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CHRISTENING PARTY AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY, CAIRO

... . The 44 christening party for the fine new utility car presented by Miss Ahhond V^A.D., to the 44 Cairo 4 V.A.D. foofr p/ace of t/ie British Embassy, Cairo. LADY LAMPSON, wife of H.E. the British Ambassador, is the president of the British Red Cross Society in Egypt, with Mrs. Blosse-Lynch as her assistant and is Commandant of the 44 Cairo 4 detachment raised at the beginning of the war. This ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 139 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROCKETTE MANNED! A TANK WHICH THE GERMANS HAVEN'T GOT

... . Whatever new and overpowering tanks the Germans may or may not have, it is certain that they do not possess any armour of this calibre of umpteen beauty power and oomph. The vehicle is the mighty tank in Leonidoffs gala stage production To the Colors at the Radio City Music Hall, New York, which is manned by a crew of Rocke'.tes, the famous precision dancers. When it comes to precision, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHEN BONEY THREATENED BRITAIN AS HITLER DOES TO-DAY!

... WHEN BONEY THREATENED BRITAIN AS HITLER DOES TO-DAY I HpHE YOUNG MR. PITT, J- important Twentieth Century Productions film directed by Carol Reed, is due for presentation at the New Gallery and Marble Arch on July 6. It is a striking historical picture, highly appropriate to the present day, for it 's a re construction of England 150 years ago, when Napoleon stood where Hitler stands now, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 313 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Photographs 

RED CROSS NURSE GREEK PRINCESS AND HER MOTHER

... . PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF GREECE, twenty-one-year-old daughter of the late King Alexander of Greece, and of PRINCESS ASPASIA, and niece of King George of Greece, is working here as a Red Cross nurse. It teas recently reported in some papers thQt her engagement to King Peter of Yugoslavia would shortly he announced, but official Yugoslav quarters state that King Peter will not marry till the end ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: ALFRED LUNT, for being America's No. 1 actor and a cordon bleu as well

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- ALFRED LUNT, for being America's No. 1 actor and a cordon bleu as well. IN the Wing Theatre, New York, ALFRED LUNT has installed a canteen which gives a warm wel come to Service men. Here, besides composing wonder ful dishes, the famous American actor gives classes in cookery, at which he is as ex pert as he is on the stage. Civilians except entertainers, who are there ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 225 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: LINEN AND FLANNEL SUITS. THE HOSTESS GOWN. UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT

... WOMEN IN WARTIME LINEN AND FLANNEL SUITS. THE HOSTESS GOWN. UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT. N' OW is the time that women must review their clothes, taking into consideration the number of coupons they have to spend. It is false economy to fritter money away on ill-fitting garments. Dresses I and hats must be of such a character that they may be varied with the aid of accessories. There could be no ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 331 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Schweppes

... I See its sparkling clearness as it bubbles in your glass. Take a deep draught. How clean and crisp it is on the tongue. Could you have believed that water could taste so satisfying v MALVERN SPA Sf Just as delightful Sj| blended with spirits ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 45 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

INVASION STAGED: JOHN STEINBECK'S THE MOON IS DOWN

... INVASION STAGED JOHN STEINBECK'S THE MOON IS DOWN. 44HPHE MOON IS DOWN, John Steinbeck's dramatisation of his own short -L novel, has been produced at the Martin Beck Theatre, New York. It *s a live, convincing play, dealing with conditions in a small mining town which has been invaded and occupied by brutal enemy forces. No place names are given, but the village is obviously Norwegian, and ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 297 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SKY HIGH GOOD SHOTS

... . WALTER CRISHAM and PRUDENCE HYMAN ap pear as the Matador and the Dancer in 44 Arena a bull-ring ballet scene of 44 SKY HIGH, at the Phoenix. Right: HERMIONE BADDELEY is one of the wartime mermaids to the brilliantly witty sub ocean sketch of 44 Sky High. ELIZABETH WELCH sings 44 Broadway Slave one of the successful numbers in the new Phoenix revue. Left HERMIONE GIN- GOLD as an elderly ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IT'S ABOUT TIME GOOD THINGS

... . 44 Home, Sweet Home 44 is an amusing sketch by Audrey and Waveney Carten in 44 IT 'S ABOUT TIME, at the Comedy. WILFRED HYDE WHITE and IVY ST. HELIER are White- chapel parents disconcerted by their chic, modern children VIRGINIA WINTER and KENNETH CARTEN. CAROLE LYNNE, MAGDA KUN and BERYL MASON in 44 At the Museum. They sing 44 Juno Diana and Venus, three little Roman remains. Right 44 ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 93 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROYAL, DIPLOMATIC, AND GOOD CAUSE OCCASIONS WEDDINGS AND NOTABILITIES OF THE WEEK

... . Baghdad dinner-party group SAYID TEWFIK SWEIDI, H.E. the BRITISH AMBASSADOR, SIR KINA- HAN CORNWALLIS, LADY CORN- WALLIS, H.R.H. the DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, the AMIR ABDUL ILLAH, REGENT OF IRAQ, and the PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE (front row I. to r.). Red tape snails and lilies symbolise the Ministry oj Labour. A mural decoration by MISS OLGA LEHMAN.* and MR. GILBERT WOOD at a big Government ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 414 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GINGERING ROXIE HART

... GINGERING ROXIE HART. t Dancing again after a spate of star-eyed workgirl parts, GINGER ROGERS plays the title-role in Twentieth Century-Fox s Roxie Hart Odeon) a satire on American judicial procedure. For publicity s sake, and a vaude- ville contract, Roxie agrees to stand trial for murder, and in court she vamps the foreman of the jury (right). ADOLPHE MENJOU as Billy Flynn is her lawyer ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs