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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 

Graphic

... 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 

THE LADIES WHO BELIEVE IN LEASEHOLD MARRIAGE: BEAUTIES OF THE RACE THAT HELPED PEARY TO THE POLE

... THE LADIES WHO BELIEVE IN LEASEHOLD MARRIAGE BEAUTIES OF THE RACE THAT HELPED PEARY TO THE POLE. vwv \A\y\, f 'ifliiv 1 JrVxWv i. Thk Top-Knot as a Sign of Spinsterhood i Eskimo Women Marrihd and Unmarried u Lj v z. Sweet Seventeen in Greenland a Photograph TAKEN BY COMMANDER PeARY. \rvwv^ wia H-'-O 3. An Etah Beauty Wearin' the Breeks Ak-br- TIN-TAK ON HER SLEDGE 4* The Hand that Rocks the ...

Published: Wednesday 15 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 182 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... THE ENGLISH RAFFLES AS THE FRENCH RAFFLES: MR. GERALD DU MAURIER AS THE DUC DE CHARMERACE IN ARSfiNE LUPIN, AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S. Arsfcne Lupin is a person whose character suggests Raffles (the English gentleman -burglar exploited by Mr. Hornung) and that most famous of French thieves, louts Dominique Cartouche. It is therefore only fitting that Mr. Du Maurier should arpear as Lupin in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 92 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... MR. Samuel Hoare's engage ment to Lady Maud Lygon links many tastes and pre possessions, for Sir Samuel's son has given his mind as much to the things that loom large to a Lygon as to those that fill the lives and ledgers of the Hoares and Barclays. Lady Maud is Lord Beauchamp's half-sister, so that moated Madresfield, with its books and its hostess, Lady Beauchamp-- who was before marriage ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 930 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

SATIRISING THE BEAUTY DOCTOR: HEIGHT-REDUCING

... SATIRISING THE BEAUTY DOCTOR HEIGHT REDUCING. I. I AM TOO TALL FOR A GIRL A VERY LENGTHY LADY CALLS UPON THE BEAUTY DOCTOR. 2. A THREE THOUSAND POUND REMEDY i THE REDUCTION OF THE HFTGHT AROIJT TO BEGIN. 3. THE MOST STRIKING MOMENT OF THE OPERATION THE REDUCTION BEGINNING. 4. HOW THE CURE IS MADE POSSIBLE THE VERY LENGTHY LADY IN THE MAKING. Our Illustrations show an amusing skit on the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 151 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

· CROWNS · CORONETS · COURTIERS

... TOWARDS the end of October the King pays a brief visit to Lord Albemarle at Quidenham Hall, and at the same time reviews various bodies of Norfolk soldiery, presenting a regiment with colours on Mouse hold Heath. It is Mousehold Heath that had its own colours so triumphantly presented to it by old Crome, a painter whom the King, as a Norfolk man, has often admired. My county, as his Majesty ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 988 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs