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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STATESMEN... ... LIVE AGAIN ON THE SCREEN: ROBERT DONAT AND ROBERT MORLEY AS PITT AND FOX

... EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STATESMEN I LIVE AGAIN ON THE SCREEN ROBERT DONAT AND ROBERT MORLEY AS PITT AND FOX. JOHN MILLS plays William Wilberforce, Pitt's greatest friend and confidant, in The Young Mr. Pitt. Left ROBERT MORLEY as Charles James Fox. His physical resemblance to the famous statesman is remarkable. rtaerted in this issue. The eighteenth century is admirably evoked bf *c etill phvt I ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 277 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TWO YEARS OLD THIS MONTH: THE BEAVER CLUB CANADIAN SOLDIERS' LONDON HOME FROM HOME

... TWO YEARS OLD THIS MONTH THE BEAVER CLUB-- CANADIAN SOLDIERS' LONDON HOME FROM HOME. Canadian soldiers coming down the double staircase of the Beaver Club ichich is decorated in turquoise blue and scarlet. Where business is always brisk the canteen. During Us two years of life, the Beaver Club has served 1 ,266,060 meals and snacks. Boys from Vancouver and Alberta chatting with MRS. VINCENT ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 309 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GIRLS WHO MADE THE BEAUTY GRADE FOR LOUISIANA PURCHASE: EIGHT OF THE BAKER'S DOZEN OF SPECIALLY SELECTED LOVELIES

... . LYNDA GREY was brought from New York to Hollywood from the stage cast of 44 Louisiana Purchase for the screen version, and is remaining at the studio under term contract. ELEANOR STEWART is one of the thirteen front-line show girls directed in dance numbers by Sam Ledner. They were chosen from one thousand candidates. ALAINE BRANDES won a part in 44 Louisiana Purchase and a contract. A ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 365 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 25 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

SELF K.O

... -- BY GARY COOPER. GARY COOPER (right) gives a remarkable demonstration of how to knock yourself out in one easy lesson, as One-Punch Potts, professor hero of Samuel Goldwyui's new picture, 44 Ball of Fire. The professor has never studied fisticuffs but 44 mugs-up the subject from a book while on his way to fight Gangster Joe Lilac (DANA ANDREWS). The fight does not develop according to ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 95 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- AIR ace of the last war and still going strong in an administrative capacity in hp. R T. A F ATR M ARSWAT RTT.T V BISHOP is one of the officers of whom 44 shots showing them at their regular duties appear in Warner's 44 Captains of the Clouds, a film made with fullest co-opera tion from the Chiefs of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Minister of National Defence for ...

BRIDES, BRIDEGROOMS, WAR-WORKERS, ARTISTS... ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF TO-DAY

... BRIDES, BRIDEGROOMS, WAR-WORKERS, ARTISTS: ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF TO-DAY. KEY LARGO, new play by Maxwell Anderson was given its English premiere by the Cambridge A.D.C. MICHAEL BENNETT played the hero, an American volunteer in Spain who deserts when he thinks his cause lost and finds life with courage lost is not worth living. This is Act I., the gambling scene. MISS CHRISTINA CHAN, ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 410 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. DR. WELLINGTON KOO, Chinese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's since 1941 is an extremely distinguished man who has held many important posts, including Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to France. He is a gifted orator, and when speaking at Grosvenor House at a party in honour of President Roosevelt's birthday, paid a great tribute to his ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 152 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ENGAGEMENTS, ARTISTS, WAR-WORKERS ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF TO-DAY

... ENGAGEMENTS, ARTISTS, WAR-WORKERS: ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF TO-DAY. CAPTAIN RICHARD N. W. KIRBY. Royal Marines, son of Colonel J. S. Kirby D.S.O., Indian Army (ret.), and his fiancee, THIRD OFFICER SALLY REYNE, W.R.N.S., daughter of Rear- Admiral C. W. Reyne (ret.), were photographed on the flight deck of 44 Victorious MISS MOYRA EILEEN MONTAGU- DOUGLAS-SCOTT, younger daughter of Lieut. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 497 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RUSSIAN OPERA AND BALLET AT THE ADELPHI

... . MOUSSORGSKY'S opera 44 Sorotchintsi Fair was presented last autumn at the Savoy and has now been revived at the Adelphi under the musical direction of M. Fistoulari, with Mmc. Slobodskaya and M. Kirilloff as the exuberant and naughty husband and wife. It shares the bill with a ballet, 44 The Great Gates of Kiev, danced to Moussorgsky's 44 Pictures from an Exhibition. The first night was in ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 201 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PLEATS AND PANELS SIMPLE WASHING-FROCKS: WOMEN IN WARTIME

... PLEATS AND PANELS SIMPLE WASHING-FROCKS TMPORTANT features of the ensemble above are the excellence of cut, perfect tailoring and simple, nevertheless flattering, lines. It may be seen in the ready-to-wear department on the second floor at Jay's, Regent Street. It is one of the new checked tweeds which has been used for its fashioning. The dress has a plain top, and is trimmed with check to ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs