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The Sunlit Caribbean

... The Sunlit Caribbean. By Alec Waugh. acs os. oa.) A model travel book. It is pleasant to see what a practised and brilliant writer can do with material which might have become a mere geography lesson. -There are two true stories inset which would have ...

Published: Wednesday 15 September 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

THE SHAME DANCE. BY WILBUR DANIEL STEELE. (Fisher Unwin; 7s. 6d.)

... curious ceremony called the shame dance. But Mr. Steele has given us a collection of stories about the South Seas, the Caribbeans, and North Africa. The title story tells how an idle fellow, Signet, a get-rich-quick-without- working skunk, proposes to ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

THE LONG ESCAPE

... dis appeared from Pasadena five years ago. A1 traces the old car number, and this takes him indirectly to La Ceiba, on the Caribbean coast, to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala's main Atlantic port, back to Mexico City and down to Santiago in Chile, where he meets ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Sandy Married

... Hannyside, was of the ilk who renounced cigarettes that their value might benefit widows and orphans of reformed men in the Caribbean Islands he was a Greater Bethelite. Araminta, the niece, was an ascetic High Church member two people with only one link ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

ON THE RECORD: TOP CHOICE

... realm of 78- speed discs looks like spreading to the LP lists with eight songs under the J J title of Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean. j Classical -pHERE can be little doubt that, but for his death in an air disaster in 1956, Guido Cantelli would now have ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 734 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

The Crimson Pirate

... than Douglas Fairbanks. It tells a complicated story about a tyrannical governor and a sketchy resistance, group in some Caribbean island. The beautiful daughter of the local patriot enlists the help A Burt Lancaster, who is a Good Pirate. He is hampered ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA: Recent Productions

... actors John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. The story 's a mere trifle about a young couple who fall in love, suddenly, in the Caribbean, and decide to build a home round a brass bedstead on the sunny beach of an otherwise uninhabited island. The Sheriff of ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... defiance of grammar rules. You don't need to be a purist to shudder at him, and I advise the sen sitive to begin this volume, Caribbean Nights, at Chapter Two. Otherwise they might not read on and that would be a pity, for he 's worth reading. He spent a ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2238 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

AT THE SIGN OF THE CINEMA: DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS

... and yet I- like her. The veteran square-rigger Charles W. Morgan, built in New Bradford in 1842, whose activities in the Caribbean Sea form the crux of the film, is a very gallant vessel, carrying her bulging canvas beautifully despite her eighty -odd ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 102 | Tags: Review 

HOME IS TO-MORROW

... for Unuto it is not his fault that the Corabanian plan falters, or that his wife, who is more of Curzon Street than the Caribbean, should turn to a tough and deplorable American suitor. Lady Fortrose might well say of Corabana as Masefield of the port ...

Published: Wednesday 24 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 712 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... Here Moshikin (Miles Malleson) is having a somewhat lengthy get-together with his ward, Masha (Sheila Shand-Gibbs). In Caribbean Cabaret the music was provided by a Steel Band, an astonishing conglomeration of instruments made out of old oil-drums each ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 920 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

A KISS BEFORE DYING: TREASURE DIVING HOLIDAYS

... at Andros Island, in the Bahamas, taking up residence in a derelict fortress rising out of the sea at the gateway of the Caribbean (nesting-ground for millions of tern which do not recognise their eggs but only the place that they are laid in funny if ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 962 | Page: 10 | Tags: Review