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... MONTGOMERY'S LET'S FACE IT THEATRE FACE. During his visit to London in May undertaken in order to discuss matters of high importance GENERAL MONTGOMERY found time to go more than once to the theatre. He saw 44 Arsenic and Old Lace at the Strand and also went to the London Hippodrome where Bobby Howes was then appearing in 44 Let ys Face It. From our series of photographs of the General, ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN, O.M. for his ready acceptance of a lemon from Sehorita Ana Carcano. CANVASSED at the Chilean Ambassador's fete by Sehorita Ana Carcano, daughter of the Argentine Ambassador, MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN, the painter, gaily bought a raffle ticket from her, the prize a lemon. The proceeds from side-shows and entertainments at Senor Don Bianchi's party all went to swell the coffers of ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 679 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ANN TODD PLAYS THE MURDERESS

... . ANN TODD, the Peter Pan of last year, is note the passionate murderess of Lottie Dundass at the Vaudeville. Here is the play's most critical moment, tchen. driven insane by ambition and confident of her own genius Lottie has com mitted the crime to realise her life's desire to be a star. rHOTOC.RAFH BY JOHN V1CKERS. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 61 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SICILIAN COMMAND FOR CANADA'S YOUNGEST GENERAL, MAJOR-GENERAL SIMONDS

... . MAJOR-GENERAL GUY SIMONDS, seen t coding ashore at Sicily from a landing-crafl is the new commander of the Canadian forces in the Mediterranean and Sicily. Forty years old he is the youngest general in the Canadian Army. He was in one of the first contingents to land in Britain in 1939; went to North Africa as a brigadier; fought at the Mareth Line and was in at the fall of Sfax. General ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 93 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME

... I RELIABLE COUPON-SAVERS SUMMER SUITS IN MANY COLOURS SLOGAN BLOUSES AND FROCKS rPHERE is always something different to be found at -L J acq mar's, 16, Grosvenor Street the collection now to be seen is simple and, above all, practical. The jumper suit above on the left is of fancy crepe the two pieces may be worn separately, the coat looking well with a plain skirt, while the skirt may be ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 354 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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 

GENERAL MONTGOMERY EXPLAINS THE TIGER TANK TO HIS SON

... . PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEYSTONE. General Bernard MONTGOMERY, of the famous Eighth Army, victor of North Africa and Commander of the British Forces in Sicily, paid a secret visit to England in May and was in this country for a fortnight. One of his most important engage ments was a visit to his only I son, DAVID BERNARD MONTGOMERY, who is at Amesbury School. Our photographs show the General ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 153 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PEG-BOARD TESTS TO KEEP SQUARE PEGS OUT OF ROUND HOLES!

... PEG-BOARD TESTS TO KEEP SQUARE PEGS OUT OF ROUND HOLES I A MERICAN women applicants for war jobs are tried out by special intelligence tests which enable their general aptitude or special talents to be assessed, and help employers to avoid the danger of putting them in work to which they are temperamentally or physically unsuited. These tests seem pretty simple, but they are arranged in ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 380 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... A PEG-BOARD TEST FOR MANUAL DEXTERITY The girl must pick the pegs up and arrange them on the other side of the board in the same pattern. TWEEZER DEXTERITY TEST This helps to rate the ability of a girl to work with small tools, as she has to pick pegs out of holes with small tweezers and rearrange them. The BLOCK TEST is a fairly simple try -out for quickness of hand. The girl has to put ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 96 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SAILOR MALAN AT HIS OWN HOME BASE

... . GROUP CAPTAIN ADOLPH GYSBERT SAILOR MALAN, South African- born Ace R.A.F. pilot, won the D.F.C. at Dunkirk, and a Bar to it for night operations in 1940, and was awarded the D.S.O. for fighter operations over England and the Channel in the same year, and a Bar to it in 1941 for ops. over France. He also has the Croix de Guerre (avec Palme). Not long ago he entertained a thousand guests in ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 243 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BARBARA STANWYCK AS THE STRIPTEUSE HEROINE OF A BACK-STAGE MURDER THRILLER

... BARBARA STANWYCK AS THE STRIPTEUSE HEROINE OF A BACK-STAGE MURDER THRILLER. BARBARA STANWYCK plays Dixie Daisy in STRIPTEASE LADY, the United Artists release picture version of Gypsy Rose Lee's best-seller novel G- String Murders which is due for presentation at the Odeon, Leicester Square, -on July 30. Gypsy Rose Lee is herself a famous American slripleuse and her thriller, with a bach ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 133 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs