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PERSONALITIES AND EVENTS OF THE WEEK THE CAMERA TAKES A LOOK ROUND THE WORLD

... . VERA LYNN, actress and radio star 44 Sweetheart of the Forces is letting the shredding machine eat up her fan mail to aid munition-making. Have you turned out your old letters for the same good cause Film-star ROBERT YOUNG, now a sergeant in the U.S. Army looks as if military life gave him a good appetite. He 's about to enjoy a meal after being on a spell of driving duly with the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 405 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WINDMILL IN THE BLITZ MAKES A NEW YORK PLAY

... . Left 44 HEART OF A CITY, presented by Gilbert Miller in Netv York, is inspired by the story of how London7 s Windmill Theatre kept up its non-stop policy of enter tainment through the nightly 44 blitz 77 of 1940. This is the scene set in the star dressing-room, where the girls slept on raid nights. DENNIS HOEY and JEAN McNALLY as Leo Saddle and Frenchie in one of the scenes. Toni (MARGOT ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PROFESSOR'S ON HIS WAY!

... THE PROFESSOR 'S ON HIS WAY I 'm on my t cay ioyi Professor Potts (GARY COOPER), setting into his stride when he finds himself out of step with Sugarpuss (V Shea's ideas on love and life, in Sam Golduyn's ne w picture, Ball of Fire,'' due at the Gaumont, Haymarket, on March 22. BARBARA STANWYCK, who plays Sugarpuss the burlesque dancer, eventually succeeds in making the serious young Professor ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 80 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROYALTY, DIPLOMACY, ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE

... : The SEVEN KERSTENS CHILDREN came across three continents with their mother Mme. SybUla Kerstens, from Java to England. Their father is Dutch Minister of Economics and Shipping. The Dutch are push-bike fans and the children have been given new bicycles. The G.W.R. has sacrificed historical documents in the cause of munitions. Records going back for years are being carted off from the book ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 228 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER AT HOME

... . ROBERT MORLEY, brilliant and accomplished actor, is drawing big houses to the Savoy to see him in the 44 rich, ripe part of Sheridan Whiteside, the title-role of 44 The Man Who Came to Dinner the amusing play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. He will be seen as Charles James Fox in the forthcoming film 44 The Young Mr. Pitt, and, as 44 Sketch readers ivill remember from our recently ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 160 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SKATING BALLERINAS GET TOGETHER

... . THE Arosa Ice Kink of the Richmond Sports-Drome was the scene of a notable party when skaters got together to entertain MISS MELITTA BRUNNER, the ice ballerina whose Ballet Eurhythmic and Dancing Classes on Ice are so well known. Miss Brunner is a distinguished skater, winner of the N.S.A. gold medal and of the world's professional championship in 1932. Sonja Henie, Sir Samuel Hoare and ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 265 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LITTLE-ODD-OLD GENERAL SUVOROV, WHO NEVER LOST A BATTLE

... LITTLE-ODD-OLD GENERAL SUVOROV, WHO NEVER LOST A BATTLE. 'GENERAL SUVO- v_J ROV has been produced at the Tatler Theatre in its season of Soviet films. Suvorov (1730-1800) is the General who never lost a battle. He was called General Forward and Field -Marshal Private by his men and was as eccentric as he was bril liant. He usually ap peared in his shirt, and when he wore uniform it was ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

'Viyella' AND 'Clydella'

... Yiyella 1M,Clydella W Regd. %I Regd. 'Viyella ^'Clydella' Regd. w Rfd. With Viyella' or c Clydella' Women's Service Shirts in your kit you're o.k. for shirts till peace day. Hard work and frequent washing won't spoil their good looks on and off parade. SERVICE SHIRTS W.A.A.F. Service Shirts in Royal Air Force blue 'Viyella' (approved colour) without collars, up to and incl. 14^ neck, 17/iod. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 97 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LADY HAS PLANS--ON HER BACK!

... THE LADY HAS PLANS-- ON HER BACK I PAULETTE GODDARD'S shoulders are lovely enough to rouse interest, but this close inspection by RAY MILLAND is dictated by Secret Service necessity, for drawings of a new radio-controlled torpedo have been transferred to her skin in invisible ink, and will only become clear again when treated with a chemical reagent. The scene is from 44 THE LADY HAS PLANS/* ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 117 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHARMING BROWNE STUDY

... . CORAL BROWNE plays the part of Maggie Cutler, secretary to the ineffably selfish if fascinating Sheridan Whiteside, in 44 The Man Who Came to Dinner This wise-cracking, high-spirited comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss llart is a big success at the Savoy, with Robert Morley in the title-role. Miss Browne, who was born in Australia, originally studied painting. She made her first stage ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 133 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN

... PROTECTS THE YOUNG MR. CHURCHILL SPOKE ABOUT ME. In his stirring message from the White House, the Premier said Let us resolve that by our sacrifice and daring the children shall not be robbed of their in heritance or denied the right to live In a free and decent world. The N.S.P.C.C. has been fighting to do this for 58 years and now needs your help more than ever before. WILL YOU PLEASE ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 97 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

THIS DAY--NOW-- WE ARE MASTERS OF OUR FATE..

... THIS DAY-NOW- WE ARE MASTERS OF OUR FATE THE PRIME MINISTER has never attempted to disguise the magnitude of the effort required to win the war but he has never wavered in his certainty of ultimate victory. This new smiling portrait might well have been taken as he said, in his historic speech to Congress last December 44 Sure I am that this day now we are masters of our fate that the task ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 106 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs