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The Father Christmas of the English-speaking Stage

... Stevge. Mr. Jefferson, who was born at Philadelphia on February 20, 1829, Is the oldest actor of the first rank on the English speaking stage. He comes of an old English family of actors, and Is known all over the world for his representation of Rip Van Winkle ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1901
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 54 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

A FRENCH METHOD OF TEACHING THE DUMB TO SPEAK

... A FRENCH METHOD OF TEACHING THE DUMB TO SPEAK. The method of teaching deaf and dumb children to speak in the school of the Abbé de l'Epée in Paris is extremely interesting. If the abbé, whose statue by the deaf and dumb sculptor, Félix Martin, stands ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1071 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS MAXINE ELLIOTT AND MR. NAT GOODWIN IN MR. H. V. ESMOND'S COMEDY, WHEN WE WERE TWENTY-ONE,: WHICH THEY ..

... TWENTY-ONE, WHICH THEY PRODUCED AT THE COMEDY THEATRE ON MONDAY LAST AFTER THEIR AMERICAN RUN OF THE PLAY. ACT II. PIIYI.LIS SPEAKS TO DICK, THINKING HE IS TO RE MARRIED DICK I HOPE YOU WILL EE VERY HAPPY, I DO INDEED. IN ACT II. PHYLLIS KISSES DICK AND ...

THE RETURN OF LORD ROBERTS: His Departure from Cape Town

... TOWN BESIDE THE CANADA Lord Roberts, who has his arm in a sling, the result of his horse stumbling and falling on him, is speaking to the Mayor of Cape Town. On the right hand of the picture will be seen a foreign attache. Members of Lord Roberts's staff ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

Scenes from Mr. Pinero's New Play, Iris, at the Garrick

... DRAWING-ROOM AT KENSINGTON AFTER DINNER The picture shows Iris (Miss Fay Davis) in the first act seated on the extreme left speaking to Croker Harrington (Mr. Dion Boucicault). Maldonado (Mr. Oscar Asche) is chatting on the settee to Fanny Sylvain (Miss ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1901
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 135 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEW STAR: NOVA PERSEI

... we are seeing to-day is an evidence of what may have happened anywhere from twenty-five to fifty years ago, speaking very generally. So speaks Science, and the mind of the ordinary individual stands still for a moment, and yet another moment still, in ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 952 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE

... THE RIVER. from now till over the New Year it is pretty clear that money will he dear and no Stock Exchange business worth speaking about doing. From Buenos Ayres we are receiving the most alarmist cables, but we do not believe in Chili pushing matters ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 179 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LATE MISS MARRIOTT

... appreciated. She undertood the art of Shakespearian elocution, ami was a mistress of emphasis at a time when the secret of speaking blank verse was not yet lost to us. One of her most successful classical parts was Hamlet, and another, Ion. But in every ...

A Greek Dancer in the Alhambra Ballet

... years at the Empire she migrated to the Alhambra, where she has now been for nearly two years. Her probationary period, so to speak, having expired a year or two back she seceded from the ranks of Madame Lanner's school to the universal regret of her principal ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1901
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 167 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

An Impression of the Week

... have been the 'greatest lessons of all. To no two countries, to no two peoples, to no two cities, could he speak in the same terms. He had to speak to the Malays, the Cingalese, the aborigines, the Basutos, the Zulus, the Maoris, the Red Indians to Englishmen ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1822 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE UNIONIST DEMONSTRATION AT BLENHEIM: IMPERIALISM AT THE HISTORIC HOME OF THE HOUSE OF CHURCHILL

... length of the principal front, where the Unionist meeting was held on Saturday, is 34S ft. jta MR. CHAMBERLAIN SPEAKING MR. BALFOUR SPEAKING THE AUDIENCE AT THE DEMONSTRATION AT BLENHEIM This picture, taken by Mr. Ivor Castle, shows Mr. Chamberlain addiessing ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 610 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs