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WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF THE YOUNGEST ALLIED GENERAL

... H WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF THE H YOUNGEST ALLIED GENERAL. MRS. 14 dan SPRY is the wife of Major-General Daniel Charles Dan Spry, who ot the age of thirty-one is the youngest Allied General. He is the son of the late Major-General Spry, who served in the 1914-18 War and was still serving when he died a few years ago. Born in Winnipeg, 44 Dan Spry married Miss Forbes, of Nova Scotia, in 1938, when ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 156 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

VIVIEN LEIGH AND CLAUDE NS IN CÆESAR AND CLEOPATRA

... VIVIEN LEIGH AND CLAUDE F MS IN CAlSAR AND CLEOPATRA. By Jupiter I will do that too 1 Ccesar (CLAUDE RAINS) dives into the sea after Apollodorus, to the horror of his secretary, Britannus (CECIL PARKER), Cleopatra (VIVIEN LEIGH) and Rufio (BASIL SIDNEY). Old Gentleman, don't run away Cleopatra, sheltering between the Sphinx's paws, gets her first sight of Catsar and is attracted by his ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 386 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MODERN PUB.: BIRD IN HAND, AT THE ST. MARTIN'S

... . The solicitous innkeeper, Thomas Greenleaf (HERBERT LOMAS), brings out his best wine for Ambrose Godolphin, K.C. (GEORGE BISHOP). Joan (FELICITY LYSTER), Mrs. Green- leaf (KATHLEEN BOUT ALL), Thomas Greenleaf, Mr. Blanquet (IVOR BARNARD), Cyril Beverley (FRITH BANBURY), and Godolphin (I. to r.J. Cyril Beverley helps Gerard Arnwood (RICHARI STAPLING) to climb into the inn in order to exploit ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 242 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WIFE OF THE COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY

... . LADY LEESE is the wife of Lieut. -General Sir Oliver Leese, Bt., C.B., C.B.E.t D.S.O. who in January was appointed to command the famous Eighth Army, in succession to General Sir Bernard Montgomery, .the new C.-in-C., British Group of Armies under General Eisenhower. She is the only daughter of Major Cuthbert Leicester-Warren, of Tabley House, Knutsford, and was married in 1933. It was ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MINISTERING ANGELS GO TO BATTLE SCHOOL

... : rpHE AMERICAN ARMY NURSES' SCHOOL IN ENGLAND is the first institution of its kind to be set up either by the Americans or British in this country, or elsewhere. The American Army nurse does not work in the front line, but during her three weeks' course at the school she learns exactly how the Army functions, so that she may understand its routine and how it affects her. She must master the ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 324 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RAINBOW CORNER--THE LONDON AMERICAN RED CROSS CLUB

... RAINBOW CORNER-THE LONDON AMERICAN RED CROSS CLUB. All the world loves a game of chance the American no less than anyone else, so the PIN-TABLE HALL is always full up. The men get good meals at reasonable prices at the 44 RED 44 CAFETERIA. The waitresses are all volunteers (I. to r.) Miss HUdebrand, Mrs. Finch, Mrs. Rosner, and Mrs. McCarthy. Below BICYCLES are loaned out from this counter. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 548 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CZECH UNDERGROUND: HOSTAGES, WITH LUISE RAINER

... I CZECH UNDERGROUND: HOSTAGES, WITH LUISE RAINER. TTOSTAGES, due at the Plaza on -k Friday, February 11, is the Para mount picture version of Stefan Heym's best-seller and has been chosen as the vehicle for Luise Rainer's return to the screen after an absence of four years. B It is a poignant picture of the underground movement of resistance to the Germans in Czechoslovakia. The Gestapo ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 289 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 09 February 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 476 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE ROYAL ACADEMY: A PORTRAIT, AND SUBJECT PICTURES

... . 44 Back Stage by Steven Spurrier A.R.A. R.B.A. 44 Helen by A. K. Lawrence, R.A. 44 Ballet Rehearsal fcy Steven Spurrier, A.R.A. R.B.A. 44 Pauline in the Yellow Dress &y James Gunn. FROM THE PICTURES BY STEVEN SPURRIER, A.R.A., A. K. LAWRENCE, R.A., AND JAMES GUNN. COPYRIGHTS RESERVED FOR THE ARTISTS OR OWNERS BY THE ROYAL ACADEMY ILLUSTRATED. HnHIS year's Royal Academy, as usual, contains a ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MR. MIDDLETON OFF THE AIR AND ON THE PLOT THE B.B.C. GARDENER GIVES A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION

... MR. MIDDLETON OFF THE AIR AND ON THE PLOT: THE B.B.C. GARDENER GIVES A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION. *->1* Pausing to admire the hyacinth border MR. MIDDLETON starts off with his barrow and tools. The expert completely concentrated on his important tosh of pruning fruit-trees. A piece of work requiring great skill and care: Mr. Middleton grafting fruit-trees. N.B A Coloured plate is inserted in ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 242 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GIELGUD'S HAMLET

... . PHOTOGRAPH DY CECIL BEATON. To his neu production of 44 Hamlet at the Hay market, JOHN GIELGUD makes a fresh approach, exciting, considerably more mature, and bringing to the part a mind of restless brilliance. Here Claudius (LESLIE BANKS) is asking, 44 How is it that the clouds still hang on you Hamlet 44 Not so, my lord, I am too much in the sun. Other photographs of the production appear ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 77 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PIN-UP GIRL FOR THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN

... . MRS. CLARE BOOTH LUCE, playwright author and politician is a lady who does not love this country very dearly. She is the Congress Member for Connecticut and has been described as the 44 pin-up girl for the Republican campaign. She has been fiercely opposing the election of Franklin D Roosevelt for another term as President is credited with being the first to call him an Isolationist said ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs