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AT THE PICTURES: A Jolly Film

... For Murder (Gaumont). Thirst let us talk a little about murderers. Some murderers are charming people. Nobody ever met Dr. Crippen who was not pleased by his modest demeanour and general affability. He had good taste in old silver, and I remember Harold ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1210 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

The Sketch-Book

... Liverpool who found her destiny in the Chamber of Horrors. One might almost say that they were introduced to each other by Dr. Crippen. But who is there among us who can watch a filmy wisp of cloud coquetting with the sun and not feel errant fancies of our ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1600 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

The Old Bailey: The Central Criminal Court Is One Of The Largest And Most Palatial Courts Of Justice In The World

... Alverstone presided over this first Old Bailey murder trial, and three years later he also tried and sentenced to death Dr. Crippen. Rayner has been followed in the dock of Old Bailey's famous Court No. 1 by many prisoners whose names have become house ...

Published: Tuesday 01 August 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2756 | Page: 70 | Tags: Photographs 

TALK AROUND THE TOWN: Being the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe

... been worried. I am told that the pills which were given to the D-Day men contained a form of hyoscine (the drug with which Dr. Crippen fixed-up his dear wife), and this is praised by Mr. John Fisher in his excellent How to Sail. This book makes one want to ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1711 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

THE OLD LADY OF BAKER STREET

... Churchill appears in his Garter robes Burke and II are (above) the Edin burgh bodysn a tellers of the 1820s The waxen visage of Dr. Crippen whose name still rings ominously on the ear basin, a wall of death, a smog mass-protector, a research centre for cultivating ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2422 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... Saturday.) MOTOR RACING International Trophy Race, Silver- stone, 6 May. FIRST NIGHTS Strand Theatre. Jtelle or The Ballad of Dr. Crippen, 4 May. St. Martin's Theatre. Time Yellow Hoses, 11 May. THEATRE From reviezvs by Anthony Cookman. For this week's see page ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1961
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 612 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... Classic. With: X the Un known (X) 53 The Raven (X). Boris Karloff. Vincent Price. From Sun: Praed Street Classic. With: Dr Crippen (X) 54 Revenge of Frankenstein (X). Peter Cushing. From Sun: Edmon ton Granada. With: Two Faces of Dr Jekyll (X) mUSICHLS ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2166 | Page: 49 | Tags: Photographs