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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 

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 

MAKE THIS A Savings Christmas

... k %^&A)irvaS 1 ^JvuS/tmaA 'SxmhmoA I loIihiS/tMAjf) |j^i AND THIS IS HOW TO DO IT Get beautifully coloured J National Savings Stamp Gift Cards from your Savings Group, Post Office, Trustee Savings Bank or War Savings Centre. They are free to purchasers \f of Savings Stamps. You can stamp them with 6d., 2/6 and 5/- Stamps. In r/^ addition there are Gift Tokens sold in units of 15/- up to any ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 178 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs