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FRIDAY TO MONDAY--AND PARIS

... I FRIDAY TO MONDAY-AND PARIS. a By A GRASS WIDOWER. 3 sJ W ISJi. Paris. HAVING wired to a friend that a change of plans was bringing me to Paris from the seaside. I received a commiserating letter that informed me that the writer would consider himself very hardly used were he obliged to return to town in the middle of August. Even as I read these words the heavy clouds that had been ...

Women in Sport

... AT THE DEAUYILLE GYMKHANA-- IN SHORTS THE DUCHESS OF WESTMINSTER, WHO TOOK PART IN SEVERAL OF THE EVENTS. WITH HER SON. JOHN, WHO PLAYED IN THE CHILDREN'S TENNIS 71 TOURNAMENT MISS GLADYS COOPER AT FRINTON-ON-8EA. O A SOCIETY BOWLS MATCH FOR CHARITY THE COUNTESS OF PLYMOUTH, WHO LED ONE OF THE TEAMS, TAKING A CAREFUL LINE. THE COUNTESS OF PLYMOUTH'S TEAM V. LADY THOMAS'S IN A BOWLS MATCH AT ...

FASHIONS FROM STAGE AND STALLS

... ?|35g ar.r rrr^r; SfflBSB?' . BY FLORENCE ROBERTS. EACH and every Autumn gown -- whether it be a plain tailor-made in Kasha or repp, or an elaborate creation of embroidered georgette and satin -- must absolutely have its own special coat or wrap to match. That is the first and most important of the new fashion rules for the coming season, so it should make you study with special in terest this ...

THE THREE HOSTAGES

... Rnngaj iacMarATwaa BraBlB TaHIM CHAPTER XXI-- continued. Ill 5 p.m. to about 7.30 p.m. IT was a good hour before he came. I had guessed rightly, and he had made the deduction. I hoped for. He was foll ...

Plays of the Moment: No. XXXVIII. Storm

... Plays of the Moment No. XXXVIII. Storm. STORM PROVES THAT SHE IS NOT BOW-LEGGED MISS ELISSA LANDI, WITH MR. HUGH WAKEFIELD AS ARTHUR BLOUNT. THE YOUNG ACTRESS WHO PLAYS THE NAME-PART IN THE NEW AMBASSADORS PLAY MISS ELISSA LANDI AS STORM. THE SPINSTER WHOSE WILES NEARLY CAPTURE THE MARRIED MEN MISS JEAN CADELL AS THE IRREPRESSIBLE MISS GAYLER. THE SOCKS WHICH STOP AN ELOPEMENT THE HON. ARTHUR ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 225 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ENO'S

... A WORLD-FAMED EMPIRE VIEW-- THE FORTH BRIDGE THE HIDDEN IMPULSE BEHIND great deeds, great health and vigour of our British glories, great renown, lies people. ever a simple thing making v And behind this again, m count- greatness possible. jess ]lomes throughout the Empire, nothing more and nothing less than Behind Watt's dream of the steam- the simple ordinance which has every engine, the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 214 | Page: Page 40 | Tags: Photographs 

Where Alligator Rivals Lizard

... . Photographs by Dorothy Wilding. Fashion displays her versatility in the sphere of shoes by decorating them with alligator, lizard -skin, and gold. Here are a quartet of perfectly eveniZ shoes thTTeft dT 1/ Td °f and f0' 2°3- ReSent Sieet- lV- Silver brocade faced with silver kid makes the graceful evening shoes on the left, and tan suide bound with alligator the low-heeled models on the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 87 | Page: Page 48 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PACT OF LONDON SIGNED--AND OTHER HOME NEWS OF THE WEEK, SHOWN IN PICTURES

... THE PACT OF LONDON SIGNED- AND OTHER home news of the week, shown in pictures. The Sudan Outbreak Tennis on a London Stage The Covent Garden Strike _ Arthur Urijjiths ana micnaei uouins commemorated And Other IMews Items THE OUTBREAK IN THE SUDAN-THE SIRDAR'S BODYGUARD IN KHARTOUM, TYPES OF THE MEN WHO FORM THE SUDANESE ARMY 1E.1N1M3 lVlAlUtl KtALISllX-ALLK SiAGLLJ Ai IHt LUNUUN COLISEUM-- ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 672 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

STARRED PICTURES at the ROYAL ACADEMY: How the Luck of the Sales has Gone at Burlington House

... STARRED PICTURES at the ROYAL ACADEMY. How the Luck of the Sales has Gone at Burlington House At the opening of the Royal Aca demy Exhibition at Burlington House in May, considerable atten tion was paid by most of the papers to the pictures included in the Exhibition. It is with the idea that our readers will be interested in the commercial results which do not always receive the same ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WONDERLAND OF NATURE: The Versatile Ant--The Social Customs and Methods of Life of the Busiest Worker in Nature

... THE WONDERLAND OF NATURE. The Versatile Ant The Social Customs and Methods of Life of the Busiest Worker in Nature By Fdlwardl StL@p9 F„IL°>o Mr. Step is one of the authorities on the Ant in Great Britain whose books on this subject are read by thousands. In this article he describes the social customs and methods of life of one of the most fascinating, as well as the most industrious ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2004 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Photographs