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Enough of War Plays!

... Enough of War Plays T he public taste in amusement is for the moment influenced by the fact that the great tragedy of war has overshadowed the minor tragedies of the stage. People are turning for relief to the opposite extreme of entertainment, and are probably all the better for it ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 51 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

Mortals and Immortals at the Empire: STAGE STRUCK AT THE EMPIRE

... Mortals and Immortals at the Empire 33^ >70-' sA.^ The new Burlesque Stage Struck at the Empire Theatre provides Mr. Fred Farren and Miss Ida Crispi with a wide and varied scope for their nimble versatility. The d£colletee lady on the right of the middle picture represents Venus. We think it only fair to mention this. The fact might otherwise have escaped attention ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 63 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

In Prussia--Again: OUR OLD FRIEND THE STEAM-ROLLER RESUMES ITS ORIGINAL RÔLE

... OS In Pru ssia Agai n OUR OLD FRIEND THE STEAM-ROLLER RESUMES ITS ORIGINAL ROLE N.B.-- This drawing was executed for us last September, but owing to unforeseen circumstances was unavoidably held up. We are glad that at last an opportunity has arisen for giving it to the world, the Russian forces having once again succeeded in making an advance into German Territory ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 63 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

Romance in the Crinoline Era

... The new play at the Duke of York's Theatre, Romance, has already met with some success in the United States. It is well acted, but may prove to be a little too serious for darkest London, which needs all the brightening up it can get ...

Published: Wednesday 13 October 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 50 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

A FANCIER

... jfk IF NCI E Ro By George Belclheiro Lady (from town, staying at country inn) to domestic How plainly you can hear the cuckoo down here. That's the bird that doesn't bother to lay its own eggs, isn't it George Belclher ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 41 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

Wie Sie Wollen; or As You Like It

... Wie Sie Wollen or As You Like It BY WILHELM VON SCHACKSPIR DEUTSCHTONE, A CLOWN (Admiral von Tirpitz): I vill make thee avay, dranslate thy life into death, thy liperty into pondage. I vill deal in boison mit thee, or in bastinado or in schteel I vill bandy mit thee in faction, I vill oerrun thee mit bolicv I vill kill thee a-hundert-funfzig vays zerreforre dr-r-remble und debart (John Bull ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 72 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

Kultur Kostumes

... The coming German fashion, therefore, must be modest, it must not injure in ever so remote a degree the organs of the body. Its lines must depart from the accepted canons of grace if these injure the body or endanger the highest aspirations of women. Specially Illustrated fry The Bystander Extract from article it} the Neueste Nachrichten, Munich, ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 60 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic 

Counting the Bag

... KRONPRINZ: My de ar Tirpy Seven brace in a week!! out of fourteen hundred chances I ask you and after all that talk too, what What on earth will our people say fjk The net result of the first week of the Great German Submarine Blockade was that 14 ships out of r,4oo that left and arrived at these Islands were disposed of) ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 66 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic