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The New Ambassador's Revue: Mock-Ballet, Opera-Without-Music, Sentiment and Song, Produced by Mr. Cyril Ritchards

... The New Ambassador's Revue Mock-Ballet, Opera-Without-Music, Sentiment and Song, Produced by Mr. Cyril Ritchards Ballet Burlesque Roberta Iluby and Frith Banbury are pram-pushers in 44 It Doesn't Mean a Thing, Girls and Corps-dc- Ballet in attendance. The ideas and decors for the ballet are by Anna Duse War -Minded Females Ernest Thesiger romps through the show in many different costumes. In ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 207 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Red Cross Tennis: Hard Court Matches at Bournemouth on Bank Holiday

... Red Cross Tennis Hard Court Matches at Bournemouth on Bank Holiday Red Cross officials watching the tennis were Viscountess Frankfort de Montmorency, vice- president of the Bournemouth Division of the B.R.R.C., and Mrs. Durrani, Divisional Secretary for Bournemouth. Lady Frankfort is the widow of the fourth and last Viscount, who died in 1917 A year married are Lieut. Peter Halford, R.N. and ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 327 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire: The New Leger

... ■^4 f C^e By Sabretache The New Leger THE proposals by the Stewards of the Jockey Club to move the winning post on the Manchester course, where the race is due to be run on September 6th, is an eminently sensible one, for not only will it give the field time to find its legs before having to make the quite sharp turn out of the straight, but it will shorten the trying bit of the journey from ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2071 | Page: Page 26, 27, 38 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

The Irish Oaks: Racing Personalities at The Curragh See the Favourite Win

... The Irish Oaks Racing Personalities at The Curragh See the Favourite Win A Legal Spectator Lord Hempill and a Lady Owner Lord Hempill, of Tulira Ardrahan, County Galway, was with Miss Eve Hal/am in the Members' Enclosure. Miss Hallam is a well-known owner, whose colours are a familiar sight on Irish racecourses The Favourite Wins The Hon. Gerald Wellesley, the trainer of the winner, leads in ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 267 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 0 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

AMAZONS OF THREE ELEMENTS

... . WRENS, as the members of the Women s Royal Naval Service are called, don't j.0 to sea, but, as our photograph shows, they are not unacquainted with their Service's oivn element. When off duty they thoroughly enjoy a trip in a sailing-boat. In the background some Naval ratings are seen at boat-drill in a cutter. -.i I he BALLOON BARRAGE W.A.A.F.'S wear smart aircrew suits. Here some of the 44 ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 175 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLONDE BOMBER

... . VERONICA LAKE, who ploys bad girl Sally in Paramount'' s I WANTED WINGS (now generally released), is a dramatic film find whose dynamic personality earned her the name of blonde bomber. She meant to be a doctor, but changed her mind when a friend took her to R.K.O. studios. In August 1940 she had a test, after playing three small parts under her real- life name of Constance Keane. This ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 101 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOSS BROS & COMPANY LIMITED

... MOSS BROS 6 COMPANY LIMITED MOSS BROS 6 COMPANY LIMITED J ONE GOOD SUIT Strange to think of a lounge suit ;in terms of coupons. But there or rather, here it is And on the allowance it looks as though more than one suit a year is out of the question. You will have to make that suit work pretty hard so be certain it is the best value money can buy. At Moss Bros, you can choose your suit from one ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 169 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Whitbread & Co. Ltd

... Whitbread (sf Co. Lta. Whitbread (sf Co. era. ..I went all out When the great and final moments of this war come and Democracy thunders out the doom of tyrants, will you be able to claim that you, too, did all you could We cannot all fight but we can all get behind the fighting man and hand him up the tools. And one way to see that he gets the tools is to save till it hurts to spend not a ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 134 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

CHAMPION SPARKING PLUG COMPANY LIMITED

... The unique gas-fight construction* of Champion Sparking Plugs largely explains their supreme power-with-economy, and their complete dependability, so essential in automotive transportation of every character. €M^HPNN The only plugs with the patented SILLMENT seal which prevents gas-leakage. ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 47 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Way of the War: All Hands On Deck

... By Foresight All Hands On Deck PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT will certainly have been interested in the report which Mr. Harry Hopkins brought back to him from his trip to Britain and Russia. The President now has his full team assembled in Washington again. Mr. Sumner Welles, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the State Department had to deputise for two months for Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2361 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Myself at the Pictures: Pity The Poor Director!

... (A Hui TbAwuf By James Agate Pity The Poor Director FIRST they, meaning Hollywood, buy your play, novel, or whatever it is. Next they alter it so radically that you do not recognise it. Then they change the name. What, ultimately, they think they have bought is a riddle to which Hollywood has hitherto withheld the answer. On an evening in October, 1931, there was produced at the Apollo Theatre ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1242 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Photographs