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GREAT VICTORIAN ROMANCE IN ITS SCREEN FORM: JANE EYRE WITH JOAN FONTAINE AND ORSON WELLES

... . JANE EYRE, the famous Victorian romance by Charlotte Bronte, was successfully staged F some time ago, and is now coming to the screen in a 20th Century- Fox production, with Orson Welles as the sinister Mr. Rochester and Joan Fontaine in the title-role. As everyone knows, the story deals with the love affair of the demure governess and [Continued opposite. Jane Eyre and Air. Rochester in ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 258 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 700 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - THE ALLIED LEADERS, for givins a varied sartorial display at the Conferences as well as concerting their plans for victory. ON board the warship en route for the Three-Power conferences, Mr. Churchill wore nautical kit. Later he appeared in R.A.F. uniform as Air Commodore in military uniform as Hon. Colonel of the 4th Hussars; in a light tropical suit; and in a dinner jacket. He wore the ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WIFE OF THE NEW COMMANDO CHIEF

... . MRS. ROBERT LAYCOCK is the wife of Major-General Robert E. Lay cock, D.S.O., who last month was appointed to succeed Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as Chief of Combined Operations, and is herself working at Combined Operations H.Q. on the Commando Benevolent Fund. She was Mi&s Angela Dudley Ward is the younger daughter of the Marquise de Casa Maury and of Mr W Dudley Ward, and sister [o ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 112 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STAGE SUCCESS CLAUDIA COMES TO THE SCREEN

... . 44 /CLAUDIA, 20th Century Fox Film version of the successful comedy by I Rose Franken which has been running at the St. Martin's Theatre I for two years, was due I at the Odeon, Leicester I Square on December 10. I Dorothy McGuire plays the child-wife Claudia, the girl who won't I grow up. She adores I her mother, and has I a little-girl attitude I towards everything, I from her chickens to ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HERBERT TERRY & SONS LTD

... HERBERT TERRY SONS LTD HERBERT TERRY SONS LTD., m.. 'it COM/ wait Today the general public cannot buy a Terry Anglepoise Lamp. But when it can it will have been well worth waiting for. The Anglepoise is a lamp of iooi angles that holds any position, makes work a pleasure and reading a joy, saves eyestrain and electric current and folds up small when out of use. No wonder thousands of people ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 104 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 113 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

PICTURED NEWS OF THE WEEK

... . CAPTAIN R. EDWARDS MOSS, Scots Guards married MISS BRIDGET DOREEN COKE, daughter of Major the Hon. Richard Coke, at the Guards' Chapel. Left CAROLE LYNNE is the Cinder ella for the panto, at His Majesty's. She made a hit in Rise Above It'' and sang opposite to Tauber in 44 Old Chelsea. GLYNIS JOHNS is this year's Peter Pan for the Cambridge Theatre production. Here she is making a trial ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 153 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LADY KORDA DANCES THE CAN-CAN MERLE OBERON IN THE LODGER

... LADY KORDA DANCES THE CAN-CAN. MERLE OBERON IN THE LODGER. N.B. A Coloured plate inserted in this iaaue. A/fERLE OBERON, in private life, Lady Korda, the wife of Sir Alexander Korda, the well- known producer, breaks new ground in her latest film, 44 The Lodger, the 20th Cen tury-Fox Film Version of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' well- known mystery-murder novel. She plays the part of a music-hall ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 215 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BATTLE OF BRITAIN PILOTS VIEW THE PROPOSED R.A.F. CHAPEL

... BATTLE OF BRITAIN PILOTS VIEW THE PROPOSED RAF. CHAPEL The Dean of Westminster's offer of the eastern apsidal chapel in the Henry VII. Chapel as a memorial to the air crews of the R.A.F. who fought, and to those who died, in the Battle of Britain, is a happy one. An appeal for funds to fit the window with stained glass depicting the armorial badges of the squadrons concerned has been launched, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 200 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MUSIC, PARIS, MARY ELLIS: ARC DE TRIOMPHE--1906-1925

... MUSIC, PARIS, MARY ELLIS: ARC DE TRIOMPHE --1906-1925. Operatic study versus light music Marie Foret (MARY ELLIS) tries to sing against Pierre Bachelet (PETER GRAVES). Young love Pierre Bachelet climbs from his attic room on to Marie Foret' s roof studio. Below Adhemar wraps the red scarf round Marie's head. She has waved it as a sign that she accepts his offer. Paris Reminds Me of You ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 375 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLACK AND GOLD

... . Fashion dictates are elastic in wartime and long or short skirts ore equally correct. The ankle-length model is from Margaret Marks. In heavy black crfipe, it is studded with gold. Also in white. £26 10s. 2d. 7 coupons. Snood of gold metal braid from Elizabeth Arden, £3 2s. 6d. The short- skirted model is from Finnigan's. Of black cloth and gold lam^, it has an ultra- smart little hat to ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 85 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs