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THE 2ND BATTALION DORSET REGIMENT HOOKEY TEAM

... 2ND BATTALION DORSET REGIMENT HOOKEY TEAM THE 2nd Dorsets have been quartered in Enniskillen since last November, when they relieved another regiment which has made its mark in the record of sport, viz, the Royal West Kent Regiment. On arriving at their new quarters they found a considerable difficulty, in keeping up the standard games of cricket and football owing to the scarcity of fixtures, ...

MR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT'S TROTTERS

... . AUTRAIN, Helen Leyburn, and Grace Simmons were shipped from New York by North German Lloyd's steamer Werra, and arrived at Nice via Genoa early in last spring, under care of Howard B. Phillips, Mr. Bennett's private trainer and driver. It was intended that they should take part in the Nice races shortly after their arrival, but Phillips, finding that they had not got over the sea voyage, ...

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... START FOR TIIE HALF-MILE. START FOR THE FINAL 100 YARDS. FOUR MILES WALK STURGESS BREAKING RECORD. FOUR MILES RACE. THE A. A. A. CHAMPIONSHIPS AT NORTHAMPTON. ...

THE FRENCH DUNLOP PNEUMATIC TYRE COMPANY

... . Tiie British visitor who would gauge the rapid growth of moling in France must not confine his observations to what he rriy see on any and every day in the Champs Elysees and the n merons roads leading to the suburbs of Paris he must hie o a Sunday to the Velodrome of the Seine at Levallois-Perret, 'and there take note of the absorbing interest with which the contests of the crack cyclists ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... BOUND TIIE THEATRES. A lull has occurred in theatredom, and the critic's presence has not been rendered necessary in view of the fact that no new plays have been produced. In lieu of that he is called upon to notice several new-comers, and first there is Mr. Robert Hilliard, who produced at the Court Theatre on the 15th his own dramatisation of Mr. Richard Harding Davis's charming story, Her ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1348 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

A NATIONAL CHARITY: A CHAT WITH MR. BRISTOW W ALLEN

... A NATIONAL CHARITY. A CHAT WITH MR. BRISTOW W ALLEN. One of the most remarkable and successful institutions for the, rescue of destitute children is that known as the National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children, which has its headquarters at Shaftesbury House, No. 164, Shaftesbury Avenue. The work goes on very quietly, but it is none the less successful on that account. Nevertheless, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1656 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

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... MISS DOROTHEA BAIRD AS ROSALIND. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER RAKl.ll STREET, N.W. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 15 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MR. EDWARD COMPTON AND MISS SIDNEY CROWE IN DAVY GARRICK

... MR. EDWARD COMPTON AND MISS SIDNEY CROWE IN DAVY GARRICK. Ah, Gresham! how d'ye do how d'ye do? Heavens 'tis she my dream I love you, Violet, how tenderly, how deeply, none can tell. Mr. Garrick, you are tcronyiny yourself yrievously, irreparably I PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHANCELLOR, DUBLIN. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 47 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE HONOURABLE MEMBER

... THE HONOURABLE MEMBER. Even if The Honourable Member does not show that Mr. Gattie has grown more skilled in the strange art of the dramatist than he appeared to be in The Transgressor, it proves that the qualities recognised in the play produced by Miss Olga Nethersole were not due to a mere lucky hit. I must admit, reluctantly, some feeling of disappointment, and yet perhaps it is ...

Published: Wednesday 22 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 785 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... . The Queen is back at Windsor again. The Duke of York on Thursday dined with the officers of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. The Czar is suffering from jaundice. The Emperor of Austria is sitting for the portrait of himself that he is to present to the King's Dragoon Guards, of which he is Honorary Colonel. The King of Italy has made Sir John Millais an officer of the Order of SS. Maurice ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5038 | Page: Page 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

LIFE ON BOARD A SOUTH AFRICAN LINER

... . THREADING THE NEEDLE. LADIES' EGG-AND-SPOON RACE. A COCK-FIGHT. I A SACK RACE. LADIES' POTATO- RACE. WHEELBARROW RACE. A COCK-FIGHT. SLINGING THE MONKEY. Photographs by Horace Nicholls. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 33 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A REVIVAL OF COMUS

... The occasion being the glorification of the movement for the higher education of women, so triumphantly carried on in the Ladies' College which queens it over Cheltenham, it doubtless appeared to some a trifle maladroit on the part of the authorities to have selected for per formance a play by the poet who, of all men living or dead, has done most to propagate the old-fashioned doctrine of ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 673 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Photographs