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EUCLID'S GIRL FRIEND

... . Some people might think that Euclid hardly deserved so fascinating a girl friend but the arrangement in curves and angles is undoubtedly an equation of beauty The camera study on view at the thirty-second annual exhibition of the London Salon of Photography at the R.S.P.W. Galleries in Conduit Street, is by Donald S. Herbert. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 57 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

W.A.A.F. BATHING GIRL PARADE WATCHED BY A ROYAL DUCHESS

... W.A.A.F. BATHING GIRL PARADE WATCHED BY gffi' A ROYAL DUCHESS: HX nstration on the lawn. figPfiKSlA* physical-training demonstrate S^.W ^.a.A.f.S e'mne P V;>_; >*;Sw| Girls filing in after the disph} 24iEf| in ll V.hich was followed by a swim L f I SWIM-SUITED P.T. AT A STATION SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND. DUCHESS OE GLOUCESTER /,a photograph? iC!L One of the last public engagements which H.R.H. the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 163 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TOUGH GUYS OF THE ARMY ! THE PARATROOP BOYS

... TOUGH GUYS OF THE ARMY! THE PARATROOP BOYS. THESE are the first pictures of British parachute troops with their special equip ment. They are picked men, chosen for their quickness of brain, daring character and athletic prowess. Their train ing is rigorous and highly specialised, and the kit they wear is carefully devised for their dangerous job. Their crash helmets are of unusual design, ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 123 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRITISH STATESMEN OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

... 44 HPHE YOUNG MR. J- PITT, new Twenti eth Century production, directed by Carol Reed, presents the England of George III. during the great struggle against Napoleon, when young William Pitt was at the helm and succeeded in steering the country to victory. Robert Donat plays Pitt and other great figures of the time, Charles James Fox, Wil-. liam Wilberforce, cham pion of liberty, who stood for ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 516 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JOHN HAIG & CO. LTD

... r0^ iErsiSa^UB I H H ■MB-- HMMjgti NO FINEF I WHISKY GOES INTO ANY BOTTLE V| ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 25 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

MOSS BROS & CO. LTD

... MOSS BROS MOSS BROS GREAT COATS for the W.R.HS. There's already an R in the month and that means a nip in the air! That is the reason for showing you this unusually elegant W.R.N.S. officer's Greatcoat, which nevertheless con forms strictly to pattern. Moss J Bros, make it to I measure for you in the shortest L possible time 5 and make equally distinguished greatcoats and uniforms for offi ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 157 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

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