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We Take Off Our Hat to

Row of portraits in The Sketch magazine's weekly We Take Off Our Hat-" feature with the Russian ballet dancer, Nijinsky, for the fact that his success and salary have grown by leaps and bounds, barrister Mr Huntly Jenkins for being "just sweet" having "such nice eyes" and "looking so kind" (leading him to be the barrister of choice for young women charged with theft!), Princess Sudhira of Cooch-Behar for not letting her sister monopolise every Man(Der); this alludes to her marriage to Mr Alan Mander, her sister Princess Pretiva having already married his brother Lionel, ; Sir Douglas Haig, recently made chairman of the Hurlingham Polo Club, and the Bishop of Oxford, whose liturgical studies meant that he discovered that the use of the word obey did not enter the marriage service until the fourteenth century

Picture No
13744700
Media ID
46792044
Size
6466px x 3551px (2.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photographs in The Sketch', 4 March 1914, page 264
Date
1914

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Barrister Behar Cooch Haig Huntly Hurlingham Jenkins Jun22 Mander Nijinsky Obey


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