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The AMERICAN ART of AMUSEMENT: Mass Production and the Laziness of the Average Individual are Creating the ..

... item in a department store. If, for instance, the phase of the season is a clog dance, it means automatically that 500 clog dancers can find engagements. Without a clog dance no show would be acceptable. So with Shaw or O'Neill the same ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2009 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WOMAN-ABOUT-TOWN: The Rush

... on dances also took place the big Fete at Versailles at the Albert Hall, and the Royal Caledonian Ball at the Cecil. These were all first-rate hap penings then there were the King's birthday reception at the India Office, and several smart dances each ...

Published: Wednesday 11 June 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 857 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GEISHA OF TO-DAY: In Spite of many Changes in Japanese Society, the true Geisha still Carry on The ..

... to a party which she will entertain with singing and dancing. Her pokkuri or thick wooden clogs have small bells attached which jingle at every step. ENTERTAINING THEIR CLIENTS: Left Three geisha dance and a fourth plays the samisen, the Japanese guitar ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1809 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

on GOLF: Class Golf in the Out-Season

... Lacey, Eric Martin-Smith, Lester Hartley, Rex Hartley, Fred Robson, and W. T. Twine A Dance at Addinglon Palace Golf Club A large number of guests were present at this dance, which everyone enjoyed. Above, at the top, are Miss Kathleen Garnham, Mr. A. W. Gibbs ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1229 | Page: 50 | Tags: Photographs 

ON the PATH of the CONQUISTADORS: A Briton Returns to Little-known Central and South America

... that 's one reason the national dancing is so entrancing. The dancing girls of Caracas are among the finest natural dancers I 've ever seen. And very good-looking, too. Another sight not to be missed is the Joropo danced by wild horsemen from the Orinoco ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1834 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

PARISIANA

... who suffers from a sluggish liver, should be entitled to kick his managers, or cuff his typists, to jerk away the bile that clogs his business drive. There is one thing to be said about this play, and only one the ana tomical treatment is carried out in ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1927
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1225 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

The Village Hall Its Place in Country Life

... hands to ornamental ironwork, with great success. Some villages make baskets and brooms, in Lancashire villages the famous clogs are made, in Wales, trugs, or shallow baskets made of overlapping plywood. In the High lands, there are, of course the crofter ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2188 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

A COAL-MINER'S ... ABOVE GROUND

... for the indoor pastimes, in which must be included dancing. This is so popular that the village supports no fewer than three different dance orchestras which hire themselves out in cut-throat competition for anything from a pound to thirty shillings, a ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4672 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

A CHRISTMAS THRILL: The Fantasy-World of Pantomime

... virtuosi as Fred Vokes enlivened Humpty Dumpty. If there was anything funnier than Mr. Vokes' split dance, he wrote, it was his step dance, Lancashire clogs, Cornish reels, transatlantic walk-rounds, cellar flaps and breakdowns, college horn-pipes and Irish ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2255 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

A THOUSAND MILES TO BOURNEMOUTH

... alone a Rolls-Royce, with those dog cart affairs sans windscreens, sans hoods, sans everything. Imagine going out to dine and dance in winter-time by car thirty years ago. Could it be done Only after prepara tions similar to those required for a polar ex ...

GAIETY ON THE PLAGE FLEURIE

... of Col. Carlton who comes up from the golt course at Mougins each summer to run the golf at Deauville, where he arranges competitions every week. At the beginning of August the golfers enjoyed their Grand Prix de Deauville, when the prizes I heard cost ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3041 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs