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WEDDINGS, JOURNEYS AND ENTERTAINMENTS HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE BY CAMERA

... . Liberation ceremonies on the Dalmatian island of Vis MARSHAL TITO is standing on the right tchile a Yugoslav commander addresses his troops. Right: MRS. MARSIKA LAN- I CASTER is the only woman I who knew the secret of the I prefabricated harbours which 1 enabled us to invade Normandy. For over a year she worked on scale cardboard models for the job. She is an artist, the wife of an officer. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 457 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HIGH-DE-HIGH AND HIGHER: PARIS HATS AND HAIR AND THE PARIS SHOES

... HIGH-DE-HIGH AND HIGHER: PARIS HATS AND HAIR. AND THE PARIS SHOES. Liberation fashions in Paris may well make you gasp and they re meant to, for Paris has set out to show the ivorld that she can make models out of nothing, and that soaring extravagance can be achieved with bits and pieces, and, in fact, out of whatever the milliner can lay her hands on in a time of general shortage. Height, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 314 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: BELITA, for being an almost triphibian ..., under water, on ice, and in air

... WE TAKE OFF DUR HAT TO- BELITA, for kein5 an almost U tripliitian ancer, under water, on ice, and in air. In her classic tutu BELITA limbers up on the brink of the pool. The water shimmers like champagne in the sunlight as the dancer leaps. Holding her breath she submerges, gracefully sinking to the floor of the pool, still smiling. Over the rock she vaults against heavy water-pressure, as ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 297 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LADY LOTHIAN AND HER BABY GIRL

... . THE MARCHIONESS OF LOTHIAN is the tiventy-two-year-old wife of the 12th Marquess of Lothian, Scots Guards. She is posed with her baby daughter LADY MARY KERR. who was born on March 20, 1944. She was Miss Antonella Newland, and is the daughter of Major-General Sir Foster Newland, K.C.M.G. C.B., and of Mrs. William Carr, of Ditching ham Hall, Norfolk. Her marriage took place in 1942. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 71 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOW GINGER MADE A G.I.'s DREAM COME TRUE!: THE HAPPY WARRIOR AT A ONE-MAN PARTY

... HOW GINGER MADE A G.l.'s DREAM COME TRUE! THE HAPPY WARRIOR AT A ONE-MAN PARTY. If I'm dreaming, go away and lemme sleep PRIVATE FARNSWORTH danced irith r.HTT I WTM TAMS The conquering hero straight from the wars, relaxed for a while on a sofa and listened to the girls softly singing. He didn't struggle much when the girls ga d heaved him into the swimming-pool On the terrace they played a ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 348 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOME GUARD GUN-INVENTOR AT HOME--MAJOR SMITH

... HOME GUARD GUN-INVENTOR AT HOME-- MAJOR SMITH. In the garden of their attractive Hampton Court home MAJOR W. H. SMITH and MRS. SMITH enjoy a little autumn sunshine. Here he has carried out many of his experiments. Here are the inventor and his wife with their daughter, MRS. BOSWELL, and her two children. With their grandchildren, JIMMY and PATRICIA BOSWELL, Major and Mrs. Smith feed the ducks ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 304 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - JENNIFER JONES, for getting her 44 Oscar. FOR her superb acting in The Song of Bernadette her first big movie role JENNIFER JONES was awarded the 44 Oscar statuette by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as the best actress of 1943. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, for wearing a fine beard for his Second Front protection. American author ernest iiemingway ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 515 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WALLS OF BEAUTY! BOMBER CREW'S PANEL OF PIN-UP GIRLS

... . N.B. A Coloured p'ate 1 inserted in this issue. The cult of the Pin-Up Girl is practised in huts shacks bivouacs wardrooms and messes in every part of this war-racked world. Here 's an impressive crumple of a wall of beauty in a bomber-crew shack on Adak in the Aleutians. The Life picture was taken when the boys had just returned from a raid f! on Paramushiro. One weary man has already ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STAND BY FOR AUTUMN

... Darkening evenings, chill winds at dawn herald the coming of the colder months. For now and on through the approaching winter, under a warm coat we suggest one of these two suits designed by Harella. Left For city-country efficiency, a button-up jacket which can be worn with or without a blouse the skirt is slimly tailored, with two panel pleats in the front and an inverted pleat in the back. ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. ONE of the best Pacific war-films Holly wood has ever made comes in under the horrid title WING AND A PRAYER (Odeon). This picture belongs to the documentary order of things, and the style oddly reminds me of C. S. Forester's fine novel The Ship. The subject of the film is a single aircraft-carrier that becomes a pawn in the game of the battle of Midway. Three months ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2201 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: TOMMY, for having the time of his life!

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- TOMMY, f°r having the time of his life I Just icatch TOMMY'S step as he marches into Continental towns freed from the Nazis There are cakes and kisses for him the cider barrel is rolled out, the bottle of t cine is uncorked, the people mad with pleasure and relief at the disappearance of the Boche after five years of his company, give Tommy such a welcome as he will ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs