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WOMEN IN WARTIME: FASHIONS FOR TO-MORROW; TAILORED SUITS CHEERFUL WRAPPERS

... WOMEN IN WARTIME' FASHIONS FOR TO-MORROW TAILORED SUITS CHEERFUL WRAPPERS I IT was a happy thought on the part of Fortnum and Mason, Piccadilly. I create decorative wrappers. They may be worn all the year round in tM warm weather they need no lining, and in the cold they may be worn with a car digan or pullover, which occupies no space and is practically unnoticeable. The one above is in a ...

Published: Sunday 24 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 334 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: 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 

PANTO, IN MALTA

... PANTO. IN MALTA. IN 1941 MALTA, G.C., had the first traditional pantomime in its history brought to them by the R.A.F. Babes in the Wood. For 1942 Aladdin was chosen a great success which played to packed houses. The cast was drawn largely from the famous Malta R.A.F. concert party The Raffians, who have so far raised £400 for the Malta Relief Fund. MISS RENliE CAMERON, a plotter in ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 288 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FILM HAREMS--AMERICAN AND GERMAN STYLE

... FILM HAREMS -AMERICAN AND GERMAN STYLE. These film bathing beauties are in the screen s biggest bath-tub, built for 44 ARABIAN NIGHTS, Walter W anger's Technicolor extravaganza for Universal, due at the Leicester Square Theatre on January 22. HELEN PENDER, PEGGY SATTERLEE, PHYLLIS FORBES, ELYSE KNOX, BURNU ACQUANETTA and ELOISE HART (I. to r.), six of the picked beauties for the harem ...

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Published: Wednesday 27 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 27 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTLEY NOTES: A Few Kind Words; Dead and Alive

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. A Few Kind Words. Pursuant to my policy of New Year Hate, which has been greatly exacerbated by recent communications from H.M. Inspector of Taxes, I wish to say a few spiteful words to the medical profession. Looking at the state of the nation to-day-- looking round even among their own patients-- they ought to feel a sense of deep shame. I hear a good deal of ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2536 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

PICTORIAL ROUNDABOUT OF ENGAGEMENT, WEDDING CHRISTENING, ART, RADIO AND OTHER TOPICAL NEWS

... PICTORIAL ROUNDABOUT OF ENGAGEMENT, WEDDINC CHRISTENING, ART, RADIO AND OTHER TOPICAL NEWS. BARBARA BURNHAM (standing), producer of the B.B.C. version of Tolstoy's War and Peace (broadcast in eight parts), with the cast: Natasha (CELIA MRS. W. J. LORRIMER, of the M.T.C., looking at her portrait by Cathleen Vaiu (the Marchioness of Queensberry at the Lefevre Galleries. JOHNSON), Pierre (LES LIE ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 432 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

FAMOUS SOVIET AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST, ILYA EHRENBURG

... FAMOUS SOVIET AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST, ILYA EHREN8URG. TLYA EHRENBURG'S 44 The Fall of Paris has been published by Hutchin son in an English translation by Gerard Shelley, and is proving a best-seller. It is a thoughtful and realistic analysis of the reasons for the debacle of France. Ehrenburg lived for many years in France, and was in Paris when the city surrendered, so he writes with ...

HARROWING MELODRAMA REVIVED: THE STREETS OF LONDON

... HARROWING MELODRAMA REVIVED THE STREETS OF LONDON. ■y ICT OR IAN melodrama, with a villain to hiss, a hero to applaud, and a damsel I n distress to weep over, makes an appeal to modern playgoers, so it's not Surprising that Maxwell Wray's revival of Dion Boucicault's The Streets of London ■hould come on to the Cambridge Theatre, where it is due to-morrow, January 28, o r its run at the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 289 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS. By C. A. LEJEUNE

... . WE crave the indulgence of the audience, as they used to say in the opera pro grammes, for head ing our list to-day with quite a short film. It is called MALTA. It runs for about twenty minutes. You can see it at the Gaumont. And if you take my tip, you will. Malta was made by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Information, with a commentary spoken by Laurence Olivier. It shows, with ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2170 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs