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NAUGHTY ANTHONY

... farce-comedies as they mostly prefer to call them out there, have, more or less, possessed an ultramarine tinge of blueness, so to speak. It would seem, however, that the latest specimen of farce-fare submitted to New Yorkers-- namely, Naughty Anthony, which ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 883 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW TURNS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE

... quite a pleasant Pickwickian feeling to glow through my system, when I reflected that I had been permitted to discover, so to speak, these interesting human female phenomena. The Achmed Ibrahim Bedouin Arabs will be seen at the coming Paris Exhibition. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 978 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS IRENE VANBRUGH AT HOME

... play written by Lawrence Olde, but that will depend on the time at her disposal. I11 reply to your inquiry. Miss Vanbrugh speaks with evident pride of the honour done her lately in having been invited, as the guest of the evening, to a special dinner ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1022 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

RUPERT OF HENTZAU

... and Miss Esme Beringer does all that skill and intelligence can to render interesting a weakly drawn character. One must speak in praise of Mr. IT. Y. Esmond, Mr Sydney Brough, and Mr. Bassett Roe, whilst the Rupert of Mr. 11. B. Irving is quite a remarkably ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1007 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WHITEFIELD MEMORIAL CHURCH: A Great Nonconformist Monument

... sprung the Calvinistic Methodists of modern Wales from the former the various Methodist churches that have overrun the English-speaking world. But in his time Whitefield was a tremendous power. He was caricatured on the stage of old Drury Lane Theatre, and ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1203 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

MAHOUGLATH--MAHOUGLISH

... an excellent pair of field-glasses. I rested my elbows on the gunwale and looked through them. The mate stood by me with a speaking trumpet. I saw Huggles kneel down and fold his arms behind his back. His hat-umbrella was removed. Then I saw the executioner ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5609 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

SHERLOCK HOLMES OFF TO THE WAR

... sporting men who would pull her out of it. Well, the sporting men are going to have a try but the prophetic sportsman, who could speak like that in October, and see his words came true- before Christmas, is not to be one of them. He was one of the first to volunteer ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1532 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WELL-DRESSED MAN

... earnestly, if presumptuously, charge them to beware of the ninety-five. Two or three of London's best sporting tailors I can speak with certainty as to two have succeeded in persuading their hunting customers (am I giving offence in not writing clients ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1215 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... South Africa by the hereditary enemy Suddenly there rose from out the audience an indignant voice, M011 pere, one should not speak thus in the pulpit Sensation, clamours, and protests and when the over-courageous individual is found they hiss him they oblige ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8114 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BENSON RÉPERTOIRE COMPANY AT THE LYCEUM

... during the third week, one half during the afternoon, and the other at the evening performance. It would hardly be wise to speak now of the actual performances of the members of a company who won warm admiration from the provincial critics as well as from ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1125 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS TOUPIE LOWTHER, AN ENTHUSIASTIC FENCER: WHO APPEARED IN THE MASQUE OF WAR AND PEACE, AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

... to women and renders it such an exhilarating and absorb ing pursuit. But don't you think that women of course, I am not speaking of, enthu siasts like yourself, but of women who fence just because it is the fashion to do so will soon tire of it, and ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 959 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

WINTER SPORT IN THE TYROL

... length and five to six feet in width of a similar extent is the famous Ivlosters run near Davos. However, we intend here to speak of an other region of the Alps, of the Tyrol, and especially of its charming and pictur esque capital, Inns bruck, doubtless ...