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WILDE'S AN IDEAL HUSBAND IDEALLY REVIVED

... . 44 Decline a seat in the Cabinet and retire from public life I never heard such damned nonsense in the whole course of my existence Sir Robert Chiltern (MANNING WHILEY), Lord Caversham (ESME PERCY), and Lord Goring (ROLAND CULVER). HERS 44 Morality is the attitude we adopt towards people we dislike. Mrs. Cheveley (MARTITA HUNT) and Lady Chiltern (ROSEMARY SCOTT). DAME IRENE VANBRUGH as Lady ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- Flight lieut. william reid, who has been awarded the V.C., was captain and pilot of a Lan caster briefed to attack Dusseldorf on the night of November 3. On the way he was wounded in two attacks, the oxygen system was put out of action, the navigator killed, and the wireless operator fatally injured, but Reid completed the journey of some 200 further miles over enemy ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 569 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

I NOW TAKE OFF MY UNIFORM: THE VICEROY-DESIGNATE OF INDIA

... I NOW TAKE OFF MY UNIFORM THE VICEROY-DESIGNATE OF INDIA. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. RAISED to the peerage on appointment to the Viceroyalty of India, Field-Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell, G.C.B., C.M.G., MX., took the title of VISCOUNT WAVELL OF CYRENAICA AND WINCHESTER. Cyrcnaica because there, as a General, he won his first victories against the Axis by driving the Italians to Tripoli, and ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 199 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THREE GENERATIONS OF THE HOUSE OF ORANGE-NASSAU IN CANADA QUEEN WILHELMINA WITH PRINCESS JULIANA AND HER DAUGHTERS

... THREE GENERATIONS OF THE HOUSE OF ORANGE-NASSAU IN CANADA: QUEEN WILHELMINA WITH PRINCESS JULIANA AND HER DAUGHTERS. H.R.H. PRINCE BERNHARD OF THE NETHERLANDS gets a good snapshot of T.R.H. PRINCESS IRENE (left) and PRINCESS BEATRIX. H.R.H. PRINCESS JULIANA OF THE NETHERLANDS with her youngest daughter, H.R.H. PRINCESS MARGRIET. Eldest daughter of Princess Juliana H.R.H. PRINCESS BEATRIX, born ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 346 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE generous American Bundles for Britain Society which has supplied hundreds of bombed-out families with new outfits, has been inspired by the thought of our clothes-coupon bound Service brides into sending over nine new wedding dresses, under lease-lend conditions, specially designed for the use of the W.R.N.S. Lady Ward is seen in the top picture inspecting the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 617 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Photographs 

ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC WITH MASSEY AND BOGART

... . Beating off an air attack on the 44 Seaicitch 44 the anti-aircraft gun crew of an American Liberty ship in action against Nazi bombers. Captain Jarvis RAYMOND MASSEYJ, looking for Chief Mate Joe Rossi HUMPHREY BOGART,/, finds him with Pearl JULIE BISHOP^, whom he has married. Survivors huddled on a raft after their lifeboat has been rammed a little band of members of the crew of the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CUPID'S COMMANDO!

... CUPID'S COMMANDO I JUDY CAMPBELL plays Joanna Lyppiatt in Noel Cotcard's 44 Present Laughter which alternates with his 44 This Happy Breed at the Haymarket. Joanna might well be called Cupid's Commando, for a more determined siren has never been depicted. Here she is arriving for a raid on Gerry Essendine's flat, determined to get her man. Her seduction equipment consists of a ravishing white ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WORK, PLAY, TRAINING AND ROMAN DOZEN PRESENT-DAY NEWS PICTURES

... . WREN JOY HIND MARSH is here receiving instruction in drumming from P.C. FRED LINDSAY, drummer in a police band so that she may head the ceremonial Wren parades, in correct style. LADY DAVSON, O.B.E., Chairman, Ladies Committee of War Services West India CoJ opened a Forces Y.W.C.A. Club at Camberley, presented by Barbados. CONTROLLfll CARLISLE, A.T.S., is on the left. Left The engage ment of ...

Published: Sunday 24 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 409 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ZORINA IN A MULTI-STAR FILM

... -ORINA IN A MULTI-STAR FILM. Paramount' s 44 Star-Spangled Rhythm staggers the mind tcith the largest battalion of stars ever gathered together on one reel. VERA ZORINA is the star leader of the ballet and 44 Black Magic v one of her musical numbers. The extravaganza plot centres round the Paramount Studios and each star plays a real-life role. Here are a fete names from the stellar list ...

Published: Sunday 24 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 122 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOLLYWOOD'S STAGE DOOR SERVICE MEN'S CANTEEN

... . TT OLLYWOOD'S STAGE DOOR CAN- TEEN, run on the lines of the successful Stage Door Canteen of the American Theatre Wing in New York, proved a smash-hit as soon as it was opened. Bette Davis is the president, and the staff comes from every rank in the movie colony, from studio hands to producers, and includes hundreds of celebrated actors and actresses. The canteen's capacity is 600 uniformed ...

Published: Sunday 24 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 250 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON, WITH GINGER AND CARY

... . r\NCE UPON A HONEY- V-7 MOON, new R.K.O. Radio picture, is due at the Odeon on February 26. It 's an international spy thriller, with Ginger as the golden- haired Baroness, formerly U.S.A. dancer Katie O'Hara. She discovers the Baron to be a Nazi agent and, after many narrow shaves, escapes with newspaper man Pat O'Toole, but returns to the Baron to do some contrespionage work. This ...

Published: Sunday 24 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PRINCESSES IN THE RANKS AS GIRL GUIDES

... . IH.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH (right) and H.R.H. PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE (second from left are members of the first Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides, and are here seen marching smartly along in the ranks, someichere in the country. Princess Elizabeth is now. a Sea Ranger, and recently sent a message of greeting by carrier-pigeon to all Rangers, Guides and Brownies. She will be seventeen ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 137 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs