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SMALL TALK

... A VERY entertaining Dowager, who cannot give up the five o'clock tea habit and who thinks Lord Devonport a Von to be deported, compounds with her conscience by waging a ruthless war against petty waste. Pounds of sugar, she says, are lost every week in any large household by the unmelted residuum left at the bottom of tea-cups. She finds that her friends, and her servants too, commonly help ...

MOTLEY NOTES: AT A COUNTRY INN. (A Fact.)

... >\or,ev /Votes I nvEST wE-lfi-MV-MOTLEy GIVE M£- LEAVE* TO SPEAK MV- /MIND 1-1 BY KEBLB HOWAKD Chicot AT A COUNTRY INN. (A Fact.) STRONG GENTLEMAN. And what have you for lunch to-day? WAITRESS. Cold roast beef, cold boiled beef, cold roast lamb, and ham. Strong Gentleman. Bring me some roast beef and ham. And what can I have with it Waitress. Watercress, cucumber, pickled walnuts, pickled ...

CHUCKER-OUT OF THE UNWANTED: MUSCULAR MAUDE

... CHUCKER- OUT OF THE UNWANTED: MUSCULAR MAUDE. EQUALLY QUICK AT PUTTING 'EM UP AND PUTTING 'EM OUT: MISS DORIS LYTTON AS MAUDE BRAY IN WANTED, A HUSBAND, AT THE PLAYHOUSE. Photographs by Malcolm Arbuthnot.] It is not every girl who can do a friend the sort of good turn that Maude Bray (Miss Doris Lytton) does Mabel Vere (Miss Gladys Cooper) in the new farcical comedy' with which Miss Cooper ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WHEEL AND THE WING: THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DOVER FLIGHT: THE C. S. ROLLS TRAGEDY; Truth of an Old Adage

... THR WH F.F.I. AND THE WING THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DOVER FLIGHT THE C. S. ROLLS TRAGEDY. Truth of an Old Adage. Of all the adages that have grown up with the English language, it may be doubted if any is more true than the one which declares that Half the world does not know how the other half lives. And motorists more than any other class, perhaps, are reminded thereof, for the use ...

MOTLEY NOTES: Revival of Dramatic Taste?

... ^MOTLEY NOTES o ill 1 m j By KEBLE HOWARD (Chicot). Revival of Dramatic Taste A few nights ago, I witnessed in a provincial theatre-- to be exact, the Theatre Royal, Brighton-- a strange scene. I saw and heard a large audience, composed of quite ordinary, unassuming play goers, applauding with genuine enthusiasm a dramatic work of real skill, sombre in tone, faithful in characterisation, ...

THE WAY OF THE WORLD: Mr. Balfour as Pianist

... T HE WAY 1 i OF THE WORLD Mr. Balfour as Pianist. I I suppose the Peace Conference bores you utterly! At any rate, it bores me, especially when Lady Lymelyghte invades my territory and tells me, with a wealth of detail, exactly how President Wilson proposes to dispose of the British Fleet! Up to the present, very few interesting stories have come through from Paris, but here is one. A very ...

A BRITISH PANTOMIME AT COLOGNE: DICK WHITTINGTON

... A BRITISH PANTOMIME AT COLOGNE DICK WHITTINGTON. I. OUTSIDE THE DEUTSCHES THEATRE, COLOGNE, WHERE THEY ARE GIVING DICK WHITTINGTON MEMBERS OF THE TABS, THE 2ND ARMY HEADQUARTERS CONCERT PARTY. 2. IN DICK WHITTINGTON AT COLOGNE (L. TO R.) PTE. E. ROBERTS AS IDLE JACK, 2nd LT. H. G. WHITBREAD (HAL CHARLTON) AS THE DAME, CPL. J. GOODMAN (LESLIE NOR MAN) AS DICK, AND SERGT. J. SWEENEY AS THE ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 160 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WEDDED TO A DESCENDANT OF COUNTS SOVEREIGN

... . rr Hff War -Worker V>6e Qountess de Vismes. |jj -{Photograph by EUioU and Fry.] The Countess de Vismes is the wife of Alexander William Theobald de Vismes et de Ponthieu, Count de Vismes, who is an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and succeeded to his father's title in 1895. The Countess de Vismes was, before her marriage in 1917, Miss Eileen Bede Dalley, daughter of Mr. William Bede Dalley, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 175 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DELEGATES FROM VARIOUS PIECES: COMEDY, MUSIC ... COMEDY, REVUE, AND PANTOMIME ACTRESSES

... DELEGATES FROM VARIOUS PIECES COMEDY, MUSli I (jAL COMEDY, REVUE, AND PANTOMIME ACTRESSES. I MISS NORAH SWINBURNE. mmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmm wwa-- ■■wwwiwwwMWMii MISS HEATHER THATCHER. iiiiiiriMiHWMiiiwMBiiiiiiiiiiniiri m mmmmmmMmtmmmmmm mm r- MISS MARJORIE GORDON. [MgSiWrfjwaoMaa',rvrrT*MMMifiiw.uucgp^ i M W-- a-- MISS ETHEL BAIRD. MISS CLARICE MAYNE. MISS PHYLLIS WHITNEY. J ■yy I mm II iiiiiii. ...

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Published: Wednesday 29 January 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 41 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... AS A FAUN FASCINATOR OF THE NYMPHS MR. RODOLPH VALENTINO IN A NEW PART. [Photograph by Maurice Beck and Helen M*cCrt$or>] Mr. Rodolph Valentino started his career by dancing in vaudeville in America. Small parts in Once to Every Woman, and other pictures led the way .to his appearance as Julio in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in which he was such a success that he became one of the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 123 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA: Growth of Motoring

... MOTOR DICTA. RY HFNIOCHUS Growth of Motoring. It has been stated at several official functions connected with automobilism that we may look forward to many changes in various directions in the course of the next year or so. Leaving aside the political speculations in regard to the Government's final attitude in dealing with motor taxation and the Road Fund, it was announced that the industrj' ...

Published: Wednesday 24 February 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1030 | Page: Page 86, 88 | Tags: Photographs