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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - NAIK NAND SINGH, 11th Sikhs, won his V.C. in Burma. A heavily armed Japanese platoon crept into a position covering the main Maungdaw-Buthidaung road, digging fox-holes and trenches on the hillside. Nand Singh, commanding platoon leading section, led his men up a very steep ridge under heavy fire. Though wounded in thigh, face and shoulder, he took the first trench with the bayonet by ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 635 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Photographs 

FIRE-FIGHTING FIT

... FIRE- FIGHTING FIT. T ableau by National Fire Service instructors. Grand Finale the complete team of N.F.S. instructors Network practice one of the exercises for girl instructors of the N.F.S. Tough work A team of N.F.S. girl* f their training as P.T. instructors. Limbering up N.F.S. girls prepare for more strenuous exercise. Perfect timing and balance N.F.S. quali fied instructors. Leapfrog ...

MARLENE SAWN IN TWO BY ORSON WELLES!

... ORSON WELLES and MARLENE DIETRICH are guest stars appearing as themselves in 44 Follow the Boys. They appear in Orson Welles's Mercury Wonder Show. Here a feat of 44 black magic from Orson Welles' s wonder show MARLENE DIETRICH is conjured up and appears first as a silhouette in a frame. Then she steps out and becomes human. 44 No deception, ladies and gentlemen Magician ORSON WELLES ...

WIFE OF OUR INVASION AIR COMMANDER

... . LADY LEIGH MALLORY is the wife of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trajford Leigh- Mallory, K.C.B., D.S.O., R.A.F., the Allied Air Commander-in- Chief under General Eisenhower for the Invasion of Europe, the most important military operation in our history, which began on Monday, June 5. She is the second daughter of the late Mr. Edmund Stratton Sawyer, was married in 1915, and has a son and a daughter ...

VENETIAN CARNIVAL IN VIENNESE WALTZ-TIME

... . A NIGHT IN VENICE, at the Cambridge Theatre, has a decor with gondolas, a ballet of the personages of the Commedia delV Arte, and masked revellers whose costumes are after the carnival drawings of Domenico Tiepolo but the Johann Strauss waltz tunes and lilting melodies are of the genuine Viennese brand. The opera was written in 1884, so has had to wait a long time before coming to London, ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 182 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE NEW MRS. CHEYNEY--CORAL BROWNE

... THE NEW MRS. CHEYNEY CORAL BROWNE. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTHONY. CORAL BROWNE is to play the name-part, first played by Gladys Cooper, in the revival of Frederick Lonsdale's 44 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney at the Savoy on June 15. This comedy of 44 the day before yesterday belongs to the 1900-1910 period and has the charm of Edwardian costumes, tchich are designed by Sophia Harris. Miss Brotcne's great ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 113 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WM. SANDERSON & SON LTD

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Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 43 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

FIFTH WAR-TIME FOURTH AT ETON

... . Spectators lined up on the river bank to see the Procession of Boats go by. The School v. Eton Ramblers the cricket match in progress on Agar s Plough. Shorn of their decorative attire, but smart and impressive the Procession I of Boats at Fellows Eyot. After the Procession of Boats the Wet-Bobs singing and swinging along on shore to the strains of The Eton Boating Song THE programme of the ...

PHANTOM LADY --FILM CHASE FOR A LOST WITNESS

... . Ghastly suspicion Carol Richman (ELLA RAINES) has a hunch that Jack Marloic (FRANC HOT TONE) is the killer and tries to call the police. The Phantom Lady with the striking hat Scott Henderson (ALAN CURTIS) picks up a strange girl in a bar, and asks her to go to the theatre with him. She accepts. Carol Richman, convinced that Scott Henderson did not kill his wife, tries to get proof of his ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WEDDINGS, WORK, AND ART PICTORIAL NEWS PARADE

... WEDDINGS, WORK, AND ART: PICTORIAL NEWS PARADE. The MARCHIONESS OF QUEENSBERRY Cathleen Mann the artist looking at a gouache by Keith V aughan, soldier -artist tchose first one-man shoxc teas held at the new Lefevre Galleries, 131-134, New Bond Street. MISS ELIZABETH THOMAS, daughter of Mr. Rowland Thomas, K.C., married CAPTAIN D. RICHMOND-JONES, the Gordon Highlanders, in the Round Chapel of ...

OUR NAVAL INVASION CHIEF; AND HIS WIFE

... . ADMIRAL SIR BERTRAM RAMSAY, K.C.B., K.B.E., M.V.O., R.N., Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, under General Eisenhower, for the Invasion of Europe, watches the Fleet sail to the assault. LADY RAMSAY, wife of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, K.C.B., R.N. PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILLIAM DAVIS. DM. SIR BERTRAM HOME RAMSAY'S experience of Combined Operations is second to none. He bore the chief burden of the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 142 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

VICEREGAL AFFAIRS

... . Here is the Viceroy's desk at his hoitse in New Delhi. A portrait of Lady Wavell is in the centre, and left, a caricature of an officer out pig-sticking ivith a tiger for quarry. A picnic party at a ruined fort at Tuglakabad includes LADY WAVELL. MRS. DE BATHE (her secretary and lady-in-waiting) the Comptroller, MAJOR COATES, the HON. FELICITY WAVELL, and several A.D.C.s. The Viceroy's ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs