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SCRAMBALL: FEMINISED RUGGER FOR SERVICE GIRLS

... SCRAMBALL is the name of the new ball game for Service women. It 's a kind of maidenly or feminised Rugger, de vised by Flight Lieut. A. J. Adfims, the sports supervisor of N. A. A.F.I. who is well known as middle-weight boxing [Continued opposite. c Continued champion of the R.A.F. It has many features in common with Rugger, but to make it suit able for girls the scrum and tackle have been ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

... TONIC

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Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 9 | Page: Page 25 | 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 

THE V.C LOOK-- TWENTY-NINE OUT OF THE THIRTY-ONE MEN WHO IN THIS WAR HAVE WON THE HIGHEST AWARD

... SERGT. ALFRED CLIVE HULME, V.C., of the New Zealand Military Forces. During the fighting in Crete, Sergeant Hulme repeatedly stalked and killed snipers his total bag teas 33 and teas responsible for the wiping-out of nest after nest of machine-gunners holding up our troops and inflicting heavy casualties on them. He exhibited jnost outstanding valour. LIEUT. (ACTING CAPTAIN) ERIC CHARLES ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1896 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE ARRESTINGLY GOOD-LOOKING MRS. DUBEDAT

... : VIVIEN LEIGH as Mrs. Dubedat, in an evening dress of the period 1906, made with a gored shirt and train and worn with massive jewellery. The charm of the blouse and skirt VIVIEN LEIGH n amusing costume from 44 The Doctor's Dilemma r-pHE revival of Shaw's 44 THE DOCTOR'S DILEMA the Wind fame, has been successfully touring si at the Hayrnarket last week. Vivien Leigh personifies 1 all demur an ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

VARIETY À LA RUSSE: MOSCOW BELLS, AT THE LONDON COLISEUM

... VARIETY A LA RUSSE MOSCOW BELLS, AT THE LONDON COLISEUM. M°SC0W BELLS Ascribed as 1V1 a new Anglo-Russian spectacle, at the London Coliseum, is a gay and attractive mixture of opera, ballet and musical humoresque. The ballet is 44 The Building of Russia to music by Prokofiev the opera consists of excerpts from 44 Sadko, and there are comic songs and a Russian musical comedy, 44 The Don ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 183 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROLLS-ROYCE

... IkSIIHSSBSISI ROYAL AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND helps all R.A.F. personnel and dependants in cases of casualty, sickness, distress. GIVE GENEROUSLY Donation! to Bertram Ramble. Hon. Sec.. R.A.F. Benevolent Fund. I Sioane Street. S.W.I r-nn IT iff ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 36 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

NOTABLE PEOPLE IN THE WEEK'S NEWS-SHEET

... . WING COMMANDER PICKARD, seen with MRS. PICKARD and Ming led the Paratroop raid on the French coast. He teas the pilot of 44 F for Freddie in 44 Target for To-night. He is the brother of Lady Cedric) Hardwicke. H.M. THE QUEEN took T.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH and PRINCESS MARGARET to the Palace Theatre panto. 44 Jack and Jill last week. Her Majesty wore powder blue. Left MISS KATHLEEN HARRIMAN, ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - ANN MILLER, for her quick fire tap- dance paced by a machine-gun. CREATING a world-record with 840 taps to the minute, ANN MILLER'S dance is paced off stage by a real machine-gun in Paramount's new film 44 True to the Army, shortly coming to London. Ann takes her stance draws a deep breath. 840 taps to the minute make a world-record. Feather-light taps won't crash up the car. And she s away ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 113 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BEGINNING TO GROW UP: SHIRLEY TEMPLE IN KATHLEEN

... BEGINNING TO GROW UP: SHIRLEY TEMPLE IN KATHLEEN. SHIRLEY TEMPLE is growing up quickly and has an endearing school girl part in her current picture, 44 Kathleen, which is released to cinemas south of the river in London this week. The story deals with the fortunes of a motherless child with a too-busy father in the person of Herbert Marshall. SHIRLEY TEMPLE enjoying a game of Chinese ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: ALL-DAY DRESSES STITCHED PLEATED SKIRTS; THE RETURN OF THE PEPLUM

... WOMEN IN WARTIME ALL -DAY DRESSES STITCHED PLEATED SKIRTS THE RETURN OF THE PEPLUM. T dreuinPdr.ybTriend th7n That which'hS be 1 more kind y altering the appearance chosen with care a^a d Jones Regent Street, of an ensemble. Dickms^a sa,ons as a hat have dressed a sect editable for all occasions, and bladf satin; the latter encircles the crown. A^jiTi fftSS to bygone days it was made ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 263 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs