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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - THE M.P.'s HOME GUARD, for being ready to defend the talking shops with their lives as well as with their tongues. A conference of company officers of the House of Commons Home Guard comprises Capt. Glenvil Hall, M.P. (left), Maj. Edward Fellowes, M.C., Lieut. Guy Eden, and Lieut. Victor Goodman, M.C. Lieut. Victor Goodman gives battle orders to Section Commanders Sgt. Norman Robson (lobby ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 385 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: STUDIES IN CONTRAST INFORMAL DINNER FROCKS WRAPPERS ON CLASSIC LINES

... WOMEN IN WARTIME STUDIES IN CONTRAST INFORMAL DINNER FROCKS WRAPPERS ON CLASSIC LINES IT seems strange to associate the name of Fortnum and Mason, Piccadilly, with house-coats and wrappers nevertheless, they are particularly successful with them. To them must be given the credit of the model above, which is carried out in delphinium blue corded moir6 the colour and the material are both of ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 306 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

AMBASSADORS, MINISTERS, GENERALS, A GIRL SNIPER, BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS: HEADLINE FACES IN THE WEEK'S GOOD NEWS

... . COUNTESS WANDA OSTROWSKA, between H.E. the POLISH AMBASSADOR (I.) and H.E. the PORTUGUESE AMBASSADOR, at the Leger Galleries. The latter opened her shoic of icater-colours of Portugal. EDWARD G. ROBINSON, star of This Man Reuter visited Renter's H.Q. He is at the neivs-desh with MR. COLE, News Manager MR. CARTER, secretary and MR. J. CHANCELLOR, joint general manager. LT. LYUDMILA ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 423 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MR. PETER DE POLNAy, here seen with MRS. DE POLNAy For havins lived dangerously as a pro=English inhabitant of German=occupied Paris, and writins a bestseller about it. PETER DE POLNAY is the author of DEATH AND TO-MORROW, one of the books which everyone is reading. He is Hungarian by birth English by tongue and education, and hai two novels, 44 Angry Man's Tale and 44 Children, My Children ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 209 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BASEBALL PLAYER'S DRAMA: THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES

... BASEBALL PLAYER'S DRAMA THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES. A 'anor (TERESA WRIGHT) is delighted to hear from sports-writer Blake 'WALTER BRENNAN) that Lou (GARY COOPER) is to play for New York's most famous team. The visit to the hospital Lou has given up a possible career as an engineer to become a professional athlete in order to raise money to pay for his mother's operation. Falling in love with a ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 321 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DU BARRY TO COLE PORTER

... . Distractingly lovely is FRANCES DAY in Du Barry Was a Lady (His Majesty's), and ARTHUR RISCOE a dignified Louis Quinze who breaks easily into modern American slang. With subtlety of technique witty intonations and airy impertinence, Frances Day pervades New York's musical comedy like a haunting poem. And though Cole Porter is not at his top-notch best in the music, together they put over his ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 90 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WRENS: DOMESTIC, TECHNICAL, OPERATIONAL AND GENERAL

... A FLYING WREN One of the radio mechanics preparing for a flight on which to test the gear she has fitted. AMPHIBIOUS WRENS Stewards enjoying recreation in the swimming-pool of a Naval establishment. The smiling face at a window A busy WREN STEWARD at work in a Nave shore establishment. PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT WREN in the dark-room, developing an important picture. Keeping things ship-shape WREN ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 386 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MORE SURREALISTIC THAN SURREALISM ITSELF: WAR DÉBRIS IN THE WAKE OF THE FLYING AXIS DERELICT ARMAMENTS IN THE ..

... MORE SURREALISTIC THAN SURREALISM ITSELF: WAR DEBRIS IN THE WAKE OF THE FLYING AXIS. DERELICT ARMAMENTS IN THE NORTH AFRICAN DESERT TAKE ON A PICTORIAL SIGNIFICANCE. The skeleton of a crashed 'plane, with fabric fluttering from its tail. In the distance to the right a wrecked engine separated from its fuselage has bent propellers. i Remains of a blown-up tank sinking into the sand through the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WM. SANDERSON & SON LTD

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Published: Wednesday 18 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 26 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

ROYAL STIRRUP-PUMP PARTY: BUCKINGHAM PALACE HOME TEAM

... ROYAL STIRRUP-PUMP PARTY:' BUCKINGHAM PALACE HOME TEAM. THE KING is explaining to the PRINCESSES that the air must be driven out and the pipe filled with water before the exercise can begin. The King takes his turn at the pumping while the Princesses are in charge of the hose and will use the jet or spray as required. Practising the pumping change-over. The King is operating the hose and ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs