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THIS YEAR? NEXT YEAR . . .?

... THIS YEAR NEXT YEAR H.R.H. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF KENT is having a rose day all to herself as she pulls the fragrant petals one by one and asks as little girls have done since time immemorial, This year? Next year? Sometime? Never? Our youngest Princess is the only daughter of T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of Kent, and was born on December 25, 1936 PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 68 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MISS JACQUELINE COCHRAN-- For being the first woman to ferry a bomber across the Atlantic, and for having a flyins record worth picking out in precious stones on her cigarette^ case. Walking out in London, MISS JACQUELINE COCHRAN looks delightfully feminine and at first glance one would hardly connect her with the boyish figure on the right, or with her fine flying ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 349 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JUNE BRIDES BETROTHALS AND ROSES

... . MISS PHYLLIS CALVERT, film-star who played opposite to Michael Redgrave in the Kipps film, married actor MR. PETER MURRAY HILL, who is now in the police force. The bridegroom's Station Inspector (right) is congratulating, the bride. MISS CECILIA COLLEDGE, the famous ice-skater, is a member of the Mechanised Transport Corps. On Alexandra Day she sold roses outside Drapers' Ilall. The ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 234 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

U.S.A. FLYING FORTRESS FILM--I WANTED WINGS

... U.S.A. FLYING FORTRESS FILM- I WANTED WINGS. T WANTED WINGS, A- Paramount picture which was due to have a double premiere at the Plaza and the Carlton Theatres on Friday last, June 27, is a thrilling flying film, with a dramatic story set against the background of U.S.A. Army Air Corps training and manoeuvres, and incorporating the in terior sounds of a huge U.S.A. Army Flying Fort ress ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 251 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE NEW AMBASSADOR'S REVUE

... . I has a programme consisting of thirty-jive numbers presented at top speed. Here 's the opening scene of the Anna Duse ballet to Temple Abady music, 44 LADY IN SEARCH OF AN ONION. The shopkeeper (CHARLES HAWTREY) has just told the ladies of the Corps de Ballet that he has no onions to-day. 44 While you do share shelves with me, will you please squeeze my toothpaste from the bottom, Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 140 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HIGH-SPEED SHOW OF WIT AND GRACE

... . A misprint in the Parish Magazine has caused a rise in circulation. MADGE ELLIOTT and BETTY ANN DAVIES in Clerical Error. C i:-e them my buns with strychnine in them ERNEST THESIGER and CHARLES HAWTREY as The Amazons. Left Your tiny hand is frozen CHARLES HAWTREY and MADGE ELLIOTT in Violetta. Indiarubber, the finale of the first half of the programme, with ROBERTA HUBY and BETTY ANN ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 90 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

UNDER THE SUN--THE ARMY'S OWN REVUE

... UNDER THE SUN THE ARMY'S OWN REVUE. t Seven gifted A.T.S. are the Girls of the Army's own entertainment unit, which recently produced 44 Under the Sun. They are here making up in an improvised green-room. 44 Censored LIEUT. AUBREY DEXTER and VOLUNTEER R. CROOME in one of their amusing numbers. Left 44 Madame La Zonga and some of her daughters introduce La Conga on the stage. SUB-LEADER SMITH, ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 266 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  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 

KING PETER--DISPOSSESSED BUT DETERMINED

... KING PETER-DISPOSSESSED BUT DETERMINED. HIS MAJESTY KING PETER OF YUGOSLAVIA, seventeen-year-old monarch dis possessed by the Axis Powers, reached England last week accompanied by his Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Minister at Court and was met by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent on behalf of the King. It is understood that a Yugoslavian Government will be set up in this country, for the young ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MAKING OF A MODERN OFFICER: WORK AND PLAY AT AN O.C.T.U

... THE MAKING OF A MODERN OFFICER: WORK AND PLAY AT AN OO.T.U. No. 1 gun empty Sir A fine camera-study showing a batterv of 25-pounder field guns in action. Relaxation a scene in the recreation-room, with officer cadets reading the' papers and periodicals. The post mortem after exercises these gunners have been firing according to instructions given by aeroplane. The O.C.T.U. cadets doing ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 169 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LONDON'S LATEST SHOW--NON-STOP VANITIES

... LONDON'S LATEST SHOW-- NON-STOP VANITIES. Alfred Esdaile's NON-STOP VANITIES/* at the Prince of Wales', promises this week to become London's latest show, ending at the hour of 10 p.m. Here FEITH LINN and the girls are seen in The White Rhapsody. OLD SUNNY SPAIN, with BERT BROWNBILL on the left. A close-up of MY FAIRY COACH with the occupants. BEAUTY UNADORNED in the number GARDEN OF GLORY ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 89 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

EUROPEAN OBSERVER VIRGINIA COWLES

... . Wherever European trouble looked like boiling over there MISS VIRGINIA COWLES (New York 44 Herald-Tribune has watched criticised, recorded. This intrepid journalist has built her impressions up into the recently published 44 Looking for Trouble (Hamish Hamilton reviewed in this issue. In Prague, Berlin, Helsinki Rome, Paris, Bucharest, and London she kept her finger on the pulse of war and ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 94 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs