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PRINCESS OF KENT AND HER ELDER BROTHER

... . PHOTOGRAPHS nY LENARE. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF KENT is the only daughter of His late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent and of H.R.H the Duchess of Kent, and was born on Christmas Day, 1936. Our delightful new portrait studies show her with her elder brother, PRINCE EDWARD OF KENT, who was born on October 9, 1935. They have a baby brother, Prince Michael, who will be a year old in July next. ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 116 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PLEASURES OF A BASEMENT FLAT!

... I When the Sherwood sisters (ROSALIND RUSSELL and JANET BLAIR) take a basement flat they don I realise that the windows are uncurtained I The cop on the beat, Officer T^onigan (DONALD MACBRIDE) views the sisters I Sheneood with a certain amount of suspicion. Eileen is the devastating blonde. J I s tricky work even changing one's stockings in a flat without doors which lock, and with an ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 258 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROMANCE, ACHIEVEMENT AND ADVENTURE: ALL TOPICAL PICTURES

... ROMANCE, ACHIEVEMENT AH DVENTURE: all topical pictures. This desert patissier produces admirable cakes for the men of an Australian squadron in Tripolitania. His goods are baked in an under-sand oven, ingeniously constructed of petrol cans and fitted icith a petrol-can chimney and cowl. LIEUT. EL WOOD COOKE, U.S.N. was formerly America's No. 2 /(iirnial amateur and MRS. COOKE was Sarah Palfrey ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 406 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO-- H.M.S. RENOWN SEES STARS

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- H.M.S. RENOWN SEES STARS. THE CREWS OF MALTA'S HIGH-SPEED LAUNCHES-- for having rescued from the sea hundreds of airmen shot down during the blitz THE 44 blitz over Malta, G.C., has been the occasion for countless acts of heroism, not least on the part of the CREWS OF THE HIGH SPEED LAUNCHES stationed there, who have, sometimes through great storms, during the last year ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 722 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MAKING OF A WITCH

... . As the Witch of 44 Jack and Jill at 1 1 is Majesty's, ILEANA SILVA glW? 0 great back-stage performance in the art of transforming her charming faC* into a properly frightening witch visage. We give you eight stages in this miracle of maquillage, just to show what a little face treatment will do. PHOTOGRAPHS BY SWAEBF.. ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 62 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE-AY AS A MARY MARTIN DANCE

... TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE-AY AS A MARY MARTIN DANCE. Star of the five-star 44 Happy Go Lucky Technicolor musical at the Plaza MARY MARTIN as the Neiv York cigarette girl who blues her all on a trousseau en route for a Caribbean island and a 44 poor rich fish, has thirteen changes of costume and no stockings. Mary teas a dancer before ever she dreamed of singing as a profession and in this film the ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME

... i JAEGER are particularly successful in creating dresses for every daytime occasion they are exercising great care in never permitting any glamorous notes. The one above introduces the peg-top silhouette in its spring form. As will be seen, it has curved pockets, unpressed pleats, a neat neck-line and tight sleeves it is carried out in wool jersey. Outfits for the younger people have been ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 336 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CHATWOOD SAFE CO., LTD

... QUALITY The policy of a firm controls its destiny. This subtle yet vital element throughout a firm defines its aims and governs its achievements. The Chatwood policy has always been to confine its efforts to the production of work of quality. Craftsman ship is placed before material gain. There is throughout the firm a definite atmosphere of continuous mental stocktaking. The reputation of ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 169 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

COMMANDER BEN BRYANT'S WIFE AND FAMILY

... . MRS. BEN BRYANT is the wife of Commander Ben Bryant D.S.C., R.N. commander of submarine 44 P211, whose activities in the Mediterranean have been working havoc ivith Axis shipping since his arrival there. His 44 bag totalled in 44 Mare Nostrum twenty-three up to last week. Bryant, xcho won the D.S.C. in Norway nearly three years ago, is 6 ft. 3 ins. in height, and used to wear a beard, but ...

Published: Sunday 24 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WRENS OF SIGNAL CITY

... . I The CHIEF YEOMAN OF SIGNALS demonstrating to an eager audience of Wrens, how a signal is made with flags. A class of Wrens practising GENERAL SIGNALLING on the flat roof known as the Flag Deck A GENERAL PRACTICE OF SEMAPHORES on the Flag Deck. The instructor (background, right) walks round assisting and correcting. â– PRACTISING RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING IN PAIRS Wrens under instruction on ...

Published: Sunday 24 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOTEL INTO OFFICERS' CLUB, WITH INGENUITY

... HOTEL INTO OFFICERS' CLUB, WITH INGENUITY. LAST week the Duke of Glouces ter opened the new Y.M.C. A. KING GEORGE'S CLUB FOR OFFICERS in Piccadilly, formerly the Hotel Splendide. The Club is a god send for officers who want quarters at reasonable rates. It is charmingly decor ated and furnished and looks bright and welcoming. Mr. Oliver Hill, the architect responsible, has worked miracles of ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - LADy PEMBROKE, C.B.E., MAYOR OF WILTON, for her borough-proud move to prove that Wilton is the oldest town in EnslancL The COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE, Mayor of Wilton seen here in her robes, with insignia and the seal of the Mayor, recently concerned herself with a move to prove that Wilton is the oldest Borottgh in England, a statement historical facts seem to back strongly. An important place ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 201 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Photographs