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OSCAR INVESTITURE SCENES: THE HOLLYWOOD HONOURS LIST FOR 1941

... OSCAR INVESTITURE SCENES: THE OLLYWOOD HONOURS LIST FOR 1941. THE presentation of the 44 Oscars, or annual Awards of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, is always a big night in Holly wood. This year, though 1600 people attended the 44 Oscar L gathering, the occasion was I not quite so splendid as in peacetime. Many of the men wore uniform, including Lieut. Colonel Darryl ...

SOLDIERS' REST HOUSE AT GIB

... . HOW to provide health ful and enjoyable leave for members of the garrison of Gibraltar set the authorities a difficult pro blem, which they solved by instituting rest camps at some distance from the routine of parades and the tunnelling of the Rock. Governor's Cottage has been transformed into a Country Club, with its own inn, combined theatre and cinema, library, and games section largely ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 200 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, for being Vice-Admiral, Lieutenant- General and Air Marshal all in one, and to LADY LOUIS MOUNT- BATTEN, for beins head of the Hampshire Order of St. John in London. THE Premier recently announced the appointment of LORD LOUIS MOUNT- BATTEN as Chief of Combined Operations, holding the acting ranks of Vice-Admiral, Lieut.- General and Air Marshal. On taking up his ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 395 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CAMERA'S NEWS-REEL THE WEEK'S PEOPLE AND THEIR DOINGS

... THE CAMERA'S NEWS-REEL: THE WEEK'S PEOPLE AND THEIR DOINGS. SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and LADY WOOD faced the camera before he went off to introduce his 44 Battle-dress Budget. JULIET, daughter of film-star JOHN MILLS and MRS. MILLS (centre), was christened at Brompton Oratory. She's in the arms of godmother VIVIEN LEIGH with LADY OXFORD Utft). Juliet makes her film debut ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 430 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SECRET INFORMATION FILM: ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT' IS MISSING

... OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING (Odeon, April 24) is written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The picture had the co-operation and advice of the Air Ministry, the Admiralty, and the War Office. Many of the incidents in Holland are based on actual secret information. The story tells how the bomber 44 B for Bertie raided Stuttgart. On the return journey the crew had to ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

POPULAR R.A.F. ENTERTAINERS--MR. RAMSHAW AND CAPTAIN KNIGHT

... POPULAR R.A.F. ENTERTAINERS-- MR. RAMSHAW AND CAPTAIN KNIGHT. CAPTAIN C. W. R. KNIGHT, M.C., F.R.P.S., F.Z.S., the explorer, author, photo grapher and lecturer, and his eagle, Mr. Ramshaw, had a miraculous escape when the ship in which they were crossing the Atlantic was torpedoed. Captain Knight was picked up by a British destroyer, whilst Mr. Ramshaw, who had been left on the abandoned ship, ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED

... , , Until then, Take six eggs, a lemon, three ounces of melted butter But save your sighs. It is not good-bye to all that. Just a waiting while your appetite for the good things of life becomes keener for your abstinence. A waiting and a wondering on the delights of a new Ford Car while we all put our shoulders to the wheel which is even now, slowly maybe, but surely rolling down the road to ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 120 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

SALUTE TO MALTA BROADCASTER: COMMANDER KIMMINS AND HIS FAMILY

... SALUTE TO MALTA BROADCASTER COMMANDER KIMMINS AND HIS FAMILY. COMMANDER ANTHONY KIMMINS, R.N., is the well-known dramatist, film-actor and director, author of 44 While Parents Sleep, and other successful comedies. 'He recently delivered a stirring broadcast, 44 Salute to Malta, which enthralled and inspired all listeners, and gave a vivid picture of the Mediterranean stronghold which is ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 169 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON

... THFY DIFD WITH THFIR ROOTS ON. STIRRING American history is recreated in They Died With Their Boots On. Custer is seen as a troublesome West Point cadet, a great Civil War soldier and a gifted organiser. He subdues the Indians and makes a fair treaty with them, but through the double-dealing Sharps, trouble breaks out again, and Custer is killed in the Last Stand of June 25, 1876. His widow, ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 183 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ANTI-NAZI GERMANS BY DIANA WYNYARD AND ANTON WALBROOK

... . The English production of Lillian Hellman's play 44 WATCH ON THE RHINE,4' chosen by the New York Critics' Circle as the best American native play of 1941 is due at the Aldwych to-night, April 22, with DIANA WYNYARD and ANTON WALBROOKT in the leading roles. The play tells the moving story of an anti-Nazi German who brings his wife and family to the* U.S.A. It is produced in England by Emlyn ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BABES ON BROADWAY

... T)ABES ON BROADWAY is a gay, lighthcartcd song-and-dance D picture dealing with the theatrical aspirations of a group of New York's talented youngsters who are seeking jobs on Broadway. They think their best hope of success is to produce their own show, and organise one to benefit the Settlement Home for Orphans. They successfully raise the money and get the theatre, only to find the building ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 169 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs