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THE WAR SPREADS TO THE CARIBBEAN

... THE WAR SPREADS TO THE CARIBBEAN A bout the middle of February a new place-name suddenly appeared in the war news. It may safely be said that the name Aruba meant little or nothing to the average lay reader, although to the oil world this oil-refinery ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 412 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM THE CARIBBEAN TO TOKYO

... of the West Indies has not been a success. From the outset the M.C.C. under-estimated the opposition, sending out to the Caribbean a team that lacked colourful personalities and never looked like being a match-winner. Many cricket enthusiasts declared ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1110 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SPARKLE AND SHADOW IN THE CARIBBEAN: The Need for International Co-operation Among the Islands

... the British Caribbean colonies, and the problem has been rendered still more difficult by backsliding on the part of Jamaica or, better said, of its Mr. Busta- mente (formerly Clark). Here we come up with a cardjnal obstruction to Caribbean co-operation ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1845 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

STORMING VIEQUES ISLAND: American Troops Stage a Spectacular Amphibious Exercise in the Caribbean

... of Vieques, a sun-baked island just east of Puerto Rico, they brought to a climax a week of spectacular manoeuvres in the Caribbean designed essentially to show in what measure the danger of atom-bomb attack affects the conduct of vast amphibious operations ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 533 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

AMERICA'S ROCKET WARSHIP: The Norton Sound Converted for Pacific Tests

... HER EAST COAST NAVAL BASE FOR THE CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN Left-- The helicopter landing platform in the forepart of the ship. Right A close-up of the superstructure. After a shake-down cruise in the Caribbean the Norton Sound will start her ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 434 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GREAT FLORIDA HURRICANE

... A fter crossing Cuba from the south the recent Caribbean hurricane, gathering force and speed as it went, tore through Southern Florida. It struck Everglades City on the West Coast with winds of 125 m.p.h., and then hit heavily at Key West, where the ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 307 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... months Katherine Dunham, with her West Indian dancers and musicians, filled the Prince of Wales Theatre with her show, A Caribbean Rhapsody. Miss Dunham was the mainstay of the show, with her seductive singing, her brilliant and graceful, rhythmic dancing ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 409 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

WAR NEWS ITEMS in PICTURES

... old tour-tunnelled US destroyer Blakeleu is here seen in the Philadelphia Navy Yard after a 2 000-m.le journey from the Caribbean Sea with a false bow (similar to that fitted to the U.S.S. Shaw wh.ch went back to the mainland for repairs after the attack ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 341 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE-AY AS A MARY MARTIN DANCE

... Technicolor musical at the Plaza MARY MARTIN as the Neiv York cigarette girl who blues her all on a trousseau en route for a Caribbean island and a 44 poor rich fish, has thirteen changes of costume and no stockings. Mary teas a dancer before ever she dreamed ...

Published: Sunday 10 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

KATHERINE DUNHAM

... KATHERINE DUNHAM The producer and principal dancer of the exotic and beautiful Caribbean Rhapsody at the Prince of Wales Theatre, is a leading authority on the dances of Voodoo, a subject upon which she has written a thesis for Yale. She lived for eighteen ...

Published: Wednesday 15 September 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 162 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

DANCERS--VITAL AND ... ...; CUBAN AND SPANISH

... SPANISH. A remarkable exhibition of polished dancing, singing and miming is given by Katherine Dunham and her company in 14 Caribbean Rhapsody at the Prince of Wales's. Katherine herself plays many parts in the tripartite programme of old-time dances, modern ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 159 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs