Acton Gallery

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. Date: 1938

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Daphne Strutt and Vida Cuthbert by Madame Yevonde

Double portrait of the Hon. Daphne Strutt (1911-2003), later Daphne, Lady Acton, together with her step-sister, Vida Cuthbert, later Vida Schreiber (circa 1910-2003), Former wife of 17th Baron Darcy of Knayth, and later wife of Derek Schuldham Schreiber. Pictured with matching plaits by Madame Yevonde in 1926. Date: 1926

© Yevonde Portrait Archive/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

A full-scale replica of Sputnik I

A full-scale replica of Sputnik I is viewed by Isolde Dawe of Acton, London, at the UNESCO International Geophysical Year exhibition at the Royal Geographical Societys headquarters in Kensington, London, 15 December 1958. Date: 1958

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library) / Mary Evans Picture Library

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