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To Marry a Popular Villain: A Notable Vaudeville Star

... . ENGAGED TO MR. LEW CODY MISS NORA BAYES, THE FAMOUS AMERICAN SINGER. Photograph by Sasha. Miss Nora Bayes, the remarkable American music hall star and singer, whose syncopated songs have been charming all London, has had an exceptional success at the Empire. Her engagement to Mr. Lew Cody, the famous film star, has just been announced, and has roused much interest. Mr. Lew Cody is one of the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 110 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OVALTINE

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Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 350 | Page: Page 43 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 197 | Page: Page 47 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 93 | Page: Page 54 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 47 | Page: Page 55 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 158 | Page: Page 58 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE GOLFER

... By Follow Through. ANATOMY is a science that does not appeal to all golfers, most of whom prefer to think of themselves in the normal make-up of plus fours and coat or jumper rather than disguised as a skeleton. Mr. George Beldam, who has already given us some definitely in structive and pleasant works on both golf and cricket, has now broken out in the most scientific treatise on golf. I ...

AROUND THE SHOWS: DUBLIN, IMBER COURT, AND LYNTON

... . v A. _ l -1 Mt.jr M. v _£ WELL OVER THE WALL IN A JUMPING COMPETITION AT THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY'S SHOW AT BALLSBRIDGE. THE LY'NTON, LYNMOUTH, AND EXMOOR SHOW AT LYNTON A LADY COMPETITOR IN THE EXMOOR PONIES JUMPING CLASS. v. ty, v- j' _ r=if-5-dS. 'ill- i%v. A BRILLIANT DISPLAY OF EQUITATION AT IMBER COURT P. C. KING TAKING A FENCE STANDING ON TWO MOUNTS. THE IMBER COURT SHOW AT THAMES ...

THE STAGE OF THE DAY: ON TOUR: THE HONOURABLE MR. TAWNISH

... n The Stage or the day fO ON TOUR THE HONOURABLE MR. TAWNISH. CLOAK and sword, ruffles and thigh boots, costumier's dialogue and slow music, re sounding consonants and posed gestures: these are relics of the days before theatrical became a term of reproach. Ever since cups and saucers, real doors and real door-knobs, changed the fashion, the English school of acting has made what is natural ...

APROPOS THE BIG FIGHT: SOME PURELY PERSONAL PICTURES

... . WITH MB. EUGENE CORRI, THE REFEREE (L.), AND LEAVING THE STADIUM AFTER THE FIGHT: TOM GIBBONS. AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE GREATEST CROWD ETER GATHERED IN EUROPE AT A BOXING MATCH: THE STiDIUM FROM THE AIR. WITH HIS FIANCEE, MISS RAY FRANCIS, AND HIS BROTHER JOE: JACK BLOOMFIELD (R.) EN ROUTE FOR WEMBLEY TO MEET GIBBONS. A COMPARISON OF TEMPERAMENTS-- (1) BLOOMFIELD MAKING HIS WAY TO THE RING FOR ...