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NOTABLE MARRIAGES AND OFFICIAL PARTY

... . I WING-COMMANDER C. L. SINCLAIR danced I with MME. HUANG, wife of the Chinese I Air Attach Lieut. -Colonel Tang Pao- I Huang at the Government Reception at I Seaford House, to meet representatives of the Allied Air Forces. MRS. CLEMENT ATTLEE, wife of the Prime Minister, had some conversation with MME. WELLINGTON K00, wife of H.E. the Chinese Ambassador, at the Seaford House party. The Air ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 269 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET (Odeon, Leicester Square) reminds me of those highly effective spy-stories of Bernard Newman's. By keeping the details factual and their combination free and fanciful, it gives to a purely fictional melodrama the effect of an urgent and authentic document. The film has been made by Louis de Rochemont, veteran producer of 44 The March of Time. It ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1431 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... PEACE CHRISTMAS PANTO.: CINDERELLA AT THE ADELPHI. London for its first post-war Christmas has only two pantomimes 44 CINDERELLA, at the Adelphiy and 44 Aladdin at the Cambridge. 44 Cinderella, presented by j Jack Hylton has Bud Flanagan as producer and chief comedian, and Jean Adrienne and Lois Green as Principal Boy and Girl. The production is gay, j charming and merry, full of good fun ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Debenham & Freebody

... Debenham Freebod Debenham Freebodv ofWIOMOKE ST.. LONDON. W.I A lovely Scarf of Natural Russian Sable ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 15 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

TELEVISION, 1946

... . T Tiptoe atop the world's higfiest skyscraper the Empire Stqte Building, a BALLET DANCER performs before the new television transmitter erected there, 1250 ft. above the New York streets. She is making one of the first of a series of full-fledged field tests in the metropolitan area before this powerful transmitter, which is designed to study problems involved in the employment of higher ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 85 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PARTIES IN LONDON, PARIS AND MOSCOW, WEDDINGS

... , The marriage of MR. DAVID MICHAEL HODGES, son of Admiral Sir Michael and Lady Hodges, to MISS KATHLEEN MARION COLVILLE, daughter of the late Mr. G. S. E. Colville and of Mrs. Corbett Thompson, took place at St. Peter's, Vere Street. MARSHAL OF THE R.A.F. SIR ARTHUR TEDDER (raised to the peerage in the New Year's Honours List), DR. S. L. SIMPSON, REAR-ADMIRAL R. K. DICKSON and MAJOR A. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 240 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ENGAGEMENT, PRIVATE VIEW, AMATEUR OPERA AND SURVEY FLIGHT

... . MISS E. C. BATHER (formerly Group Officer W.A.A.F.) Scotland Yard's first Chief Inspector of Women Police, chatted with CANON SPENCER LEESON, Headmaster of Winchester, at the Royal Hampshire Hospital Ball. I THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE was recently produced for a run of four performances by the I West Wickham Amateur Operatic Society at the Lecture Hall, West Wickham. The Pirate King (MR. CYRIL ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 209 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MEN WHO MAKE THE STARS: FILM PUNDITS IN THEIR OFFICES

... THE MEN WHO MAKE THE STARS: I FILM PUNDITS IN THEIR OFFICES. PRESTON STURGES directs the stories he writes and writes the pictures he directs. He fought in the 1914-18 war and then succeeded as playwright and actor, and with films. He went to Hollywood in 1932. Darryl F. Zanuck is Vice-President in charge of production for 20th Century-Fox. He was the first producer to win the Irving G. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 256 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ACTRESS-AUTHOR; SATIRIC GALVANIC HERMIONE AT HOME

... ACTRESS-AUTHOR SATIRIC GALVANIC HERMIONE AT HOME. Right Looking quite neo- Georgion Hermione sits thought fully under a portrait of a Victorian child. v e Deanna Durbin she can't stop singing. Or it might be a morning yawn. Mote the heavily-fringed draperies behind the bed, the spotted wall-paper, the elaborate chiffon nightie. She has a Victorian background. Looped tartan curtains surmount ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 250 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Pin=up Girl: no.43. Dusty Anderson

... ^Jrn up Qirl: Qlo.43 Q)usty c0-jrulerson. DUSTY ANDERSON, affectionately known as the screen tonic from Toledo is a 5-ft.-8-in.-tall blue-eyed brunette with an exquisitely-distributed 118 lb. of weight. She was a Conover Girl, one of New York's top models and had a virtual monopoly of swim-suit posing. Her work in Cover Girl, Columbia Pictures' musicale, won her a term contract and she played ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 111 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 228 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 09 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 51 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs