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THREE OF A CRAFT

... THREE OF A -CRAF. rhe lure of writing palls before versatile MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S favourite pastime. Paint-box tubes, brushes travel with him wherever he goes, and this pit-lure shows him recording a view from one of the windows of the Miami Beach Club, Florida, during his Victory vacation. High priority subject with Mr. Churchill is landscape when in Italy last year he and Field-Marshal ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PICTORIAL PAGES FROM A LONDONER'S DIARY

... , PAMELA MAY will alternate with Margot Fonteyn in the exacting role of Princess Aurora in the revival of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Princess with which Covent Garden Opera House will reopen on February 20. The first night is to be honoured by the presence of the King and Queen. MRS. ARTHUR SEROCOLD, daughter of Mr. Justice and Lady Cohen, is to marry the Hon. Peter Samuel, M.C., second son of ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 204 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ANN TODD AS AN EDWARDIAN MUSICAL COMEDY STAR GAIETY GEORGE, NEW FILM OF GREAT SHOWMANSHIP

... ANN TODD AS AN EDWARDIAN MUSICAL COMEDY STAR: jfcAIETY GEORGE, NEW FILM OF GREAT SHOWMANSHIP. N.B, A Coloured plate is inserted in this issue 44 AIETY GEORGE, Warner Brothers' new picture just VJT completed at Denham, stars Ann Todd as an Edwardian musical comedy leading lady. The story is based on the life and fortunes of that famous theatrical personality, George Edwardes, who reigned ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 373 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

QUITE A FEATHER IN HER CAP!

... MADAME MARTA LEGUIZAMON-PONDAL is the wife of the new Argentine Ambassador to Canada. Her gift for designing her own hats and dresses is quite a feather in her cap, and the all-ostrich frond model she wears in this portrait-study is one of her most brilliant inspirations. She is tall and slim, with dark honey-coloured hair, and her wonderful wardrobe has set all Ottawa femininity agog with ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 86 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MME. MARTA LEGUIZAMON- PONDAL, for makins Herself HisH Hat but charming too. EVERY hat that she wears on this page, and each dress, was designed by MME. MARTA LEGUIZAMON-PONDAL herself, besides the ostrich-feather creation on our front page. The wife of the Argentine Ambassador to Canada, like most women of the Latin- American countries, is very chic, but in her case it ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 210 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WIFE OF THE MAN AT THE HELM IN FRANCE

... . MME. FELIX GOUIN is the wife of the mail who has courageously taken the helm in France in an attempt to steer that distracted country into peaceful economic waters, to fight the Black Market and get some kind of order into the State generally. A week after General de Gaulle's resignation it was announced that M. Felix Gouin (Socialist), formerly President of the Assembly, had succeeded in ...

A RAJPUT CHIEF AND HIS WIFE: THEIR HIGHNESSES OF JAIPUR

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. H.H. SARAMAD-I-RAJAHI, MAHARAJA OF JAIPUR, was born in August 1911 succeeded his father in 1922, and assumed full ruling powers in 1931. lie was educated at the Mayo College Lahore, and underwent a course of training at the Royal Military College, Woolwich. This Rajput Chief is a very fine polo player; in 1933 he brought his team over to England and set up a ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 169 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW ZEALAND'S HERO AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL-DESIGNATE

... NEW ZEALAND'S HERO AND GOVERNOR GENERAL DESIGNATE. PHOTOGRAPHS HY. I.ENARE. LIEUT. -GENERAL SIR BERNARD FREYBERG, V.C., K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O. and three Bars, Governor-General-Designate of New Zealand, posed with LADY FREYBERG, O.B.E., for these new portraits taken in their London house. When his appointment as Governor-General was announced, the Neiv Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, spoke ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FRANÇOISE ROSAY AS FOUR WOMEN IN ONE FILM

... FRANCOISE ROSAY AS FOUR WOMEN IN ONE FILM. A WOMAN DISAPPEARED, new Jacques Feyder film made in Switzerland during the war, was due for its gala premiere last night, February 5, at the Academy in aid of the Save the Children Fund. Fran ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 217 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

INSIDE STORY

... Inside STORK HOUSECOAT (photographed above) of light-weight wool in emerald, victory blue, brave red, £8 18s. Harrods. NIGHTDRESS (sketched far left) on Empire lines, of pure silk crepe de Chine, £21 4s. 8d. Debenham and Freebody. NEGLIGE of white lawn with frills round the neck, sleeves and hem-- lovely for a young girl's trousseau-- £14 2s. 9d. Fortnum and Mason. CAMI-KNICKERS of pink ...

INCLUDING WEDDINGS AND NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS

... . MISS CAROL LYNNE, who is to play the lead in C. B. I Cochran s forthcoming show 44 Big Ben opening I Manchester April 17, married MR. BERNARD I DELFONT, the well-known impresario, at Caxton Ilall Register Office. They had a swell three-tier cake. The marriage of MISS VALERIE ANN DOREEN VLASTO to Lieut. Donald John Ross, Scots Guards, only son of the late Mr. Andrew Ross, ivas fixed for ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 209 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WIT, GRACE AND GAIETY OF FINE FEATHERS

... WIT, GRACE AND GAIETY PF FINE FEATHERS. T7INE FEATHERS at the Prince o( r Wales Theatre is a gay revue presented by Tom Arnold and starring Jack Buchanan, the dynamic Ethel Rcvne and Douglas Wakefield. Everything g0CJ intk ^ace. anc* 8w'ng there are lovely nes' and Mr. Jack Buchanan to a the vanished elegance of 44 all that er went with evening dress. The show devised and staged by Robert ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 308 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs