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WEDDINGS, JOURNEYS AND ENTERTAINMENTS HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE BY CAMERA

... . Liberation ceremonies on the Dalmatian island of Vis MARSHAL TITO is standing on the right tchile a Yugoslav commander addresses his troops. Right: MRS. MARSIKA LAN- I CASTER is the only woman I who knew the secret of the I prefabricated harbours which 1 enabled us to invade Normandy. For over a year she worked on scale cardboard models for the job. She is an artist, the wife of an officer. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 457 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HIGH-DE-HIGH AND HIGHER: PARIS HATS AND HAIR AND THE PARIS SHOES

... HIGH-DE-HIGH AND HIGHER: PARIS HATS AND HAIR. AND THE PARIS SHOES. Liberation fashions in Paris may well make you gasp and they re meant to, for Paris has set out to show the ivorld that she can make models out of nothing, and that soaring extravagance can be achieved with bits and pieces, and, in fact, out of whatever the milliner can lay her hands on in a time of general shortage. Height, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 314 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: BELITA, for being an almost triphibian ..., under water, on ice, and in air

... WE TAKE OFF DUR HAT TO- BELITA, for kein5 an almost U tripliitian ancer, under water, on ice, and in air. In her classic tutu BELITA limbers up on the brink of the pool. The water shimmers like champagne in the sunlight as the dancer leaps. Holding her breath she submerges, gracefully sinking to the floor of the pool, still smiling. Over the rock she vaults against heavy water-pressure, as ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 297 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- DR. C. K. ALLEN, M.C., M.A., D.C.L., J.P., was recently awarded the Swiney Prize by the Royal Society of Arts for his work 44 Law in the Making. The President, Dr. E. F. Armstrong, is seen presenting it to him. The prize is a cup with a cheque in it. Dr. Allen is Oxford Secretary to Rhodes Trustees and Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford. He won his M.C. in the last war. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 449 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

ROYAL AND OFFICIAL OCCASIONS, WEDDINGS ENGAGEMENTS AND DISTINGUISHED PERSONALITIES

... ROYAL AND OFFICIAL OCCASIONS, WEDDINGf Engagements and distinguished personalities. MASTER GLUBB, son of Glubb Pasha, Commandant of the Arab Legion, wearing uniform and Arab head-dress, was presented to F.-M. VISCOUNT GORT, V.C., new High Commissioner and C.-in-C., Palestine and Transjordan, on his arrival in Jerusalem. WING COMMANDER J. DE L. WOOLDRIDGE, D.S.O., D.F.C. and B. who set up a ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 502 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT ... ... TO DO WITH THE GERMANS

... THE MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT W JGHT TO DO WITH THE GERMANS. LORD VANSITTART, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., M.V.O., posed beneath a portrait of his ancestor, Arthur Vansittart (1691-1760). nTr-^- vamrv u uuBvnwHKa^ In a sheltered corner of the garden at Denhnm Place. The bust is an ancient Roman work. By the River Misbourne LORD and LADY VAN SITTART with their Alsa tian, Peter. In the drawing-room, in ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 446 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PARENTS OF THE TALLEST V.C

... MR. and MRS. ARCHIBALD AULDJO JAMIESON, parents of Captain David Jamieson, V.C. wave to their elder daughter, MRS. DINAH TOLLEMACHE, as she starts off for a trip in the governess cart with her sons, TIMOTHY and NICHOLAS. A quiet afternoon at Drove House MRS. JAMIESON is engaged with a petit point card-table cover and her daughter and husband arc reading. MR. AND MRS. ARCHIBALD AULDJO JAMIESON ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TROLLOPE CHARACTERS ON THE STAGE

... . The Bishop (WALTER PIERS) listens appalled when Mr. Crawley, perpetual curate of Hogglestock (FELIX AYLMER), goaded beyond endurance, turns on the redoubtable Mrs. Proudie (WINIFRED OUGHTON). Mrs. Grantley (JOAN HENLEY) meekly hears the Archdeacon (MILTON ROSMER) threaten to disinherit their son Henry (DENNIS PRICE) if h( continues to court Grace Crawley. JOAN HENLEY as Mrs. Grant- ley, wife ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 242 | Page: Page 18 | 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