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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - BETTY GORDON, eighteen-year-old Garden City, N.Y. girl, has been elected Glamour Girl for 1941. Her height, weight and looks are just perfect. MISS VALERIE HIGGINS has just been appointed keeper to the London Zoo. In 1934-6 she was superintendent of the Pets' Corner, and started her new duties last week at the Small Cats House, looking after pandas, kinkajous, and other felines. CADETS OF ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 326 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AFTER VERY BIG GAME !: MAN HUNT

... AFTER VERY BIG GAME MAN HUNT. Famous big-game hunter Thorndike stalking the world's most hated man, Hitler, in the Bavarian mountains. He has a special long-range rifle. Thorndike, hidden in a deep, narrow cave in England, is horrified to hear the voice of his enemy, Quive-Smith, who has discovered his hiding-place, but cannot effect an entry. Jerry (JOAN BENNETT), gallant little Cockney girl ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 302 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GARY COOPER AS A HAPPY WARRIOR: SERGEANT YORK

... 44 O ERGEANT YORK, O new Warner Brothers picture due at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, very shortly, is a stirring story of the 1914-18 Euro pean War, and the part which a young American hillside farmer plays in it. He has been brought up to scratch a meagre living from rocky impoverished soil, and longs passionately for a section of rich bottom land. He is wild, headstrong, tough and ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 368 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Whitbread & Co. Ltd

... Whitbread Co. Ltd. Whitbread Co. Ltd. ..I played my part to the full They have asked for total war and they shall have it Be sure, when victory comes, that you have done your level best to help and nothing to hinder. Everything and everybody are needed for our fight money spent on luxuries keeps goods and men serving you instead of Britain. We need MORE tanks, MORE aeroplanes, MORE destroyers ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 205 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

CHARM, FUN, NO GRIM ACTUALITY AT THE R.P.S

... HOSIERY BY J. N. UNWALLA, F.R.P.S. JO-JO BY F. S. HERRINGTON, A.R.P.S. 1880 AND ALL THAT BY STUART BLACK, F.R.P.S. LET US BE CAY BY DOROTHY BALVAIRD. The 86th Exhibition of the ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN u>as due to be opened at 16, Prince's Gate on Friday last, September 5, by Lieut.-Col. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, M.C., M.P., Hon F.R.P.S., the Minister of Aircraft Production. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW SHOW WITH A NEW STAR: FUN AND GAMES

... SYDNEY HOWARD in an unconventional hunt in1 scene. RICHARD HEARNE and CAROLE RAYE as the Shoemaker and the Dancer. RICHARD HEARNE in one of his most amusing moments. 44 Shush SYDNEY HOWARD admonishes RICHARD HEARNE with magnificent pomposity. RICHARD HEARNE and SYDNEY HOWARD committing some of their glorious follies. VERA PEARCE as the huntin woman in full sporting attire. 44 A Desert Outpost ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BEAUTY À L'AMÉRICAINE

... BEAUTY A L'AMERICAINE. GERALDINE MARCOUX, Miss Michigan 1941, is her State's representative in the contest for the title of 44 Miss America. She is twenty, and plans a career in social-medical work. Nineteen-year-old ROSELLA HANNON won the title of 44 Miss Western Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh, and arranged to compete at the Atlantic City Beauty Contest. Right BETSY NEHF, twenty-one-year-old ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 129 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

UNLINED TAILORED SUITS. SIMPLE KNITTED ACCESSORIES

... . WOMEN IN WARTIME. t of thought is N. ;oat, and soW The smt abo herweight the figure ^a 0ut m gladioU-p* t(* dded and is earned out g lining ma oi delaine. Or this increases have desired naturally Thc ssss eating m,edJU' rc wellrepresented the^ (jesif,n xsr?4s £S2w& being worked in tested quality fcjaJiErsr- ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 60 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MARTHA AND MARY

... . THE THEATRE SISTER: by Dr. Julian Smith. INDOLENCE by P. H. Oelman. FIRSTBORN by G. L. Hawkins. WASTE NOT by Lancelot Vining. These delightful camera studies from the London Salon of Photography illustrate feminine energy and passivity the Martha and Mary types, in fact. The purposeful and efficient theatre sister may be contrasted with the lovely lazy girl and it 's obvious that the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROYAL COMING-OF-AGE, WEDDINGS PEOPLE IN THE LIGHTER AND ENGAGEMENTS AND WAR-WORKERS: BRIGHTER SIDE OF WARTIME NEWS

... ROYAL COMING-OF-AGE, WEDDINGS PEOPLE IN THE LIGHTER ANC ENGAGEMENTS AND WAR-WORKERS: BRIGHTER SIDE OF WARTIME NEWS. KING PETER II. of Yugoslavia arriving at St. Paul's with his mother QUEEN MARIE, for the service to celebrate his coming-of-age. CAPTAIN GEORGE A PICKERING, R.A., marriei MISS MAUREEN SARGENT only daughter of Engineer- Captain J- J. Sargent R.N. (Ret.), at Church Stretton. Left ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 337 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME COATS OF FUR FABRIC WOOL BOUCLE AND TWEED

... GREAT are the improvements that have been made in fur fabrics so much so that in the distance it is extremely difficult to distinguish them from their prototype fur. Gorringes in the Buckingham Palace Road have assembled in their salons a most interesting collection. The model portrayed, a reproduction of Indian lamb, is attractively shaded, and available in grey as well as brown. Then there ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 271 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs