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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. ...

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WAR CHIEFS, WEDDINGS, PLAYERS PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

... WAR CHIEFS, WEDDINGS, PLAYERS PEOPLE i IN THE NEWS. I Dancer DIANA GOULD has been in Cairo, playing in The Merry Widow with Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott. She 's Admiral H ar court1 s stepdaughter. COLONEL GEORGE C. GORDON- LENNOX, aged thirty-five, com manding a battalion of the Grenadier Guards at Carrocelo, successfully directed a battle from a mattress, where he lay wounded. LIEUT. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 458 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRILLIANT SECOND EDITION EVEN SWEETER AND LOWER AT THE AMBASSADORS

... BRILLIANT SECOND EDITION: EVEN SWEETER AND LOWER AT THE AMBASSADORS. Thanks, Yanks, for just being herei and spreading good cheer HERMIONE GINGOLD and HENRY KENDALL, as the Statue of Liberty. 44 If I'd only never taken up the 'cello, I 'd walk beside you in the usual way HERMIONE GINGOLD burlesques celebrities in 44 'Cello Solo. 41 Vienna Lingers On Fritzi (HERMIONE GINGOLD) asks BONAR ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 379 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE SERVANT PROBLEM FROM A NEW ANGLE: STANDING ROOM ONLY

... Lee (FRED MacMURRAY) and Jane (PAULETTE GODDARD) cant find hotel accommodation so go out as cook and butler. Jane forgets to cook the dinner for her employers, so Lee tosses up flapjacks. Jane Rogers and Lee Stevens are only masquerading as cook and butler, but their love-affair is the real things Jane has got her man all right. Jane Rogers, who has engaged herself and Lee Stevens in domestic ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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