... the Indian Rope Trick, in which the lady is hoisted in mid-air and disappears in full view of the audience, while the bathing machine falls to the ground ...

... semi-marine village or hamlet of Southend and an amusing sidelight on Wey mouth, with George III crack ing lewd jokes in a bathing- machine. Behind the footlights Mrs. Siddons was braving the necessities of retirement in the face of the challenge of new stars ...

... the bathing- machine praised for its beauty but no doubt it often is. And, as a matter of fact, in Royal Yachts, v °ht one t^ie most sumptuously produced volumes Yachts. jjas ever been my pleasure to review, there is a picture of a bathing-machine the ...

... Belgians, Baths an A Books By SYLVIA LYON THERE is something charmingly naive in the expansive word ing of Continental pub licity: COME TO BEL GIUM, BELGIUM INVITES YOU. I read with emotion this large-handed and largely printed evidence of hospitality ...

... with a pessimistic sentry (who is Mr. Nelson Keys), and he is at the most startling when he displays his limbs by the bathing machines at Brighton. He gives (literally) body and substance to the comic episodes, and would be a valuable asset in any entertain ...

... reconcile his conscience when he finds him self involved in the panic atten dant upon the fall of France. Being bombed and machine- gunned up and down the refugee- blocked roads of France, he meets an old friend of his gun-running days. Chapman, who turns ...

... was as hard on the sensibilities of its rulers as it was on the lives of many of its subjects. The Hapsburg machine, like the totalitarian machine, demanded an excessive price from everyone. Miss Sprigge treats this from Elizabeth's point of view, and follows ...

... Blockade at the London Pavilion, substitutes the rattle of wisecracks for the grim stutter of machine- guns. For that matter, Mr. Miller is something of a human machine-gun, raking all and sundry with his rapid verbal fire, and extricating himself and his pal ...

... of paper without it sounding like machine-gun fire, or drop ice into a glass with out making a noise like the ice-floes on Hudson River breaking up after the winter. In Remous there is a scene in a private swimming bath which in the average British or American ...

... The biplane is based on the Farman and Sommer machines, and has many interesting features. It is engined by a Huntber motor and the fabric has been sup plied by the North British Rubber Company. The machine looks a most creditable production and is very ...

... war years 1914-1918 he designed and built seventy-five large four-motored machines for the Russian Government. The 1918 armistice cut short a commission to design military machines for France. Crossing to the U.S., he developed the vast amphibians which ...

... first fine careless rapture of flying into the greyest dis illusion as the machine bumps its way through a thunderstorm and once, amusingly, to indicate the way of a man in a bath. Two other of her excursions are not so happy. The sketch in which she burlesques ...