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MOTLEY NOTES: The Invincible English

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ON THE DAZZLE RAZZLE: COSTUMES AT THE CHELSEA ARTS

... ON THE DAZZLE RAZZLE COSTUMES AT THE CHELSEA ARTS. THE DAZZLE BALL OF THE CHELSEA ARTS CLUB, AT THE ALBERT HALL SOME NOTABLE FIGURES. Photographs by CJV., Illustrations Bureau, Yevotuic, ami Lafayette. As already mentioned, the Chelsea Arts Ball on March 12 was a wonderful success. The Albert Hall presented literally a Dazzling spectacle, Our central photograph shows Miss Margot Kelly, who ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WAY OF THE WORLD: The Prince as a Shot

... THE WAY OF THE tf WORLD il I- (S The Prince as a Shot. The Prince of Wales is delighting his father with his skill with the gun, and people in the Court entourage are wondering whether he will equal the King's reputation as one of the best shots in the kingdom. Lord Lans- downe, a French Ideal. A French poli tician told me the other day that, of all English states men, he ad mired Lord ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2121 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... SMALL/ TALK IT has not taken Europe's most beautiful Queen long to establish herself in the hearts of loyal Londoners. Queen Marie of Roumania is, of course, English on her father's side, and was therefore sure of a warm welcome anyway. But, quite apart from her rank, her charming manners and personal beauty win the hearts of all with whom she comes in contact. It would, by the way, be quite ...

AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE: A QUEEN--AND DAUGHTERS

... AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE: A QUEEN -AND DAUGHTERS. WITH THE PRINCESSES ELIZABETH, MARIE, AND ILEANA THE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA. Photograph by Henri Manuel. The Queen of Roumania arranged to leave Paris for London on Wednesday of last week, to visit the King and Queen at Buck ingham Palace. During the war, she comfaanded much sympathy. Devoted to her husband's subjects, she has felt keenly the suffering ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... THE* CRITIC ON THE*- HEARTH pft a o mr / V Bv A. ST. JOHN ADCOCK. THE only agreeable thing about Uncle Àrthur, in Christopher and Columbus, is that he had lived to the age of fifty under the impression that the Faery Queen, Adonais, and In Memoriam were celebrated racehorses. Otherwise, he was an unpleasant person who lay awake of nights nagging at his wife instead of going to ...

WHAT BOOTS IT ?--THE LATEST FASHION IN FALL WEAR

... WHAT BOOTS IT THE LATEST FASHION IN FALL WEAR. TO BRING ADMIRERS TO THE FEET --THE LACE SPAT FOR WOMEN, AND PARTICULARLY, PERHAPS, FOR NOISETTES. We need not remind our readers that a good many of the fairer sex have taken to the wearing of spats. Hitherto they have been content with the masculine form of that adornment Now, apparently, we are to have the lace spat of the kind shown. This is ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 19 March 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1274 | Page: Page 54 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... jL SMALL. TALK THE Hunt the Slipper Ball was Lady Angela Forbes' idea, but she has something far more serious in mind than a mere frolic. Lady Angela worked for soldiers in France, and is devoting the profits of her canteens to their welfare after the war. The actual slipper hunt begins and ends at the ball she is organising on Feb. 17, at the Savoy Hotel, to which a two- guinea ticket from ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1213 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

... ^WITHOUT r ^i PREJUDICE -9 25W W AT last and at length and finally, as they used to say in the Just So Stories, the Great Secret, oh, my never-for-so-very- long-at-a-time-to-be-deceived one, is out. Or, abandoning for a moment the style which Mr. Kipling found so helpful when suffering from a serious dearth of ideas, the gaff is, as you may say, blown. Or, should you prefer it said à la ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 998 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs