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The Sunlit Caribbean

... The Sunlit Caribbean. By Alec Waugh. acs os. oa.) A model travel book. It is pleasant to see what a practised and brilliant writer can do with material which might have become a mere geography lesson. -There are two true stories inset which would have ...

Published: Wednesday 15 September 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 23 | 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 

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 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... defiance of grammar rules. You don't need to be a purist to shudder at him, and I advise the sen sitive to begin this volume, Caribbean Nights, at Chapter Two. Otherwise they might not read on and that would be a pity, for he 's worth reading. He spent a ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2238 | Page: 34 | 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 

HOME IS TO-MORROW

... for Unuto it is not his fault that the Corabanian plan falters, or that his wife, who is more of Curzon Street than the Caribbean, should turn to a tough and deplorable American suitor. Lady Fortrose might well say of Corabana as Masefield of the port ...

Published: Wednesday 24 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 712 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

At the Sign of the Cinema

... scarcely seemed to warrant her virtuous indignation. Smuggled out of the town by her naval sweetheart, she is landed on a Caribbean island where a bunch of wanted men lies doggo. The rest of the picture depicts the lonely girl, sullen, bored to the extent ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1066 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... the hero in the classic 'twixt love and duty quandary. Trouble over the customs at Bianca somewhere, one sur mises, on the Caribbean seaboard leads to revolution, heralded by a knife aimed at the genial President, who finds refuge, together with a group ...

Published: Wednesday 28 April 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1141 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... drawings of the Caribbean Islands at Walkers Galleries. KINGSTON MARKET is one of the most colourful and interesting places in Jamaica. This is BRYAN DE GRINEAU'S impression of it. The private view of his show of drawings of the Caribbean Islands at Walker's ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2762 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... Ravine, in the Botanic Garden. They both exemplified the Victorian romanticism which had come to seem the main appeal of the Caribbean. Of the nine English visitors whose experiences in the West Indies Mr. Pope-Hennessy retells, two lived in the sixteenth ...

Published: Wednesday 03 November 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1776 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... concerned with anything but high adventure, with the attempts of the Governor of Jamaica to restore law and order in the Caribbean. There is no lack of sword- play, fisticuffs, drinking, shooting and swashbuckling in the film, and even a glimpse of a Spanish ...

Published: Wednesday 05 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1984 | Page: 9 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: I. THE STAG, AT THE GLOBE; THE NEW MOON, AT DRURY LANE

... the New Moon, she joins the emigrants who, in the same ship, will seek fresh woods and pastures new in a new colony in the Caribbean Sea. When we reach that island and witness the happenings under the leadership of the ex-bondman, things become, perhaps ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1714 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review