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THE-MAN-ON THE-CAR

... nit- man oivnlFp THE^CAR^J J A Forgotten Grave Air-Coolkij Engines: an American Fxa-unm t,„ t. American Example T vrf. Re-treading par Excellence-Motor-Car Upeeep- a„ MR. CHARLES JARROTT, ever forward in good works, draws attention to the melancholy fact that the grave of the poor young. Englishman who was killed by the over turning of an English car in the fatal, and abortive Paris-Madrid ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1051 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE VERSATILE MR. HARDING COX AS AN ACTOR: THE PIN AND THE PUDDING, AT THE COMEDY

... . 1. ROBERT ANTHONY MALK1N (MR. HARDING COX) FINDS THE ROLE OF COUNTRY GENTLEMAN PLEASANTER THAN THAT OF A POOR CLERK. 2. PAT CARBERRY (MR. ROBERT WHYTK JUN.) WARNS HIS SUCCESSFUL RIVAL, MR. ALLAN (MR. ATHOL STEWART) AGAINST THE LITERARY HEROES WORSHIPPED BY TAMSIE (MISS IRIS HOEY), WHOM THEY BOTH HAVE WOOED: 44 ADAM BEDE, HE SAYS, WILL GIVE YOU GYP. 3. ROBERT MALKIN (MR. HARDING COX), HIS ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PRIDE BEFORE A FALL: MR. MATHESON LANG AS KING AND JESTER: AND MISS DOROTHY THOMAS AS PERPETUA, IN THE PROUD ..

... PRIDE BEFORE A FALL: MR. MATHESON LANG AS KING AND JESTER AND MISS DOROTHY THOMAS AS PERPETUA, IN THE PROUD PRINCE, AT THE LYCEUM. I. KING ROBERT OF SICILY (MR. MATHESON LANG) AS A CROWNED HEAD. 2. KING ROBERT OF SICILY (MR. MATHESON LANG) CHANGED INTO A COURT JESTER. 3. PERPETUA (MISS DOROTHY THOMAS), WHOSE LOVE SAVES THE KING. 4. KING ROBERT OF SICILY (MR. MATHESON LANG) IN PROPRIA PERSONA ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 183 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... vv-- 1 Julian KylTe (Mr. Herbert Sleath). Margaret Kolfe Miss Grace Lane). AN ORIGINAL CONCLUSION: MRS. ROLFE WELCOMES HER HUSBAND AFTER HIS RELEASE FROM THE TOMBS -IN THE WOMAN IN THE CASE, AT THE GARRICK. [/V/oAy t afh by Fonlsha m and Ba n field The fourth act of The Woman in the Case, the new Clyde Fitch play at the Garrick, is interesting for two reasons it lasts for but six minutes, ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 157 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WOMAN-ABOUT-TOWN: Settling Down

... THE WOMAN ABOUT TOWN. Settling Down. The Whitsuntide recess has been stretched somewhat beyond the usual limit. This is largely because the Upper House has a longer holiday: many of its members are keeping away until after Ascot. This week is a very busy one: nights and days filled with engagements-- the first real settling-down to the doings of the season. The earlier part of it has been ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 989 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

DUBLIN HORSE-SHOW: SOCIETY AT THE GREAT EVENT

... DUBLIN HORSE SHOW SOCIETY AT THE GREAT EVENT. I. LORD IVEAGH. 2. LADY ABERDEEN TAKES A SNAPSHOT. 3. LORD COVENTRY. LORD ABERDEEN AND PRINCESS COLONNA. 5. LORD ASHTOWN. As Kcitil n 6. LADY POWERSCOURT. 7. LORD POWERSCOURT Holographs by the Illustrations Bu.eau, L.N. A., and Hal/tones. the event .us been overshadowed, perhaps, by the .'act' Tt'V Took X nAvtaH^wI! TJTSTh. dd ta^T'in ^was ITta^ ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 64 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRUMMELL IDIOT & PHILOSOPHER: Enthusiasm, Unadulterated

... BRUMMELL JBmfeVHKMaFEIHL fef-i r^K W^7'^A^ tjia&jPiflpSaH Enthusiasm, ^--7- Unadulterated. St. Malo is worth it. I give you my word that St. Malo is worth it. If you don't know it, go, d'y'see, but choose a moment when an anti-cyclone is sighted. I mean it's one of those places that are useless without the sun. But given the sun, bless you, and a pocketful of money for pelits chevaux, and a ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 957 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN

... A Clubman's Woes in August. I probably belong to as many clubs as the average man of my kind does. When Christmas approaches, I each year consider the question of reducing the number of my subscriptions, and each year I put off for another twelve months the difficult matter of weeding out clubs, each one of which is of some particular use to me. The total of my Christ mas-boxes to club ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 975 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

MAN AS HE WAS : POSING FOR A PLAQUE

... MAN AS HE WAS POSING FOR A PLAQUE. AN UNWILLING SITTER: THE MODEL MONKEY. The monkey is quite a man-- or a woman-- of fashion nowadays. He is received in Society if he be a music-hall artiste, and In the music-hall itself is a most popular 44 turn. tf ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 49 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE STAGE FROM THE STALLS: Mr. Charlie Hawtrey and the Doom of Tragedy

... feiSr fM -i>^£sc?:€ic^' Mr. Charlie Haw- trey and the Doom of Tragedy. According to Mr. Charlie Hawtrey the Muse Melpomene is dead, or, at least, dying. In talking the other day to a newspaper man he said, I would even assert that the days of tragedy are over, and we shall never again see another great English tragedian. For this the altered conditions of English life, revealing as they do a ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1051 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

WORLD'S WHISPERS

... LORD ROSEBERY'S reported gift of his Neapolitan villa to the British Government for the use of the English Ambas sador during his holidays may at least serve one good purpose. Surely some Astor with a Cliveden will do the same by the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James's? At present Mr. Taft must find a man as rich as the retiring Mr. Whitelaw Reid to fill the post, or the American ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1010 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

KEY-NOTES

... kcr-NOTES A Pleasing Novelty. August, generally the dullest month in the twelve from the standpoint of music, has seen the production of a delightful new-- work Mr. Alick Maclean's one-act opera Maitre Seiler. The novelty brings a sense of refreshment in its train, suggesting that if British composers of distinct at tainments will be content to be true to themselves, and not seek to ape the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1021 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs