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SHAVIAN MRS. DUBEDAT BY VIVIEN LEIGH

... . VIVIEN LEIGH, actress and screen-star, has not been seen on the stage in England since her big picture hits in 44 Gone with the Wind, 44 Waterloo Bridge and 44 Lady Hamilton, so her appearance as Mrs. Dubedat in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's 44 The Doctor's Dilemma is an important theatrical event. She looks radiantly lovely in her costumes of the 1903 era of veils, jabots and much ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 93 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHORES OF THE A.T.S.--AS CARRIED THE PREMIER'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER

... CHORES OF THE A.T.S.-- AS CARRIED 0 'HE PREMIER'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER. MISS MARY CHURCHILL, youngest daughter of the Prime Minister and Mrs. Winston Churchill, has joined the A.T.S. She was nine teen on September 15 and joined the Service a few weeks ago. She has been in training at a reception depot in the Southern Command, where these photographs were taken. She has passed [Continued opposite. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 183 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BOMBERS OVER LONDON IN NEW YORK! THE WOOKEY

... HHHE WOOKEY, by Frederick -A. Hazlitt Brennan, recently pro duced at the Plymouth Theatre, New York City, is the play which brings bombed London to the U.S.A., for it is set in dockland in 1939 and 1940 and has been provided with a sound track of genuine bombing noises. Wookey played by EDMUND GWENN, is a tugboat skipper who has risen from garbage to metals and is now master of his own ship. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME

... M.T.C. UNIFORM. ON and Off Duty Clothes were recently shown at Simpsons, Piccadilly. Uniforms and accessories for women in the Services were featured. It seems almost unnecessary to add that great attention had been given to the tailoring and cut. There were a limited number of civilian suits, some with classic and some with Nor folk coats. Again, there were the casual coats for wearing with ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 240 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

R.A.F. AND W.A.A.F. IN SPREAD YOUR WINGS

... Aircraftman FREDDIE CAR- PENTER, dancing teacher in civil life, and discoverer of the new theatrical star Carol Raye, is the producer of a most ambitious show which is being given at R.A.F. fighter stations near London. This revue, SPREAD YOUR WINGS, has an open ing chorus of W.A.A.F.s and a star cast of R.A.F. and W.A.A.F. personnel. Here are some photo graphs of the performers in costume. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 175 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SIX U-BOAT THUGS ON THE RUN THRILLS OF 49TH PARALLEL, A LONG-AWAITED PICTURE

... , THE long-awaited film 49TH PARALLEL, produced in Canada and in this country with the co-operation of the Canadian Government, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Ministry of Information, is due to have its world premiere to-day, October 8, at the Odeon, Leicester Square. It has taken nearly two years to make and is an epic thriller. The story tells how six German U-boat thugs loot and ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 530 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MEET JOHN DOE--WITH GARY COOPER AND BARBARA STANWYCK

... MEET JOHN DOE --WITH GARY COOPER AND BARBARA STANWYCK. J^JEET JOHN DOE, which was due at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, on October 3, is the story of a big fake. Ann Mitchell, young newspaper girl, 44 creates a fictitious 44 little man, John Doe and her bluff is called. She and her editor must produce a 44 John Doe. They choose down-and-out Long John Willoughhy. His name is used to ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 270 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STAR-SPANGLED SCREEN DÉBUT FOR CHARLEY'S AUNT

... STAR-SPANGLED SCREEN DEBUT FOR CHARLEY'S AUNT. 44 CHARLEY'S AUNT, the Brandon Thomas farce which has proved a certain laughter-maker for generations of playgoers, has come to the screen in a new Twentieth Century-Fox version. It received a suitably star-spangled send-off at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Police estimate that some 8000 persons were on hand for half a day to see the famous screen ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 218 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 10 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 22 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

FRONT-PAGE PEOPLE OF THE WEEK A REVIEW OF SOME OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIE OF TO-DAY

... FRONT-PAGE PEOPLE OF THE WEE* A REVIEW OF SOME OUTSTANDING PERSONALITY OF TO-DAY. MISS KATHLEEN HARRIMAN, daughter of Mr. Averell Harriman, America's Lease-and-Lend chief, who heads the U.S.A. Mission to Russia, is seen exchanging vieivs with a London street-cleaner. PRINCESS ASPASIA OF GREECE, sister-in-law of King George of Greece, and her daughter, PRINCESS ALEX ANDRA, arrived in England ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 381 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs