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OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: TOOLE'S THEATRE

... and there you are. I am just a bit doubtful about the finale. I am hesitating whether to make Loewe pursue Jago to a bathing machine wherein he has taken refuge, drag him out and drown with him in sight of all the other dramatis personec, grouped on the ...

THE WAR HAS NO PLACE IN THIS WEEK'S SELECTION: Regency Odds and Ends; The Parson's Wife through the Ages; H. E. ..

... semi-marine village or hamlet of Southend and an amusing sidelight on Wey mouth, with George III crack ing lewd jokes in a bathing- machine. Behind the footlights Mrs. Siddons was braving the necessities of retirement in the face of the challenge of new stars ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1880 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Beauty

... the bathing- machine praised for its beauty but no doubt it often is. And, as a matter of fact, in Royal Yachts, v °ht one t^ie most sumptuously produced volumes Yachts. jjas ever been my pleasure to review, there is a picture of a bathing-machine the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2744 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

ROUND THE THEATRES

... burlesque a new bathing scene, which is cleverly acted by Mr. Fred Eastman as Pedrillo, and Miss Belle Harcourt as Donna Isabella. It is a polyglot interpolation of the funniest character, consisting of an adventure in a bathing- machine- permissible in ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2920 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

BELGIANS, BATHS and BOOKS

... Belgians, Baths an A Books By SYLVIA LYON THERE is something charmingly naive in the expansive word ing of Continental pub licity: COME TO BEL GIUM, BELGIUM INVITES YOU. I read with emotion this large-handed and largely printed evidence of hospitality ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1385 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... of the Bath at Cliftonville, and his stores and ammunition waggons, altered to the familiar bathing machines and carts. I offered up a short but fervent prayer to be spared from rewarding that goat-boy as he deserved, took a ticket for a bath, and plunged ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... made about the shocking indelicacy of the French in their bathing, and was rather amused on this account at the shock received by a friend of mine and native of France when I showed him the bathing at Margate. In France they wear pretty costumes, which are ...

HEROISM AND ENDURANCE IN BURMA

... reconcile his conscience when he finds him self involved in the panic atten dant upon the fall of France. Being bombed and machine- gunned up and down the refugee- blocked roads of France, he meets an old friend of his gun-running days. Chapman, who turns ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1679 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: The Archdukeries

... was as hard on the sensibilities of its rulers as it was on the lives of many of its subjects. The Hapsburg machine, like the totalitarian machine, demanded an excessive price from everyone. Miss Sprigge treats this from Elizabeth's point of view, and follows ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1339 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... Blockade at the London Pavilion, substitutes the rattle of wisecracks for the grim stutter of machine- guns. For that matter, Mr. Miller is something of a human machine-gun, raking all and sundry with his rapid verbal fire, and extricating himself and his pal ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1113 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review