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SOCIAL LIFE in and AROUND BUENOS AIRES, the PRO GRESSIVE CAPITAL OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC: Where B.A. Society ..

... from the hot office in Buenos Aires, and the conditions are ideal for sea-bathing. Nothing so primitive as a bathing machine. One finds a complete establishment, with shower-baths and fresh-water installation to take off the sticky feeling left by sail ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 613 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS: Week by Week

... players almost helpless in a distant seaside town. A bathing machine sheltered me for a week, said Mr. Stanmore, and by a strange coincidence the next thing I did was to appear as the bathing machine man in The Gaiety Girl on tour (the part played in ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1826 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM ABROAD

... a flutter of excitement as he emerged from his bathing machine each morning on the sands below the famous Digue. Franz von Vecsey, the famous Boy Violinist goes for a dip at Ostend 1 i Watching the bathing at Ostend, from the Digue just by the Kursaal ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 896 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... brother were first introduced to the sea. Mr. Arthur Beavan has recorded the incident of the usher, ing of the boys into a bathing- machine at St. Leonards, of the compulsory dippings, and the shiver ing return of the future Sailor King and his brother to the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 May 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1038 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH THE R. A. F. in FRANCE

... likely to come upon a sentry behind an innocent-looking bush and then to start wondering why he should be guarding a tall bathing machine. A little iarther on, the visitor doubles up beneath strange flapping curtains of netting. It is now possible to raise ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1036 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN

... beach of San Sebastian the King has a bath ing-machine 011 an exceedingly elaborate scale. It is a miniature house, and it slides down to the water's edge on rails, and is pulled up again when the King has had his bath. Whether King Alfonso will be spending ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1273 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Shows

... lines and that is quite likely leaves you cold, but which if you do makes you feel hot all over. The change from the bathing machine at Brighton to the Bower of Roses although it was exactly like a scene from a Drury Lane pantomime was wonderfully done ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1187 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

PETROL VAPOUR: The Very Devil

... danger, so that even on a well-sprung car you are bumped and buffeted about as badly as was the old lady who hired a bathing machine at the wrong end of the beach. And to carry out the parallel, the tram drivers arc so ballv rude to you As for motor-cyclists ...

Published: Wednesday 15 June 1921
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1241 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

Letter From Florida

... district other than Briny Breezes Trailer Camp, the biggest congregation of motor gipsies in the U.S.A., and, of course, the bathing machine imported from Trouville by Mr. Harvey S. Ladew, nephew of the late Berry Wall, who ornamented Trouville before Deauville ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1216 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Petrol Vapour: The Doings

... cornfield, now reverberates to the thump of gigantic presses, and supports a building that, making Olympia seem like a bathing machine by com parison, is alive with opera tives hurrying and striving under the brutal light of innumerable mercury-vapour lamps ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1927
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1434 | Page: 76 | Tags: Photographs 

The Crisis World: PORT SAID, 1932: A FIFTH LETTER FROM ALAN PRYCE-JONES, Author of Spring Journey.; MY DEAR PATRICK

... stern phalanx of bathing- machines coupled, however, with a vigor ous cleaning up during the war has made Port Said respectable. But I should be inclined to say that the chief thing which keeps Port Said respectable is the bathing- machines. If I wanted a ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1250 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

Criticisms in Cameo

... brigade, and when Arthur Roberts performed the exquisitely graceful mimomonologue of his, 44 My Lady undresses in the bathing machine and trips into silver sea, there rang countless cries of 44 Good old Arthur through the hall. By gad, there is life in ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1529 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs