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GOOD NEWS IN PICTURES FROM HOME AND ABROAD

... I GOOD NEWS I I IN I PICTURES j I FROM j I HOME AND ABROAD M. GUSIEV, new Soviet Ambassador sate the Stalingrad Stcord of Honour at the Goldsmiths Hall. MR. HUGHES, Clerk of the Goldsmiths Company and CORPORAL DURBIN, R.A.F., who carried out the silver tcork, are left and right. Left MRS. S. WOODRUFF, elder daughter of Sir Frank ftewson-Smith,the Lord Mayor- Elect, will deputise as Lady ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WEDDINGS, A CHRISTENING, AND OFFICIAL OCCASIONS

... . LIEUT. J CK MICHELL, R.N., son of Sir Robert and Lai Michell of Pensbury House Shaftes bury, m ried MISS MARY DUNLOP, daughter of Rritiadii A. G. Dunlop at St. James's, Spanish Place. Left This AIRMAN is providing GRACIE FIELDS with a convenient writing-desk to sign autographs for the boys in Sicily where she has been giving impromptu concerts. SUBALTERN MARY CHURCHILL watched the march-past ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 175 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN THE SHIPYARDS DOING 114 KINDS OF JOBS!

... Awkward places have to be welded, but nothing is too difficult for the women who work in the shipyards, doing no fewer than 114 kinds of jobs. Women are apt to underrate their capacity for acquiring skill, but seldom fail when put to the test. No job is too tough for them, for Miss England, 1943, towers above all in her daily routine Miss Mary Webb is marking the rivet plates for working in ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 339 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

H.E. THE NEW PORTUGUESE AMBASSADOR WITH HIS WIFE AND FAMILY

... t . The DUKE OF PALMELLA, who has succeeded Dr. Montciro as Portuguese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was photographed with THE DUCHESS and their eleven children the eldest of whom is twenty-two at his house outside Cascaes, Estremadura. The new representative of our oldest ally is forty-seven be was at school at Beaumont and at King's College, Cambridge, where he took a degree in ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SUBURBAN FAMILY LIFE WITH GORDON HARKER AS DAD: ACACIA AVENUE

... UBURBAN FAMILY LIFE WITH GORDON HARKER AS DAD: ACACIA AVENUE. Afr. obinson (GORDON HARKER) is hurt that Peter (RHODERICK WALKER) shows no i husiasm for the projected cruise to Athens. He has planned a date with F.KIpIIP fMIKI HOOD^. Mr. Robinson is astonished to hear from his daughter Joan that she is not accompanying him and her mother on the cruise, as she has become engaged. The Acacia ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 222 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PRETTY AND PRACTICAL NURSERY FROCKS THE RELAXATION DRESS

... NO one can fail to be delighted with the children's fashions at Walpoles, Bond Street, some of which are illustrated above. They are well cut and can be lengthened when required. The corduroy velveteen trousers on the left are buttoned on to a washing blouse which is finished with turnover collar and sleeves. The outfit for the very small personage in the centre is a practical garment, is easy ...

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Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 109 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WIVES OF HEROES OF THE R.N., THE ARMY AND R.A.F

... MRS. RICHEY the wife of Wing Commander P. H. Richey D.F.C. and liar, author of best-seller war book Fighter Pilot. She a daughter of Sir Roy Lister, married Wing Commander ichey in 1939 and has two daughters, ANN and babv PAULINE. MRS. TANYA PITT, wife of LieiU. Arthur John W. Pitt R.N. captain of the submarine Taku, which has been described as Britain s most relentlessly- hunted submarine ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 258 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK--HERE AND IN THE U.S.A. CAMERA PARADE OF PEOPLE AND THEIR DOINGS

... PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK-HERE AND IN THE U.S.' -AMERA parade of people and their doings. Passing-out parade and in spection of an O.T.C. at the M.T.C. H.Q. CORPS COM MANDANT MRS. PEAKE, AD MIRAL SIR EDWARD EVANS, K.C.B., D.S.O., AIR VICE- MARSHAL SIR LESLIE GOS- SAGE, K.C.B., D.S.O., and CAPTAIN MISS HENDERSON, M.T.C. (I. to r. in front). Right The marriage of CAP TAIN R. J. F. WHISTLER, ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 439 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FRESH FIELD! SID OF STRIKE A NEW NOTE

... FRESH FIELD! SID OF STRIKE A NEW NOTE, As Slasher Green, of the Elephant and Castle; Sid Field in A Discovery. The Blizzard of the Bells Sid Field in a fine bit of fooling. Little Ball's Going Ta-Ta in the golfing scene, Following Through. Where are you, Clifford Sid Field as the melancholy boozer. PHOTOGRAPHS SPECIALLY TAKEN FOR THE SKETCH BY ROYE. TN STRIKE A NEW NOTE, at the Prince ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 167 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RECONNAISSANCE IN NORTH AFRICA

... . Below the interminable rolling clouds of the North African sky, GENERAL ANDERSON, G.O.C.. the First Army, and a BRIGADIER, surveyed enemy territory in Northern Tunisia from a tactical point of vietv. They t cere visiting thcr forward position of a well-known County regiment. Against the vast panorama of the North African countryside the two figures seem minute, but they arc full of ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 95 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROYAL, NAVAL, MILITARY AND SPORTING NEWS OF THE WEEK IN PICTURE FORM

... ROYAL, NAVAL, MILITARY AND SPORTING 1EWS OF THE WEEK IN PICTURE FORM. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF KENT took the salute at a Youth Week Parade at Leeds. The LORD MAYOR OF LEEDS (MISS J. B. KITSON) and the EARL OF HAREWOOD are with her on the steps. This smiling WREN works at the repair depot of a landing-craft base where the training of our Amphibious Forces is in progress. The Chariot race at a ...