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HERALDRY OF A HALIFAX BOMBER SQUADRON

... . THE Heraldry of the R.A.F. is now highly developed, and many pilots have their special emblems on the aircraft they pilot. On this page we give some devices for one of the newly formed R.A.F. Hali fax Bomber Squadrons. They were painted by an Intelligence Officer at the station who was in peacetime an art lecturer at a Northern college, and are on metal plates screwed to the noses of the ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 278 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HIGH-SPEED SKATING BALLERINAS: ICE FOLLIES AND ICE-CAPADES

... . THE speed and grace which can be achieved by ballerinas on skates give the Ice Show a special breath-taking quality which is brilliantly illustrated by the action photographs of turns from two New York skating revues, Ice Follies and Ice-capades, which we give on these pages. Varied specialities, exciting new turns, football on the ice, and new tricks with lights and colour make Ice ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SABU AS MOWGLI: THE JUNGLE BOOK FILM

... SABU AS MOWGLI THE JUNGLE BOOK FILM. SABU, the Indian boy who sprang to film fame after his performance in the title- role of Elephant Boy, makes an ideal Mowgli for Alexander Korda's new pro duction of The Jungle Book, a Technicolor film version of Rudyard Kipling's classic stories. On this page we give stills of Sabu with his jungle friends and his hereditary enemy Shere Khan. One of ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 230 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPARE-TIME, STAGE AND REPOSE POSES

... BY PATRICIA BURKE. PATRICIA BURKE, of 44 Up and Doing, at the Saville realises that one of the secrets of success is to know how to relax. Here she is demonstrating her faculty for dozing off for a few moments after an encore number. She has just curled up on the floor and gone to sleep like a tired child. Knitting for the Navy occupies a good deal of Miss Burke's spare time. She sends her ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 170 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NATIONAL SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

... DAD'S GONE BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN Yes I've got Dad to buy some ot his Savings Certificates through our School Savings Group. Every 15/- he puts in will grow like billy-o till it's £1. 0. 6 in ten years and he won't have to pay a penny Income Tax on the increase. The No Trouble Investment Issued by The National Savings Committee ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 68 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

MOSS BROS & CO. LTD

... (moss BROS MOSS BROS A final point in our favour This A.T.S. officer is not only warm (as well as elegant) in her greatcoat, but she is also rain- proofed. For, like all Moss Bros, khaki cloths, the material is specially proofed against rain. A small point but coming on top of the many good reasons for buying uni forms for the Women's Services at Moss Bros, it has before now provided a final ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 189 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Sowing and Reaping by the Moon: Results of Sporting and Dramatic News Experiments

... Sowing and Reaping by the Moon Results of Sporting and Dramatic News Experiments THERE is an old and very widely spread idea that the phases of the moon control many physical and psychical events on the earth. From ancient times the changes of the moon have been thought to affect mental conditions and so to have a powerful influence on the actions of the in sane-- hence the word lunatic. ...

James Braid and Others

... A PART from the fact that James Braid has proved himself to be a complete golfer, armed at all points with a skill at least as great as that of any golfer who has ever lived, I should say from close observation that his best shot of all was and still is his run-up shot. His marvellous niblick recoveries from sand and heather are legendary; but, nevertheless, I am confident when I name his run ...

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... The Duchess of Norfolk Harlif) The Duchess of Norfolk married the Premier Duke and Earl Marshal of England in January, 1937. They have three children, Lady Anne Fitzalan-Howard, born in 1938, Lady Mary, born in 1940, and Lady Sarah, born in 1941. The Duchess, who is the former Lavinia Strutt, daughter of Lord Belper and Lady Rosebery, is a racing enthusiast and personally supervises the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Way of the War: Friendship and Power

... By Foresight'* Friendship and Power LORD BEAVERBROOK is to be given all the power of a Production Minister, such as critics of the Government have been demanding, without the title. Nor will his new responsibilities give him access to more real power, for he's got more than any other member of the Government through his close friendship with the Prime Minister. Those who assert that the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2052 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

New York Setting for John Van Druten's Play Old Acquaintance, at the Apollo: Alas! They Had Been Friends in Youth

... New York Setting for John Van Druten's Play 44 Old Acquaintance, at the Apollo Alas! They Had Been Friends in Youth Rudd 44 You are still magic to me, Kit. It is the morning after all-night dancing. In the hard light of day Kit (Edith Evans is still entrancing to her young publisher -lover, Rudd Kendall (Ronald Ward). He tells of his hopes of a more important job. He asks her to marry him. ...

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... This is the Man Americans Liked A pudgy man with checks like apple dumplings, blue eyes beneath crooked restless eyebrows, the merest foam-flecking of sandy grey hair on his bald pink pate, a long black cigar clenched at a belligerent angle above his bulldog jaw. This stubborn little man, wholly British and half American, cocky, droll, grumpy, charming, cherubic, tough, with his head thrust ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs