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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 

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 

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... 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 

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 

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 

AMERICAN WAR MATERIAL REACHES BRITAIN: The Carrier Sicily Brings Jets to Glasgow: The Joe E. Mann Loads at ..

... 36th Fighter Wing. The machines were loaded in the Panama Canal Zone, after taking part iif tuning-up exercises over the Caribbean, and they constitute a formidable access of strength to the American air forces now in Europe. The Sicily is designed to ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

The SUPERFORTRESS DISASTER: H.M.S. SHEFFIELD IS HOME

... more than 60,000 miles; she has made a circuit of South America, and during her visit to ports in Canada, the U.S.A., the Caribbean and the South American Republics, she has been visited by 170,000 people. In March last year the cruiser arrived at Belize ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 332 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ESCAPISTS: ATLANTIC ADVENTURERS SET OUT, SOME IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE, OTHERS TO EVADE THE TOILS OF ..

... had just completed the voyage from Goteborg, Sweden, via European ports, the Atlantic Ocean and the West Indies. From the Caribbean they sailed up the east coast of the United States, via Florida and Carolina ports, to their destination in the Hudson T ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 574 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

FOOTNOTES TO FOOTLIGHTS: Two London Shows have their First Anniversary: American Stars of Variety and Musical ..

... taste of English audiences A WEST INDIAN DANCER MAKES A BIG HIT Katherine Dunham brings a new rhythm to the London stage. A Caribbean Rhapsody opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre with none I of the publicity that has preceded most of the new I American ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 476 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs