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THE LASS WHO LOVED TO BE A SAILOR

... . AMELIA VELLA, alias DAVIE JAMES LINCOLN GARFIELD McKINLEY, TEE PATRIOTIC AMERICAN GIRL 1VII0 TROD TEE DECK BUT MAT NOT TREAD THE BOARDS. Amelia Vella, whose story has been told by the Daily Mail, is a damsel of wonderful pluck and assurance. She is sixteen years old, and is reputed of American birth, her father being Frank Vella, whom his daughter describes as a Maltese seaman. She ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 713 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

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... THE SKETCH BEHIND THE SCENES: MISS LOUIE FREEAR AT THE STRAND THEATRE. FUOM A l'HuTUGllAl'H 11 V 11. W. THOMAS, CHBAl'SIOE. 0 ...

Published: Wednesday 27 November 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 22 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LADY MASTERS OF HOUNDS

... . SINCE the famous Marchioness of Salisbury, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, founded the Hatfield Hunt, and showed sport to hard-riding fields till she reached her seventieth year (in 1819), ladies have occasionally directed their own Hunts, and have done it extremely well. The Comtesse de Paris had a pack of harriers, known as the Wood Norton, for a few years; but she de ...

Published: Wednesday 27 November 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1556 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE SONG WORLD

... . BY CLIFJL'bN BINGHAM. THERE is a great stagnation in the world of song just at present. Music publishers are at a loss to know what style of song is wanted. The drawing-room ballad that delighted the ears and senses of a decade or so ago has faded almost into oblivion. The most popular form of song up to now has been the two little songs in one, but even this begins to fail to attract. ...

Published: Wednesday 27 November 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 790 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Photographs 

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... MISS MADGE CRICHTON, NOW PLAYING IN THREE LITTLE MAIDS AT THE PRINCE OF WALES' THEATRE. Photograph by Alfred Ellis and Walery, Baker Street IV. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 24 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN: The Return of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught--Mr. Chamberlain's Welcome--The Paris Carnival; ..

... THE CLUBMAN. The Return of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught Mr. Chamberlain'' s Welcome The Paris Carnival. THE most illustrious of our globe-trotters are returning to our shores. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught have spent their time since the Durbar in paying visits to old Indian friends, who are many-- for the Duke was just as popular with the native nobility as he was with the Englishmen ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 935 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK of the WEEK: THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WEDDING OF THE KING AND QUEEN

... [Mall talk |^ft ft ft ft eft >p THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WEDDING OF THE KING AND QUEEN. NEXT Tuesday our popular Sovereign and his gracious Queen Consort will cele brate the fortieth anniver sary of their wedding-day, and a little circumstance which adds interest to this special date is that the eventful day on which the ceremony took place in 1863 was also a Tuesday. Although King ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5593 | Page: Page 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

SMALL TALK ON THE BOULEVARDS: A Ruffianly Carnival

... SMALL TALK ON THE BOULEVARDS. A Ruffianly Carnival. It is safe to hazard that no confetti-throwing will be allowed next year at the Carnival (writes the Paris Correspondent of The Sketch). It was only in a good-humoured moment that the Prefect of Police allowed it this season. To what use the privilege was put by organised bands of ruffians is incredible. One man was murdered on the boulevards ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 990 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Photographs 

IN THE DAYS OF THEIR YOUTH

... . MR. CHARLES MATHEWS AS A MAID-OF-ALL-WORK (l86j). MR. J. L. TOOLE AT THE AGE OF FORTY. MISS KATE BATEMAN AS LEAH THE FORSAKEN (1863). MR. SAMUEL PHELPS I& -MIDDLE LIFE. Photographs by H. IV. King, London. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 42 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE SKETCH PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERVIEWS: XXXIV.--DUDLEY HARDY

... THE SKETCH PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERVIEWS. XXXIV.-- DUDLEY HARDY. i YES, I WORK HARD. WHILST HERE IS A MODEL OF A BOAT HERE IS A PISTOL. I MAY AS WELL RID THE WORLD OK ONE INTERVIEWER, AT ANY RATE. 1 ALSO PLAY HARD. THAT I AM USING FOR MY NEW PICTURE-- A FISHING SCENE. GONE GOOD I NOW REMOVE MY HAT FROM ITS ACCUSTOMED PEG THIS PALETTE BELONGED TO MY FATHER, T. B. HARDY. NOW SEE WHAT YOU 'VE ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE HEROINE, MISS HILDA SPONG

... . Drugging the villain'' s drink. Giving the oath at the trial of her sister's murderer. Finding her sister murdered Mourning but not melancholy. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALFRED ELLTS, UPPER BAKF.R STREET, N.W. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 36 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs