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WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF THE LONGSTOP HILL V.C

... WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF THE LONGSTOP HILL V.C. MRS. ANDERSON is the wife of Lieut. (Temp. Captain Acting Major) Jx>hn Thompson McKellar Anderson D.S.O., the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who has won the V.C. for gallantry in Tunisia. On April 23, St. George s Day, Major Anderson, with four officers and fewer than forty men, captured the famous enemy stronghold, 44 Longstop Hill. Further at ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 85 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPITFIRE VIEW OF A CHERRY PICKER!

... SPITFIRE VIEW OF A CHERRY PICKER A Spitfire pilot might perhaps have glimpsed a vietv like ihis when flying over the Garden of England, for the Kentish cherry crop has been a record one this year. Gathering in the harvest from a cherry orchard calls for a lot of energy and a certain amount of daring so no wonder the little girl tcho has been left grounded while her mother climbs aloft is ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 75 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHURCHILL'S GUILDHALL SPEECH ILLUSTRATED--150 YEARS AGO!

... CHURCHILL'S GUILDHALL SPEECH ILLUSTRATED-- 150 YEARS AGO! COPYRIGHT RESERVED FOR THE OWNER. Mr. Churchill's stirring description of the British Commonwealth and Empire in his Guildhall speech is perfectly illustrated by this allegorical drawing by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg R.A., made 150 years before the speech ivas delivered for Loutherbourg was born in 1780 and died in 1812. The ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SLUM RENT PROBLEM MADE INTO COMEDY! LIVING ROOM

... Dr. David Blake (PHILIP CUNNINGHAM) and Molly Benton (JANE BAXTER), young Medical Officer of Health and medical student are in love. LOUISE HAMPTON as Miss Vicky Benton one of the spinster sisters whose slender means are derived from slum property. Miss Vicky Benton (LOUISE HAMPTON) and her sister. Miss Deborah Benion (NELLIE BOWMAN), look out old things for a jumble sale. Miss Vicky Benion is ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 231 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE REAL ROMMEL AND THE VON STROHEIM FILM ROMMEL

... FIELD-MARSHAL ROMMEL, the desert fox, German Commander in North Africa, as he is in real life. ERICH VON STROHEIM'S film presentation of Rommel. A scene from Five Graves to Cairo, with FRANCHOT TONE as the British soldier Bramble masauerading as a waiter. Rommel himself on active service in the Western Desert in 1942. The screen Rommel (ERICH VON STROHEIM) interviews the French girl, Mouche ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 246 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOST MOVING FILM--STEINBECK'S THE MOON IS DOWN

... MOST MOVING FILM-STEINBECK'S THE MOON IS DOWN. The unsuspecting Norwegian villagers are picnicking when the Germans arrive. The tiny militia troop is wiped out by Nazi machine-gunners. At the moment when Alex Morden is facing the German firing-squad a bullet crashes through the window of the Mayor's house, and wounds one of the Germans who are occupying it. More bloodshed and reprisals follow ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TWO-YEAR-OLD GAY GHOST KAY HAMMOND

... TWO- YEAR- OLD GAY GHOST KAY HAMMOND. ENCHANTING ghost-wife of Noel Coward's frivolously, spiritualist Blithe Spirit at the Duchess, KAY HAMMOND cele brated what we might call her second spiritual anniversary on July 2. This successful play opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1941, moved on to the St. James's in June 1942, and to the Duchess in October that year. Kay's frailly- ethereal ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 171 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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FAMILY PARTY AT BARNWELL MANOR: T.R.H. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER AND PRINCE WILLIAM

... FAMILY PARTY AT BARNWELL MANOR T.R.H. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER AND PRINCE WILLIAM. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER with her son, PRINCE WILLIAM, who is looking very mischievous. The LITTLE PRINCE takes a hand in combing Zalie. Barnwell Manor, Peterborough, the country house of the Duke and Duchess, is a beautiful old Tudor house with .mullioned windows. PRINCE WILLIAM finds a secure ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 220 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE YOUNG WIDOW AND SON OF A ST. GEORGE'S DAY V.C.: MRS. W. A. S. CLARKE AND ROBIN PETER AT DIMPLE HALL

... THE YOUNG WIDOW AND SON OF A ST. GEORGE'S DAY V.C. MRS. W. A. S. CLARKE AND ROBIN PETER AT DIMPLE HALL. MRS. WILLWARD ALEXANDER SANDYS CLARKE is the wife of the late Lieut. W. A. S. Clarke, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), who has been awarded a posthumous V.Cj for his supreme gallantry in Tunisia on April 23, St. George's Day, when, at Guiriat el Atach, Tunisia, he wiped out three enemy ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 344 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NOTABILITIES AND NEWS OF THE WEEK

... This W.A.A.F. has driven the bomb-train up and with her spaniel beside her, is watching the BOMBING-UP OF ONE OF OUR NEW TYPHOON FIGHTER BOMBERS, which carry two 500-lb. bombs and can dive at more than 400 m.p.h. almost vertically on their targets. CORPORAL VALERIE BOOTH (6\ stone) and C.S.M. F, WILLIAMS (20 stone) are the smallest and the largest A.T.S. and soldier in the Middle East. No. 1 ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 242 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RECORDED BY THE CAMERA

... . These ROMANS AND ANCIENT BRITONS are W.A.A.F. members. This pageant, 44 Women Through the Ages, was staged at a depot to mark the fourth birthday anniversary of the W.A.A.F. I re's haymaking, modern style. These land- lirls, the picture of sunburnt mirth, are bringing j,/( the hay-wain on the fourth anniversary of 'be formation of the Women's Land Army. VINA BARNDEN, Australian pianist, ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 234 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs