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ST. JAMES'S PALACE TRANSFORMED INTO A RED CROSS OFFICE

... . Ambassadors'' Court St. Jameses Palacey is now the ENQUIRY BUREAU, PRISONERS OF WAR DEPARTMENT of the British Red Cross. A general view of the. Throne Room filing clerks at work with the SHROUDED GOLD CANOPY in the background. CLERKING IN THE THRONE ROOM: Red Cross workers at deal tables under the famous Lawrence portrait of George IV. Henry Villus portrait gazes down on a girl clerk ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 198 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHY WORRY ABOUT RAYON WHEN YOU CAN HAVE COTTON LIKE THIS!

... WHY WORRY ABOUT RAYON WHEN YOU CAN HAVE COTTON LIKE THIS I This American glamour girl has worn out all her silk and rayon stockings but she doesn't worry. Her legs are clad in cotton, but the stockings are very special and provide tangible proof that wartime restrictions cannot put an end to 44 this fashion nonsense. A new U.S. Government ruling standardised rayon hose but a fashion-wise ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WORK OF LASTING VALUE TO THE NATION: THE W.A.A.F. OFFICERS' TRAINING SCHOOL

... WORK OF LASTING VALUE TO TH NATION: THE W.A.A.F. OFFICERS' TRAINING SCHOOL. THE work of the W.A.A.F England town is sometl W.A.A.F. officers are there tri qualities of leadership are one education ensures development two sides to the work of the St recommended for commissions a necessary for their duties. D so they are not kept indoors fo School's work consists of refresh It is interesting to ...

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 ...

SCHWEPPES LIMITED LONDON

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

EPIC YANKEE FLYING FILM WITH A BOEING-17 AS HEROINE

... . The FLYING FORTRESS 44 MARY ANN, heroine of the film 44 AIR FORCE, takes off from one of the badly-bombed airfields. Desperate jungle battle against Japanese aircraft ARTHUR KENNEDY and GIG YOUNG as Lieut. Martin and Lieut. Williams. No glamour girl, but star of the great new picture 44 Air Force MARY ANN,^ the Boeing-1 7 Bomber. Enemy plane overhead American A.-A. gunner prepares to ...

GREAT LITTLE NEW YORK KID: ENTERPRISING JUNIOR MISS

... GREAT LITTLE NEW YORK KID ENTERPRISING JUNIOR MISS. Fuffy (PEGGY CUMMINS) and Judy are precocious enough to pretend to be immersed in a game of cards while icaiting for Barlow (DONALD McLEOD) and Haskell Cummings (PETER MILLER STREET) to call for them. J. B. Curtis y Harry Graves Judy and (right) Grace astonished to hear of the marriage of Uncle Willis and Ellen, which, however, the ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 267 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED

... , DAGENHAM, ESSEX LONDON SHOWROOMS: 88, REGENT STREET, W.I Until then When a Warden's coat is used as a bed for the cat and a useless cartridge box is a cradle for kittens the All Clear will have shrieked in triumphant finality. Until then, put that light out is more than a black-out warning. It is a reminder that unnecessary lights waste fuel. So let each one of us be a Fire Guard in the ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 104 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

VERONICA DOFFS HER PEEK-A-BOO BANG

... . VERONICA LAKE views the game tcith both clear eyes in the netc Paramount film 44 So Proudly We Hail due shortly for its Plaza premiere. Her irresistible peek-a-boo bang has gone and her forehead is free, for her part is that of a U.S. Army nurse. Her co-nurses are Claudctte Colbert and Paillette Goddard the venue Rataan and Corregidor. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 64 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--: MISS ENID BAGNOLD (Lady Jones): For making a first-rate thriller from her thwarted ..

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MISS ENID BAGNOLD (Lady Jones): For making a first-rate thriller from her thwarted ambition. Lottie dundass, miss en id bagnold's successful thriller at the Vaudeville, is of amusingly personal origin. In 1939, Lady Juliet Duff being ill, Miss Bagnold deputised at short notice during the run of Mr. Cecil Beaton's revue 44 Heil Cinderella, at the Theatre Royal, ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A BATTLE OF BRITAIN PARTY WEDDINGS; WAR-WORKERS

... A BATTLE OF BRITAIN PARTY; WEDDINGS; WAR-WORKERS. SUBALTERN MARY CHURCHILL inspected the chevrons on the sleeve of an American J V.A.C. ALICE MARBLE, of laicn tennis fame and our lawn tennis star MARY HARDWICK, are on the left Left GROUP CAPTAIN G. MALAN, D.S.O., D.F.C., replied for the fighter pilots at the lunch in celebration of the Battle of Britain held at Simpson s Services Club. MISS ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 423 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STRICTLY IN CAMERA: CECIL ATON PLAYS WITH EFFECTS-- PERSONAL AN OTHERWISE

... STRICTLY IN CAMERA: CECIL JON PLAYS WITH EFFECTS- PERSONAL AH OTHERWISE. J list between ourselves. Cecil Beaton takes himself in focus with an out-of -focus decor, casually and without apparent meaning. Surrealism at sea. Reflections in a yacht's ventilator distort the photographer, who waves his Mexican hat above his head, thus helping in the creation of u pattern, where every detail is of ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 315 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs