Identifier: captiveatcarlsru00leej (find matches)
Title: A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lee, Joseph
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London J. Lane
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A CARLSRUHE CONCERT PROGRAMME. permitted to escape the last indignity of ablution! Into the service of the theatre I immediately found myself intrigued and impressed, in the somewhat composite character of scene-painter, scene-shifter, poster-artist.
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A CHELSEA CHRISTMAS EVE 65 actor, prompter, noises-off, and playwright. My first essay in this latter capacity was entitled A Chelsea Christmas Eve, the scene being a studio, embellished with sundry artistic audacities—nudes and nocturnes, post-impressionisms and cubisms—and from the cardboard window of which was a view of the Thames, including the Tower Bridge!—there entirely for economical reasons, and not geographic. So pleasant, nevertheless, was this littlemake-believe interior that we rarely enteredfor a rehearsal without discovering and dis-turbing sundry reading animals who had creptinto it as a quiet and congenial environ-ment, and who frequently and regretfully suggested that it would be desirable as a permanency. During the performance the oncoming of a monstrous and realistic pie, built—not baked—in a wash-hand basin, filled with boiling water, and covered with a richly coloured cardboard crust, was nearly provocative of an assault upon the stage by a hungry and overwrong

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