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FROU-FROU ON THE STAGE AND IN THE DRESSING ROOM

... . ■Hi CAROL R/.YE plays Frou-Frou in the revival of The Merry Hi dole, at His Mai ly's. Iter dressing-room is papered with congratulatory greetings telegrams from friends. Rave and Leo Franklyn as Frou-krou f Nisch in one of their dance numbers- Slipping into one of the gay, spangled dance dresses she wears as Frou-Frou a dressing-room picture of Carol Raye. How to ensure that her eyelashes ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 185 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME: TOWN AND COUNTRY COATS HOUSE-COATS AND PYJAMAS

... WOMEN IN WARTIME TOWN AND COUNTRY COATS HOUSE -COATS AND PYJAMAS NEVER has there been a time when the house-coat has enjoyed greater popularity Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge, are making a feature of these in decorative and wear-well fabrics. They are responsible for the model above, which is in many attractive colour schemes. Rivals to the house-coats are the pyjamas, accompanied by dressing ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 234 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

... 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 

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 

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 

'PLANE v. BATTLESHIP: MODEL-MADE AIR FORCE THRILLS

... 'PLANE v. BATTLESHIP: MODEL-MADE AIR FORCE THRILLS. 44 A IR EORCE, new Warner Brothers picture made with the full co- CjL operation of the War Department, was due at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, on April 16. The 44 Mary Ann, one of Boeing's famous B-17's, or Flying Fortresses, is the heroine of a wonderful drama of air warfare over Pearl Harbour, Wake Island and the Coral Sea. The ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 316 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  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