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WOMEN IN WARTIME: TWEED TAILORED SUITS BECOMING FUR WRAPS SIMPLE FELT HATS

... WOMEN IN WARTIME TWEED TAILORED SUITS BECOMING FUR WRAPS SIMPLE FELT HATS L IT is splendid news that Peter Robinson, Oxford Street, have been fortunate enough to secure a consignment of tweeds which they have made up into suits, one of which is illustrated above. There are manv variations on this theme, including Harris, Cumberland, Orkney, Munro, Scotch and Galadale tweeds the last-mentioned ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... MONTGOMERY'S LET'S FACE IT THEATRE FACE. During his visit to London in May undertaken in order to discuss matters of high importance GENERAL MONTGOMERY found time to go more than once to the theatre. He saw 44 Arsenic and Old Lace at the Strand and also went to the London Hippodrome where Bobby Howes was then appearing in 44 Let ys Face It. From our series of photographs of the General, ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN, O.M. for his ready acceptance of a lemon from Sehorita Ana Carcano. CANVASSED at the Chilean Ambassador's fete by Sehorita Ana Carcano, daughter of the Argentine Ambassador, MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN, the painter, gaily bought a raffle ticket from her, the prize a lemon. The proceeds from side-shows and entertainments at Senor Don Bianchi's party all went to swell the coffers of ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 679 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ANN TODD PLAYS THE MURDERESS

... . ANN TODD, the Peter Pan of last year, is note the passionate murderess of Lottie Dundass at the Vaudeville. Here is the play's most critical moment, tchen. driven insane by ambition and confident of her own genius Lottie has com mitted the crime to realise her life's desire to be a star. rHOTOC.RAFH BY JOHN V1CKERS. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 61 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

I'M GOING TO GET LIT UP WHEN THE LIGHTS GO UP

... A ZOE GAIL, recently seen in 44 Let 's Face It is a high light of 44 STRIKE A NEW NOTE, George Black's 44 rising generation shotc at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Here she is as the Man About Town, singing one of her big hits, 44 I m Going to Get Lit Up. C. B. Cochran, writing to 44 The Times about theatrical finds, obsemes that she is the only player who has ever recalled to him the manner ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 134 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - HM.S. 44Taku, commanded by Lieut. A. J. W. Pitt, R.N., recently arrived in this country after a year's success in the Mediterranean. She has the distinction of having had more intensive chasing from the enemy than any other British submarine. Her most recent escape was in the .-Egean Sea where, except for a half-hour on the surface, she had to submerge for thirty-six hours, following the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 475 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ENGAGEMENTS--ANGLO-AMERICAN AND ALL-BRITISH--OF THE DAUGHTERS OF TWO FAMOUS FAMILIES

... ENGAGEMENTS- ANGLO-AMERICAN AND ALL-BRITISH -OF THE DAUGHTERS OF TWO FAMOUS FAMILIES. HHWO important engagements were recently announced, on the same day those of Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill to Lieut. Edwin F. Russell, R.N.V.R., and of Lady Barbara Montagu -Stuart- W ortley to Mr. D. C. Ricardo. Lady Sarah Churchill, a relative of the Prime Minister, is twenty-two years of age, and had a ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE GENTLE SEX--THE A.T.S. AT WORK AND PLAY

... THE GENTLE SEX-- THE A.T.S. AT WORK AND PLAY. tirpHE GENTLE SEX, Two Citics-Concanen-Leslie Howard production, produced by Derrick de Marney, is due for its world premiere at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, to morrow, Thursday, April 8, when all proceeds will be given to the A.T.S. Benevolent Fund. The picture opens with the departure of seven girls to join up. They are Czech Erna, ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 287 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SHAW'S DISCURSIVE HEART BREAK HOUSE WITH A STAR CAST DRESSED BY CECIL BEATON

... SHAW'S DISCURSIVE HEART. 3REAK HOUSE WITH A STAR CAST DRESSED BY CECIL BEATON. THE brilliant cast of 44 Heartbreak House, at the Cambridge Theatre, presents Shaw's 44 fantasy in the Russian manner on English themes just as he probably intended it, with a splendid sense of enjoyment. First performed at the Court Theatre in 1921, this period piece, with its introspective, egotistic, bourgeois- ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 367 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

INTERFERENCE, BY THE R.A.F. SOMEWHERE IN SCOTLAND

... . Above: Press reporters (FLYING OFFICERS DUN- NETT and SCOTT) are trying to interview the eminent surgeon, Sir John Marley (WING COMMANDER W. J. SCOTT), tchil Faith Mar Ity (BARBARA COLLINSON), Barbara, his niece (MARY HARDING), a rid Douglas Htlder, Barbara's fiancS (in armchair), (SQUADRON LEADER COR' look on in amusement. i 'hilders, the butler (FLY \G OFFICER BARRACLOU' J, is holding the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 282 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Debenham & Freebody

... Deben Ram Freebody Debenbam Freebody SAVES lOUfKrflS IMPECCABLE TAILORING is the keynote of this spring suit, in a fine wool: the broad-shouldered coat buttons high, and features original pockets (18 coupons) Lan&ham 4444 WIGMORE STREET, W.I. (Dcbetthams LtM ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 38 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAR MINISTER AND HIS WIFE

... HE WAR MINISTER ND HIS WIFE. THE RT. HON. SIR JAMES 1 CRICG. P.C., K.C.S.I., Secretary for W ar. gave in his I mceiit Estimates speeeh a masterly review of the Army's progress during a year of war inch had seen disaster turn 'to the beginnings of victory. 's description of the Army's tea 'stic battle training and piipment, coupled with the confident note on which he 'shed, drew from ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 117 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs