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THE CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

... . HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE VI. of Great Britain Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, is the* central figure of our Empire note fully extended in the greatest struggle we have ever known. He has always been air-minded, and gained his pilot's wings when he was Duke of York. This, his latest portrait, shows him in his uniform of Marshal of ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 107 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - jV/TISS CAROLINE GOODE was elected Florida's Citrus Queen for 1942, and presided merrily over the orange-bowl in Miami during the cele brations, an occupation which seems to us extremely pleasant. No wonder she is undertaking it with such a happy smile 1V/JISS PATRICIA BRAND is a woman dispatch-rider at the Ministry of Food, where Lord Woolton controls the menu of the country. She acts as a ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 292 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPENCER TRACY AS DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

... . Tl R JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, famous supernatural thriller by Robert Louis Stevenson, has once more been made the subject of a film. The new M.-G.-M. version at the Empire has Spencer Tracy in the dual role of the good Doctor and the monster Hyde. Mr. Tracy plays the parts with great subtlety, for he does not make himself up to look like a sub-human monster for the Hyde sequences. He relies on ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ACTION AND REPOSE BY ZORINA OF THE FLYING FEET

... . This is how VERA ZORINA, the American ballerina and screen-star likes to rest her flying feet between spectacular dance numbers. She 's playing her original part of Maria von Duren in the Paramount picture version of the Broadway stage success, 44 Louisiana Purchase in which she stars with Victor Moore and Irene Bordoni. The film is in Technicolor and the brilliance of the New Orleans Mardi ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: SKIRTS--DIVIDED AND PANELLED, TWEED TAILOR-MADES

... WOMEN IN WARTIME SKIRTS- DIVIDED AND PANELLED. TWEED TAILOR-MADES. WELL-DRESSED women will not cavil at the statement that the backbone of the spring outfit is a tweed tailor-made. The coats are about 26 in. long, and the skirts, whether divided or not, are arranged with inverted or box- pleats. The colour schemes of the striped and checked tweeds suggest the' shades present in moss in the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BENTLEY MOTORS (1931) LTD

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Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 56 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

'Viyella' AND 'Clydella'

... 'Viyella'^Clydella' a/ Ri>i'H A/ Reed. Viyella' a 'Clydella' a/ Ri>crl A/ Reed. 'Viyella' and 'Clydella' W.V.S. Blouses are designed for service. Their most important credentials are comfort, smartness, lasting texture and colours, and a capacity for standing up to wear and washing. W.V.S. Shirt blouse, burgundy c Viyella' (shade and style officially approved). Up to and incl. 15* neck, 16/11. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 81 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs