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A FILM STAR SPEAKS

... '/A'/^ A FILM STAR SPEAKS S 1 Girls, if you dream of ent'ring my profession, And pine to emulate some Movie Star, I.isten,to one who makes this frank confession, You're better where you are 2 How would you like the daily adulation How could you bear the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: 52 | Tags: Poem 

PLAY PRODUCING

... uses his index-finger, the dog- stealer uses his thumb. The late Louis Calvert considered that an actor should be able to speak in about two octaves. Mr. Somerset Maugham said that he never allowed two laughs straight on. top of each other in his dialogue ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 16 | Tags: Poem 

Dog Studies and Dog Verses: No. III

... something wrong. Why won't they say What is the matter Only yesterday I crept upstairs to see. She lay in bed; She didn't speak to me, just stroked my head. They wouldn't let me stop I had to go Out of the room at once. I want to know. Yes, everyone is ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 152 | Page: 19 | Tags: Poem 

Friends of Man: Dog Etchings and Verses. No. III: DUMB OR DEAF?

... Friends of Man Dog Etchings and Verses. No. III. DUMB OR DEAF? They cannot speak? Surely you understand A cold nose nuzzling gently 'gainst your hand; Just a reminder, lest you might forget I haven't had my lump of sugar yet. A touch of velvet paw, which ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 211 | Page: 21 | Tags: Poem 

THE LIMPING BARD

... Blistered, chafed, with one accord Prone we lay at Bideford. Envoi Walkers, when you stand at gaze On a hill at morning break. Speak not in a scornful phrase Of machines that men do make-- You will bless, ere all be done, Men like Watt and Stephenson. lll ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 201 | Page: 38 | Tags: Poem 

Kirmse Dog Etchings: Third Series. No. II

... 'RE not a dog I feel quite sure of that And I don't fancy, somehow, you 're a cat, Although you look so smug. Why don't you speak I know you can at least, I heard you squeak When someone pinched you yesterday. You fright Just turn your head this way and ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: 15 | Tags: Poem 

SCANDAL IN THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK'S DAYS

... we say. Qays she, There's dreadful doings still In that affair about the xvill For noxv the folks in Brewer's Street Don't speak to James's xvhen they meet. Poor Mrs. Sam sits all alone And frets herself to skin and bone. For months she managed, she declares ...

Published: Monday 24 November 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 915 | Page: 19 | Tags: Poem