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ROYAL WINNER

... . A At the recent Windsor Horse Show PRINCESS ELIZABETH teas a winner in the non-hackney section of the private driving class. With Princess Margaret as passenger, she drove Hans, a dun Norwegian pony, in a French chaise given in 1876 by King Edward, then Prince of Wales, to the Princess of Wales. The cup was handed to the Princesses by the Duke of Beaufort. There teas a large entry in this ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NOVELIST WIFE OF-OUR AIRBORNE CHIEF AT HOME DAPHNE DU MAURIER IN THE HOUSE THAT INSPIRED REBECCA

... NOVELIST WIFE OF -OUR AIRBORNE CHIEF AT HOME: DAPHNE DU MAURIER IN THE HOUSE THAT INSPIRED REBECCA. Mrs. Browning (Daphne du Maurier), wife of Lieut. -General F. A. M. Tommy 11 Browning, Commander of the British Airborne Forces, waves good-bye to her children as they start on a cycling expedition. The sub-tropical climate of the Cornish Riviera make, it possible for palms hydrangeas and ...

D-DAY IN THE U.S.A

... New York reactions to the news that D-Day had come are recorded in these pictures. The fashionable store which closed during the first tense hours was in tune icith the general feeling. At West Point GRADUATING CADETS LINED UP ON D-DAY to receive their diplomas, while guests and visitors watched the ceremony in the Field House. CADET WILLIAM D. CLARK (I), son of Lieut.-General Mark Clark, O.C. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 222 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THIS ENGLAND THROUGH AMERICAN EYES: THE WHITE CLIFFS, POEM INTO PICTURE

... . The white cliffs of Alice Duer Miller s poem as a symbolic background IRENE DUNNE as the American girl who marries, an English husband, ALAN MARSHALL. RODDY McDOWALL and ELIZABETH TAYLOR in a delightful sequence. Alice Duer Miller s well-known poem in praise of England has provided the basis for the story. Summer-time in England s green and pleasant land RODDY McDOWALL and little ELIZABETH ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 321 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE NURSED BY THESE?

... WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE NURSED BY THESE J Left Brown-eyed blonde BETTY HALL, daughter of the Mayor of Monett. Left Stage girl GLORIA ANDERSON, ivho has appeared in 44 Hellzapoppin and 44 Star and Garter Blonde, with hazel-green i eyes VIRGINIA MAYO, k from St. Louis Mo. Left Sun-kissed ALMA CARROLL, Los Angeles born and bred, a former model. Light-brown of hair, with blue eyes BETTYE ALEXANDER ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GOLDWYN GIRLS AS U.S. ARMY NURSES--OFF DUTY!

... GOLDWYN GIRLS AS U.S. ARMY ^^NURSES-- OFF DUTY! Reddish blonde with hazel- blue eyes LORRAINE MILLER, from Virginia. Right Green-eyed blonde DOROTHY GARNER, former newspaper reporter and cigarette girl. Right Brown-eyed SHELBY PAYNE, former Holmby Col- lege graduate. Blue-eyed blonde JUNE LANG a girl ivith dancing and screen experience Brown-haired blue-eyed ELLEN HALL, from Los Angeles. I ...

'Celanese' TRADE MARK

... ;A::>:; *m The simplification of wartime Lingerie in Celanese pin-points attention on the beauty of the fabric itself. That is why Lingerie in 'Celanese' has triumphed over present- day restrictions it is i still lovely and ex cellent Coupon -value. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 40 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

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 ...

BESPECTACLED, BEFRILLED, DOUBLE-DISTILLED BETTY GRABLE OF PIN-UP GIRL

... BESPECTACLED, BEFRILLED, DOUBLE-DISTILLED BETTY GRABLE OF PIN-UP GIRL Back to glamour frills and feathers Miss Lorraine shows her famous legs in a dance. In stenographer's get-up. begoggled Lorry Jones sings Don't Carry Tales Out of School to Charlie Spivak's band. T3ETTY GRABLE, American Forces No. 1 Pin-Up Girl, U.S. Navy's Fleet Sweetheart, stars in Twentieth Century-Fox's new Techni ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 181 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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 ...