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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - TWO daughters of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, PRINCESS ELISABETH and PRINCESS MARIE- ADELAIDE, are busy training with other Belgian women as relief workers at a camp in this country for the day when their country is freed from the Huns1 stranglehold. Their work includes pitching tents, nursing, stretcher- carrying, rescue work and cooking over camp fires. Luxembourg was invaded and ...

A HUGE FIELD FOR THE ROYAL ACADEMY--AND THE JUDGES

... A HUGE FIELD FOR THE ROYAL ACADEMY- AND THE JUDGES. WHEN you visit the Royal Academy as most people do, whether the country is at peace or at war have you ever considered the Herculean labours of the Selection Committee of distinguished artists who have chosen the pictures for exhibition at Burlington House These photographs give some idea of the tough task which they have to face, for they ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 228 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... A FOURTH view of H.R.II. PRINCESS ELIZABETH, as seen by Her Royal Highness comes of age oil April 21 her eighteenth hif' absence of the King, she does not coinc of age in the full legal sensy Royal duties has been carefully arranged, and will he increased oftcr troops with the King and Queen a forerunner of visits and tours I! under the Nutional Service Act when she was sixteen, Princess Em* I ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 289 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NAUGHTY EDWARDIANS--FOUR-STAR ON APPROVAL FILM

... NAUGHTY EDWARDIANS-- FOUR-STAR ON APPROVAL FILM. Frederick lonsdale's comedy of manners, 44 On Approval 44 (Leicester Square Theatre), with its rich Edwardian situations, is directed by Clivc Brook who also stars, with Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers and Roland Culver. The play was first pro duced at the Fortune in 1927, and revived at the Strand in 1933. Maria, who has arranged for Richard to ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 329 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CANADA'S INVASION COMMANDER-- LT.-GEN. H. D. G. CRERAR

... CANADA'S INVASION COMMANDER- LT.-GEN. H. D. G. CRERAR. Last week LT.-GEN. H. D. GRAHAM CRERAR. C.B., D.S.O.. commanding the First Canadian Army Corps uith the British Eighth Armv in Italy, was appointed Commander of the First Canadian Army, and it is assumed that he will lead the Canadian forces in the Allied invasion of the Continent. In making the announce ment Colonel Ralston, Canada's ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 129 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RED BALLET STARLETS IN THE MAKING: A SOVIET RUSSIAN CHOREOGRAPHIC SCHOOL

... JUNIOR PUPILS IN A PRACTICE PERFORMANCE Tuchkina leads the young dancers in the 44 Don Quixote ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre. A lesson in the FIRST ARABESQUE The teacher instructs a promising young pupil, Valya Lukinn while other embryo coryphees watch. Instep stretched, hands below the level of the shoulder 11 pupils Ai E MARIA LEONTEVA, well-known teacher, instructs young be bar A class of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 399 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GLITTERING GINGER

... . GINGER ROGERS* new film is called 44 Lady in the Dark but there is nothing dim or sombre about the costumes sh ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 84 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

KING PETER'S BRIDE-- THE QUEEN OF YUGOSLAVIA

... KING PETER'S BRIDE THE QUEEN OF YUGOSLAVIA. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. King Peter of Yugoslavia and PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF GREECE were married recently at the Yugoslav Embassy London, hour monarchs attended the ceremony King George VI. tvho teas best man to his godson, the King llle tvho gave the bride away, the King of Norway, and the Queen of the Netherlands. The bride, who arm id with her ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 163 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK AND NOTABLE EVENTS PICTORIAL REVIEW OF LIFE AS WE LIVE IT TO-DAY

... PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK AND NOTABLE EVENTS: PICTORIAL REVIEW OF LIFE AS WE LIVE IT TO-DAY. Service girls recuperating at a British Legion sanatorium have taken up toy-making. PETER, THE PET RABBIT, POSES AS A MODEL. Hospital nurses have to be ready to EVACUATE HELPLESS PATIENTS at a moment's notice. This is the method by which they are taken out of a ward without having to leave their beds. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 358 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NO LONGER BRITTLE-- BUT PLIABLE AND ALMOST SILK LIKE: SCIENCE SPINS AND WEAVES GLASS TO SERVE MODERN NEEDS

... NO LONGER BRITTLE-- BUT PLIABLE AND ALMOST SILK- LIKE SCIENCE SPINS AND WEAVES GLASS TO SERVE MODERN NEEDS. She stands at the loom, but she is not spinning wool or cotton HER YARN IS MADE OF GLASS. It is passing through the leasing reed in the process of warping the yarn. The glass yarn is xcoven just as if it were cotton or woollen yarn. The operative is here refiling a shuttle with a pirn of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 489 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALL EYES ON THE CHANCELLOR: SIR JOHN ANDERSON IN THE COUNTRY

... ALL EYES ON THE CHANCELLOR SIR JOHN ANDERSON IN THE COUNTRY. APRIL 25 is the fateful day fixed for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to bring out his first Budget, and every one wonders which way the cat will jump. The RT. HON. SIR JOHN ANDERSON, P.C., G.C.S.I., K.C.B., Chancellor of the Exchequer since last year, was born 1882, and educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, Edinburgh and ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs