-operation ...

Jack and Daphne Barker: A Versatile Cabaret Couple at Their Hampstead ..

... Jack and Daphne Barker A Versatile Cabaret Couple at Their Hampstead Hoj Jack and Daphne Barker stand in the doorway of Olive Lodge their attractive Hampstead home. Rumour has it that this ver satile pair will be seen in revue before long. Jack is in the Home Guard and gets a critical look-over from his wife before going on duty narked :%pa?d%z cas ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 247 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Social Round-about: The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country; Buckinghamshire

... y The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country By Bridget Chetwynd Buckinghamshire LATE frosts and lack of rain are making people's gardens backward. Mrs. David Livingstone-Learmonth, who has a charming cottage in Brill, gardens energetically, and is father spasmodically writing a new novel to succeed In Our Metropolis, which came out last autumn. Her brother-in-law, Brian Livingstone-Lear- ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1725 | Page: Page 10, 12 | Tags: Photographs