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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 

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 

SHIRTS AND SHOES

... Back Buttoning: distinguishes this beautifully tailored blouse. It is of crepe in white and pastel shades. £6 3s. From Dickins and Jones. Wool Fibre. which reduces coupon value from six to four, makes 'this cunningly striped, long-sleeved shirt. £4 7s. 8d. From Simpson's. Scalloping: giving a yoke effect softens the line of this tailored shirt buttoning high to the throat. £3 18s. I Id. From ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 135 | Page: Page 26 | 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 

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 

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