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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - AUalnALlAiN-DUnIN wlINlr COM MANDER HUGH I. EDWARDS has won the three highest medals held by an officer of the R.A.F. in this war the V.C., DJ*.C. and recently the D.S.O. THE Q.A.I.M.N.S. SISTERS shown arrived in Benghazi after its reoccqpation by British troops. They are seen talking to N.Z. engineers on repair work in the harbour. T IEUT.-COLONEL V. B. TURNER, V.C., Rifle Brigade, won the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 480 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

MURDER AS A GENTLE ART: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, WITH DAME LILIAN BRAITHWAITE

... .I Surprising discovery in the aunts' house Mortimer Brewster (NAUNTON Wayne) finds a corpse in the chest. Unwelcome visitor Martha (MARY JERROLD), Abby (LILIAN BRAITHWAITE), Elaine (EILEEN BENNETT), the crazy Jonathan (EDMUND WILLARD) and Dr. Einstein (MARTIN MILLER). Death by the slow method for Mortimer Brewster Jonathan Brewster prepares to begin his horrible operation under the terrified ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 350 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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 

The ROYAL NAVY at WORK

... I Three Special Sphere drawings After an absence from home of two and a half years, during which she sank or damaged more than twenty Axis ships and steamed more than 80,000 miles, in the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Java Seas, H.M. Submarine Truant has arrived at a base in Britain. ruant s exploits during her long cruise include going into an enemy harbour on the surface, because it was ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1157 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

The AMERICANS on GUADALCANAR

... A PAGODA-LIKE SHACK ON HENDERSON AIRFIELD. This was probably built by the Japs originally it became H.Q. for U.S. Marine and Navy airmen and survived numerous bombings U.S. MARINES ON GUADALCANAR ISLAND in the Solomons keep abreast of the times by reading the news on the bulletin- board of the local newspaper The Guadalcanar Dope HEADQUARTERS FOR COMMUNICATIONS, one of the few really sub ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BOMBING OR--BOREDOM?: The Work of London's Ambulance-Drivers During, and Since, the Great Blitz

... BOMBING OR- BOREDOM? The Work of London's Ambulance-Drivers During, and Since, the Great Blitz Described by CHARLES GRAVES A PROFOUND remark was made to members of the B.E.F. during the lull before May 10, 1940. It was this: It is better to be bored than bombed. It is a pity that members of the A.R.P., and par ticularly the ambulance-drivers, do not remember this in 1943. London has had no ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1378 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

AWAY FROM THESE WARS....: Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS. Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. A MIGHTY LANDOWNER.-- I remember occa sions in my Victorian youth when I glanced at reference books of the Tobs and read such facts as these: Sutherland, Duke of, owns about 1,000,000 acres in G. B. Others read these excerpts also and wrote spiteful books about these big land owners and how ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1281 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

Champions All

... By A. Croxton Smith MENTION has already been made in The Sporting and Dramatic News of the fine collection of celebrated American dogs on view at the galleries of the Royal Photographic Society, 16, Prince's Gate, Kensington. The original intention of showing them during Decem- ber only has been changed, and they will be there for anyone to see throughout January. Photographing dogs is an art ...

Cocktails to Port

... CddaiL to Port THEY were famed as hard drinkers and this time lived up gloriously to their reputa- tion. After that the only thing one of them remembered was when the other shook him and shouted: bay., wake up You passed out at eleven o'clock. Go on. It's just five minutes of eleven now. Look at your watch. I did. Now you look at my calendar The hen is the only creature that can sit still ...

C. STILLITZ, ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

... C. STILL ITZ, ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA, C. STILL ITZ, ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA, MHHMHHIHHHHi I 1 r i mmM liPHwal iiiriTa id a glad farewell to that old bugbear of the placket skirt. No longer need there be that ugly, shape-destroying hip bulge. The new GOR-RAY ZWOW Fastening will enable you to wear a skirt which is as shapely on the left side as on the right. Literally a placket without an opening, it ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 129 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

Two in Uniform: Lady Moira Combe and Her Daughter, Audrey

... Two in Uniform Lady Moira Combe and Her Daughter, Audrey Lady .Moira Combe, the beautiful wife of Lieut. -Colonel Henry Combe, D.S.O., wears the uniform of the British War Relief Society of America, and^driyes fo. Mr. Bertram Kruger, head of the Society in Britain, which does such wonderful work for the relief of war sufferers in this country. Lady Moira's daughter, Audrey, is in the W.R.N.S., ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire: Palmam Qui Meruit ..

... ■^4 By Sabretache Palmam Qui Meruit NEVER in history have the palms been more worthily bestowed than they now have been upon three gallant officers whom it has delighted the King to honour: one sailor and two soldiers. The new peer, whose style and title have yet to be announced, is one of the bravest men who ever wore the dark blue and gold of the Senior Service; the two soldiers are men of ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1949 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Photographs