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...A growing family (they now have three girls: Ethel, Zola and Nell) and an urge to get the business moving propelled the couple to put down proper roots....
...Then a cover of Ethel Waters’ subtle riposte to racial stereotyping captured on a 1933 recording of “Underneath the Harlem Moon”....
...H&M and Zara were the first fast-fashion retailers, selling trend-led clothing at affordable prices....
...Marina Lambton is painted feet-up in the green drawing room at Biddick Hall, Durham; her sister Rose Cholmondeley in repose, book in hand, at Houghton Hall in Norfolk (a house that features no fewer than...
...When he died in March, the event became a homage, though at this Royal Festival Hall performance there was no sense of loss; rather a feeling that his life-affirming spirit was uplifting a sold-out house...
...A powerful speaker on the wider causes of cancer, who effortlessly packed lecture halls, he was notably lacking in arrogance, even after his Nobel award, Stanley says....
...The number of companies and executives paying to attend or set up stalls in Labour’s exhibition hall was significantly higher than those exhibiting last week at the Tory conference....
...Smyth’s Mass was being given in the Royal Albert Hall, where it premiered in 1893, though this was its Proms debut....
...City hall said that 89 per cent of people who voted in the referendum backed the ban....
...That photographer is Thomas Ruff, with whom H&deM have been collaborating for decades....
...The garden was designed by H Avray Tipping, who was at the forefront of the Arts and Crafts movement....
...“H&deM” is best known for its grand global gestures: the “Bird’s Nest” stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an undulating doughnut swathed in a cat’s cradle of steel; the Elbphilharmonie concert hall cresting...
...Another encouraging sign is the recent opening of Pawa Café & Bar, just 250 metres away from Fed Square across Princes Bridge in the Hamer Hall concert venue....
...The long-distance attack by multiple unmanned explosive boats that penetrated a supposed protected harbour provided a “glimpse into the future of naval warfare”, said H I Sutton, a defence analyst....
...Ark Invest’s Hall-of-Fame capital incineration doesn’t seem to have put off investors — the flagship ETF kept attracting masochists punters this year in spite of a 61 per cent drawdown — so it might be the...
...Elsewhere in retail we have numbers from Inditex and H&M, the latter being a trading update rather than a results call....
...But there are some smart ideas in this adaptation (by David H Bell, Paul T Couch and Curt Wollan)....
...Ethel Smyth, a leading figure among the suffragettes and too long neglected as a composer, is suddenly in the spotlight again....
...As late as 1885 it was estimated that at least half of the buildings were devoted to some form of sin. 6th Avenue was lined with dives, saloons and all-night dance halls.”...
...At his Carnegie Hall debut recital in 2019, Tao’s main programme was Bach’s Toccata in F-sharp and Schumann’s Kriesleriana, with several modern works....
...In a moment of portentous symbolism, her character, Ethel, is trapped inside a television and eaten by a cartoon monster....
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...In the same shopping centre, it is up against brighter, more modern H&M and Zara stores, with merchandise priced to compete with, respectively, C&A’s budget and premium ranges....
...Suffice to say, my case did not reappear until I returned home from the trip, laden like a too-tanned bougatsa-stuffed donkey, with carrier bags chock-full of all the sweat-stained H&M T-shirts, tatty flip-flops...
...There is Lutheran stolidity in this barnlike late Gothic hall-church. Wood, stone, glass. Pulpit, altar, cross....
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