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THE VICTORY WAY TO COOK AND STOKE: HOW TO KEEP WARM WITHOUT WASTE

... THE VICTORY WAY TO COOK AND STOKE. HOW TO KEEP WARM WITHOUT WASTE. C^O AC-SAVING rs desperately important to-day, not only because of present shortage, but on aecouiit of future needs for our great war effort. The Mark Blood of Industry is required in every factory, and in addition to this, scientists in the laboratories of the British Coal Utilisation Research Association are daily at work ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 303 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY--SHOW WITH THE WAR LOAN TICKET PREMIÈRE

... YANKEE DOODLE DANDY SHOW WITH THE WAR LOAN TICKET PREMIERE. THE premier London performance of 14 YANKEE DOODLE DANDY at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, is fixed for Thursday, October 15, and admission on this occasion will be by the purchase of British War Loan, ranging in price from £5000 to £5 The American Treasury bene fited to the extent of 5,750,000 dollars from the New York ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 267 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs 

TRIUMPHANT COME-BACK-- NIGHT OF THE GARTER

... YTIGHT OF THE 1M GARTER, Avery HopwoocTs ten-year-old farce, has been revived at the Strand, with Syd ney Howard as the imperturbable butler who moves through a maze of misunder standing and sus picion with superb blandness and poise. The plot and pother are concerned with a honeymoon couple, a jealous husband, a flighty wife, and a richly bejewelled gar ter. Such happen ings as the loss of ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 218 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

EXHIBITION OF UTILITY FASHIONS OVERCOATS REMADE CONTRASTING YOKES

... 3 WOMEN IN WARTIME NO woman of discernment could fail to be pleased with the two- and three-piece tailored suits at Finnigans, New Bond Street. The model pictured above consists of a dress and coat carried out in tweed in which coral, ochre and grey shades are present. The former has an ochre yoke to harmonise with the tweed, and short sleeves, the scheme being completed with a narrow belt. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 341 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - GENERAL MacARTHUR, the Napoleon of Luxon, for being a belLto-breakfast baby who has been appointed supreme commander of the entire Western Pacific, from Singapore to America. A MERICA'S GENERAL r\ DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, the Philippines brilliant de fender, is a realist, and as such his appointment as Commander- in-Chief from Australia of the Allied Forces in the Western Pacific is welcomed ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 442 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

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

... SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH R.A.F. AND W.A.A.F. Flight lieut. WATERS, who was, before the war, in the very successful Farjeon revues at the Little Theatre, has produced many shows for the R.A.F. 44 Spread Your Wings, his latest, had a company of seventy members, all drawn from the station. Hairdressers, wig-makers, make-up ex perts, and so forth, were all found among the personnel, and the re ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 277 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: SQUARE PATCH POCKETS THE RUSSIAN TUNIC DECORATIVE CORNELLI WORK

... j WOMEN IN WARTIME SQUARE PATCH POCKETS THE RUSSIAN TUNIC DECORATIVE CORNELLI WORK. THERE is no doubt about it that everyone has to do with fewer clothes, and they must be well made and the material of good quality that is, if coupons are to be saved. In the Sports Knitwear Department at Debenham and Freebody's, Wigmore Street, there is a selection of frocks that may be worn throughout the day ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 300 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRIDES, BRIDEGROOMS, A CHRISTENING AND AWARDS

... . SS VERONICA INNES, of the Air Transport \tixiliary, daughter of Major G. V. d'A. Innes, rigaged to F.-O. Gerard Volkersz Royal etherlands Naval Air Service, (park.) MISS ANN BROCKBANK, daughter of Mrs. Brock- bank, The Manor House, Steeple Lang ford, Salisbury, is engaged to Captain John Pelham Mann, Scots Guards. r marriage of MISS BETTY STOCKFELD, the actress ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 231 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DAUGHTER OF FIGHTING FRANCE: ELISABETH DE GAULLE

... . ELISABETH DE GAULLE, daughter of the Fighting Freneh leader, is at school in this country. She was born in Paris in May 1924, and attended the Convent Notre Dame de Sion there. When France collapsed, her mother took her aboard the last British troopship from Brest, and they arrived in England in June 1940. Neither of them knew General de Gaulle had pre ceded them declaring his intention to ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 305 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS GROUP

... royal birthdays group. This delightful Royal family group of THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN with their daughters T.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH and PRINCESS MARGARET has a birthday interest, for Princess Margaret trill be twelve years old on Friday, August 21, and last week the Queen celebrated her forty -second birthday. The dog in the foreground is a Shih-Tzu, or Tibetan Lion dog, called Ming ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FARJEONS LOOK BEFORE AND AFTER

... T IGHT AND SHADE, the new revue by Herbert Farjeon, with assistance from Eleanor Farjeon, has just been produced at the Ambassadors. It contains bitingly satirical numbers, nostalgic pre-war songs and scenes, and some excursions into the far-away legendary past when to fly the Channel was an achievement worthy of a presentation. There are skits and sketches of to-day and yesterday, and, ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LIGHT AND SHADE WIT, NOSTALGIA AND SATIRE

... LIGHT AND SHADE WIT, NOSTALGIA AND SATIRE. TVTR. FARJEON has assembled an excellent team for his new revue, 44 Light and Shade.44 Betty Ann Davies is given plenty of well- contrasted material, which she puts over with flan and personality. She is first-rate, whether she is standing in a queue to buy she knows not what, imitating a fish in love, taking the part of a girl at a party, or a ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs