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DU BARRY WAS A LADY--AND VARGA'S MONTHS ARE GIRLS!

... DU BARRY WAS A LADY -AND VARGA'S MONTHS ARE GIRLS! VARGA'S LIVING CALENDAR, with every month portrayed by a lovely girl, is a feature of the M.-G.-M. Technicolor musical version of the stage show DU BARRY WAS A LADY, due at the Empire, Leicester Square, on July 30. The girls are (I. to r.J Aileen Haley, Kay Aldridge (seated). Hazel Brooks, Georgia Carroll, Eve Whitney (seated), Inez Cooper, ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 154 | Page: Page 21 | 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 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - THE successful towing of a cargo glider across the Atlantic opens a new page in air history. This was achieved last week by SQUADRON LEADER R. G. SEYS, D.F.C., R.A.F., glider pilot, his co-pilot, SQUADRON LEADER F. M. GOBEIL, R.C.A.F., and FLIGHT LIEUT. W. S. LONG- HURST, R.C.A.F., with FLIGHT LIEUT. C. W. H. THOMPSON, R.A.F., of N. Zealand, pilots of the towing aircraft, the R.A.F. ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 610 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MISSION TO MOSCOW THE FILM FIGURES AND THE REAL

... MISSION TO MOSCOW THE FILM FIGURES AND THE REAL. 44 1\/T ISSION TO 1V1 MOSCOW is due ut the Warner Theatre shortly. This film is based on U.S. Ambassador Mr. Joseph E. Davics's book of his experiences during his term in the Soviet capital, and the ferment of events which preceded the second World War. We give here parallel figures of this dramatic piece of history the chief personalities in ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 189 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SUMMER SUCCESSES HATS OF PAPER PANAMA, FELT AND STRAW FANCY LINEN SUITS

... GORRINGE have used flowers and felt for the simple hat above, which, although decorative, will retain its freshness indefinitely. It is available in several colour schemes such an advantage. NOW that Mid summer's Day is past women are thinking of lighter raiment it must not be of an ephemeral character. Therefore, no one can fail to be in terested in Finnigan's, New Bond Street, fancy linen ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 288 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs