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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - COMMANDER R. M. PRIOR, D.S.O., R.N., M.P. for Aston, Birmingham, thrilled the House of Commons in his maiden speech with a description of how, after the Dieppe raid, he escaped from a hospital train, borrowed a French workman's clothes, made a train journey to Paris staying there ten days, visited Hitler's Western Wall, was captured by the Vichy authorities, escaped again, and returned home ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 663 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE U.S.A. MEETS SUBALTERN MARY CHURCHILL, A.D.C

... . SUBALTERN MARY CHURCHILL met members of the American counterpart of the A.T.S. the W.A.C., and examined the flashes on a sergeant's sleeve. With a snotty's dirk, SUBALTERN CHURCHILL cut her twenty-first birthday cake, mode by the chief baker on H.M.S. Renown, during the voyage home ac-oss the Atlantic. Mrs. Churchill is seen in the background, and left are W.R.N.S. officer guests who acted ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 260 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RECALLED TO THE GOVERNMENT: LORD BEAVERBROOK

... . CAMERA PORTRAIT BY KARSH, OF OTTAWA. The chief surprise among the neic ministerial appointments is the recall of- LORD BEAVERBROOK, who becomes Lord Privy Seal. It will be remembered that he was a member of the War Cabinet from July 1940 till February 1942, and carried out fine work as Minister of Aircraft Production and as Minister of Supply. In February 1942 he was appointed to the new ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 185 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A FLAT WITH A STREET-LEVEL VIEW: MY SISTER EILEEN

... A FLAT WITH A STREET- LEVEL VIEW: MY SISTER EILEEN. Below the house a subway is being blasted with dynamite and the night is punctuated by explosions and crashes as the sisters get ready for bed. Former occupant of the flat Violet Shelton (VIRGINIA WINTER), a lady of many visitors pays a call and leaves a batch of newly-addressed cards for the sisters to hand out to her friends. Arrived in Ne ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 245 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE DEVIL IN THE MANSE: BRIDIE'S MR. BOLFRY

... THE DEVIL IN THE MANSE BRIDIE'S MR. BOLFRY. It 11 have to be a Duke of the Infernal Regions. They are free from midnight until I a.m. Cully (RONALD MILLAR), Cohen (ALFRED BASS), Jean (SHEILA BROWNRIGG) and Morag (DOROTHY SMITH) invoke the Devil. 44 If you are, as I think you are, a bad dream and the voice of my oxen heart spi 'king evil, I will tear you from my breast. Mr. McCrimmon ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 311 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN WARTIME

... FOR THE COLD WEATHER CORDUROY SLACKS SIMPLE PYJAMAS SIMPLICITY is the charac teristic feature of the Utility Pyjamas pictured above. They are made of Celanese de Luxe Locknit and are neat and comfortable. There is a tie at the waist, the scheme being completed with three buttons. Other points in their favour are that they wash and wear well. There are two varieties the knitted and the woven. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 328 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs