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... Covent-garden. rpHE MAGIC SAILOR,-- Roars of JL laughter at this amusing Figure, which will, when placed on the ground, commence dancing to any tune, astonishing all present. Post-free, with full instructions, for 14 stamps. H. G. CLARKE and CO., 2, Gairick- ...

SMALL TALK

... duce here could have acquired the skill which won her golden opinions and a gold medal during the heats of the Ladies' Clog- Dancing Contest at the hall aforementioned. She is a working-man's child of no tuition, and hails from Blackfriars Road. Truly ...

Published: Wednesday 11 May 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6813 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... live, and the sculptor's art will live for a time, and for a time will identify her with Ophelia. But even here there is a clog to immortality, for the life of a marble statue in the open air is but a hundred years, when it must be taken under shelter ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9856 | Page: 9 | 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 

CHRISTMAS IN THE SHOPS

... perfume is redolent of the beautiful gardens of Southern France, and the delicate face-powder* clings to the skin without clogging the pores or harming the complexion. The perfume is obtainable in bottles ranging from 4s. 6d. to 21s., and the face-powder ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5509 | Page: 92 | Tags: Photographs 

Stockings

... them on the Channel boat with other things He let himself sink deeper into pessimism. Tennis He said I was to play tennis and dance Dashed fool. What did I come for Waste of money. John Fothergill had been at the Hotel Metropole for more than a week. It ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3565 | Page: 78 | 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 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 

WINTER SPORTS RESORTS

... about to be made old ones will be seen again everyone will be in the best of tempers, including yourself. No stupid, mind-clogging work will bother you you are going to par ticipate in a sort of Grecian pen tathlon of exciting games, all day and half the ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4320 | Page: 60 | 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 

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