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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 

WILDE'S AN IDEAL HUSBAND IDEALLY REVIVED

... . 44 Decline a seat in the Cabinet and retire from public life I never heard such damned nonsense in the whole course of my existence Sir Robert Chiltern (MANNING WHILEY), Lord Caversham (ESME PERCY), and Lord Goring (ROLAND CULVER). HERS 44 Morality is the attitude we adopt towards people we dislike. Mrs. Cheveley (MARTITA HUNT) and Lady Chiltern (ROSEMARY SCOTT). DAME IRENE VANBRUGH as Lady ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- Flight lieut. william reid, who has been awarded the V.C., was captain and pilot of a Lan caster briefed to attack Dusseldorf on the night of November 3. On the way he was wounded in two attacks, the oxygen system was put out of action, the navigator killed, and the wireless operator fatally injured, but Reid completed the journey of some 200 further miles over enemy ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 569 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: 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 

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 

THE CAMERA TAKES A QUICK LOOK ROUND

... . LIEUT. REX WHISTLER designed the period set tings and costumes for ROBERT DONATES revival of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband at the Westminster. DAME IRENE VANBRUGH plays Lady Markhy. Right When P/O. ROBERT DRYSDALE, of H.M. Submarine 44 Tuna f had been in vested by his Majesty with the D.S.M., he sate that baby STEPHEN, who had come with MRS. DRYSDALE to the cere mony, had refreshment. THE ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 511 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - A witty and amusing comedy called 44 Carmen by the producer. Top left picture shows the Witch's cell, where Carmen's destiny is foretold. Above Don Juan's farewell to Carmen as he is about to enter the arena. The final scene of 44 Carmen, where the victorious Bull walks off. The production was bv Miss Betty McClelland, who also made all the dresses. 44 Twelfth Night was produced by Mrs. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 294 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHRISTMAS WITHOUT COUPONS

... . Mayfair Flowers make up the table-centre posy of rosebuds and the very natural-looking bowl of begonias. The other centrepiece is called 44 Winter. They are all ideal for Christmas decoration. From Marshall and Snelgrove. A decorative nosebag is a grand present for someone with a lot of shopping to do. It is ornamented with giant vegetables and can be bought at Marshall and Snelgrove. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 278 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 302 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs