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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 

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 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - GENERAL MacARTHUR, the Napoleon of Luxon, for being a belLto-breakfast baby who has been appointed supreme commander of the entire Western Pacific, from Singapore to America. A MERICA'S GENERAL r\ DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, the Philippines brilliant de fender, is a realist, and as such his appointment as Commander- in-Chief from Australia of the Allied Forces in the Western Pacific is welcomed ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 442 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH R.A.F. AND W.A.A.F

... SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH R.A.F. AND W.A.A.F. Flight lieut. WATERS, who was, before the war, in the very successful Farjeon revues at the Little Theatre, has produced many shows for the R.A.F. 44 Spread Your Wings, his latest, had a company of seventy members, all drawn from the station. Hairdressers, wig-makers, make-up ex perts, and so forth, were all found among the personnel, and the re ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 277 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: SQUARE PATCH POCKETS THE RUSSIAN TUNIC DECORATIVE CORNELLI WORK

... j WOMEN IN WARTIME SQUARE PATCH POCKETS THE RUSSIAN TUNIC DECORATIVE CORNELLI WORK. THERE is no doubt about it that everyone has to do with fewer clothes, and they must be well made and the material of good quality that is, if coupons are to be saved. In the Sports Knitwear Department at Debenham and Freebody's, Wigmore Street, there is a selection of frocks that may be worn throughout the day ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 300 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AIR VICE-MARSHAL THE DUKE OF KENT

... AIR VICE MARSHAL THE DUKE OF KENT. This jnost recent portrait of H.R.H. THE DUKE OF KENT, youngest brother of H.M. the King, was taken about a month ago. His Royal Highness recently recovered from a bad cold is continuing his tour of Royal Air Force establish ments and factories up and dotvn the country. An official announcement was made last week to the effect that H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 87 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE G.O.C. BURMA AND HIS FAMILY

... . GENERAL the HON. SIR HAROLD ALEXANDER, K.C.B., C.S.I. D.S.O., M.C General Officer Commanding Burma is here posed with his wife, LADY MARGARET ALEXANDER, second daughter of the fifth Earl of Lucan, and their elder son, SHANE WILLIAM DESMOND, and their daughter, ROSE MAUREEN. General Alexander, who took over the command in Burma from Lieut. -General Hatton on March 5, is a distinguished ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 142 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

'SWEEPS' OUR SPECIALITY... BOMBS TO ORDER

... 'SWEEPS' OUR SPECIALITY BOMBS TO ORDER. rT1HE Royal Air Force is constantly active by day and by night and now that spring is signalled, and better weather is to be expected, its programme of offensive raids and sweeps is expanding daily. Not long ago Fighter Command had one of its most successful days for several weeks when ten Messcr- schmitt 109's were destroyed without loss to the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs