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STARS OF TWO FILMS NOW SHOWING, ONE TO COME

... eventually CHARLES DICKENS' 44 Oliver Twist, in case you don't know it, is briefly, the story of a foundling born in a workhouse. Apprenticed t to an undertaker, he runs away to London, becomes involved with the notorious Fagin and his gang of young ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 322 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... for DECIDING TO LIVE CHRISTMAS DAY in the workhouse. A feature of his plan for a six weeks' tramp, with an allowance of 2s. 6d. a day for all expenses, was his determination to spend Christmas Day in the Workhouse. PROFESSOR H. E. ARMSTRONG, F.R.S. for ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 340 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

Plays of the Moment: No. XXXII. Oliver Twist as a Film

... Moment No. XXXII. Oliver Twist as a Film. THE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD SCREEN STAR JACKIE COOGAN AS OLIVER TWIST. PICKING OAKUM IN THE WORKHOUSE JACKIE COOGAN AS THE PATHETIC OLIVER. OLIVER RETURNS TO THE HOUSE OF MR. BROWNLOW A STUDY OF THE CHILD ACTOR. J THE PICTURE ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 182 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM YORKSHIRE, THE BORDERS, NORTHANTS, AND BERKS: HUNTING SNAPS

... Stapleton is Baroness Beaumont's younger sister. The Earl of Essex is the Master of the Craven, which met recently at Kingsclere Workhouse. Lady Essex came to the meet on foot, but was well wrapped up in a leather coat, with a fur collar, and wore fur-lined boots ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 234 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

ARTISTS AT HOME: W

... has not been content to remain in his studio and draw upon imagination for types, but has searched alley and doss-house, workhouse and dock-side, slum and Salvation Shelter, cab-rank and coffee-stall, for his models, and has placed them before us to the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 774 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

AFTER DINNER: The Great Unknown

... BUILT BY TRAMPS. THE MINIATURE CASTLE AT THE MANSFIELD WORKHOUSE. The miniature fort here illustrated was built by tramps under the supervision of Mr. G. J. Hammond, master of Mansfield workhouse and an ex-Army man. A couple of cannon have place in it ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1063 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

CRACKS OF THE WHIP: Ascot

... by the Illustrations Bureau. WINNER OF THE SECOND PRIZE IN THE CALCUTTA SWEEP MR. A. F. AWBERY, MASTER OF THE WARRINGTON WORKHOUSE, CARRIED SHOULDER-HIGH. The great annual Derby sweep organised by the Calcutta Turf Club was won this year by Dr. Bolton ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1125 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GREATEST OF THE MANY: THE CALCUTTA 'SWEEP.'

... ran very well. There is not the slightest doubt that the ■£18,200 for a o 0 Sweep is run in a scrupulously fair manner. Workhouse Master. The draw is made on the Saturday preceding the Wednesday on which the great race is run, and the owners of the tickets ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1233 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

OUR WONDERFUL WORLD!

... Mecklenburg- Strelitz. He obtained success in opera, but, for some cause or another, neglected his profession, and is now in the workhouse at Biitzow. AMERICA'S HUMAN ROOSTER: THE LATE HIRAM WOOSTER. Mr. Wooster, who died the other day, boasted that he had never ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 481 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WOMEN-ABOUT-TOWN: The Great German Week

... Chertsey Workhouse recently suffered from a scarcity of water, and a member of the Board of Guardians, Mr. S. Beesley, suggested that his daughter, Mrs. F. E. Chinchen, who possesses the faculty of water-divining, should try her art on the workhouse premises ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1209 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

THE STAGE FROM THE STALLS

... enough observation and freshness in it, as well as sense of the stage, to render the piece quite interesting. The stunted workhouse-girl moved by almost pardonable vanity and cheap kitchen-fiction to wonderful romances about herself is fairly new on the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1438 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs