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... MINSTRE GIRLS TO TH WAR HAVE GONE!

... I 1 II MINSTR1 E GIRLS M TO TH WAR m have 30NE! PRIVATE MARY CATERER, formerly a pianist plays the side drum. She is engaged to a Commando instructor. LANCE-CORPORAL E. R. TARRANT (twin), formerly a hotel clerk, plays the side drum and baritone instrument. PRIVATE ADA ELIZABETH TARRANT (twin), formerly a lady's maid, plays the bass drum. PRIVATES B. HOPKINS, D. MARTIN and L. BUTCHER with their ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 496 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALLIANCE OF BEAVER AND OCELOT WASHING-FROCKS

... NOW that spring has arrived, women are turning their thoughts to washing-frocks. As usual at this season, Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, have assembled an excellent collection, which are available in many designs and colour schemes. The one pictured on the right of this page is carried out in eyelet embroidered cotton, showing an original scroll design; the collar is of trubenised ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 507 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

SHADOW OF A DOUBT--NEW HITCHCOCK THRILLER

... SHADOW OF A DOUBT-- NEW HITCHCOCK THRILLER. Hunted man in a cheap Neic Jersey boarding-house Uncle Charlie (JOSEPH COTTEN) thinks out his next move and decides to go to ground by visiting his sister in Santa Rosa, California. The men from the Government Young Charlie (TERESA WRIGHT) introduces Graham (MACDONALD CAREY) and Saunders (WALLACE FORD) to her mother (PATRICIA COLLINGE). Uncle ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 306 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

guarding the flock

... From the ends of the earth they come our precious ships and their brave crews through peril of storm stalked by wolves the wolves of the sea the U-boats in packs. But the Navy is there-,-- and overhead the planes spotting bringing the convoy Home with its urgent load. Food, raw materials, Oil for the tanks, Munitions to feed the gathering force of the great assault the final blow Precious ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 183 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: 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 

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