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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 WORLD OF BOOKS: Four Londoners on a Caribbean Island Provide the Theme for Rose Macaulay's I Would be ..

... The World of Books Four Londoners on a Caribbean Is /and Provide the Theme jor Rose Macaulay s 1 IPou Id be Private Richard Chu rch humiliates the Ti^ide Humanity of Charles Pickens Reviewed By VERNON FANE MISS Rose Macaulay has one of those supreme ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1734 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Through Unknown Nicaragua

... nca is indeed unknown had it een better known, Mr. Mervyn G. Palmer surely would never have attempted to cross it from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean ,vith only £20 as his whole fortune. As a result of this trip many ani tals, etc., hitherto unknown ...

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 

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 

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 Theatre: Home Is To-morrow (Cambridge)

... our politics. I can't imagine the piece making converts. Can Washington and London afford to let an island in the South Caribbean proved to be rich in deposits vital to atomic development continue to be the scene of a significant social experiment? On ...

Published: Wednesday 24 November 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 795 | Page: 10 | Tags: Review 

MEADS AND METHEGLINS

... attack upon Britain's West Indian stewardship, but a moderately entertaining account of the wanderings of Mr. Brown in the Caribbean, of his ship board companions and experiences. He touches only upon the fringe of Jamaican life, and at the finish the reader ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

MALTA'S ATTACKING ROLE: Sir Hugh Lloyd's Enthralling Narrative

... deserves a stiff cover. Katherine Dunham, the coloured ballet star, was in London in the autumn of 1948, when she appeared in Caribbean Rhapsody, and, believe it or not, gave a lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. In KATHERINE DUNHAM HER DANCERS ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review