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THE WOMAN WHO WENT ON A BOMBING RAID

... the woman who went on a BOMBING RAID. Photographer MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE teas in one of the United States aero planes which bombed Tunis and is seen standing on a machine which no doubt in compliment to her bears the name of 44 Peggy. She stated on her return to Miami Fla from North Africa that the main Tunis airfield was jammed with transports, fighters and Junkers 88's and that the American ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF THE WEEK HEROES, A LEADER, WEDDINGS ENGAGEMENT AND ARTISTS

... PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF THE WEEK ieroes, a leader, weddings, ENGAGEMENl! ARTISTS. Here 's a peep behind the scenes showing how the PUPPET LADY PLAYS THE PIANO at the Belgian Exhibition recently opened at Messrs. Thos. Cook's in Berkeley Street. BABY KEITH GOULD wearing the Victoria Cross with which his father, PETTY OFFICER T. GOULD, has been invested. Gould and Lieut. P. S. W. Roberts are the V ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 357 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TALES OF MANHATTAN TAILS! COAT OF DESTINY RUNS DOWN THE SOCIAL GAMUT

... . First Episode: Luther (EUGENE PALLETTE), the valet ushers in the master tailors with the perfect tail-coat for Mr. Orman. First Episode Mrs. HaOoway (RITA HAYWORTH) sees HaUotcay (THOMAS MITCHELL) threatening her lover Orman (CHARLES BOYER). First Episode Orman, great actor to the last, pretends that he was acting the part of a wounded man, and takes leave of Mr. and Mrs. Halloway. Second ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 606 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TIN-FISH PROFICIENCY ALL 85% AND OVER

... ft WREN TORPEDOMEN hoisting a torpedo, or tin-fish aboard a naval coastal craft at a British naval port. Looking after the tail part of a torpedo when it is hoisted away ifn the Wren Torpedomen have overhauled it. A gang of Wren Torpedomen working above and below a torpedo a job that means the release of men for more vital duties at sea. Learning how to set the preselected range and depth ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 363 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THRASHER'S CREW AND AMERICAN AIRMAN INVESTED WITH HONOURS

... I THRASHER'S CREW AND AMERICAN AIRMAN INVESTED WITH HONOURS. LIEUT.-Ct ONEL CHESLEY PETERSON, D.S.C., D.F.C., American Army Air Force, is seen leaving the Palace with MRS. PETERSON, after being invested with the S.O. He was one of four American Air Force officers to be decorated n that occasion, the others receiving the D.F.C. He commanded the 71st gle Squadron and during the 18 months' ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 279 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CLEO FROM RIO OF THE PALACE THEATRE

... . GABRIELLE BRUNE plays Sally in 44 Full Swing, the successful musical come with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge at the Palace Theatre. Her numbtts include 44 Cleo from Rio, 44 Mamma, Buy Me That, 44 Love is Love Anywhere> and 44 Follow My Dancing Feet PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED DANIELS. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 56 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SALUTE TO NORWAY'S UNCONQUERABLE SPIRIT

... . Happy carefree Norway in the summer of 1939 the bride Anna Korstad (ELIZABETH FRASER), cuts the cake at her wedding breakfast. Gunner Korstad (RICHARD DERR) is the bridegroom. The brutal invaders take possession hordes of Nasi soldiers, with ful I equipment, stream into the peaceful Norwegian village to the horror ani astonishment of the inhabitants. A taste of the promised German 44 ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 525 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROYAL SMILES: PRINCE MICHAEL AND THE DUCHESS

... . This beautiful portrait of H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF KENT shows her with her younger son, H.R.H. PRINCE MICHAEL OF KENT. He was born in 1942 on July 4, American Independence Day, and a fete hours after his birth, his father, the late Duke of Kent, telegraphed to the President of the United States to ask if he would be a godfather. Mr. Roosevelt at once accepted, and the young Prince was given ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MAJOR LE PATOUREL, for being probably tbe only posthumous living V.C. on record. The posthumous award of the V.C. for gallantry in Tunisia to CAPTAIN (temp. Major) HERBERT WALLACE LE PATOUREL, The Hampshire Regiment, is probably the only known case of a posthumous V.C. being awarded to a living man. On December 31 MRS. LE PATOUREL received news of her sons death in ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 190 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW DEANNA DURBIN PICTURE--THE AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY

... NEW DEANNA DURBIN PICTURE THE AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY. 44 rr* HE AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY, new Universal J- picture, was due at the Leicester Square Theatre on March 19. Deanna Durbin as a missionary girl in China undertakes to shepherd nine tots to safety from war dangers. This entails many adventures, including survival from torpedo sinking with eight children in tow. In order to get into the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A NEW ORSON WELLES PRODUCTION--THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS

... A NEW ORSON WELLES PRODUCTION-- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. 0i it with he husband Wilbur Minafer (DONALD DILLAWAY), Isabel Ambers fDOLORES COSTELLO^ meets her one-time lover Eugene Morgan (JOS' PH COTTEN), whom she threw over when he became drunk. George Minafer and Lucy Morgan fall head over heels in love, but not before the outspoken y oung man has spoken disparagingly of her father of ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME

... BOLD CHECKS LITTLE FROCKS THERE is great satisfaction in being able to obtain something that one really likes, and this is always the case at Liberty's, Regent Street. Illustrated above is a light, nevertheless warm, wrap-coat the material is rather difficult to describe, as it is not quite a fleece, nor is it camel. The pockets are piped, and so is the collar, which is very becoming. There ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs