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SMALL TALK

... - THOSE who had the good fortune to see the play for the Davis Cup at Wimbledon were twice fortunate when Princess Mary, an en thusiastic onlooker, came within their range of vision, or if they heard her rapturous bursts of applause at a fine rally. Surprise and suspense and positively thrilling recoveries abounded in the doubles, whereas in the singles the very perfection of placing cut the ...

A NEW PEERESS, AND THREE WAR-WORKERS

... A NEW PEERESS, AND THREE WAR WORKERS. I. WIFE OF A NEW PEER: LADY AITKEN-- AND HER CHILDREN. 2. DOING PATROL WORK MRS. DE C. ELTON. 3. WORKING FOR PRISONERS OF WAR MRS. E. LEYBORNE POPHAM. 4. AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE V.A.D. MISS D. BARKLY. [Photographs by Lafayette aiui E. 0. Hoppd.] Lady Aitken, of whom we give a photograph with her daughter and two sons, Janet, John and Peter, was, before her ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DAUGHTER OF A WELL-KNOWN PEERESS: A NEW PORTRAIT

... . MUCH INTERESTED IN CHARITABLE WORK AND THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN LADY CLARE ANNESLEY. Photograph by Val V Estrange. Lady Clare Annesley is not only very much liked and admired in Society, but is also well known for her active participation in charitable work of various kinds, and is specially interested in movements having for their object the welfare of children. Lady Clare is the daughter of ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 133 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Things New: At the Theatres

... things Ulew Bt tbe ftbeatves. WEe^* a^^ilii PUSS IN NEW BOOTS is Drury Lane's last year's pan tomime with many differences. It has lost Mr. George Graves, for whom the grown-up world will mourn, but it has probably gained in the eyes of the youngsters by the coming of Mr. Robert Hale, the development of Mr. Stanley Lupino, and the wider scope given to the cheerful antics of Mr. Will Evans. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1346 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE HEROINE OF ROMANCE: HER LATEST PORTRAIT

... . NEARING A THOUSAND APPEARANCES IN ONE PART MISS DORIS KEANE AS MARGHERITA CAVALLINI. Photograph by Hugh Cecil. It is a record to be proud of that by her personal charm and talent an actress should represent a stage heroine for more than nine hundred appearances, and find her popularity greater than ever, and all the signs of full houses and delighted audiences pointing towards the thousandth ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... -JL, A VIRILE character belongs to the new Bishop of Hereford. Dr. Hensley Henson looks forward to terrible times after the war-- a loosening of the bands of society, and moral deterior ation through the loss of balance between the sexes-- but he does not gloom and despond. He has always been a man of decided opinions-- some popular, and others de cidedly not. There was truth and point behind ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1168 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN: SOME PORTRAITS

... BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN SOME PORTRAITS. I and 2. LADY ROSEMARY BARING. 3 and 4. LADY VIOLET BARING. Ihotoitraphs by it: i Martin. The subjects of our photographs are the two charming young daughters of the Earl of Cromer, second holder of the title, who is a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards, and they are grand-daughters of the first Earl of Cromer. Their mother, the Countess of Cromer, was, before ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

KENSITAS

... KEHSnaS KEHSIHS Every Smoker of I like your cigarette, for it is distinctly the Vir ginian par excellence You can pay a bigger price, but can't obtain a H better one and I says again, as I've said before, WELL, IF YER KNOWS OF A BETTER CIGARETTE, THEN SMOKE IT.' EXTRA LARGE VIRCINIA CIGARETTES will agree with Old Bill because they are A popular cigarette at a popular price 20 for Is. 2d. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 105 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

A DUKE'S DAUGHTER--AND HER FIANCÉ

... A DUKE'S DAUGHTER AND HER FIANCE. ENGAGED LADY MARY HAMILTON, DAUGHTER OF THE DUKE OF ABERCORN, AND CAPTAIN KENYON SLANEY. Photograph of Lady Mary Hamilton by Vol V Estrange of Captain Kenyon-Slaney, by Swat nr. Lady Mary Cecilia Rhodesia Hamilton, whose engagement is announced, is the eldest of the three daughters of the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn, and was born in 1896. The Duchess, her ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN: AT THE PETTICOAT LANE FAIR AND TOMBOLA AT THE ALBERT HALL

... . Although we illustrated in our last Number many of the characters in the great Fair at the Albert Hall, Petticoat Lane, with its tableaux and Tombola prize dresses, others of equal interest had to be omitted, and we need hardly apologise for returning to the subject. The Seven Ages of Woman, one of the tableaux, with a prologue by Mr E V Lucas, was organised by Messrs. Reville and ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 179 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WHEEL AND THE WING: DRIVING DANGERS IN DARKENED STREETS: THE ZEPPELIN FIASCO: BOMBING RAIDS; The Lights of ..

... THF? WHFFI AND THF, WING DRIVING DANGERS IN DARKENED STREETS THE ZEPPELIN FIASCO BOMBING RAIDS. The Lights of London. For this relief much thanks must be the ejaculation of everyone who observes the new lighting scheme in London for the first time. It has so long been a settled habit, however, for the majority of those engaged in business to stand not on the order of their going, but hurry ...