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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 

THE LUNTS RETURN TO-NIGHT THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT

... THE LUN.TS RETURN TO-NIGHT: THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT. HPHERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT, the new Robert E. Sherwood play starring those brilliant and accomplished artists, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is due to open in London to-night, December 15, at the Aldwych, after a successful provincial try-out. The scene is set in Greece. Karila Vlachos, brilliant scientist, and his American-born wife are ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 386 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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 

Advertisements

... pERHAPS the chief element which contributes to the joyousness of Christmas is giving. Everyone is bent on bringing gladness to others. We would like you to remember the work of JOHN GROOM'S CRIPPLE- AGE, founded by the late John Groom and the great Earl of Shaftesbury. We rely on the public, more than ever, to support the training and maintaining of crippled girls bringing relief and partial ...

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

OUR INVINCIBLE PREMIER AT THE AGE OF FIVE, WITH HIS AUNT

... . t Even at the age of five WINSTON CHURCHILL had a passion for unconventional clothing, and liked to tcear a sailor cap icith his tweed suit. Invincible is the prophetic name on the cap ribbon. With him is his aunt, LADY LESLIE, then Miss Ltonie Blanche Jerome, a debutante enjoying the Dublin season, and she is wearing a dress which may very well have been brought from Paris by her elder ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 94 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PEOPLE IN THE WEEK'S NEWS PERSONALITY REVIEW BY SNAPSHOT

... PEOPLE IN THE WEEK'S NEWS. PERSONALITY REVIEW BY SNAPSHOT. The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY toured the London area A.-A. posts. He is here chatting to LltY BARRETT and DORIS SNAILHAM, of the A.T.S. CAPTAIN VISCOUNT VAUGHAN, Welsh Guards son of the Earl of Lisburne, married MISS SHELAGH MACAULEY, daughter of Mrs. T. A. Macauley at St. James's, Spanish Place. The infant son of GROUP CAPTAIN C. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 306 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW FOOD MINISTER-- COLONEL J. J. LLEWELLIN

... NEW FOOD MINISTER- COLONEL J. J. LLEWELLIN. Slipping on the mantle of Lord Woohon COLONEL the RT. HON. J. J. LLEWELLIN, M.P., has taken over the food control of the nation. As Resident Minister he was in Washington for supply questions at the beginning of this year, and comes to his post with a knowledge of the problems of supply confronting the Allies. He was at Eton and University College, ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 135 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  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