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SKIRTS AT BLACKPOOL: AN ALL-AMERICAN MUSICAL ADVENTURE

... . 44 Women in Uniform Sergt. Quirk (SERGT. LAURIE A. SHEKLOW), Blotto (SERGT. ROWE M. MEADOR) and Captain Flagg (PTE. MARK C. ni VAD!iW\ CPL. GEORGE R. BUCHANAN as the Pin-Up Girl giving an elaborate fan-dance number. I Captain Flagg (PTE. M. C. BAKARIAN) and 44 her W.A.C.S, SERGT. LAURIE A. SHEKLOW, PFC. JOE G. GRABOWSKI, I PTE. GEORGE F. GREGG, and PTE. DANIEL A. PERNA. Making up for the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 276 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BLACK & WHITE

... BLACK WHITE BLACK WHITE Still carrying on Although working under difficulties Black White is still carrying on still bringing to as many as possible the fine quality and mellow flavour which have made this grand old whisky a first choice everywhere. fts&S' Scotch! ...

Published: Wednesday 26 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 43 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - GENERAL DE GAULLE/ for hcins France's leader and a man of deeds rather than words. c From the maelstrom of capitulating France in June 1940 rose GENERAL CHARLES ANDRE JOSEPH MARIE DE GAULLE to hoist aloft the banner of his country with continued French resistance. After distinguished service in command of an armoured unit he became Under-Secretary of State for War in Reynaud's Cabinet. When ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 233 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AS THEY FEEL THE WAR: OFFICIAL WAR ARTISTS FILMED IN OUT OF CHAOS

... AS THEY FEEL THE WAR OFFICIAL WAR ARTISTS FILMED IN OUT OF CHAOS. STANLEY SPENCER (resigned A. R.A.J sketches on Clydeside with a .background of ships on the stocks. Well known for bis murals, and crowded canvases sometimes of controversial character. PAUL NASH in action at the vast mound of German ''plane salvage known as the Cowley Dump. Here he painted his famous Totes Afeer, or Dead Sea ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Pin-up Girl

... ddPin^up cjirl: Cflo. 16. £f)nn Sheridan. ANN SHERIDAN appears as Nora Bayes in 44 Shine On, Harvest Moon the new Warner Brothers picture based on the life of the popular American singer due at the Warner Theatre Leicester Square, on December 22. The picture is a mixture of gay music and fast-paced story, depicting the well-known star's rise from 44 honky-tonks to the glory of a Ziegfeld ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 80 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IN A BARRACKS GARDEN!

... This photograph is not a nostalgic pre-1939 snapshot from the South of France, or of some luxurious country house in a favoured corner of England. It teas taken in the garden of Rathbaron, C.lendon Road, Toorak, Victoria, Australia, a house -used as barracks by the W.A.A.A.F. When the girls are off duty they can enjoy a dip in the swimming-pool, and sun bathe on the spacious lawns. Uniform ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 89 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

EVENTS AND NOTABLE PERSONALITIES

... Wartime SCHOOLGIRL CHORISTERS lined the path from Langhton village church when MR. F. C. PARKS and his bride MISS C. L. SPENCER, left after their icedding. SECTION OFFICER HOOD-CREE, W.A.A.F., and CAPTAIN BRENO DUARTE DA CUNHA were guests at the Simpsons' Services Club lunch in honour of the Brazilian Air Mission. MISS JOY SPILMAN ira5 a debutante at the Queen Charlotte's Ball. LIEUT. KATHLEEN ...

THE WIFE OF A TIDDLER SUBMARINE V.C

... TWO Commanders of midget submarines tiddlers, in R.N. parlance), Lieut. Basil Charles Godfrey Place, D.S.C., R.N., and Lieut. Donald Cameron, were awarded the V.C. for their daring attack on the 44 Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord on September 22, 1943. Both are prisoners of war. On March 8 we gave at-home studies of Mrs. Donald Cameron here are a series of portraits of MRS. B. C. G. PLACE, who ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 236 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE FRENCH-CANADIAN V.C. AND HIS FAMILY

... THE FRENCH- CANADIAN V.C. AND HIS FAMILY. /CAPTAIN (now ACTING MAJOR) PAUL TRIQUET, a French-Canadian born in 1908 at Cabano, Province of Quebec, has been awarded the Y.C. for his determined leadership and example, and superb contempt of the enemy in an action on the Adriatic front on December 14, with the Eighth Army. His company of the Royal 22me Regiment, with the support of a Canadian ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 211 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MIRACLE FILM OF LOURDES THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

... MIRACLE FILM OF LOURDES, THE SONG OF BERNADETTE., HP HE SONG OF BERNADETTE, due at the New Gallery on March 27, is Twentieth Century-Fox's film of Franz WerfeFs book, reconstructing the amazing story of Bernadette Soubirous, the peasant girl of Lourdes, who in 1858 saw visions of the Virgin Mary and discovered the healing spring of water which since then has been regularly visited by some ...

NOT QUITE THE FIVE INCHES!

... NOT QUITE THE FIVE INCHES I When OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND took an onstage bath in the gay and impudent net c Warner screen comedy PRINCESS O'ROURKE, she \cas not tied dotcn by the British wartime 5-in.-only rule. On the contrary, director and author Norman Krasna had tico rules about the sequence 44 water cloudy with milk and plenty of it with the charming though decorous result illustrated by our ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Gordon's

... Gordons Gordons By Appointment to H.M. King Geotge VI. Standi Supteme Maximum Prices: per bottle 25/3; Half bottle 13/3 Great Britain and Northern Ireland only. ...