... . MISS LUCIE MANNHEIM, the continental actress, is the Nora for the Duke oj York's revival of Ibsen's play A Doll's House, presented under the title of NORA, and revised from William Archer's version. She gives a splendid performance as the most famous heroine in Ibsen's great gallery. Our fine portrait study shows Torvald Helmer's little lark at the moment when she is suffering the shock ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. WELL, in spite of everything, we got the Cape record. We never thought we should, after that awful crash at Niangara, in the Congo, when our car, with us in it, dived over a fifty- foot-high bridge into a murky, crocodile-infested river. In an earlier article, written from Nairobi, I described how well the Wolseley had travelled up to the time of the accident, breaking the ...

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... . This beautiful new portrait-study of HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER shows her in a most attractive winter dress of black velvet embroidered with silver. Her only ornament is a huge baroque pearl brooch set with diamonds. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester hope to take up residence at Barnwell Castle in time for the hunting season next autumn. The Duke bought this historic place ...

... EUROPEAN AND BRITISH FIGURE- SKATING CHAMPION AT HOME: MISS CECILIA COLLEDGE OFF her SKATES AND IN HER GYMCJ Going upstairs after hard practice at tap- and bcdlet- dancing in the private gym. at her home. MISS CECILIA COLLEDGE does the high kick while her mother, MRS. COLLEDGE, plays a piano accompaniment (top, right). Below Ten pairs of shoes a day provide Cecilia's feet with their routine. ...

... . THE Puckish moods of a London winter provided Miss Prudence Magor and Mr. David Wallace with spring-like sunshine for their wedding-day last week, and treated poor Miss Anne Wigram and Mr. John Leslie Harvey to a young blizzard which held up guests invited to their marriage at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. I must say it was bad luck that one of the most important brides of the year should ...

... TAKE OUR ADVICE AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE: plays. FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS Criterion English life in a French family under graduates and the girl. Very amusing, with an unexpected finish. AN ELEPHANT IN ARCADY (Savoy). A musical effort to recapture the Golden Age on the part of an Arcadian Academy of Pisa. Eighteenth-century wit and elegance. Lyrics by Eleatwr and Herbert Farjeon Ernest Irving' s ...

... . SET TO MUSIC, the new Noel Coward revue recently presented in New York has had excellent notices. MISS BEATRICE LILLIE (Lady Peel) appears in turn as a Secret Service agent, a bored actress, a debutante, a schoolgirl, an organiser of charity pageants, and the inmate of a harem. She is here seen with MR. RICHARD HAYDN. MISS PENELOPE DUDLEY WARD (right), daughter of the Marquise de Lasa Maury ...

... . GB. SHAW'S GENEVA/' I based on the Euro- I pean situation, and I developing the thesis I that man is a I failure as a political I animal, moved to I the St. James's on I Monday. Below each I of these portraits of I its bigger figures is I a sentence typical I not only of the I character in question, but of G.B. himself. SIR ORPHEUS MIDLANDER, by Ernest Thesiger. I am a member of the ...

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... THE SKETCH Competition for Amateur Photographers. TEN POUNDS is offered by THE SKETCH for THE BEST AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPH selected for publication every week until further notice. For other competitive photographs which the Editor considers worthy of publication, a sum of not less than £1 will be paid for the reproduction right. Amateur Photographers may compete every week by sending one or ...

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