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RINGS ON HER FINGERS AND BOWS ON HER HOSE!

... RINGS ON HER FINGERS AND BOWS ON HER HOSE I BOW STOCKINGED MISS ANNA HELD IN THE 44 VERY LATEST. The lace-insertion stockings and the tassel led stockings have another rival in the form of the stockings here shown* worn by pretty Miss Anna Held, hose that are ornamented with a series of little tows, placed one above the other.- ^Photo^rafhs by £(utling(r,\ ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 63 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

KEY-NOTES: Dr. Joachim's Legacy

... Ih C KTOOTES i- -s Dr. Joachim's Legacy. One of the most interesting series of concerts yet arranged for the autumn season is that of the Classical Concert Society. The society was born of the Joachim Concerts Committee, which itself sought to develop and carry 011 the great work that Joachim started forty years ago in Berlin, and introduced much later into London. The interpretation of ...

THE-MAN-ON THE-CAR: The Lamp Trials Successful!

... TH^MAN-'ON^> The Lamp Trials Successful 1 The report of the judges appointed by the Royal Automobile Club to act in the pressing matter of the Tests of Headlights for Motor-Cars and Motor-Cycles, carried out at the request of the Local Government Board, was issued last Wednesday. I can confidently recommend it to the perusal of all motorists. The tests have gone far to prove that the dazzling ...

ADOPTED BY AN ENGLISH FAMILY: A WELL-BROUGHT-UP MONKEY

... ADOPTED BY AN ENGLISH FAMILY s A WELL BROUGHT UP MONKEY. 1. AN AFTER LUNCHEON CIGARETTE. 2. A LITTLE PAINTING. 3. SOME READING. 4. ROLLER SKATING EXERCISE. 5. A SPELL OF SEWING. 6, 7, and 8. READY FOR SOCIAL DUTIES. The monkey is not a performer on the music-hall stage. Its parents v. ere shot in Africa. It was conveyed to England, and was brought up in a private family. It mimics those about ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DEVOURING LOVE: THE REAL MEXICAN KISS

... DEVOURING LOVE THE REAL MEXICAN KISS. THE GENUINE MOUTH TO MOUTH KISS, AS PRACTISED (ACCORDING TO AMERICA) IN MEXICO-- NONE OTHER IS WORTH HAVING. Our photograph shows Miss Crosby Little and Mr. E. L. Fernandez in Going Some (and going some) at the Belasco theatre. New York. PJioiograph by Hall ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 50 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... No better umpire than Colonel Maxse, of the Coldstreamers, could have been found for the Army Manœu vres. Hitherto the name of Maxse has been associated mainly with the Navy. Admiral Maxse was the Admiral to all friends of Meredith, who dedicated one of his books to him and made him the hero of another. It was the friendship with the Admiral and his family that was partly responsible for ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 909 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

AFTER DINNER: The Tsar can do no Wrong

... AFTER D1NNER| BY ERNEST A. BRYANT. The Tsar can do no Wrong. Those members of the London Corporation who are to wait upon the Tsar to-morrow, may bless their stars that the Autocrat of all the Russias is more conventional than the most illustrious of his pre decessors. Peter the Great would have required the greater part of our fleet to catch him for such a ceremony as this. They never knew ...

MUD AS A COPPER MINE: THE CHUCK US A COPPER, SIR, BOYS

... MUD AS A COPPER MINE THE CHUCK US A COPPER, SIR, BOYS. 1. THE MUD -LARKS OF PORTSMOUTH KNEE DEEP IN THE MUD IN SEARCH OF COINS THROWN TO THEM. 2. WAITING FOR PATRONAGE. 3. HUNTING FOR THE COINS. 4. SAFE FROM THE SCANDALISED POLICE MUD LARKS IN THE MUD. Portsmouth's mud-larks are as familiar figures to the visitors to that town as the mud-larks of London were to those whose business took them ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 179 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

KEY-NOTES: The Season's End

... KOTOTES 4 The Season's End. Covent Garden has closed its doors, the smaller concert-halls make no appeal for patronage, and save for the flag that flies by day and the light that shines by night from Westminster, where legislators are doubt less thinking of summer holidays, the desolation of the Silly Season lies upon the capital as it lies upon the little realm of music. This is the brief ...

MR. HALL CAINE AS ONE OF HIS OWN CREATIONS:: THE FAMOUS AUTHOR IN THE PRODIGAL SON, AT THE GRAND THEATRE, DOUGLAS

... MR. HALL CAINE AS ONE OF HIS OWN CREATIONS THE FAMOUS AUTHOR IN THE PRODIGAL SON, AT THE GRAND THEATRE, DOUGLAS. I. MR. HALL CAINE AS THE GOVERNOR GENERAL, AND MR. CHARLES SEYMOUR AS MAGNUS. 2. MR. HALL CAINE AS THE GOVERNOR GENERAL, MR. DERWENT HALL CAINE AS OSCAR STEPHENSSON, AND MISS MAY BEATRICE AS HELGA NEILSEN. Photographs by War burton. At the end of his third and farewell appearance ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... THE little Viscount Chelsea, now in his seventh year, is heir to a property likely to increase greatly in value during the next few years, for his grand- father, Lord Cadogan, owns much of that large district of London which gives this important child his title. There is always something pathetic in a bov early de prived of a father's care, and this is specially the case when the little lad in ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 978 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWNS CORONETS COURTIERS

... CAPTAIN Seymour Fortescue's departure for Marienbad, where he is tasting the waters along with his Majesty, clashed with the great dinner given by his brother, Lord For- tescue, at Tat ters hall, in honour of the recent coming- of-age of his son, Viscount E b r i n g t on. Captain For- tescue is a thoroughly able man, convers ant with Con tinental ways and means, and as good a sub stitute as ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 974 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs