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FUTURE QUEEN OF YUGOSLAVIA

... . CAMERA PORTRAIT BY BERTRAM PARK. H.R.H. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF GREECE, daughter of the late King Alexander of Greece and of the Princess Aspasia, has been engaged to H.M. King Peter of Yugoslavia for nearly a year, but the formal announcement has only just been made and, ou'ing to the sufferings of the peoples of Yugoslavia and Greece, the betrothal ceremony will not take place at present. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PETROL SAVING AT SANDRINGHAM: BIKE AND PONY CART FOR THEIR MAJESTIES

... PETROL SAVING AT SANDRINGHAM BIKE AND PONY CART FOR THEIR MAJESTIES. In order to save petrol THE QUEEN drove round Sandringham by governess cart and THE KING and PRINCESSES i cent on bicycles, to inspect the harvest. H.M. THE KING had a talk with some of the very junior workers ivho had helped with the harvest, and congratulated them on their prowess. Royal Procession at Sandringham THE QUEEN ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 298 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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 

THREE GENERATIONS OF THE HOUSE OF ORANGE-NASSAU IN CANADA QUEEN WILHELMINA WITH PRINCESS JULIANA AND HER DAUGHTERS

... THREE GENERATIONS OF THE HOUSE OF ORANGE-NASSAU IN CANADA: QUEEN WILHELMINA WITH PRINCESS JULIANA AND HER DAUGHTERS. H.R.H. PRINCE BERNHARD OF THE NETHERLANDS gets a good snapshot of T.R.H. PRINCESS IRENE (left) and PRINCESS BEATRIX. H.R.H. PRINCESS JULIANA OF THE NETHERLANDS with her youngest daughter, H.R.H. PRINCESS MARGRIET. Eldest daughter of Princess Juliana H.R.H. PRINCESS BEATRIX, born ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 346 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE generous American Bundles for Britain Society which has supplied hundreds of bombed-out families with new outfits, has been inspired by the thought of our clothes-coupon bound Service brides into sending over nine new wedding dresses, under lease-lend conditions, specially designed for the use of the W.R.N.S. Lady Ward is seen in the top picture inspecting the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 617 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Photographs 

ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC WITH MASSEY AND BOGART

... . Beating off an air attack on the 44 Seaicitch 44 the anti-aircraft gun crew of an American Liberty ship in action against Nazi bombers. Captain Jarvis RAYMOND MASSEYJ, looking for Chief Mate Joe Rossi HUMPHREY BOGART,/, finds him with Pearl JULIE BISHOP^, whom he has married. Survivors huddled on a raft after their lifeboat has been rammed a little band of members of the crew of the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  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 

DOROTHY THOMPSON'S WEDDING TO MAXIM KOPF

... . After the ceremony DOROTHY THOMPSON, the brilliant journalist and radio commentator and her bridegroom, MAXIM KOPF. After the party, at ivhich many well-known personalities were entertained DOROTHY THOMPSON KOPF relaxes in sports clothes. Wedding reception chat DOROTHY THOMPSON KOPF (right) with MRS. RAYMOND GRAM SWING, wife of the commentator, and MISS SWING (centre). Cutting the wedding ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 204 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CULTURE, COMFORT AND ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE FORCES IN CAIRO

... . Members of the Committee who run the Cairo 44 Music for All Club LADY RUSSELL PASHA is the second from left, talking to MRS. E. F. BESLEY. Morning coffee is served in the reading and writing room, which is heated in winter and air-conditioned in summer. The Club premises were originally a cinema, so there is a splendid large music room for concerts and other entertainments. A show is in ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 225 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs