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Published: Wednesday 17 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 22 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

ANOTHER SON FOR T.R.H. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF KENT

... \NOTHER SON FOR T.R.H. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF KENT. A second son and third child teas born to T.R.H. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF KENT on July 4, at Coppins, the house at her which teas left to the Duke by his. aunt, the late Princess Victoria. Congratulations poured in from all parts of the empire when the news was known. The Duke had special leave from the R.A.F. and himself telephoned to inform ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 110 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHINESE WOMEN AT WAR-- AS SOLDIERS, PARTISANS AND SCIENTISTS

... CHINESE WOMEN AT WAR- AS SOLDIERS, PARTISANS AND SCIENTISTS. A Chinese Ach-Ack girl operating a mobile searchlight. Most of these women were formerly university students. Carrying on the essential industries of their country Chinese girls at old-fashioned looms in a textile co-operative organisation. Students from Yenching University, formerly located in Canton, and now established at ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 222 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TYRONE POWER AS DASHING BEN, IN SON OF FURY

... South Sea idyll TYRONE POWER and GENE TIERNEY as Ben and his island love Eve. Bristol Isabel (ELSA LANCHESTER) takes pity on the fugitive Ben and promises to help him to escape from England. Ben and his villainous uncle, Sir Arthur Blake, in one of the sequences of the dramatic picture. Unscrupulous Sir Arthur Blake (GEORGE SANDERS) hands over his young nephew Ben (RODDY McDOWALL) to do menial ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 210 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LAUGHTON LOOK

... the laughton look. CHARLES LAUGHTON has the whale of a part in his new picture, THE TUTTLES OF TAHITI. He 's Jonas Tuttle, head of an improvident family who lead a carefree beachcombing existence, and refuse to be worried by anything. Their finances are someiehat confused, as at moments their only asset is one game-cock, but they are intrepid gamblers and never let anything get them down Their ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 75 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

U.S. SHOW FOR US: LET'S FACE IT, WITH COLE PORTER MUSIC

... U.S. SHOW FOR US LET'S FACE IT, V'lTH COLE PORTER MUSIC. J rry realises that he ran get both rings oat of paten if he accepts Maggie's offer: Cornelia (DORIS ROGERS), Nancy (MAIDIE ANDREWS), Jerry (BOBBIE HOWES) and Maggie (JOYCE BARBOUR) (I. to r.). Cay party in progress with Frankie (KEITH DEVON), Muriel (PHYLLIS THACKERAY), Jerry (BOBBIE HOWES) and Jean (CHARMIAN INNES) giving one of their ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 254 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AUSTERITY FASHIONS FELT HATS TAILORED SUITS

... TX7DMEN in general are V V thinking of autumn, especially where hats are con cerned. Already those of felt may be seen in many of the shops they are simple, prac tical and becoming. Those pictured on this page are from the salons of Dickins and Jones, Regent Street. The one portrayed at the top on the left is of the Toreador character and is avail able in black and pastel shades. The one ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 340 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - LT. ROBERTS and P./O. GOULD, for their superhuman courage in removing a live twanging bomb from H.M. Submarine Thrasher. T IEUT. PETER S. W. ROBERTS and L/ PETTY OFFICER T. W. GOULD have won the Victoria Cross for a deed of almost superhuman courage. On February 16, the 44 Thrasher, in which they were serving, sank a heavily escorted enemy supply ship in daylight. She survived an ...

Published: Wednesday 17 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

COMEDY, CRIME, WAR STORY AND KIPLING FILMS

... . MY FAVOURITE BLONDE, due at the Plaza on June 26, is a comedy riot. Larry Haines (BOB HOPE), vaudeville actor hound for Hollywood, encounters British agent Karen (MADELEINE CARROLL), whose efforts to avoid Axis spies provide fun and confusion. 44 THE MALTESE FALCON, which comes to the Regal, Marble Arch, on June 21, is a crime thriller. Brigid (MARY ASTOR) and Joel Cairo (PETER LORRE) are ...

Published: Wednesday 17 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 232 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A CROONING DU BARRY AND LOUIS IN THE MOTLEY

... . ARTHUR RISCOE as Louis Blore, tvashroom attendant and overnight millionaire) of the Club Petite, Neic York, mixes a doped drink for a rival, Alex Barton (BRUCE TRENT right). Charley (JACKIE HUNTER), Louis stooge, tries to help by diverting Barton's attention. Jenny Daly (FRANCES DAY), cabaret star of the Club Petite rehearses one of her icitty numbers, 44 Come On In, with the Ensemble, her ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 261 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CAMERA REVIEW OF WARTIME LIFE AND NOTABLE PEOPLE

... . Love ignores the Luftwaffe CAP TAIN IAN HAMILTON SHEARER, R.A., and MISS JANET A. COURTICE were married in Malta G.C. Thev drove off in one of the island 44 garrys Right MISS DAPHNE SINCLAIR SCOTT, younger daughter of Mr. Cedric Sinclair Scott Stroove, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, is engaged to Paymaster Lieut. Edward Donald Price, R.N., son of the late Mr. F. E. Price F.R.C.S. (harlip.) CLARE ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JUKE GIRL ANN SHERIDAN, OF CAT TAIL, FLA

... . ANN SHERIDAN'S netr picture, due at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, on August 7, has the someichat cryptic title of JUKE GIRL. This just means dance hostess, and as Lola Mears, Ann Sheridan plays the dance hostess at Muckeye's amusement palace in Cat Tail, Fla. Ann s a good girl as well as a pretty and fascinating one, and someway she takes to the life of a farmer's wife as easily as ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs