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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

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

JEAN ARTHUR'S RODEO KIT

... . In her latest picture, 44 A LADY TAKES A CHANCE/* recently presented at the Regal, JEAN ARTHUR plays Mollie Trucsdale, the girl who went on a holiday by bus and attended the rodeo at Fairfield, Oregon, with romantic results. Here she is in a fetching rodeo get-up. John Wayne plays opposite to her as Duke Hudkins and Charles Winniger and Phil Silvers are also in the cast. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 71 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THREE PSYCHIC STORIES TO MAKE A BIG FILM DRAMA FLESH AND FANTASY, LATEST JULIEN DUVIVIER PICTURE

... THREE PSYCHIC STORIES TO MAKE A BIG FILM DRAMA: FLESH AND FANTASY, LATEST JULIEN DUVIVIER PICTURE. 44 Please let me have the dress Mardi Gras to-night and my sweetheart will be waiting. Jnstine (MARJORIE LORD) and her ugly sister Jlenriette /BETTY FIELDS Henriette (BETTY FIELD) consults the Bearded Gentleman (EDGAR BARRIER), and is persuaded to conceal her homely face under a beautiful mask ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 662 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A CHRISTMAS SHOW-- THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS

... 44 THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS, dizzy, crazy picture is due to open at the Warner Theatre Leicester Square, on December it, and will run over Christmas. Here are. stills of the twelve chief stars. The crazily comic plot deals with the efforts oj two producers to keep Eddie Cantor out of his own show as they want to stage n Cavalcade of Stars for a benefit performance but find that Eddie butts in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 140 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PASSIONATE PILAR OF THE HEMINGWAY FILM: KATINA PAXINOU

... PASSIONATE PILAR OF THE HEMINGWAY FILM KATINA PAXINOU. KATINA PAXINOU, the darkly vivid personality of Paramount's film For Whom the Bell Tolls, at the Carlton, is described as k* the first lady of the Royal Theatre of Greece. Into her rendering of the part of Pilar, Pablo's woman and the force behind the guerrilla movement in Spain's civil conflict, the Greek actress brings all the strength ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CHATWOOD SAFE CO., LTD

... Bankers Engineers Head Offices SHREWSBURY, ENGLAND Telegrams Telephone Chatwood, Shrewsbury Shrewsbury 4001 LONDON MANCHESTER GLASGOW BASIC ENGLISH We give the text above in Basic English to encourage the study of this proposed universal language THE CHATWOOD SECURITY ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 47 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

BRITAIN'S FIRST WOMAN ATTACHÉ--MRS. GIBBS

... BRITAIN'S FIRST WOMAN ATTACHE-MRS. GIBBS. MRS. LIONEL GIBBS has heeri appointed to the British Embassy at JTashington, with the rank of Attach the first British woman to have such an appoint ment. Her work entails dealing with hundreds of requests and questions which she does with kindness, charm and undoubted ability. She is the second daughter of Sir Harold Snagge, and widoic of Mr. Lionel ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 82 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs