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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 

STILL IN PARIS, STILL MODERN: 63-YEAR-OLD PICASSO

... . 1 BLO PICASSO, born in 1881, and still going strong as a modernist painter and sulptor, creates a new form, with the help of a bicycle seat and handle-bars. KASBEK, the artist's Afghan hound, enjoying a patch of sunshine on the studio floor. He is posed in front of some of Picasso's Cubist still-life groups. In the downstairs studio, where he teorks on his sculpture and keeps his collection ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 231 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DO ... ... OF YOU ... MEMBER ... ... LIKE THIS? ... BACK TO 1906 BEFORE TWO WORLD ... ..

... DO A MY OF YOU Rf MEMBER LON DON LIKE THIS? FLASH-B \CK TO 1906-1 BEFORE TWO 1 VORLD W iRS With music-stands set up on the edge of the pavement a GERMAN BAND settles doxcn to give a street concert in a world unblessed by the B.B.C. Taking a HANSOM outside the Law Courts two men in conventional toppers and morning coats leap into the fastest type of conveyance then on the London streets. The ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 442 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Pin=up Girl: no12. Mary Martin

... cO!n=up cjir/: Ylo./2. QfYjariy Qff{arii7L MARY MARTIN, singing star of the screen and stage, planned to be a dancer before she ever thought of becomtng a vocalist. She 's red-headed, would like to be a blonde and photographs brunette. She made the song My Heart Belongs to Daddy famous all over the world and is one of the top-notchers among Paramount stars, but had to go the long way round to ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 96 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS Black and Gold

... V Photographs by Dormer Cole, Perfect for a special occasion is this black crepe knee-length dinner frock from Fortnum and Mason, which is typical of their varied collection. The three-quarter sleeves are finished with gold and silver lacquer the skirt fullness gathered ato centre folds. Another example of the occasion frocks at Fortnum and Mason is on the right. The bertha and short sleeves ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 94 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GIELGUD'S HAMLET

... . PHOTOGRAPH DY CECIL BEATON. To his neu production of 44 Hamlet at the Hay market, JOHN GIELGUD makes a fresh approach, exciting, considerably more mature, and bringing to the part a mind of restless brilliance. Here Claudius (LESLIE BANKS) is asking, 44 How is it that the clouds still hang on you Hamlet 44 Not so, my lord, I am too much in the sun. Other photographs of the production appear ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 77 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PIN-UP GIRL FOR THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN

... . MRS. CLARE BOOTH LUCE, playwright author and politician is a lady who does not love this country very dearly. She is the Congress Member for Connecticut and has been described as the 44 pin-up girl for the Republican campaign. She has been fiercely opposing the election of Franklin D Roosevelt for another term as President is credited with being the first to call him an Isolationist said ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs