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JOSEPH III., THE NEW CHEF AT THE SAVOY

... reigned supreme. Yet the name of the cook; like that of the villain who fired the Great Library, or the author of the Whitechapel murders, remains unknown. So, if M. Joseph had been the dinner director of that monarch well, the Savoy Hotel dinners would ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1362 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

SIMPLES AND GENTLES OF MONKEY WORLD

... gone to the land of cakes for his headgear. His better-half has quite a cosmopolitan taste, but, on the whole, prefers Whitechapel. Their faces are certainly more philosophic than pleasant, and those who know the gentleman chimpanzee familiarly have no ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 448 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

CONCERNING HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

... records that your first appearance on the stage as a professional actor was made at the old Garrick Theatre in Leman- street, Whitechapel, in a musical farce called A Cruise to China, an adaptation of Le Voyage on Chine, in which you represented an eccentric ...

SMALL TALK

... things are by 110 means so bad as, at a first glance, they appear.- What if one may not move 011 the Italian (or disguised Whitechapel) torturer unless there is illness in the house A few tunes played on a rampant piano-organ will surely supply the necessary ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6025 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... accessory before the fact in the murder of one of his fellows unfortunately for himself, he agreed to connive at a prisoner's escape, by handing him in a parcel from friends outside containing the weapon with which a murder was ultimately committed. Now ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8892 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... that it has arrived and will be placed at rest by the time these lines appear. COLONNADE BUILDINGS, WHERE MR. WOOLF JOEL WAS MURDERED. Photo by Stanley Richards, Johannesburg. THE AMERICAN CRISIS. Tins map sbows tho torritory that would bo affected by uu ...

Published: Wednesday 20 April 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8091 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... suffering from lead-paralysis. The fatal lead glaze used for coating pottery-ware did the mischief. This glaze is a most murderous agency. Within the last few months it has caused four deaths, and the cases of total or partial blindness that have come ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9683 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs