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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 ...

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 

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