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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - THIS N.F.S. GIRL for leaping through a flaming hoop as part of her fire-fighting training. MISS EVELYN SHARP for being the first woman to bt appointed Principal Assistant Secretary at the Treasury m THE GROUND CREW OF THE HALIFAX BOMBER SEA GOOSE for making a grand photographic Bomber Command frieze. RUBY LOFTUS for being the subject of DAME LAURA KNIGHT'S Royal Academy painting 44 Ruby Loft ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 401 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BROADCASTER ON THE LOVELY LAND OF THE FAITHFUL

... BROADCASTER ON THE LOVELY LAND OF THE FAITHFUL THOTOGRAPH BY KARSH, OTTAWA. MR. L. W. BROCKINGTON, K.C., is the author of the talk on New Zealand heard recently over the air, transcribed from a Telediphone recording. He described the tear achievements of what he called the Lovely land of the faithful pointing out that the population is a million and a half but that New Zealand sailors have ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 161 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BOY KING AND BRITISH AMBASSADOR

... . LADY LAMPSON. H.M. KING FEISAL OF IRAQ, VICTOR LAMPSON and H.E. THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT on the terrace of the British Embassy Cairo. Right Taking careful aim KING FEISAL OF IRAQ enjoys a table game at the British Embassy, while LADY LAMPSON looks on. THESE pictures of H.M. king FEISAL were taken at the British Embassy, Cairo, when he honoured the British Ambassador and Lady Lampson ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 175 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

... STRICTLY LOYAL, FOR ENGLAND'S HONOUR SAVED--THE THEATRE ROYAL

... STRICTLY LOYAL, FOR ENGLAND'S HONOUR SAVED-THE THEATRE ROYAL. [If outside of the THEATRE ROYAL, BRISTOL, the oldest playhouse in the country which has been reopened by C.E.M.A. The foyer of the Theatre Royal. The building is an eighteenth-century one and has been cleaned and repainted. kk: MR. 0. B. CLARENCE, MISS THEA HOLME, DAME HLTHORNDIKE, MISS KAY BANNERMAN, LADY KEYNES lly&aLopok ova), ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 297 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WIFE TO OUR ALEXANDER THE GREAT

... . LADY MARGARET ALEXANDER is the wife of General the Hon. Sir Harold Alexander, the victor of Tunis, C.-in-C. the Middle East since Aug,*! 1942. On the eve of the final battle he announced to the Allied troops that the last phase of the campaign had been reached and late on May 7 the fall ofBixerta and Tunis was announced. In his message of congratulation to General Alexander. I he lyime ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 145 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROBINSON'S

... 'My bottled gone for the duration says OLD HETHERS No, madam, I'm sorry but I shan't be able to serve you with my Robinson's bottled Barley Water while the war lasts. In the meantime, madam, I'm sure I needn't remind you that you don't have to go without my barley water altogether. It's just a matter of going back to what we all used to do before Robinson's put up my barley water in bottles. ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 169 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

CUPID'S COMMANDO!

... CUPID'S COMMANDO I JUDY CAMPBELL plays Joanna Lyppiatt in Noel Cotcard's 44 Present Laughter which alternates with his 44 This Happy Breed at the Haymarket. Joanna might well be called Cupid's Commando, for a more determined siren has never been depicted. Here she is arriving for a raid on Gerry Essendine's flat, determined to get her man. Her seduction equipment consists of a ravishing white ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALL AROUND BY CAMERA

... . LADY WINIFRIDE FITZALAN-HOWARD, youngest (laughter of the late Duke of Norfolk, married MAJOR J. E. B. FREEMAN, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, elder son of the late Sir Philip Freeman, in the private chapel of Arundel Castle. The DUCHESS OF NORFOLK held up her daughter, LADY MARY FITZALAN-HOWARD, to the microphone to thank the Land Girls for their gift of dolls for her and ...

SNAPS FROM MANY SOURCES

... . llhe SOVIET AMBASSADOR, M. MAISKY, attended the reception held jfHyat the Ethiopian Legation and talked for some time with H.E. BELATA AYELA GABRE, the Minister. JOHN MILLS, the actor and his playwright wife, MARY HAYLEY BELL, whor of 41 Men in Shadow, at the Vaudeville Theatre, attended the priroje vieu- of the work of Tomas Harris, Anglo-Spanish artist, at the Lefhjre Galleries. of the W ...

FROM 6.30 A.M. UNTIL 9 P.M. A STUDENT NURSE'S WORKING DAY

... FROM 6.30 A.M. UNTIL 9 P.M.: A STUDENT NURSE'S WORKING DAY. Called at 6.30 fry the whirr of the alarm clock NURSE PHILLIPS wakes Study of the chained reference books! Nurse Phillips (facing camera; left) and friends at icork on the theoretical side of their profession. Nurse Phillips* s life is not all work and no play: here she is (right), with Nurse Margaret Smith Xind Nurse Barrett Scott, ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 448 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FAKE LOSS OF A SUBMARINE: WE DIVE AT DAWN

... WITH co-operation from the Admiralty and officers and men of H.M. submarines, Gainsborough presents We Dive at Dawn (Leicester Square Theatre, May 20). This dynamic submarine adven ture stars Eric Portman and John Mills, with Reginald Purdell and Niall MacGinnis. Producer, Anthony Asquith. [Continued below. Continued.] With captured German airmen aboard, the 44 Sea Tiger sets off to inter ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 322 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

VOGUE FOR JUMPER SUITS DRAPED BELTS BISHOPS SLEEVES

... WOMEN IN WARTIME THERE is no doubt about it that Rima really does understand the art of creating fashions that may be worn all the year and remain undated. They are sold by dressmakers of prestige, their G.H.Q. being 25, Bruton Street, where the address of the nearest retailer may be obtained. It is a Rima model portrayed at the top of this page. The skirt is of a grey woollen fabric strewn ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 286 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs