1906 issue THE SKETCH Magazine ( 0070 )

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Twenty one pages ( 42 sides ) of a weekly issue of:

’ The SKETCH’

A weekly Magazine Dated 1906 price 6d.

A wonderful insight into theatre, stage, royalty, society, sport, fashion and many other activities of the day "a journal of art and actuality".

This first part of the description features a list of Images i.e. sketches, photographs etc (these sometimes have descriptive articles but not always). They include :-

' King Haakon of Norway - Queen Maud - And Their Little Son Prince Olaf ' full front page photograph by Chusseau-Flaviens

Society at Ascot -:

' Major Loder and The Jockey Dillon ' and others

' Lord Lonsdale and Mrs Ivor Guest ' with others

Lord and Lady Crichton '

' Lord Essex and A Lady '

The King Driving to Ascot with the French andRussian Ambasadors '

' M. Heilbron the French Tattersall, in the Paddock ' with a lady

' Lord Coventry ' and others

' Lord Howard De Waden ' and others

' The Duke of Westminster ' and others

Full page

' A Preserved Brazilian Beauty - the Body of Akuhsa Kuakuh a Young Lady of the Wild Brazilian Tribe the Botocudos - Preserved by Dr Fergusson '

' A Sleepless City Clerk's Travelling Theatre on the Embankment - Mr Augustus Herbert Futvoye '

' The Warwick Pageant - The Entrance of Caradoc - - in the LAst Tableau - - The Legend of the Dun Cow Slain by Guy of Warwick ' full page (see scan)

' Father Bernardf Vaughan '

Miniatures by Nellie M. Hepburn Edmunds Sleekburnc.

' Eileen Daughter of HEnry Marshall of Northampton '

' Frances Daughter of the Late Frank C. Church '

' The Countess of Cromartie ' info. Sibell Lilian Blunt-Mackenzie, nee Sutherland-Leveson-Gower

' Mrs Moynihan Wife of the Well Know Surgeon '

' The Duchess of Sutherland ' info. Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, nee St Clair-Erskine

' The Princess of Monaco - The First Reigning Hebrew in Europe ' - info. nee Mlle Alice Heine and former Dowager Duchess de Richelieu

' The Viscountess De Vesci ' - nee Miss Georgiana Wellesley

' Baroness Sternberg the Wife of the German Ambassador in Washington ( USA ) '

' Mr Louis N. Parker - The Warwick Pageant Maker ' Sleekburnc.

' Mister Huntley Wright Making Up for His Part in " See See" at the Prince of Wales's '

' The Famous Examination Cells in Canton - Competitors for the Degree of BA Would Be Isolated in these Cubicles ' full page photograph by Underwood of London and New York

' The Famous Clock, Made by Eise Eising, at Franeder in Holland - The Planetorium '

On The Sea Floor

' A Landscape on the Sea Floor '

' An Ocean Garden - Anemones etc '

' The Green Eyefd Dog Fish '

' The Parakeet of the Deep - A Monster Fish Found in the Bay of California '

' A Lonely Tree - Plants as Animals '

Full page - These are photographs of fish or items dredged up from the sea floor and then put on display in a sea bed setting, I would say

' Mlle Boni The Prima Ballerina ' photograph of a young ballet dancer by Klary

Tortures to Aid Beauty

' Bringing Eown a Prominent Upper Lip '

' Correcting a Fall of the Cheeks '

' Treating the Nostrils with Special Unguents '

' Enamelling the Complexion '

' Correcting the Form of the Nose '

' Taking Out Wrinkles of the Forehead '

' Softening The Complexion '

Full page showing seven photographs of young ladies in a beauty salon of the day

Full page comical sketch by LAwson Wood - two scottish men

' A Dry Clean - "All Prisoners on Admission, Shall be Compelled to Take a Bath" - Prison Regulation ' full page comical sketch by H. M. Brock - of a newly arirved prisoner asking the policeman or prison warder "I sa, gov'nor, I don't want no bath. Couldn't you do me with one of these 'ere Vacuum cleaners"

' A Living Sundial at Wentworth Castle ' made of Yew

' The Hot Water Bottle Ancestor - Antique Bed Warmer '

' The Grace of Tennis Playing - Miss May Sutton ' full page photographs by Grantham Bain

