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WORK AND PLAY, A WEDDING AND A W.A.A.F. SHOW PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING

... WORK AND PLAY, A WEDDING AND A W.A.A.F, SHOl PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. These BEACH UMBRELLAS were designed for dolce far niente days, HE but they now shade welders at work on plates for the 225th ship built IE in the yards of the California Shipbuilding Corp. now called Calship Beach. CORPORAL IDA BROOK, W.A.A.F., is posed with a doll in W.A.A.F. uniform, exhibited at the W.A.A.F. Arts ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 422 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FILM CAREER AHEAD: CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S WIFE

... . Everything points to an important film career for eighteen-year-old OONA O'NEILL CHAPLIN. The daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, she recently married world-famous film star Charles Spencer Chaplin, who in 1918 founded the Charlie Chaplin Film Corporation and built his otvn Hollywood studios, where many famous pictures have been produced. Mrs. Chaplin made her acting debut in a road ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 85 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - LIEUT.-COLONEL CASS S. HOUGH, D.S.O., U.S. Air Force, recently made a vertical dive in a 'plane at 780 miles an hour, beating the velocity of sound by twenty feet a second. His knees shook as the speed indicator passed 750 miles an hour. He made the test to discover the controllability of aircraft in high-speed dives, and to establish a recovery technique which can be taught. His speed was ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 499 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DECORATIVE MODERN MURALS AT AN R.A.F. STATION: LANDSCAPE MYTHOLOGY AND PORTRAITURE

... DECORATIVE MODERN MURAL3 AT AN R.A.F. STATION LANDSCAPE, MYTHOLOGY ANC PORTRAITURE. THESE spirited murals decorate the Officers' Mess at an R.A.F. Station in England. They arc the work of A.C.2 WINSLADE, and include a| landscape with 'planes grounded and taking off, and heroic figures of pilots, I and a seascape with 'planes in (light, and the Winged Victory a Jolly Bacchuil calling all ranks ...

WOMEN IN WARTIME: CLASSIC TAILORED SUITS OFF-WHITE LLAMA COATS SIMPLE DRESSING-WRAPPERS

... WOMEN IN WARTIME CLASSIC TAILORED SUITS OFF-WHITE LLAMA COATS SIMPLE DRESSING-WRAPPERS WOMEN in general are never seen to greater advantage than in a classic tailor-made, which, of course, must be well-cut and neat. Included in Debenham and Freebody's (Wigmore Street) collection is the suit pictured above. Emphasis must be laid on the fact that there is only a limfted number of each individual ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 290 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

EFFORT AND ACHIEVEMENT, ROMANCE AND AN AUCTION; A DOZEN NEWS PICTURES FROM THE ALLIED NATIONS

... EFFORT AND ACHIEVEMENT, ROMANCE AND 4N AUCTION A DOZEN NEWS PICTURES FROM THE ALLIED NATIONS. A merica s No. 1 Golf Girl MISS PATTY BERG, is here being sworn into the Marine Corps Women's Reserve by CAPTAIN A. J. MURPHY. May, Lady Limerick left the proceeds from the sale of the contents of Hall Place to rebuild Coventry Cathedral. Christie's nine-dav auction raised £19,375 in five days. Right ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 357 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AS YOU CAN NEVER SEE YOURSELVES!

... AS YOU CAN NEVER SEE YOURSELVES Have you ever tvorulered what you look like when plunging expertly into the swimming bath from the diving spring-board The camera has hen answered this query dramatically with its unconventional portraits of four bathers frolicking in the water at Miami. INTKRNATIONAI. NKWS PHOTO. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 49 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JACK'S BACK IN IT'S TIME TO DANCE

... Disguised as pianist and violinist Lord D'Arcy (FRED EMNEY) and WiUmott Brown (JACK BUCHANAN) play madly as they strain an ear to the plot. Conchita gives the terrified WiUmott Brown a lesson or two in making love. 44 In the spring says WiUmott Brown instructively, a young man's fancy lightly turns Marian Kane (ELSIE RANDOLPH) is quite unimpressed. Does it she snans. TWO PRETTY GUESTS at the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CAN THE NAZI VIRUS BE ERADICATED? TO-MORROW THE WORLD

... CAN THE NAZI VIRUS BE ERADICATED TO-MORROW THE WORLD. malignant young Nazi SKIPPY M HOMEIER) greets Frame (RALPH BELLAMY), Patricia (JOYCE VAN PATTEN) and Frames fiancee (SHIRLEY BOOTH). Emil has been so inoculated with the Nazi virus that he slashes the portrait of his own father, who died in a concentration camp for anti-Hitler views. 44 Heil Hitler The Nazi child salutes the maid in the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 289 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHY WORRY ABOUT RAYON WHEN YOU CAN HAVE COTTON LIKE THIS!

... WHY WORRY ABOUT RAYON WHEN YOU CAN HAVE COTTON LIKE THIS I This American glamour girl has worn out all her silk and rayon stockings but she doesn't worry. Her legs are clad in cotton, but the stockings are very special and provide tangible proof that wartime restrictions cannot put an end to 44 this fashion nonsense. A new U.S. Government ruling standardised rayon hose but a fashion-wise ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WORK OF LASTING VALUE TO THE NATION: THE W.A.A.F. OFFICERS' TRAINING SCHOOL

... WORK OF LASTING VALUE TO TH NATION: THE W.A.A.F. OFFICERS' TRAINING SCHOOL. THE work of the W.A.A.F England town is sometl W.A.A.F. officers are there tri qualities of leadership are one education ensures development two sides to the work of the St recommended for commissions a necessary for their duties. D so they are not kept indoors fo School's work consists of refresh It is interesting to ...

I NOW TAKE OFF MY UNIFORM: THE VICEROY-DESIGNATE OF INDIA

... I NOW TAKE OFF MY UNIFORM THE VICEROY-DESIGNATE OF INDIA. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. RAISED to the peerage on appointment to the Viceroyalty of India, Field-Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell, G.C.B., C.M.G., MX., took the title of VISCOUNT WAVELL OF CYRENAICA AND WINCHESTER. Cyrcnaica because there, as a General, he won his first victories against the Axis by driving the Italians to Tripoli, and ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 199 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs