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CINEMA CAMEOS

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WEARY as I am of films about air planes, destroyers, Commandos, sub marines, Gestapo officers, swastikas, Fifth Columnists, war correspondents and blitzes, I am surprised, as well a delighted, to be able to recommend whole heartedly the new war film at the Leicester Square Theatre, Anthony Asquith's WE DIVE AT DAWN. Mr. Asquith is a director whose work recalls the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1916 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Photographs 

STUDENTS WHO HOPE TO GROW INTO STARS THE YOUNG IDEA AT THE R.A.D.A

... STUDENTS WHO HOPE TO GROW INTO STARS: THE YOUNG IDEA AT THE R.A.D.A. Transforming youth temporarily into age Mr. Edmund Gray making one of the students for 44 Women at War. Sir Kenneth Barnes, Principal of the R.A.D.A., and Miss Rose Bruford, a teacher watch first-term students in mime tests. x 44 Lady Scholes in her costume for 44 Women at War, adjusts the helmet of 44 Dunois in the Academy ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MONTGOMERY THE VICTORIOUS IN CAIRO

... . GENERAL MONTGOMERY and LADY KILLEARN, wife of H.E. the British Ambassador, sitting icith LADY FREYBERG, wife of General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., at the New Zealand table at the Embassy garden-party. GENERAL MONTGOMERY talking to an Australian, who was one of the repatriated prisoners of war from Italy who were entertained by Lord and Lady Killearn at the British Embassy garden-party. TT ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 215 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ONLY A DAILY MILLION: THOSE RARE RAZOR BLADES!

... ONLY A DAILY MILLION. THOSE RARE RAZOR BLADES I These steel coils will he transformed into razor blades when the factory is through with them. This girl can drape herself in razor blades without fear of getting cut, as the edges have not been sharpened, hardened or honed. This strip of blades is running on a machine which perforates and stamps to shape 540 a minute. The steel is still soft. ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 266 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FERRY PILOT ON THE BOARD OF B.O.A.C.--MISS PAULINE GOWER

... FERRY PILOT ON THE BOARD OF B.O.A.C.-- MISS PAULINE GOWER. rilOTOGRAril BY FAYER. COMMANDER PAULINE MARY DE PEAULY GOWER, F.R.Met. Soc., Commandant of the Women Pilots Air Transport Auxiliary teas recently appointed by the Secretary for Air to the board of British Overseas Airtcays Corporation. Thirty -two-year -old Miss Gower, younger daughter of Sir Robert Gower, is the first woman* to hold ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 156 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE. TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- R.S.M. C. R. BAKER for being the A.T.S.'s own Sergeant- Major, and featuring in their film 44 The Gentle Sex. BRIGADIER ORDE CHARLES WINGATE, D.S.O. for putting the wind up the Japs in Burma for three months with his mixed guerilla force, 44 Wingate* s Follies MRS. SAY for the 44 mental twist which in six weeks enabled her to read complicated engineering drawings with ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 583 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW OF ANDERSON OF THE FIRST ARMY

... . PHOTOGRAPHS BY LENARE. MRS. KAPLOW1TCH is the only daughter of General K. A. M. Anderson, Commander of the First Army, who launched the final drive against t e enemy in North Africa which resulted in the conquest of Tunis and t e complete destruction of the German and Italian forces in Africa. a second subaltern in the A.T.S. and is with an A.-A. battery. husband, MAJOR KAPLOWITCH, is in the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FUN, SWING, ROMANCE IN SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT

... JANET BLAIR as the lovely Jeannie Maxwell song and dance artist, who makes the vaudeville show go. Members of the Ballet Russe, who appear with premier danseurT* David Lichine. Left LILY NORWOOD, dancing partner of David Lichine in the Russian Ballet num bers. She hails from Texas. LILY NORWOOD with DAVID LICHINE in one of their ballet sequences. Right JANET BLAIR and DAVID LICHINE, of the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AT HOME: MR. ATTLEE

... THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AT HOME MR. ATTLEE. The Jomily party at Stanmorc (I. to r.) The Deputy Premiers eldest daughter, nineteen-year-old JANET, Sergeant in the W.A.A.F. MARTIN, aged fourteen FELICITY, aged sixteen MR. and MRS. C. R. ATTLEE, and Mary, one of Martin s two pet goats. Though he was spending only a few leisure hours away from Whitehall with his family, Mr. At fleets badge of ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 307 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STARLET BY THE SEA: DONA DRAKE AS HERSELF

... STARLET BY THE SEA DONA DRAKE AS HERSELF. pARA MOUNT'S very young featured player, DONA DRAKE, has an important r6le Salute for Three, which comes to the Plaza on June 4. The cast list bills her in her °*n name, and as herself she leads an all-girl band which supplies the music to the canteen tones. For the first time in her screen career D°na is allowed to appear in dresses. In her debut ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

'GOR-RAY'

... U$ |71 1 71 fi V M 171 |71 Wk 1 |$53S!IBT* EiTTTvfWrwW Smart women to-day rcisn^x prefer Gor-ray Skirts not only because they are well made and stylish, but also because they have the ZWOW. A combined pocket and placket, the ZWOW will carry your handkerchief, loose change, and other articles and give you a neat, unbroken hip line without buttons or other fasteners to cause bulkiness. There ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 108 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

GRAVE AND LIGHT-HEARTED, WORK AND PLAY OTABILITIES OF THE WEEK AND THEIR DOINGS

... GRAVE AND LIGHT-HEARTED, WORK AND rLAi STABILITIES OF THE WEEK AND THEIR DOINGS. ADMIRAL LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, Chief of Combined Operations, and LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN attended the premiere of 44 We Dive at Dawn, in aid of the R.N. Benevolent Fund. I 1 M I II 'VHmtmMWmt IT 1 f Wk j Jj WING COMMANDER W. RUDD teas judge of the ankles competition at the garden party' held by plotter W.A.A.F.s ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 414 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs