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The Literary Lounger: Dreams of Flying

... engine to warm it up- THE PRINCES LOWERED IN A RAFT TO BATHE FROM H.M.S. SHROPSHIRE I H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, AND (R.) H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. When the Princes enjoyed a bathe from H.M.S. M Shropshire they were lowered in a raft ...

Published: Wednesday 31 August 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2303 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... latter gets into trouble with the authorities for intruding upon a female bathing party owing to his love for the princess, helps the youth to escape by means of a flying machine. Then come the visit to the cave with grand ballets of its jewelled glories ...

THE CINEMA

... on a motor cycle combination, and, later, does a solo- flight without the slightest knowledge of flying. In both cases the machines are in control, performing amazing stunts and piling thrill on thrill, regardless of Mr. Formby's sufferings. He suffers ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1048 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... Dark. I must believe that Martha Raye's vocal and physical energy, as heard and seen in a musical battle of saxophones and machine- guns entitled Public Melody No. i, will have its host of admirers; but Jack Benny's skirmishes with threatening bankruptcy ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1068 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

A BYSTANDER among the BOOKS

... measure of his own enthusiasms. He is not a tramp or an explorer like most of us he demands a comfortable bed at nights and a hot bath when wanted but his wan derings are not of the ordinary kind, and this record of a few of them is pleasantly alluring. 7ou ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1927
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1118 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

Mr. ... PICKWICK: AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE

... long, thin individual. But at the instance of the publisher the drawing was amended to become a copy of a friend of his at Bath, a fat old beau, who would wear, in spite of the ladies' protests, drab tights and black gaiters. The Mr. Pickwick subsequently ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1175 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

SATIRE, NOT SMILES

... present film upsets the fine balance of Charlie Chaplin's genius. Inexorably he has been caught up in the revolutions of the machine age which he condemns. Once he was silent; now he talks a lot. Once he was a little man accepting circumstance; now he kicks ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1048 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS FOR THE CHILDREN

... ring that once belonged to Merlin, he goes back through time to the fifth century, finding himself a prince in the city of Bath. This makes a really exciting story. Two very old favourites by E. Nesbit, both published at 1 is 6d by Ernest Benn, have a ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1176 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Films of the Day: Family Life and Fairy Tales

... marries an American diplomat, ruins his career and risks her life to rehabilitate him. There are interesting glimpses of machines for deciphering codes and other technicalities, and the climax has a certain mild excitement. Joel McCrea, always handsome ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1109 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

She don't know & I don't

... loose again Signorina Vitti scandalizing her neigh bour from Kenya by dancing a native dance in black-face make-up and a bath towel is charming, and I didn't mind watch ing her watching the 'planes come and go at an aero club-- but as she appears to ...

Published: Wednesday 13 February 1963
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1096 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: BARNUM AND BAILEY'S

... of the water fete beforo and after, need not be dwelt on. I am told that the artists enjoy it I know a gentleman who never bathes with enjoy ment, unless he has to break the ice in one of the ponds at Hampstead. But at Olympia such heroism is not necessary ...