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The Passing Hour: Enter 1930; ALONG THE CÔTE D'AZUR; ENJOYING THE WINTER ABROAD; OUT WITH THE HOUNDS AT ..

... an extra big dose of gales and rain that one simply can't believe in the reality of all this sun shine free of cost, so to speak, I can't say, but, anyhow, the net result is extremely pleasant, and, in spite of the repeated wails of those pessimists who ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2700 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

A KIDDIES' CAUSERIE

... here since the house was re built which is reviewed in another place, to adopt the phrase used by the plebian Commons when speaking of the Lords. Also, following the usual practice, there is pantomime at the Lyceum. The theme chosen this year is Puss in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 531 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

With Silent Friends: Life After Death

... Lady Benson carries all this off in lively style, and so long as she is telling the story and forbidding her characters to speak for themselves she is very readable. Only her dialogue is among the most unnatural I have ever listened to. The Hash of Life ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2321 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

NOAH'S ARK PASSENGERS: AT THE CHELSEA ARTS CLUB BALL

... gathering was jj j Noah's Ark, and Mr. Augustus John had designed a most jj j amusing Ark with jj modernist leanings, jj j so to speak. The jj jj processions were, of j jj course, made up of j jj animals which went j jj in two by two, and j jj included 'some ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 313 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

OTHER TIMES: SAME MANNERS

... Chauve Souris. I can talk about those now because their box-office attraction can no longer be harmed. I must be tactfu' in speaking of the stars of to-day. Manneri sms are strange things. Sir Ed ward Hulton al ways used to ac cuse me of culti vating my ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1289 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

Leon Daudet on Cabbages and Kings

... going to come out right on top, yes They are examples of angels, of an extraordinary beauty, above this life. Mind you, I only speak of what they look like. As for my new Clemenceau book, proceeded Alphonse Daudet's son as his wife (Victor Hugo's granddaughter) ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1965 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

DOGS of the DAY: Kerry Blues in Derbyshire

... to retrieve, among them being poodles, which, at one time, were a kind of general utility dog on the Continent. Generally speaking, the] cobbler had better stick to his last, but the small man who likes to do a bit of shooting for the least possible outlay ...

The Engine of Song

... reach of his head. When he touched it, the current was turned on and an arm carried the mouthpiece into position. He began to speak. When he had finished, his mind was at peace it was true peace, a feeling he had forgotten he realised that no self-discipline ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2066 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON HAS CHANGED

... do not do so on the contents bills. In New York the two first questions for visitors are the skyline and American women. Speaking, one might say as a travelled foreigner, English-women as I have seen them in London are the best looking and the best turned ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1322 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SOME BACKCHAT ON THE DRAMA: A Spirited Duologue in Which The Graphic Critic Argues With His Favourite Reader ..

... Mr. Farjeon. So you call yourself a dramatic critic, do you wen, yes, i suppose i do wnen i have to fill up a form. And, speaking as a dramatic critic, I think I may say that the most important develop ment in the theatrical world during 1929 Excuse me ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1707 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... save us. Holiday Thoughts on Polities. Readers have encouraged me to harp on my familiar string when I refer to politics. I speak without party bias, for indeed the one thing I am up against is the party system in its present-day rottenness and decay. Members ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2288 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs