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ALL SUBJECTS FOR CONGRATULATION--A GOOD NEWS PAGE

... ALL SUBJECTS FOR CONGRATULATION A GOOD NEWS PAGE. MRS. JOHN KNIGHT WATERS, daughter of General Patton, of the famous Third Army which is 44 motoring on through Germany has just had the glad news that her husband Lieut. -Colonel Waters, who has been in a German P.O. W. camp since 1943, has been released. Her sons, JOHN KNIGHT (I.) and GEORGE PATTON, aged seven and four respectively, are ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 263 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GAY ROSALINDA--THE ENGLISH VERSION OF FLEDERMAUS

... GAY ROSALINDA-- THE ENGLISH VERSION OF FLEDERMAUS. For your relaxation take off that creation. Out of it you 're much more cute. My Goodness Adele (IRENE AMBRUS) helps Rosalinda (RUTH NAYLOR) to change into a neglige in order to receive her admirer, Alfred. IRENE AMBRUS as Adele, the roguish maid to Rosalinda von Eisenstein. She goes to Prince Orlovsky's party in her mistress's clothes, ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 239 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Pin=up Girl: No.25. Greta Christiansen

... (^Jln=ufi irl: CJlo. QFxCjreta (^ridiansen GRETA CHRISTIANSEN began to study music dancing and acting at the age of four and when she was twelve, learnt from a fashion model cousin how to model clothes. Three years later her parents had to face a financial crisis, and she went out to work at the Chicago Models Bureau, and after two years' steady work jumped into a film contract because Arthur ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE British Board of Film Censors, whose ways are mysterious and in scrutable, have refused a certificate to the Hungarian film called HORTOBAGY; presumably on the grounds that it brings to the screen the sort of sights more ordinarily observed in and about a farmyard; mating and breeding, and the suckling of young animals. In particular, I fancy, the Censors would be ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2366 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... WE TAKE OFF /V OUR HAT TO- THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, SIR JOHN ANDERSON, produced his second War Budget last week without making a single addition to taxation. SECOND OFFICER SEN is one of three officers of the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service recently arrived in England to study the training and administration of the British Wrens. The uniform which she wears so smartly con sists of ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 640 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

PRINCESSES OF THE HOUSE OF ORANGE: PRINCESS JULIANA AND HER DAUGHTERS

... PRINCESSES OF THE HOUSE DF ORANGE: PRINCESS JULIANA AND HER DAUGHTERS. PRINCESS BEATRIX WILHELMINA ARMGARD, eldest daughter of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands. Another portrait-study of seven- year-old PRINCESS BEATRIX WILHELMINA ARMGARD. PRINCESS IRENE EMMA ELIZABETH, second daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard. PRINCESS JULIANA, only child of Queen Wilhelmina and her youngest ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 305 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SHAW'S CLEOPATRA

... . HPHE final scene of George Bernard Shaw's Technicolor film Caesar and Cleopatra, producer Gabriel Pascal, has at last been shot at Denham the production is being dubbed, cut, edited, and we may hope to see it iu the West End by August or September. Cecil Beaton paid a visit to the sets during a session, and here arc two of the lovely photographs he took of VIVIEN LEIGH as the Ptolemaic ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 176 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Photographs 

EX-FARMER FROM MISSOURI: THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A

... would have done, (photograph -by karsh, of Ottawa.) SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN, elected Vice-President of the U.S.A. last January has automatically succeeded Franklin Delano Roosevelt as thirty-third President, and will hold office for the remainder of his term. Shortly after hearing the news, he said to newspaper correspondents 44 1 don't know whether you 're ever had a load of hay fall on you, ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 143 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AMERICA'S NEW FIRST LADY AND HER DAUGHTER

... . MRS. HARRY S. TRUMAN, formerly Miss Bess Wallace, is now America's First Lady in the Land. Our photograph of her was taken in her Washington, D.C., apartment, and shows her with MISS MARGARET TRUMAN, her only daughter. Mrs. Truman is even more ovenvhelmed than her husband at the thought of the great responsibilities which have been thrust upon her, as she has always lived in modest ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 145 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PURDAH NASHIN WIDOW WITH HER HUSBAND'S V.C

... This veiled woman NATH KAUR, whose face may never be seen by the eyes of men as she is purdah nashin, is holding the most coveted of all decorations, the VICTORIA CROSS, awarded posthumously to her husband, Jemadar (acting Subadar) Ram Sarup Singh, 1st Punjab Regiment, for his heroism in Burma on October 25. Our photograph was taken just after she had received the decoration from H.E. the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 126 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WILDE'S DORIAN GRAY FILMED

... . The handsome young Dorian Gray (HURD HATFIELD) and the cynical sybarite Lord Henry Wotton (GEORGE SANDERS). Gladys HaUward (DONNA REED), Lord Henry, the eternally youthful Dorian and the Egyptian cat-goddess. Dorian Gray wooes the lovely Sybil Vane (ANGELA LANSBURY) with strictly dishonourable intentions. Dorian, his beauty unsullied by evil passions, unveils the portrait which has recorded ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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