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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MARLENE DIETRICH, lor being a Lady Willins to risk those elegant legs in saving a child. B On the set of Lady is Willing MARLENE DIETRICH fractured an ankle and strained her back when she tripped over a toy engine, but managed to save from injury a seven-months-old baby which was in her arms at the time. She went to hospital and it was expected that her ankle would be in plaster for at ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 96 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MIXED BAG OF TOPICAL NEWS SELECTION OF THE WEEK BY CAMERA

... . These dolls dressed as an American Army and an American Red Cross nurse, will be sold for the Red Cross. They came to the Premier as a gift from Miss Marguerite L. Davis, of New York. MRS. RALPH WIGRAM, widow of Mr. Ralph Wigram, C.M.G., is engaged to Sir John Anderson, M.P., Lord President of the Council, formerly Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security. She is a daughter of the late ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 427 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LEARNING THE WAY THEY HAVE IN THE NAVY FLEDGLING WRENS AT A TRAINING DEPÔT

... LEARNING THE WAY THEY HAVE IN THE NAVY: FLEDGLING WRENS AT A TRAINING DEPOT. The stately entrance to a Service life Portico of the new Training and Drafting depot for the W.R.N.S. Maps are studied in connection with the drafting of personnel. With the Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers' Mess in the foreground Probation ary Wrens at lunch in the general mess. Right A few moments of quiet ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 265 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MISS AMERICA, 1941--AND THE FIELD

... MISS AMERICA, 1941 --AND THE FIELD, Can yon pick the girl who won the title of Miss America, 1941 at the annual Atlantic City Beauty Contest She \s right there in the middle of the group, surrounded by the rest. W'ith so fair afield, the judges must have got headaches before making their choice Another study of nineteen-year-old MISS ROSELLA HANNON, with the trophy which she won with the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 184 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FIFTY YEARS OF A TOUGH MONEY-EMPEROR'S SELFISH LIFE CITIZEN KANE, WITH AUTHOR-DIRECTOR-PRODUCER WELLES AS STAR

... FIFTY YEARS OF A TOUGH MONEY-EMPEROR'S SELFISH LIFE: CITIZEN KANE, WITH AUTHOR-DIRECTOR- PRODUCER WELLES AS STAR. ORSON WELLES as Kane, with his first wife, Emily Norton (RUTH WARRICK). The money-emperor (ORSON WELLES) opens his political career with tremendous flourish. Kaneys closest friends and business associates Jedediah Leland (JOSEPH COTTEN) and Bernstein (EVERETT SLOANE; right). Kane ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 367 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOSS BROS & CO. LTD

... MOSS BROS j Naval, Military and R.A.F. Outfitters J MOSS BROS ''aval, Military and R.A.F. Outfitters J A way they have in the Navy 99 A gentleman who was one of our most respected civilian customers appeared on our jj^k threshold, trimly clad in blue and sold, and an nounced that he was a rough, tough, sea faring chap who'd stepped ashore to buy a bridge coat and look slippy about it. This ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 185 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

W.A.A.F.'S WHO WON THE M.M.: BY DAME LAURA KNIGHT, R.A

... DAME LAURA KNIGHT'S portrait-group of ASST. SECTION LEADER ELSPETH C. HENDERSON and SERGEANT HELEN E. TURNER is on view at the National Gallery Exhibition of War Pictures. These girls are two of the first three W.A.A.F.'s to win the Military Medal. Asst. Section Leader then Corporal) Henderson and Sergeant Turner were on duty in a building which received a direct hit during a raid. Sergeant ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SIMPLE WINTER FASHIONS IN FUR AND TWEED

... SIMPLE WINTER 1 FASHIONS 1 IN FUR AND TWEEDl WOMEN IN WARTIME IT would be unwise not to invest in furs at the earliest opportunity, as prices are rising rapidly. Coats and their acces sories must be studied on account of their wearing qualities. Natural opossum, of which this coat and hood, on the right, are made, come from Molho, 5b Duke Street, Manchester Square. They may be bought ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ATS

... !_/ wonder if they'd let me do my own job in the A.T.S. And give me extra training to get me on quickly And would there be any hope of getting a commission fairly soon I wonder if shorthand typists get a chance to keep their speeds up 7 Do the cookery girls really learn catering Why do they want girls who've been trained saleswomen 1 Could I really get into Radiolocation It all sounds too good ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 254 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

OF THE BATTLES OF BRITAIN AND FRANCE

... . This young English Fighter Pilot, D.F.C. and Bar, is a veteran of the R.A.F., and took part in the Battles of France and of Britain. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 36 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HELPING TO MAKE POLISH FLYING-MEN AT HOME

... . Mrs. H. V. Champion de Crespigny saying good-bye to Polish guests at the end of a visit. SQUADRON LEADER J. BIALY and MRS. CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY with MRS. S. R. ORSKI and baby MICHELINE ORSKI. MRS. S. R. ORSKI, wife of a Polish R.A.F. officer, her baby daughter MRS. CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY and SQUADRON LEADER BIALY. MRS. H. V. CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY and her dog in the grounds of her home Far ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 312 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRILLIANT DANCING RAYE

... . CAROLE RAYE, seventeen- year-old star of 44 Fun and Games, at the Princes Theatre, rehearsing in the garden of her Hampshire home. Another home study of the new dancing and singing star of revue. Running over a song with her mother, MRS. CORK RAYE, the wife of Lieut. -Commander Cork Rave. Chatting with her father, LIEUT.-COMMANDER CORK RAYE, R.N., before going for a gallop on her favourite ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs