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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - ANN SHERIDAN for letting the photographer get a kick out of the sitting. JANE WYMAN for finding a f till-dress ducking no hardship. MRS. MARGUERITE MEADOWS for showing perfect form over the hurdles. THESE SUMMER-TIME GIRLS for their spray solution of the bare leg question. PATTI McCARTY --for rocket- ing from secretary to star. IN a moment of ebullience film-star ANN SHERIDAN kicked off her ...

FIFTY YEARS ON IN FIVE MINUTES!

... FIFTY YEARS ON IN FIVE MINUTES I BARBARA STANWYCK wears this lovely period costume in one of the sequences of 44 The Great Man's Lady in which she appears as a young woman. Years roll by and the erstwhile young lovers become an old lady and gentleman. BARBARA STANWYCK and JOEL McCREA as the young lovers in 44 The Great Man's Lady. BARBARA STANWYCK has to age to 109 and is here seen as the ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 247 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LOOKING FORWARD, FUR FOR EXPORT: CLASSIC TAILORED SUITS

... LOOKING FORWARD. FUR FOR EXPORT, CLASSIC TAILORED SUITS. NEVER has there been a time when the classic tailored suit has been regarded with greater favour. Matita, appreciating this fact, is making a feature of the same to him must be given the credit of the model above. It is carried out in a new tweed, showing an original overcheck. He has faith in straight skirts and neatly tailored ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

VAT 69

... Sandeldond LUXURY BLEND SCOTCH WHISKY WM. SANDERSON SON LTD. LEITH ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: ACTING CHIEF CONTROLLER JEAN KNOX, A.T.S

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- ACT1NG CHIEF CONTROLLER JEAN KNOX, A.T.S., for being a woman of ideas who has become major= general at thirty=three. MRS. JEAN KNOX entered the A.T.S. as Company Commandant in 1939, before the ivar started. Last March, as Senior Commandant, she was appointed to the new post of ideas woman, to tour the country and lay before the War Office her suggestions for the ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 142 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STAR IN DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT

... Vivacious blonde SALLY GRAY plays Carole Peters the American heiress heroine of DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT,*' opposite to Anton Walhrook as Stefan Radetzky Polish musician and airman. Cecil Beaton designed Miss Grayys costumes for this new film, and posed her for this still yy-- facts which account for its striking resemblance to one of his fine camera portrait studies. ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 61 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LESLIE HOWARD IN PIMPERNEL SMITH

... : LESLIE HOWARD as the not- so-simple Professor Smith. The Professor looks at one of his treasured classical statues. Von Graum (FRANCIS SULLIVAN), the Gestapo chief is disturbed by the many mysterious escapes from the concentration camps. Left The scarecrow at the concentration camp plays a most impor tant part in the story. Left MARY MORRIS as LudmiUa, daughter of Koslowski a Polish ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES--WITH JEAN ARTHUR

... THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES-- WITH JEAN ARTHUR. Hooper (EDMUND GWENN), the disagreeable manager of the store, upbraids Mary (JEAN ARTHUR) and Merrick (CHARLES COBURN). Complaints made by Merrick fail to impress the store bath-house attendant (FRANK MILLS). Mary at one moment believes Merrick to be a spy. Ifence she 's getting busy with a ski-hoot, the thing for fifth columnists Store-owner ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 214 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IMPROBABLE COWARD FARCE

... . 44 BLITHE SPIRIT, Noel Coward's new play at the Piccadilly is described by the author as an improbable farce. It is also very funny. Ruth (FAY COMPTON) is telling Madame Arcali. (MAR GARET RUTHERFORD) about Elvira who 44 started laughing helplessly at a R.B.C. musical concert and died of a heart attack Elvira was the first wife of Ruth's husband, Charles, and her spirit, conjured up at a ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 307 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SUNRAY PLEATING RETURNS THE MODISH REDINGOTE CLASSIC BLACK FROCKS

... SUNRAY PLEATING RETURNS I THE MODISH REDINGOTE CLASSIC BLACK FROCKS WOMEN IN WARTIME BLUE and WHITE MARGARET MARKS, Knightsbridge, has not overlooked the fact that summer is far from over. Therefore, she has contributed to this page the altogether charming crepe dress above with sunray pleated skirt finished with white collar and cuffs, the scheme being completed with a narrow belt. There are ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CONVOY WILL MAKE HARBOUR

... THE CONVOY WILL MAKFHARBOUR^J^ By L. LUARD. DAWN. The landlocked waters of the harbour, untouched by the faint breath of the westerly wind, lay stilled and placid. The lines of wharves and piers, overtopped by the skeleton structures of cranes, by the masts of ships pointed like lances against the sky, loomed, shadowy and vague, against the solidity of the surrounding hills, fn the offing dark ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2330 | Page: Page 25, 26 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE CHEERFUL SIDE OF WARTIME LIFE

... . Off for a carefree wartime holiday no worry over petrol coupons for these two. What luggage is not in their rucksacks has been packed in the pram along with baby Even if you go swimming you may not escape the watchful eye of the W.A.A.F. recruiting officials on the look-out for likely lasses. Here's a pamphlet being handed out to a young swimmer from the end of a diving-board. HEL£NE WOLSKA ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 393 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs