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MOTLEY NOTES: Exit 1919

... ft MOTLEY NOTES rl i j ti r i 1 n i i ri t if' mi Q m_°u ii -i INVEST ME m ty Cr'^E ME lmyl TO SPEAK. ny ir INO.. Br KEBLE HOWARD f Chicot Exit 1919. Have you any regrets for the passing of 1919, friend the reader? Would you, in all honesty. like to live it over again? Not, of course, certain weeks of it, or even certain months of it, but the whole of it? I am sure you would not. The first ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1044 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE SHAVIAN 'EIGHTIES: ANTI-ROMANTIC COMEDY

... THE SHAVIAN 'EIGHTIES ANTI ROMANTIC COMEDY. Arms and the Man, at the Duke of York's, is played by a care fully selected company, and if it is dated very plainly, it has been ingeniously turned into a costume play by the splendid scenery and charming looped-up dresses of the 'eighties, designed by Mr. Hugo Rumbold. Mr. Robert Loraine gets every ounce of value out of the Shavian quips and ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 158 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE COURT OF LUNEVILLE: THE AMBASSADORS SUCCESS

... THE COURT OF LUNEVILLE THE AMBASSADORS SUCCESS. The Court lady shepherdess makes her appearance in Sylvia's Lovers, the new and highly successful light opera by Bernard Rolt, with libretto by Cosmo Gordon Lennox, which Mr. Nigel Playfair recently produced at the Ambassadors'. The scene is laid at the Court of Luneville in 1725 -or thereabouts and the Farmyard in the Chinese Pavilion is an ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ENDOWED WITH PENTECOSTAL GIFTS: A SOCIETY LINGUIST

... ENDOWED WITH PENTECOSTAL GIFTS A SOCIETY LINGUIST. Miss Gladys Jessel is the eldest of Colonel Sir Herbert Merton Jessel's three daughters. She is very musical, and has inherited a great talent for languages from her Italian grandmother. Sir Herbert Jessel is the first Baronet, and is the Member for St. Pancras (South). He is a C.M.G., and did important work during the war in the Remount ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 82 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IN PARIS WITH A NEW PARTNER: THE INCOMPARABLE ANNA

... . IN THE BACCHANALE MME. ANNA PAVLOVA. Mme. Anna Pavlova will always be regarded as the premier Russian dancer, and London will not easily forget the first vision of her other worldly grace in the Pavlova-Mordkin season. She is nov back in Europe, and had a wonderful reception at her first appearance in Paris. where she is described as dancing as though her body were a feather and the music ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Wilson & Gill

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Published: Wednesday 31 December 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 135 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

WOLSELEY

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Published: Wednesday 31 December 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 111 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWNS · CORONETS · COVRTIERS

... J.CROWN5 CORONET5 COVRTIERS =^&ir .V* r\r' LADY CLONMELL, as a Slade student, belongs to an Art School that is more than satisfied with its war record. Orpen, John, and McEvoy (Majors all now!) once wore the uniform of the student there-- wild wisps of neck-tie, nondescript hats, and tangled hair. In the life class, under Frederick Brown, they were contemporaries, and astonished their ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1033 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE FANCIFUL TOUCH IN SCENERY: AN INCENSE DANCE

... . I. THE FRUITFUL VINE AS A DECORATIVE MOTIF AN INCENSE DANCE BY MISS RUTH ST. DENIS. 2. A CACTUS DESIGN MISS RUTH ST. DENIS AS THE SPIRIT OF THE INCENSE IN A FANCIFUL SETTING. In the designing of scenery for any theatrical purpose that is at all fantastic in character, the tendency is always nowadays to break away from conventional realism in scenery and decoration. Here we give two ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 111 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PHOSFERINE

... CORPORAL H. G. LEVETT, Drums, 12th East Surrey Reg., B.E.F. I feel it my duty to write and thank you for the way in which your wonderful Phosferine Tablets have acted with me for Indigestion and Neuralgia. I was with my Regiment, from Mons till the Somme Push, 1916; I was then sent home with Shell Shock from Delville Wood. I was in hospital three months, and even eating was great pain to me, ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 366 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... SAVED FROM THE LUSITANIA MISS RITA TOLIVET. THE WELL-KNOWN ACTRESS. _ Photograph by Foulsham and Banfwld, Ltd. Among the survivors of the Lusitania, which was sunk in such dastardly fashion by a torpedo from a German submarine, is Miss Rita Jolivet, the well-known actress, who was a first-class passenger aboard the ill-fated liner. Miss Jolivet (who, of course, is very familiar to London ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 183 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs