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GOOD NEWS IN PICTURES FROM HOME AND ABROAD

... I GOOD NEWS I I IN I PICTURES j I FROM j I HOME AND ABROAD M. GUSIEV, new Soviet Ambassador sate the Stalingrad Stcord of Honour at the Goldsmiths Hall. MR. HUGHES, Clerk of the Goldsmiths Company and CORPORAL DURBIN, R.A.F., who carried out the silver tcork, are left and right. Left MRS. S. WOODRUFF, elder daughter of Sir Frank ftewson-Smith,the Lord Mayor- Elect, will deputise as Lady ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WEDDINGS, A CHRISTENING, AND OFFICIAL OCCASIONS

... . LIEUT. J CK MICHELL, R.N., son of Sir Robert and Lai Michell of Pensbury House Shaftes bury, m ried MISS MARY DUNLOP, daughter of Rritiadii A. G. Dunlop at St. James's, Spanish Place. Left This AIRMAN is providing GRACIE FIELDS with a convenient writing-desk to sign autographs for the boys in Sicily where she has been giving impromptu concerts. SUBALTERN MARY CHURCHILL watched the march-past ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 175 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOMEN IN THE SHIPYARDS DOING 114 KINDS OF JOBS!

... Awkward places have to be welded, but nothing is too difficult for the women who work in the shipyards, doing no fewer than 114 kinds of jobs. Women are apt to underrate their capacity for acquiring skill, but seldom fail when put to the test. No job is too tough for them, for Miss England, 1943, towers above all in her daily routine Miss Mary Webb is marking the rivet plates for working in ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 339 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

H.E. THE NEW PORTUGUESE AMBASSADOR WITH HIS WIFE AND FAMILY

... t . The DUKE OF PALMELLA, who has succeeded Dr. Montciro as Portuguese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was photographed with THE DUCHESS and their eleven children the eldest of whom is twenty-two at his house outside Cascaes, Estremadura. The new representative of our oldest ally is forty-seven be was at school at Beaumont and at King's College, Cambridge, where he took a degree in ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SUBURBAN FAMILY LIFE WITH GORDON HARKER AS DAD: ACACIA AVENUE

... UBURBAN FAMILY LIFE WITH GORDON HARKER AS DAD: ACACIA AVENUE. Afr. obinson (GORDON HARKER) is hurt that Peter (RHODERICK WALKER) shows no i husiasm for the projected cruise to Athens. He has planned a date with F.KIpIIP fMIKI HOOD^. Mr. Robinson is astonished to hear from his daughter Joan that she is not accompanying him and her mother on the cruise, as she has become engaged. The Acacia ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 222 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PRETTY AND PRACTICAL NURSERY FROCKS THE RELAXATION DRESS

... NO one can fail to be delighted with the children's fashions at Walpoles, Bond Street, some of which are illustrated above. They are well cut and can be lengthened when required. The corduroy velveteen trousers on the left are buttoned on to a washing blouse which is finished with turnover collar and sleeves. The outfit for the very small personage in the centre is a practical garment, is easy ...

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Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 109 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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