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FAY COMPTON--HOME FRONT HEROINE OF NO MEDALS

... FAY COMPTON-- HOME FRONT HEROINE OF NO MEDALS. Go on-- what 's the verdict Captain G. Radcliffe R.N. (FREDERICK LEISTER), asked tn adiudicate on the cookine bv Lolly (PAULINE TENNANT), Nisei (RONALD FORTT), Paul (MICHAEL McNEILE), Helen (VALERIE WHITE) and Roddy (JOHN WITTY; J. to r.). You have a nerve, standing there firing questions at me like a schoolmaster Lolly Dacre (PAULINE TENNANT) ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 295 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MERLE OBERON AS GEORGE SAND A SONG TO REMEMBER

... MERLE OBERON AS GEORGE SAND A SONG TO REMEMBER. CORNEL WILDE as Frederic Chopin Polish genius and patriot accepts tremendous applause after playing his own compositions. merle OBERON, as the famous George Sand (Mme. Amandine Lucille Aurore Dudevant), complete with her trousers and cigar. Liszt (STEPHEN BEKASSY) and Madame George Sand, the great novelist, listen to Chopin playing his own ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 197 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OLD ACQUAINTANCE--WITH BETTE DAVIS AND MIRIAM HOPKINS

... OLD ACQUAINTANCE-- WITH BETTE DAVIS AND MIRIAM HOPKINS. Triumphant youth Kit Marlowe (BETTE DAVIS) comes home in 1924 after having written a daring best-seller novel and is overwhelmed with congratulations. The green-eyed monster Millie Drake (MIRIAM HOPKINS) is madly jealous of her great friend, Kit. She sets out to emulate her novel-writing and succeeds. Though Millie is a successful ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 303 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Pin=up Girl. No.13. Gene Jierney

... c iPin=up cJirl dflo./3. Qene ffierney. GENE TIERNEY, who is here playing a big fish with quiet concentration, has just returned to the screen after a year's absence to take the title-role in 20th Century- Fox's version of the best-selling mystery story Laura. In private life she is the wife of Count Lieut. Cleg Cassini, and has a brand-netv baby daughter Daria Cassini. Gene who teas born in ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MONTY'S MENAGERIE

... . AA7AR or no war, wherever he goes Field-Marshal Montgomery adds to his collection of pets, of which those on this page are probably a mere sample. The dogs, HITLER and ROMMEL, have had a pretty good Press so far, but the others are less well known to the public. The nameless tame rabbit was painted by James Gunn in a portrait of the Field-Marshal with some of his staff. The goldfish were a ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 271 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROYAL, NAVAL, AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

... LIEUT.-COMMANDER F. C. V. BRIGHTMAN, R.N., commands H.M.S. 44 Pickle He is seen reading the MS. of Clemence Dane's book, 44 He Brings Good News'' about the frigate H.M.S. 44 Pickle ichich brought netvs of Trafalgar to England. Left AIR MARSHAL SIR LESLIE GOSSAGE, Director-General of the A.T.C., and AIR VICE-MARSHAL SIR PETER DRUMMOND chatted with F. /LIEUT. EDWARD JAR- RATT, who supervised the ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LITERATURE, ART, ROMANCE AND SOCIETY

... . he marriage of MISS ESTELLE HORSLEY-CARR, randdaughter of the 9th Lord Belhaven and tenton, to LIEUT. GERALD HERBERT CROSS, jn of Mr. C. N. Cross, of British Columbia, took place in Edinburgh. MISS THELMA LEIGHTON SEAGER, W.R.N.S., is a daughter of Sir Lcighton Seager, President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom and an ex- High Sheriff of Monmouthshire. LADY SEAGER, wife of ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 204 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HAMLET, AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE WITH JOHN GIELGUD AND PEGGY ASHCROFT

... HAMLET, AT THE HAYMARKET I THEATRE, WITH JOHN GIELGUD AND PEGGY ASHCROFT. 44 T TAMLET alternates with 44 The Circle and Congreve's 44 Love for Love, at the Haymarket, where John Gielgud and his company recently opened their season. 44 A Midsummer Night's Dream and Webster's masterpiece, 44 The Duchess of Malfi, are to be added to the repertory in the New Year. 44 Hamlet is directed by ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SYDNEY'S PRETTIEST GIRL? BOB HOPE'S CHOICE--AND RIVALS

... SYDNEY'S PRETTIEST GIRL? BOB HOPE'S CHOICE-- AND RIVALS. Right When Bob Hope visited Australia he conferred the title of the jirettiest girl in Sydney on twenty- year-old BETTY DAWES, of Point Piper. Netty, however has rivals. This is twenty -year-old MAIDIE HANN, of BeUevue ill. She's blonde and blue-eyed, works in her mother* s butcher* s shop and does some commercial modelling. Then there ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE VASTY FIELDS OF FRANCE ON THE SCREEN: OLIVER'S HENRY V

... 44 And gentlemen in England, now a-bed Shall think themselves occurs' d they were not here And hold their manhood cheap while any speaks That fought with us upon St. Crispin's day Welsh bowmen at the battle of Agincourt. The King s a bawcock and a heart of gold A lad of life, an imp of fame I kiss his dirty shoe I love the lovely bully Pistol (ROBERT NEWTON). 44 Suppose that you have seen, The ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 261 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ROBERT HELPMANN'S MORALITY BALLET: MIRACLE IN THE GORBALS

... ROBERT HELPMANN'S MORALITY BALLET MIRACLE IN THE GORBALS. The Glasgow slum crowd turns against the Stranger (ROBERT HELPMANN, top right when they see him with the penitent Prostitute (CELIA FRANCA) at the window of her house. The Official (DAVID PALTENGHI) tries to restrain the Stranger (ROBERT HELPMANN) when the beautiful Suicide (PAULINE CLAYDEN) is brought in. Dancing in the slums of ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs