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CAN YOU RECOGNISE ALL THESE? THE BOSS OF M.-G.-M. AND HIS TOP ARTISTS

... . This is probably one of the biggest groups of headline names ever assembled together before the camera. Louis B. Mayer, the boss of M.-C.-M., is seated in the centre of the front row, surrounded by his most famous artists. See how many of them you can recognise, and, if in doubt, turn to page 302 for the key. N.B. A Coloured pi* u inserted in this issue ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 80 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

'COR-RAY' Skirts

... m i ivMknaMm J W/k IB vH GB i Hy WUmMm The right kind of pocket, in the right place, on the right side that's the ZWOW, a feature of GOR-RAY Skirts which pleases smart women with the modern outlook. No ugly placket, no buttons or other fasteners to cause hip bulges or gaping. Drapers and Stores everywhere stock GOR-RAY Skirts in various styles. HH Issued by C. STILLITZ, Royal Leamington Spa, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 82 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Wise Words About Your

... ff7 ise fiords Your EXTREMITIES are your bugbear in winter, icy fingers and numb toes. If you can manage to keep your circulation pumping briskly right down into fingers and toes you will avoid many little shivers. Wear socks on your toes if they are stationary and if you are in the damp or out in bad weather, try to get socks made of the greasy wool such as is used for seamen's stockings. ...

Flesh and Fantasy: Being the Three Dreams of Mr. Robert Benchley

... Flesh and Fantasy Being the Three Dreams of Mr. Robert Benchley It is the time of Mar di Gras. Henriette Betty Field), embittered because she lacks, beauty is about to take her life. She is stopped by an old man who urges her to ivear the mask of a beautiful woman. Wearing the mask she dances with her lover Robert Cummings). At midnight the mask falls off, and to her joy Henriette discovers ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 302 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

On and Off Duty: A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country; Riding to Hounds

... 0.. A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Hiding to Honnds WHILE staying with her grandmother, Queen Mary, at her wartime country home, Princess Elizabeth had her first outing with hounds. Disappointingly, there was no kill, but the Princess, who has a fine natural seat, enjoyed the experience very much indeed, and will without doubt be seen out again when the opportunity arises. With the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2194 | Page: Page 10, 12, 13, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Mme. Katina Paxinou: The Leading Lady of the Greek Theatre in Her First Hollywood Role

... Mme. Katina Paxinou The Leading Lady of the Greek Theatre in Her First Hollywood Role Mmc. Katina Paxinou, first lady of the Greek Theatre, has jumped into the fore most ranks of screen stardom with her brilliant performance as Pilar, the force behind the guerrilla band around which centres the interest in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Mme. Paxinou came to England in the early days of the war, and ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 110 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AIRCRAFT DESIGNER, DIRECTOR, GENERAL BOTTLE -WASHER-- MRS. F. G. MILES

... AIRCRAFT DESIGNER, DIRECTOR, GENERAL BOTTLE -WASHER MRS. F. G. MILES. MR F. G. MILES standing by the Miles Master II.. the world's fastest training aeroplane. Mrs. Miles studies a drawing produced by one of the pupils of the technical school which she runs in connection with the aircraft factory. Discussing the design of a new aeroplane with one of the draughtsmen. Outside one of the great ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

COMMANDER OF THE CANADIAN ARMOUR IN BRITAIN

... . MAJOR-GENERAL FREDERICK F. WORTHINGTON, C.B., M.C., M.M., is Canada s leading tank expert. After the last war, with the rank of captain he was trans ferred to the Canadian Permanent Machine-Gun Brigade and then to Princess Patricia's C.L.I. In 1936 he came to England to machine-gun and tank schools and the Army Armoured Fighting Vehicles School, and on his return became chief instructor of ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AGATHA CHRISTIE THRILLS STAGED AT THE ST. JAMES'S

... . 44 It entitled 4 Swan Song Blore (PERCY WALSH), Marston (MICHAEL BLAKE), Lombard (TERENCE DE MARNEY), Vera (LINDEN TRAVERS), Sir Lawrence (ALLAN JEAYES), Rogers (WILLIAM MURRAY), Emily (HENRIETTA WATSON) and the General (ERIC COWLEY) with the gramophone record. i That 's our warning Phillip Lombard draws the attention of Vera Claythorne and Sir Lawrence Wargrave to the sinister implications ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 290 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Creda

... ill hanks to Gieda Millions of Appliances are helping to keep households within the Fuel Target. Use them with care as they cannot be replaced and ask our advice if in doubt about economical operation. f/8Cic APPLIANCES for the home I I SIMPLEX ELECTRIC CO. LTD. OlDBURV. BIRMINGHAM ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 49 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Opposite Numbers Bomber Command

... Portraits by The Men Who, in Close C for All the Offensive Air 0 ^uthbert Orde llaboration, are Responsible aerations from This Country Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, K.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C. The Germans have cause to fear the name of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris, C.-in-C. Bomber Command. Since taking over the Command in February 1942, at a time when the expansion of our air ...

At Home Pictures: of Mr. and Mrs. George King

... At Home Pictures of Mr. and Mrs. George King Mr. George King is the film director- producer, whose company, British Aviation Pictures, was responsible for The First of the Few and his wife is a daughter of Mr. John Hutton, chair man of Kempton Park Racecourse. They are both very interested in horses, and Mrs. King's activities in clude running her own farm, Tunmore, near West Horsley, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 167 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs