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WOMAN'S WAYS: What of 1912?

... people. There will certainly be more private sociability and hospitality than during the last twelve months; and books, the theatre, pictures, and music will have a chance to be discussed and appreciated once more. Moreover, there will be strife and ructions ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1106 | Page: 31 | Tags: Illustrations 

KEYNOTES: THE PAST YEAR: A RETROSPECT

... underlying the existing system by which those who give recitals ask for the best seats as much as would purchase a stall at the theatre or a very comfortable seat in the Opera House, with the inevitable result that many who have yet to find a wealthy following ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1064 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Orpheus in the Underground.: The Audience

... unfamiliarity rendered the score heavy, not to say pon derous. In fact, the Christmas public of 1911 will flock to His Majesty's Theatre principally to see the really wonderful scenery and dresses, the charming Cupid of Miss Betty Callish, the Orpheus of Mr. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1912
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1090 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Songstress Who Can Act

... Can Act MISS FLORENCE SMITHSON DRAWN BY R. G. MATHEWS Miss Smithson lms scored a triumph in The Mousme ut the Shaftesbury Theatre, her beautiful singing and refined acting being of inestimable value to thex-picce. She ia. the. wife of Mr. Dan Rolyat, the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 48 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... Enlists the planet Mercury to play the bogey star. She 's great on unexpected and improbable fatalities. As the burning of a theatre before the year is done, The death of semi-famous, ad vertising personalities, And other things which might, but don't occur ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 902 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

PARIS SHOWS et Autres Choses: Happy and Good

... r ireman _ to be a fireman in a Paris theatre. The Paris actress, 1 bless her, has a superstition that her New Year cannot pos sibly be happy and good unless she succeeds in kissing a fireman on duty in a theatre at midnight on the last day of the old ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1027 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Flight!

... invalid chair, a big crowd of adoring workmen surrounding him. In the evening it was my privilege to visit the Shaftesbury Theatre and witness The Mousme. It is some years since Miss Florence Smithson sprang into fame, and I raved about her in the columns ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1202 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

PARIS et Autres SHOWS Choses: Annoying

... weakened by year-end living, was prepared for the nightmare. MR. GEORGE GROSSMITH, JUNR. Who is now playing in the revue at the Theatre Rejanc. Paris. He is here caricatured by Jtan Gast while himself caricaturing Nijinski. the famous Russian dancer ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 940 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE

... is very neat and inconspicuous, and enables the deaf to carry on conversation at home, and to hear perfectly at church, theatre, or public gathering of any sort. Readers who are interested are offered a free trial at home or a free demonstration at the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1912
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 779 | Page: 38 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE STAGE FROM THE STALLS: Nightbirds

... the right place, and makes a great success with a most artistic rendering of the Blue Danube waltz. At the Aldwych m Theatre. Theatre The Golden Land r\f TTnirxr llPC been revised and considerably improved since its first appear ance. As a simple little ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1093 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

DIFFICULTIES OF FIT: TOURING COMPANY TRIALS

... DIFFICULTIES OF FIT TOURING COMPANY TRIALS. 'AS GIVEN AT THE MINIATURE THEATRE. LONDON: THE BATH-ROOM SCENE FROM THE MAN WHO TOOK THE WRONG SHAVING STICK AS PRESENTED AT THE COLOSSUS THEATRE. BIGPORT. ;.imn-- w-- EvonV. j 5 j AS GIVEN AT THE GIGANTIC. LONDON: ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 64 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: A Depressing Publication

... stage to-night after an absence of nearly two years. She will play Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underground, at His Majesty's Theatre. She will wear semi-ciassicai watteau costumes, it is iviiss irees intention to appear in grand opera in Italy. Yes, said ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1200 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations