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The Literary Lounger: Light Reading

... MINIATURE LAWN-TENNIS COURT AT THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW MRS. HANBURY, VISCOUNT LASCELLES, H.R.H. PRINCESS MARY, AND SIR WILLIAM AND LADY NOREEN BASS. Their Majesties the King and Queen visited the Chelsea Flower ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2889 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Eighteenth Son

... By E. W. Hornung. {John Murray 75. 6d. net.) Mr. Fortune's Practice. By H. C. Bailey. {Methuen 6s. net.) I AT THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW LADY JULIET TREVOR. Photograph by C.A\] Lady Juliet Trevor is the daughter of the fourth Earl of Lonsdale, and the wife ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2828 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: ENGLISH MARIONETTES; THE LAST WARNING, AT THE COMEDY

... oblong slit, just like the mouth of a gigantic pillar-box. That is the English Marionette Theatre the Gair Wilkinson Puppet Show every day till the end of the month at three, some days also at six and half-past eight. As the neighbouring church chimes ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1597 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Lilies and Weeds

... Decadence. Decadent art is often full of flowers, but flowers whose fragrance is turned to an evil odour worse than weeds. That odour is, to the followers of this cult, itself a fragrance. Such were the Flowers of Evil of the prince and ancestor of all ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2817 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: First Acts

... some Chelsea mansions. One day a flower-girl takes his attention. She has a pathetic story to tell, and Granter listens. He feels sympathetic and inclined to help the girl. But he must first make sure that her story is true, so he visits the flower-girl ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2678 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Parallel Game

... STUDENTS OF ST. MARTIN'S ART SCHOOL READY FOR THE CHELSEA ARTS CLUB BALL LADY GODIVA AND HER ATTENDANTS. Lady Godiva will attend the Chelsea Arts Club Ball on Feb. 24 at the Albert Hall. Our photograph shows Miss Sylvia Bergen as this well- known character ...

Published: Wednesday 16 February 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2493 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: An Artless Pride in Grandeur

... WELL-KNOWN ARTIST IN HER CHELSEA ARTS BALL COSTUME MISS CUMBRAE STEWART. Miss Cumbrae Stewart is the well- known artist whose pastels roused so much admiration when they were exhibited in London some little time ago. She attended the Chelsea Arts Club Ball last ...

Published: Wednesday 02 March 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2725 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, AT THE AMBASSADORS'; LILAC-TIME-- ONCE MORE; HA! HA! AND ELIZA ..

... pattern) the twins, such as exist only in fiction the two lovers the antiquary and the one who aped Byronism the incredible Chelsea dames bent on manufacturing tem porary idols none of them were real people. I, as an old play goer, knew exactly what they ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1579 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: In Napoleon's Corsica

... could write several pages about William Cowen's book. I reproduce two of its illus trations. It is especially interesting as showing the attitude towards Corsica eighty years ago, when, as this writer was able to say, no country has been less visited than ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2022 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS

... written about the budding breast and dawning womanhood, slowly waking, of young girls. Young girls, in my experience, burst into flower suddenly, over-night almost, like magnolia blossoms, both physicallyand mentally. Then they settle down, as if retreating ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1929
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1893 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS

... written about the budding breast and dawning womanhood, slowly waking, of young girls. Young girls, in my experience, burst into flower suddenly, over-night almost, like magnolia blossoms, both physicallyand mentally. Then they settle down, as if retreating ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1929
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1893 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Maligned Aspasia

... (Jill) Lubbock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nevile Lubbock, Bassets, Farnborough, Kent, was celebrated recently. Our group shows, from left to right, standing, Mr. Ivo Lubbock (brother of the bride), the Hon. Margaret Thesiger (sister of the bridegroom) ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2939 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review