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ROUND THE THEATRES

... start ing from and returning to Southampton, including New York, Florida Coast, rampico, Vera Cruz, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Caribbean Islands, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Falkland Islands, Magellan Straits, Smith's Sound, Valparaiso, Juan. Fernandez ...

A NATURALIST IN DESERT ISLANDS

... vegetable life of some kind. And in comparison with the worst off of these beginners in development the remote places in the Caribbean which the author had the opportunity of visiting during a yachting cruise with Sir Frederic Johnstone, are comparatively ...

Sandy Married

... Hannyside, was of the ilk who renounced cigarettes that their value might benefit widows and orphans of reformed men in the Caribbean Islands he was a Greater Bethelite. Araminta, the niece, was an ascetic High Church member two people with only one link ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

AT THE SIGN OF THE CINEMA: DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS

... and yet I- like her. The veteran square-rigger Charles W. Morgan, built in New Bradford in 1842, whose activities in the Caribbean Sea form the crux of the film, is a very gallant vessel, carrying her bulging canvas beautifully despite her eighty -odd ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 102 | Tags: Review 

THE SHAME DANCE. BY WILBUR DANIEL STEELE. (Fisher Unwin; 7s. 6d.)

... curious ceremony called the shame dance. But Mr. Steele has given us a collection of stories about the South Seas, the Caribbeans, and North Africa. The title story tells how an idle fellow, Signet, a get-rich-quick-without- working skunk, proposes to ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Boy in the Bush

... Central America, which she shared with Mr. F. A. Mitchell Hedges. She had all kinds of exciting experiences, especially in the Caribbean Sea among the San Bias Indians, and the Chucunaque. Photograph by Vandyk. Continued. But I love you,' he said thickly, with ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2646 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: John Masefield

... There are several Santa Barbaras, and this is the Santa Barbara in the department of Honduras, bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea. Santa Barbara, writes Mr. Masefield, setting out his scene, lies far to leeward, i with a coast facing to the north ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2543 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Diversity of Creatures

... rs. One day it is sea-lions, the next an escaping tiger, the next an aggressive condor, the next a giant octopus in the Caribbean. Mr. Delmont's life has not lacked incident, nor have the lives of the actors in his films. Fatalities are not uncommon, ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2759 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY LIST: Some of the New Season's Books

... ideas of early civilisation in Central America, and, incidentally, has filled in his time with fishing for manatee off the Caribbean coast. He gives some good photographs ot the results ol ms varied activities, and tells a good though rather lengthy tale ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1095 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS: Gauginizing the artist in fiction--The cult of the bar sinister--Shanklin of the Foreign ..

... Grandt, a newspaper man, is more concerned with copy than with sunken treasure; and his expedition in search of it off a Caribbean island is more of a stunt than a hunt. He collects a movie operator (film rights), a novelist (serial rights), and a Don ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1927
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1786 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

REVIEWS: SHORTER NOTICES OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

... -Johnston. Illustrated in colour by Eva Wilkin. (Philip Allan. 10s. 6d. net.) This is a series of thirteen short stories of the Caribbean peoples, over which the author rules in his capacity of Admi nistrator of St. Kitts. Already known as a scientific writer ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1057 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review