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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 

QUIET EVENINGS AT HOME

... 0111 EVENINGS AT HOU IUgbt FOR DRESS ALLOWANCES that have dwindled this rayon spun print housecoat is a good buy. The narrow pleating which accentuates the wide waistband-tie is exciting, very flattering. It costs the very modest sum of £3 14 O. Photographs by Conolly. FOR UPLIFT when you are tired, 4jr simple elegance at home, for a sensa tion of luxurious ease, can you think of anything more ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 145 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROBINSON'S

... Make it my way, Madam says OLD H ETHERS Since you cannot buy Robinson's Barley Water in bottles for the time being, you will do well to take Old Hethers' advice and make it for yourself from Robinson's Patent Barley. The simple directions are on the tin and if you cannot get hold of a lemon or an orange for flavouring, use the juice of stewed or tinned fruit honey or jam. Barley Water from ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 79 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

GERTRUDE LAWRENCE HOME AGAIN

... . MISS GERTRUDE LAWRENCE recently returned by air to London from the United States after an absence of six years. She is to start an ENS A tour of forces, factories and coal-fields almost immediately and later hopes to entertain the troops overseas. She has brought back tcith her a comedy by the French author of 44 Tovarich in which no doubt, she tvill be seen at some future date. Our portrait ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 21 | 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 ...

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

... WM. SANDERSON SON LTD. WM. SANDERSON SON LTD.. L_J A v $9; s *f/ /V, g/7 tfyt/f i ^':-Jf tJn sssi Ml V M j er M X Arl X/v? vaT- -^iSs^r 8 BJ LUXURY BLEND SCOTCH WHISKY L E I T H ...

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