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LADY ANNE SOUTHBY AND RICHARD

... . LADY ANNE SOUTHBY, elder daughter of the former Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, married Lieutenant Patrick H. J. Southby, R.N. younger son of Sir Archibald Southby, M.P. and Lady Southby in Delhi in 1939. Their small son, RICHARD HENRY ALEXANDER, is just two years old. Lord Linlithgow recently returned from India, where he held the Viceroyalty for a second term in all, seven years. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 73 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GIRLS OF THE MERCHANT AIR SERVICE: BRITAIN'S FLYING STEWARDESSES IN ACTION

... GIRLS OF THE MERCHANT AIR SERVICE: BRITAIN'S FLYING N STEWARDESSES IN ACTION. /^NE of the latest jobs for women is the newly instituted one of stewardesses for the Merchant Air Service, the Government- owned concern operated by British Overseas Airways, which is keeping open the Empire air communications in wartime, just as the Merchant Navy keeps them open by sea and covers air routes which ...

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Published: Wednesday 15 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 13 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: 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 

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 

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