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MR. HALL CAINE, ACTOR--FOR THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY: THE FAMOUS NOVELIST AS THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN THE PRODIGAL SON

... MR. HALL CAINE, ACTOR FOR THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY. THE FAMOUS NOVELIST AS THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN THE PRODIGAL SON. 1. MR. HALL CAINE AS THE GOVERNOR GENERAL, AND MR. DERWENT HALL CAINE AS OSCAR STEPHENSSON. 2. MR. HALL CAINE AS THE GOVERNOR GENERAL AND MR. DERWENT HALL CAINE AS OSCAR STEPHENSSON. 3. MR. HALL CAINE AS THE GOVERNOR GENERAL, MR. DERWENT HALL CAINE AS OSCAR STEPHENSSON, AND MRS. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 165 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BRUMMELL IDIOT & PHILOSOPHER

... MMELXT1 J3y Co&WQ. JfS7MlZ,TQ]Y Paris Again. Still Paris, d'y'see. Lots more things to say about Paris, much of it an entirely new Paris to me-- the Paris on the wrong side of the water-- and much of it a Paris I know backwards, and always think about as amusin' until I do it. I mean the Paris of the Champs Elysees, when the lights are lit and the moths-- all glitterin' in really wonderful ...

SCARS THAT ARE AS PRECIOUS AS BLUES:: DUELLING AMONGST GERMAN STUDENTS--THE SCAR--SEEKERS

... SCARS THAT ARE AS PRECIOUS AS BLUES DUELLING AMONGST GERMAN STUDENTS-THE SCAR SEEKERS. 1. A DUEL WITH SABRES. 2. A DUEL WITH RAPIERS. Photographs by Philifp Rectum JMft.] From time to time outcries are raised against the practice of duelling among German students! but it is one of those old customs which die hard, e.-pecially in the conservative atmosphere of universities. In spite of all ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 209 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WORLD OF SPORT

... Nurseries. In a few days the Nursery Handicap season will open, and that that particular section of racing is extremely popular with owners is demonstrated by the fact that the number of entries for various events is this year higher all round than it was last. I suppose the difficulties of the handicapper are greatest in this kind of event; and if I were an adjuster I would willingly give up ...

A FEATHERED GRAND DUKE: A DEAD OWL AS ASSISTANT: TO SPORTSMEN

... A FEATHERED GRAND DUKE: A DEAD OWL AS ASSISTANT TO SPORTSMEN. I. THE STUFFED AND JOINTED OWL, KNOWN AS GRAND DUKE, IS PLACED IN POSITION ON A BRANCH, FACING THE WIND, AND NEAR THE SPORTSMAN'S HUT, A CORD RUNNING FROM THE BRANCH TO THE HUT. 2. THE SPORTSMAN IS SCARCELY IN POSITION BEFORE CROWS, SEEING AN OWL ABROAD IN THE DAYTIME, ATTACK IT, ATTRACTED FURTHER BY THE LIFELIKE MOVEMENTS OF THE ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CROWNS·CORONETS·COURTIERS

... COWES is no water-logged abode for the King: he has made a special point of being sufficiently furnished there with horses and cars. The Prince and Princess of Wales have like wise refused to be subject to the caprice of the waves, and the garage of Barton Manor is full. But all the King's horses and all the King's cars will not draw Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha to accept her ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 962 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

OF THE MUSIC-HALL STAGE OF 2000 YEARS AGO: GREEK ARTISTES?

... We may as well say at once that these photographs were taken in the Greek section of the B.itish Museum. Whether they represent the famous artistes of 2000 years ago, or merely efforts of the imagination on the part of their designers, we cannot say. Certainly, in broad outline they su gest music-hall artistes and music-hall methods of to-day. Ill '-I I. THE BROAD COMEDIAN. 2. THE SINGER OF ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MAKING OF FORTY-EIGHT TONS OF WAXWORK TABLEAUX: THE TOURING TUSSAUD'S -- PART OF A £30,000 ILLUSTRATION OF ..

... THE MAKING OF FORTY-EIGHT TONS OF WAXWORK TABLEAUX THE TOURING TUSSAUD'S PART OF A £30,000 ILLUSTRATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 1. MODELLING FIGURES. 2. THE SCENE OF THE CRUCIFIXION. 3. MODELLING FIGURES. .1 THF SCENE OF THE CRUCIFIXION IN AN UNFINISHED STATE. 5. FINAL TOUCHES BEFORE THE DRAPING. 6. BEGINNING TO DRAPE A FIGURE. Some time in November Mr. Louis Tussaud will show at the ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OUR WONDERFUL WORLD!

... OUR WONDERFUL WORLD THE FAIREST CYCLIST OF THEM ALL A PARISIAN ARTISTE ABOUT TO START ON A TANDEM RACE, AT THE FRENCH MUSIC -HALL SPORTS. Although lady cyclists are common enough on the roads, it is somewhat unusual to see one attired in racing dress. CARRYING HIS FAMILY WITH HIM i AN INDIAN TAKING HIS CHILDREN WITH HIM FOR A DAYS OUTING-- HIS WIFE FOLLOWING HIM. The conveyance of children is ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 272 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

JOHNNYETTE: VARYING THE MONOTONY OF MEN'S CLOTHES

... JOHNNYETTE VARYING THE MONOTONY OF MEN'S CLOTHES. BETTER THAN PLUM. COLOURED FROCK-COAT AND WHITE HAT MLLE. GABY DESLYS IN EVENING DRESS. Photograph by Reut linger There is so much discussion at the moment as to the monotony of men's dress, so much talk of pfum-cofoured frock-coats and morningcoats, white hats, and evening dress-coats with coloured facings, that it is interesting to note the ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 122 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HEARD IN THE GREEN-ROOM: Where was the Public when the Light Went Out?

... i J'JI pEAED T'Jr.QBECN-UPPHjB ZP.'4 m,imt ^jiif i 1 1 Hil'ua Q Where was the Public when the Light Went Out? Unexpected difficulties come to most actors when they are playing in the provinces, a fact with which readers of this page have been made humor ously acquainted. It is rare, how ever, for such an incident to happen in London as befell Mr. Kenneth Douglas, who is to play one of the ...

WORLD'S WHISPERS

... THE parent whose present to his marrying daughter took the form of a cartload of half-crowns may be outdone, though not in his own coin, by Lord Addington, whose eldest daughter is to be married next week. Not unnaturally, the man whose father was the Governor of the Bank of England, and who himself married into the family that makes banknote paper, does not have to ponder long as to the ...