' The Retort Vegetarian ' comical sketch by Charles Harrison

Full page comical sketch by Dudley Hardy on american hotels

Comical bathroom scene - Full page fron a sketch by John Hassall

' Miss Barbara Deane of the Aldwych Theatre '

' Mr Harry Grattan in The Empire Revue '

' Women Soloists at the Handel Festival - Mme Albani - Miss Ada Crossley - Mme Kirkby Lunn - Miss Agnes Nicholls - Miss Perceval Allen ' small photographs by Russell

' Conductor and Men Soloists at the Handel Festival - Dr F. Cowen - Mr Charles Santley - Mr Ben Davies - Mr Watkin Mills - Mr Charles Saunders ' small photographs by Russell

' The Union Pacific Car No. 7 - designed for Steep Gradients ' train

' The Crossley Touring Car - Mr A. Campbell Swinton Director of the Arrow Motor Bus Co. on His New Car '

' A Jockeys Professional Rubbish Heap - Tom Cannon's Old Horseshoes near Stockbridge ' pile of horse shoes

' John Roberts The Famous Billiard Player '

' Fashions - A Race Coat - - - A Gown for a Garden party '

' A Diamond Spray at tyh eParisian Diamond Company's '

' King Alfonso's Wedding Gift fron His British Regiment ' statuette of an officer of the 16th Queens Lancers

' Johannesburg Branch of the Federal Supply and Cold Storage Company of South Africa '

Sketch Supplement - With titled page byt G. L. Stampa of a lady artist and her puppy

' Miss Denise Orme the Beaty of Peking in " See-See " The New Chinese Comic Opera at the Prince of Wales Theatre ' full page photograph by Bassano

' Miss Ruth St Denis inthe Dance of the Five Senses - RepresentsRadha the Deified Wife of Krishna ' full page photograph

' A Mystic Hi8ndoo Dance by Miss Ruth St Denis ' full page showing four photographs by Dover Street Studios

' A Bayswater Dinner Table Scene from "The Man from Blankleys " at the Haymarket Showing - Mr Aubrey Fitzgerald - Miss Dagmar Wiehe - Mr Charles Hawtrey - Miss Fanny Brough - Mr H. Kemble - Mr A. Playfair - Miss Gwynne Herbert - Mr H. Laurent - M. Miel - Miss C. Ewell - Miss Maud Wynter - Mr Welton Dale - Miss Lydia Rachel - Mr Weedon Grossmith - Miss Alice Mansfield - Mr E. Holman Clark ' double page photograph

' Judas in Opera - M. Dufranne in " Marie Magdeleine " ..' full page photograph

' Christ Impersonated on the Paris Stage by M. Salignac in " Marie Magdeleine " ..'

' Miss E. Firth Who Played in " Venus " at th Empire ' full page photographs by Bassano - info. Elizabeth Firth Sleekburnc.

This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-

Motley Notes By Keble Howard

The Clubman

Small Talk of the Week includes Miss Nellie M. Hepburn Edmuns the Miniaturist - - Mr Agar-Robartes - - etc

Mister Huntley Wright

AFter Dinner by EAB

The Stage from the Stalls by EFS

Weekend Papers by S. L. Bensusan

The Literary Lounger by O.O. ( info. Robertson-Nicoll )

A Novel In a Nutshell - The Cuckoo's Nest by Nellie K. Blissett ... short story

A Novel In a Nutshell - An Elopement by F. Harris Deans ... short story

Heard in the Green Room - Theatrical Gossip

Keynotes by Common Chord

The Man on the Car - Motoring Column

World of Sport by Olympian Sleekburnc.

Our Ladies Pages - by Sybil

City Notes - Answers to Correspondents from the City Editor etc

The four digit number in brackets in title is for my ref only. It measures 360mmx250mm (14.5x10") approx. The spine and some pages are loose with binding witness marks. There may be small defects and handling marks, anything thought significant will be mentioned in the main body of the description.

PLEASE NOTE :- I cannot guarantee that the issue is complete 'as published' - but what I have described above IS present so if you are looking for something in particular in this issue PLEASE ASK. The banners in the scan may vary.

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PLEASE ALSO NOTE That the paper banners, or mastheads vary, and the scan shown is only a representative sample.