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SOTHEBY'S

... regarded as the centre of the world art market. When one thinks of the London art sale rooms, Sotheby's is one which comes quickly into mind. The firm which now has its premises in Bond Street can claim direct descent from 1744 when Samuel Baker started ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 506 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

FOLLOWING THROUGH

... golfing songs, many of them long forgotten, and some really interesting facts on the change from the feather to the gutta ball. Extracts from these I will give from time to time; but firstly, to prove my opening contention, here is a description of Medal ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1075 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

MYSELF AT THE PICTURES: The Films of the Year

... defective memory means, of course, that once again we must have recourse to our scrapbooks. And I should like to say that the film critic who pretends to differentiate from memory between the cinema-fodder of Mes- dames Colbert, Lamarr and Lamour is just ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1081 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

The Sketch-Book

... subsequent issue to picture the world as it reels drunkenly towards the unknown future. The purist might ask why the Editor has chosen to call this new feature the Sketch-Book. Could it not just as well have been Note-Book, Scrap-Book, Memory Book or even a Diary ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1603 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

The Bystander Bookshelf: More About the Ballet

... an authoritative, concise and useful little book. The indefatigable Mr. Haskell is also responsible for The Balletomane's Scrapbook (Black js. 6 d.), which con tains nearly two hundred photographs of Colonel de Basil's dancers. The third book, The Birth ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1158 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

British Boxers Preparing for Three Americans: Roderick must do better if he is to beat Armstrong

... re doubtable negro at Harringay in May for world honours. Wire Pulling. I am warned that Armstrong may be kept at home by the New York wire-pullers, of whom Mike Jacobs is chief they are shy to allow their world beaters to travel. I have an assurance that ...

AN ALL-BRITISH FACTORY

... Inside, every day is a fine day all weather is fair weather. It is well known that the English climate is the best in the world for the manufacture of tobacco it can now be said that Cameras' climate is the best in England. Another device is that whereby ...

Other

... subject to change owing to the Election SATURDAY 12 MARCH International skl-ing from Murren, Switzerland; racing from Here ford; Rugby League from Hud- dersfield; wrestling from Becken- ham, Kent. ITV. 1.10 Trevor Howard, Alistair Sim and Rosamund John appear ...

Published: Saturday 12 March 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1007 | Page: 59 | Tags: Photographs 

SOME ODDS AND ENDS OF INTEREST

... one of the seven wonders of the theatrical world and must astonish nobody more than Mr. William Poel, to whose infectious enthusiasm we owe so much similar work. The popularity of the play may be gauged from the fact that Mr. Robert Arthur, one of the ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1043 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Air Rescues

... be placed in the best position from which to start his operations against the fire, and he could be a most useful asset to the forestry control authorities all over the world. It is a pity that nobody has kept a scrapbook of aircraft life-saving activities ...

The Sketch-Book

... beginning of time and so it will be, world without end. And in the bride's home at Streatham or Putney there are the presents a mug from Uncle Tom, a tea-set from Aunt Mary, a cocktail-shaker from the best man and a clock from the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1680 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS

... slight frown. But from the reader's point of view it is verv interesting. And it is all related in that lively, intimate way which has made Mr. Mais such a general favourite among those who read and those who listen-in. Thoughts from All the Days of My ...

Published: Wednesday 13 October 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2324 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs