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SUSPICION; WITH CARY GRANT AND JOAN FONTAINE

... SUSPICION WITH CARY GRANT AND JOAN FONTAINE. 44 O USPICION, R.K.O. Radio's romantic mystery kJ at the Odeon, Leicester Square, is based on Francis lies* novel 44 Before the Fact, and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The atmosphere of suspicion is skilfully built up. Heiress Lina has married charming Johnnie. She believes in him implicitly until she finds that he has embezzled money, and then a ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 286 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW FILMS--UPROARIOUS COMEDY AND STIRRING TRUTH

... NEW FILMS-UPROARIOUS COMEDY AND STIRRING TRUTH. THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D., due at the Warner Theatre Leicester Square, shortly, is uproarious comedy. Steve (JAMES CAGNEY) has kidnapped Joan (BETTE DAVIS) on her father's orders, so as to prevent her marrying against his wishes, and had to make a forced landing amid cacti. The Bride Came C.O.D. Pop (HENRY DAVENPORT) holds up Steve as a kidnapper, ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

... WOMEN IN WARTIME FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN FASHIONS for little people are very important. They must, above everything, be simple and well cut. British Celanese Celanova and Cenella fabrics are excellent, as they wash and wear very well they have been used for the frocks and suits above. These materials are sold practically every where, together with paper patterns. NOT only for children but for ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 250 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

N.S.P.C.C NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN Legacies are solicited

... N-S PC-C 4 Legacies are solicited. V N-S-P C-C 4 Legacies are solicited. S6e's looking forward to Xmas Will you help with a special war time Christmas gift Sir Spencer j. Portal, Hon. Treasurer, Victory House, Leicester Sq., London, W.C.2. COR most children it is a happy 1 time. But for some, the- removal of daddy's protection only means hardship, neglect, or even cruelty. No less than 103 ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 97 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

WM. GRANT & SONS LTD

... }eJL Ojj M.et[own.el. Salttle Eouquet i y)i A 77 f/*? BY HOST BY GUEST BY ALL PREFERRED! London Agents for Grant's Liqueur Scotch Messrs. Hedges Butter, Ltd., Wine Merchants, 153 Regent Street, W.i. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 33 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - THESE CHIEFS OF THE WOMEN'S SERVICES, for leading the women of Great Britain and the Free French Forces at a time when never before has so much been expected of so many of them. MRS. VERA LAUGHTON MATHEWS, M.B.E., is Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service holding a rank equivalent to that of a Rear- Admiral in the Royal Navy. CHIEF CONTROLLER JEAN KNOX is head of the Auxiliary ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 449 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

W.P.B. HARVEST--FROM PALACE, SCHOOL AND CINEMA

... W.P.B. HARVEST FROM PALACE, SCHOOL AND CINEMA. Get a load of this PLAZA GIRLS bring out old files, papers, programmes, and back numbers for the new waste-paper drive. LONDON CINEMA USHERETTES heave-ho for the How to tie up your old newspapers waste-paper drive and bring out stacks of files a lesson from a London girl with a and old papers. tidy mind. BUCKINGHAM PALACE waste-paper baskets send ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 245 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLACK MIRROR ICE FOR PERFECT REFLECTION

... . In minutest detail, without blur or smudge a sheet of black mirror ice reflects SONJA HENIE AND HER PARTNER as they sivirl and twirl in the new film Sun Valley Serenade This marvellous effect was not achieved without much headache on the set. Hundreds of gallons of black ink were frozen on the Sonja Henie rink at Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, when in walked the electricians and condemned ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 135 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STAR OF RISE ABOVE IT WITH DAUGHTER PAULINE

... . This dual portrait catches charmingly the likeness between HERMIONE BADDELEY and her fourteen-year-old daughter PAULINE, child of her first marriage to the Hon. David Tennant. The star has given one of the most brilliant performances of her career in the First Edition of that first-rate satirical revue 44 Rise Above It at the Comedy and the Second Edition is due to open at the same theatrey ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 113 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ADMIRAL TOM THUMB PHILLIPS, COMMANDER OF THE EASTERN FLEET

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON About a iceek before Japan's unheralded attacks on the American Pacific air-bases, REAR-ADMIRAL SIR TOM SPENCER VAUGHAN PHILLIPS, K.C.B., R.N., was given the appointment of Commander-in-Chief the Eastern Fleet ivith the acting rank of Admiral. He ivas one of three naval officers recently in the news as having been given new sea-going and secret commands from shore ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 137 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MYSTERY WOMAN UNVEILS: GARBO IN TWO-FACED WOMAN

... MYSTERY WOMAN UNVEILS GARBO IN TWO-FACED WOMAN. GRETA GARBO, the aloof and mysterious, becomes a playgirl in her new picture, 44 TWO-FACED WOMAN. Director GEORGE CUKOR is having a final word with her before she gets into the bath for the swimming quarrelling sequence. And here GARBO, her face wreathed in merry smiles, is joyously dancing a new rumba with BOB ALTON. Right GRETA, before she ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRIDE OF A CAPTIVE KING, SERVICE WEDDINGS ...A ROYAL VISIT, AND SINGING NURSES

... BRIDE OF A CAPTIVE KING, SERVICE WEDDING! ROYAL VISIT, AND SINGING NURSES. SEC. -LIEUT. RICHARD GREENE, who came back from Hollywood to join up will shortly marry MISS PATRICIA MEDINA, whom he met 44 on the set at Denham. The PRINCESS ROYAL, when visiting hospital chatted with an R.A.F. patient, He has had a funny laughing fact painted on the plaster which encase* his injured foot. Left MISS ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs