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... WITH HER YOUNGER SON AND HER YOUNGER DAUGHTER: THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK WITH THE HON. MAYNARD GREVILLE AND LADY MERCY GREVILLE. {Pkotosrafh by Rtfa Mar tin A Lady Warwick has four children living. The elder son, Lord Brooke, was born in September 1892; the younger son, the Hon. Maynard Greville in March 1898; the elder daughter, Viscountess Heltnsley, was bcrn in 1884; the younger daughter, ...

Published: Wednesday 26 May 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 71 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN: The King's Autumn Cure

... The King's Autumn Cure. I am amused to see that the battle of the watering-places to secure King Edward as a guest this August has already commenced. I thought that Austrian ill-humour would not long outlast the spring, and already the Marienbad hotel-keepers and doctors are buzzing like angry bees at the rumours that he may go elsewhere. What Marienbad says is that there is no necessity ...

WORLD'S WHISPLERS

... SIR JOHN GORST felt bound, in honour and honesty, to relinquish his pension. Very different was the motive alleged by the second Lord Lauderdale for asking that his sixty pounds a day should be reduced to ten pounds. He was weary, he said, of being mine host to all Scotland. That is heartening proof for Mr. Lloyd-George that a sense of the poverty of riches is not brought to the wealthy for ...

THE WOMAN-ABOUT-TOWN: Back to the Land

... THE W OMAN' ABOUT -T OWN. Back to the Land. The charms of the country are compelling to the leisured classes now, just as those of the town are to the labouring masses. No one dreams of long, unbroken stays in London now. Country clothes loom quite as importantly on a woman of fashion's horizon as those for town. On Woman's Ways'' page a drawing will be found of a smart and neat tweed coat ...

Published: Wednesday 26 May 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

JULIA'S BUREAU: A CALL OFFICE FOR SPIRITS

... JULIA'S BUREAU A CALL OFFICE FOR SPIRITS. AN ELABORATE SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEPARTED THE EXCHANGE ROOM IN MR. STEAD'S OFFICE. -[Photographs ty Toxical,] This room in Mowbray House, Norfolk Street, formerly Mr. W. T. Stead's private office, is now used for holding communication with the dead through mediums, in connection with the remarkable institution which Mr. Stead has founded ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 175 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... ONE OF THE TWO GERMANS IN THE FINAL OF THE GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES AT EASTBOURNE t MR. F. W. RAHE. In the South of England Championships two Germans were in the final of the Gentlemen's Singles Mr. Otto Froitzheim and Mr. F. W. Rahe. Photograph by Sports Company. BOUND IN MOROCCO i EL ROGHI, THE MOORISH PRETENDER, BROUGHT TO FEZ IN A CAGE. EI Roghi, the captured Moroccan Pretender, was brought to ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 430 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MAKING THE GENTLEMAN MARS THE MAN: MR. SUTRO'S NEW PIECE AT THE GARRICK

... MAKING THE GENTLEMAN MARS THE MAN. MR. SUTRO'S NEW PIECE AT THE GARRICK. i. The Ha ron ess von Riizen (Miss Ethel Irving) Snubs Lord Parkhurst (Mr. Edmund Maurice). 2. The Raroness Refuses Archibald Carey's Offer of Marriage Unless His Father will give His Consent. 3 The Baronkss von Rhzen. 4. Sam Carey (Mr. Arthur Rourchier) Decides to Take Mily Chambers (Miss Athene Skyler) with Him to ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CROWNS CORONETS COURTIERS

... THE proposed visit of the King and Queen to the Duke and Duchess of Westmin ster at Eaton Hall in December has been forecast as private. Not so all West minster parties. It was at Gros- venor House long ago that a pro test was made against the unin vited guest. No body knew him not even the de tectives, who are present on the oc casions of very great assemblies, nnH thp. Duke of Westminster ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1118 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN

... The Aero plane Club Dinner. The Aero plane Club is, I believe, one of the youngest of the clubs. Captain Windham, its first president and its founder, told us at the club's dinner last week that it already has nearly twelve hundred members, and if it can continue to bring together as interesting celebri ties as were its guests last Wednesday, many men will join it solely for the sake of ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 964 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE MAN ON THE CAR: A British Beauty

... Tlltr MAN-ON'^ A British Beauty. A good car, like good wine, needs no bush-- which, rendered into the vernacular, meaneth no flamboyant advertisement. Consequently, I shall not enthuse over the 14-20-h.p. Wolseley-Siddeley, although I am more than pleased to find that that gallant officer Captain Ian Forbes, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, has derived equal satisfaction with myself from the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1073 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

CONCERNING ROYALTY AND THE STAGE

... . THE ROYAL VISIT TO BERLIN THE GERMAN EMPRESS AND THE QUEEN LEAVING THE EMPEROR FREDERICK MUSEUM. The German Emperor and Empress and the King and Queen visited the museum on Thursday last, and saw there some of the most important art treasures of the German capital. The museum itself is by no means old indeed, it was built between the years 1898 and 1903, and only qpened'in 19Q4. A STRANGE ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 502 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs