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Miss Sketch keeps a Diary - First Night of Le Bonheur

Page from The Sketch reporting on the first night of the Charles Boyer film, Le Bonheur at the Curzon cinema. Guests include Mr and Mrs Anthony Acton, Sir Michael and Lady Pamela Berry (nee Smith), Lady Mairi Stewart, Viscount Errington, Virginia Gilliat, Lady Elizabeth Paget and Herr von Hoffmanstahl. The final picture, bottom right, shows Noel Coward (far right) with MPs. Mr J. P. L. Thomas, Robert Boothby and Ronald Cartland. Bob Boothby would later become a prominent figure in trying to decriminalise homosexuality

Picture No
13140280
Media ID
46127947
Size
6340px x 8556px (7.0MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Page from The Sketch', 16 November 1938, page 310
Date
1938

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