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Mrs. B. G. Ellison and Her Daughter

... Mrs. Bartholemew Guy Ellison is the younger daughter of the Hon. Alan Boyle, A.F.C., and Mrs. Boyle, of Mount Esk, Lasswade, Midlothian. Her father, who served in the last war in the Royal Scots Fusiliers and in the R.A.F., is the Earl of Glasgow's younger brother. Mrs. Ellison was married in 1941, and has one daughter, Caroline Anne, seen in this picture. Her husband is a twin son of Major ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 87 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

On and off Duty: A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country; Country Dance

... og A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Country Dance The first dance which the King and Queen have given for some months was a com paratively small affair held in a country house (just I50 guests), but the evening went with a real swing and everyone enjoyed them selves immensely. Officially, the dance was not given for Princess Elizabeth, nor had it any connection with H.R.H.'s recent ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2071 | Page: Page 10, 11, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THREE LITTLE DUTCH GIRLS

... . These little Dutch girls are Princesses of the House of Orange, daughters of H.R.H. Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard and grand daughters of Queen Wilhelmina. They are (I. to r.) baby PRINCESS MARGRIET FRANCISCA, born in Ottawa in January 1943 PRINCESS IRENE EMMA ELIZABETH, born in August 1939; and PRINCESS BEATRIX WILHELMINA ARMGARD, born on January 31, 1938. Our Karsh ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 90 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GRIDDED GRABLE!

... Many of Betty Grable's admirers may have mentally charted her contours but only the American Army Air Force has gone so far as to plot her latitude and longitude At Loury Field, Colo., map-reading instructors use a 44 Life photo graph of the actress and her famous legs to teach the primary lesson of how to locate a point with grid lines. Any map-reading student could thus find Miss Grable's ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 150 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW COMMANDER OF THE CHINDITS: AND HIS FAMILY

... I NEW COMMANDER OF THE CHINDITS AND HIS FAMILY. Major-general W. D. A. LENTAIGNE was recently appointed to command the special force operating inside Burma (known as the Chindits) in place of the late Major- General Wingate. He trained a column for this year's air borne invasion and led them into Burma. A son of the late Mr. Justice Lentaigne, he is forty-four years of age, and has spent ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 271 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OUR HOME AIR DEFENCE CHIEF IN HIS HOME

... . LADY HILL, wife of the A.O.C. Air Defences of Great Britain, in the garden with her chow. Choppy. A room with a view in North Condon LADY HILL arranging books in a light airy study. A keen musician, LADY HILL never neglects to put in some time practising her violin every day. The A.O.C. Air Defences of Great Britain, AIR MARSHAL SIR RODERIC HILL, with LADY HILL and their chow. IR MARSHAL SIR ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 207 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MADELEINE SMITH OF THE REST IS SILENCE-- ANN TODD

... MADELEINE SMITH OF THE REST IS J SILENCE ANN TODD. At Mrs. Gorton's Finishing School, Clapton, 1853, the school girl Madeleine Smith (ANN TODD), finding a subtle pleasure in duplicity, started her career by getting access to papers in the headmistress's room, and cheating in the examination. Right Madeleine specially arranged to have a basement bedroom at her home in I Glasgoic. Here she u ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 208 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SHORT-SLEEVED SIMPLICITY FOR SIMMER MONTHS

... SHORT- SLEEVED SIMPLICITY FOR SIMMER MONTHS Sundae and Junior League are the fascina ting titles of these two Laeta Ramage designs subtly tailored in Moy- gashel. Both arc made in contrast colours, both arc utility and both price 53s. 7d. Har- rods, Peter Robinson and Swan and Edgar have them in London, Jenners in Edinburgh Left Scalloping edges the cross over bodice of this all-wool jersey in ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 135 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LAND AND WATER TRAINING FOR CANADIAN WRENS

... . Swimming is part of the planned recreation for Wrens' stationed at H.M.C.S. Conestoga training estab lishment of the Women s Royal Canadian Naval Ser vice, at Gait, Ontario, so they enjoy many a delightful visit to the Preston outdoor pool. Our group includes girls from Magnetawan, Campbelltoicn, N.B., Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Saskatoon and Victoria, B.C. Wrens may not spend as much ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 136 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SHIRLEY TEMPLE IS GROWING UP

... . SHIRLEY TEMPLE, world-famous child star of the films, has just had her sixteenth birthday celebrated xcith a party and a cake in a Hollywood studio and is almost grotvn-up. There ys an air of confident and poised young woman hood about her latest photographs. She 's recently taken up badminton both for the fun of the game and with a view to preserving that slim silhouette. She ys note hard ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LIMA IN THE 18TH CENTURY: THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY

... LIMA IN THE 18TH CENTURY THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. HE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, Thornton Wilder's best-seller novel, is due to begin its run as a film at the London Pavilion on May 26, after a gala charity premiere on the preceding day. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, in Lima, Peru, collapsed some 200 years ago, and five people were killed, while three others miraculously escaped. Brother ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 293 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TOPS AND TOES

... Above The glengarry, gay and very becoming, designed by Erik in bold check Viyella. Below Real summer sandals of red or tan leather (possibly some other colours, too) with hinged wooden sole and heel strap of elastic. Clark's of Somerset. In the shops next month. Above The white straw, sailor fashion, trimmed with green ribbon, green veiling and white camellias. Margaret Marks. Below The ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 242 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs