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PEOPLE AND THEIR DOINGS BY CAMERA: A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE WEEK

... . CAPTAIN THE HON. GRAHAM C. LAMPSON, Scots Guards elder son of Lord Killearn married MISS NADINE PILCHER, only daughter of Vice-Admiral Cecil H. Pilcher and Mrs. Pilcher at St. Paul's, Knighlsbridge. MISS E. HELEN HUME HENDERSON, of Martin's Hall, Stebbing, Braintree, daughter of the late Brig.-G ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 447 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HEARTBEAT HEROINE

... . GINGER ROGERS, to quote the official Hollywood announcements 44 will soon be affecting pulse-rates in the new Hakim-Wood production 44 Heartbeat released through RKO Radio, and due at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on June 7. Here she is, looking more streamlined and fascinating than ever. In 44 Heartbeat Ginger plays the part of a Parisian orphan, who becomes a pickpocket 44 for a night in ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 89 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SOMEWHERE THE SUN IS SHINING

... SOMEWHERE THE SEN IS SHINING And somewhere these two girls are enjoying every minute of it in their new very-up-to-the-minute cotton frocks. Jane (standing) is wearing a jumper suit she found at Debenham Freebody. It is made in coral canvas patterned with a triangular design which gives a Paisley effect. Her sandals cool, light and very comfortable are by Dolcis. Lisbeth (sitting) has chosen ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 107 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HERE COME THE BOYS-- JACK AND BOBBY IN TOP-HOLE FORM

... . TTERE COME THE BOYS at the Saville is a lively new musical show, with JACK HULBERT and BOBBY HOWES as the Boys, who play 44 as them selves in the witty opening scene and then adopt various disguises. The fun is topical and the revue goes with swing and gaiety. JACK HULBERT as a very odd Wren leads BOBBY HOWES atcay in 4S Wavy Navy Joe. BOBBY HOWES in 44 Wavy Navy Joe does a brilliantly ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MLLE. MARCELLE CHOISNET, for the gallantry and grit which made her France's No, 1 Glider Girl. IN 1944, after six months' intensive training in a glider, Parisian dressmaker MARCELLE CHOISNET set out to beat records. She now has four French glider records to her credit and two held hitherto by Russian women pilots. On April 22, 1945, she won the Frenchwomen's duration record by staying in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 387 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

I'VE BEEN PAINTED BY PICASSO..

... I'VE BEEN PAINTED BY PICASSO In a chic fish-hat, HERMIONE GINGOLD, the Ambassadors star of 44 Sweetest and Lowest makes Picasso's perfect model in 44 Self-portrait 44 Art is not meant to please, but to make people think hence triangular trees, and not green grass, but pink, she says and acidly complains of 44 being painted sticking half-way through a mangle. It wasn't very dignified, but I 'm ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 90 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A YANK AT CAMBRIDGE

... . MRS. JACQUELINE CHITTENDEN, third daughter of Mr. Ralph Dawson, Vice-President of the Guaranty Trust ompany of New York City, studied the classics when a student at Barnard College, University of Columbia. In 1938, having won the George Welwood Murray scholarship, she came to England, joined Newnham College took a Cambridge degree in classics in 1940. Two years later she took the Diploma in ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BOROUGH COUNCILLOR AND HEALTH AND BEAUTY CHIEF

... . LADY DAVID DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, formerly Miss Prunella Stack, is the director of the Women's League of Health and Beauty founded by her mother, the late Mrs. Bagot Stack. She is at the moment busy with the arrangements for the big Rally which the League is holding at Wembley on June 1, when over 1500 members will take part in the display. She is also a member of the Kensington Borough Council, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 232 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TO PLAY A WICKED WIDOW TO-NIGHT

... . MISS DIANA WYNYARD is due to appear at the Piccadilly Theatre to-night, May 29, as Tanis, the wicked-widow heroine of 44 Portrait in Black, the American murder 44 thriller which has had a try-out run in the provinces before coming to London. She plays opposite to Hugh Williams, and the cast also includes Ronald Squire. Our portrait of Miss Wynyard shows her 44 as herself in her London flat ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

REMARKABLE ACTING IN A MODERN TRAGEDY

... . ^[0 ROOM AT THE INN, by Joan Temple, was originally produced at the -LN Embassy, Swiss Cottage, and has now come to the Winter Garden Theatre. It is a modern tragedy set in the early days of the war when children were evacuated to safe areas and billeted hurriedly and often unsuitably. A party of girls and one boy are put in the care of Mrs. Voray, a drunken slut and virago. She is found ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 276 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FUN WITH THE GREEKS AT HAMMERSMITH

... . 44 HP HE THRACIAN HORSES, at the Lyric, Hammersmith, is a new interpretation of the story of Alcestis, the Queen who died in place of her husband, and was brought back from the underworld by the valour of that bumptious success-story Man of Action Heracles (Hercules). The author, Maurice J. Valency, tells the story with merry satirical wit, and somewhat 44 debunks Alcestis4 claim to rank as ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 214 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRISTOL NOTABLES!

... BRISTOL NOTABLES I CARY GRANT, the Bristol boy who ran away from home to join a circus and became one of Hollywood's most famous screen-stars, went back to his home-town the other day to see relations and inspect bomb damage. He 's a director of an American airline, so was able to appreciate the technical points of the new planes he saw at the Bristol Aeroplane Company's Filton factory. Here ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 159 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs