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LADY LOTHIAN AND HER BABY GIRL

... . THE MARCHIONESS OF LOTHIAN is the tiventy-two-year-old wife of the 12th Marquess of Lothian, Scots Guards. She is posed with her baby daughter LADY MARY KERR. who was born on March 20, 1944. She was Miss Antonella Newland, and is the daughter of Major-General Sir Foster Newland, K.C.M.G. C.B., and of Mrs. William Carr, of Ditching ham Hall, Norfolk. Her marriage took place in 1942. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 71 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DECOYS DIVERT THE ATTACKER!

... This is a lesson in camouflage by CHILI WILLIAMS. She 's the No. 1 Pin-Up Girl of the U.S. armed forces, and just to stimulate the visual aids to teaching methods, the U.S. Army Engineers enlisted her help and took u series of pictures of her to illustrate the principles of camouflage. By thus using Chili, says the Army official release, vital principles are impressed in the minds of ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S LADY-IN-WAITING

... . J^ADY MARY PALMER, youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Selborne, has been chosen as Lady-in-Waiting to Prin cess Elizabeth. Her ap pointment is the first to be made to her Royal High- ness's Household, and in dicates the growing number of duties which the Heir- Presumptive to the Throne will now undertake. Lady Mary is twenty-three, five years older than the Prin cess, is one of ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PICTURED NEWS FROM HOME FROM ITALY AND FRANCE

... PICTURED NEWS FROM HOME, FROM ITALY AND FRANCE. 2ND LT. MARY ANN LANE, of West Chester, Penn an American Army nurse in Italy, is writing to the folks at home, seated on an improvised chair out side her tent. Right MR. R. W. MOORE, Headmaster of Harrow, and MR. C. A. ELLIOTT, Headmaster of Eton (r.)t sat side-by-side in deck- chairs to watch the Eton v. Harrow match at Harrow. Eton won by five ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - CAPT. J. A. McCOY, for dressing to Jit the job a hunting cap when he goes U-boat chasing. GAPT. J. A. McCOY, D.S.O. R.N., is properly in the saddle when out ht sea chasing U-boats. So much so that he always wears his hunting cap on these lawful occasions, a fact which amused the King when he saw this unusual battle headgear. Capt. McCoy commands a destroyer. LCE-CPL. BILL STEVENS, for always ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 337 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM OUT OF DOORS

... A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM OUT OF DOORS BY R.A.F. AND W.A.A.F. An interval in the play, with Demetrius (GEORGE BARKER), Quince (HENRY FROSH) and Hermia (ANNE DANIELS). Left to right Theseus, Duke of Athens (MAURICE PARIPSKY), Hippolyta (JOSEPHINE SETH), Egeus (WILLIAM MITCHELL), an attendant of Hippolyta (DIANA ST. CLAIR), and Philostrate (LEONARD SAMSON). My Oberon what visions have I seen ...

SHOPPING ROUND ABOUT

... SHOPPING MIMBOUT SS g A Y?^ *i- li \A*e a^ b B| Feminine frills make this an enchanting blouse to wear with town suits. Of rayon crepe in white, pale pink, pale blue, nnd turquoise. 79s. 9d. (4 coupons.) From Simpson's. Piccadilly. ,Ao¥e a ^tV 0t° 'Vta ffrniiii Vf co^ 1 ig**' ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 56 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEUTRAL DESCENDANTS OF QUEEN VICTORIA

... . Ten-year-old PRINCESS MARGARETHA OF SWEDEN fastening the sicansdown- trimmed xcoolly coat of her baby sister, PRINCESS CHRISTINA. PRINCESS SYBILLA, wife of Prince Gustaf- Adolf, eldest son of the Crown Prince of Sweden, with her eldest and youngest daughters, MARGARETHA and CHRISTINA. Great-grandchildren of the King of Sweden and of the first Duke of Connaughi PRINCESSES MARGARETHA, BIRGITTA ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 150 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SINCE nobody in the show world is ever satisfied to make a success and then leave it alone, I suppose it was inevitable that sooner or later we should have a sequel to Casablanca, and that it should turn out to be something like PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE (Warner's). Several members of the Casablanca cast Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre appear ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2256 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LITTLE PRINCE MAKES A LONG ARM

... . H.R.H. PRINCE WILLIAM OF GLOUCESTER was born on December 18, 1941, and though he is a tall child for his age, he just can't make the long stretch up to offer a titbit to the pedigree bull, which is gazing so benignantly at him from its loose-box in the stable-yard at Barnwell Manor, the country seat of T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. The dogs shown with the Prince are Australian ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OLD IN ENGLISH HISTORY BUT FOR EVER OUR NEW FOREST

... OLD IN ENGLISH HISTORY- 3UT FOR EVER OUR NEW FOREST. Huge tanks are used to store water to fight forest fires in the New Forest Forester J. W. Brook is inspecting one. The forest staff in wartime must be for ever on watch and guard here one of their tall look-out towers 55 ft. high. William I. initiated an afforestation scheme for the New Forest, and we carry it on, as these twenty -two-year ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 346 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs