Refine Search

Newspaper

Bystander, The

Countries

Access Type

37

Type

27
10

Public Tags

More details

The Bystander

Mr. ... PICKWICK: AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE

... distinction to the scene. Mr. Jingle shows at once that he is one of those men who are born to command-- even if it is only the _ menu for mealtimes. There is a fine hilarity about the dinner at the Inn which pleases old-fashioned people immensely. It reminds ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1175 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

Stage Fairies

... readily solved by asking one of them to supper. A Fairy that will begin with the oysters and work her way steadily through the menu to the peche Melba, can hardly be as ethereal as she looks on the stage. Still, as some of the large-brained scientists are ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1276 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

The Pleasures of Life

... Books, Art, and Love to Food, Drink, and the Simple Life. It is a satisfying meal, though I thought that the solidity of his menu might have been lightened a little by a dish or two of Humcur or Laughter surely a major pleasure. Miss Macaulay, of course ...

Published: Tuesday 30 October 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1155 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: The Man of Many Wiles

... told to get rid of that growing pile of bedside books. But this one, I swear, will remain. IF you are suddenly faced 011 the menu with Gaylede, Cokyntryce, or Blaun- dysorye, you may be pretty sure that Early English Recipes, with wood engrav ings by Margaret ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1227 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: A Polish Patriot

... grotesque. He had a piano in which the signatures of all his friends were inlaid. No museum could accept this monstrous signed menu card, and it now lies, deeply respected, no doubt, but with all the horror of an abandoned curio, in Maples' shop in London ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1155 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

Gas and Gaiters:

... result is as good as a journey through Punch, bereft of exaggeration and come to life. What a full-course dinner it is The menu includes the debut, in 1S47, of chloroform as Ethereal Fumes for the extraction of teeth of the old-wives' remedy of buttermilk ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1194 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

YET ANOTHER GENIUS?

... this book they are shy of dying, but eat for all they are worth. I have rarely read a novel which contains so many luscious menus, ana yet the Jant family is never particularly prosperous. There is little form in the book, but there is good meat in it. ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1089 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

LILY CHRISTINE AND OTHERS

... palm tree is of clouded green crystal, while the menu-holders are made of crystal flowers. A Chinese lacquered floor standard, with a real vellum shade; an exquisite palm tree of clouded crystal and menu holders made of crystal flowers. From Maples This ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2521 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review 

YANKEE CYNICISM

... stage trick which did not commend itself to me. Charles and Mary,'' at the Globe Theatre A slice of Lamb home-grown is now the menu at the Globe Theatre, which depicts episodes in the life of the gentle Elia, under the title of Charles and Mary. This play ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1270 | Page: 17 | Tags: Review 

London's Grand Guigno

... itself to hint that the theatre caters in any way for the frivolous. The bloodstained hand on the front page suggests that the menu consists only of a supply of sanguinary and palpitating horror, for which it is understood there is now a very satisfactory ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1921
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1358 | Page: 15 | Tags: Review 

THE UNWRITTEN LAW: AT THE GARRICK THEATRE

... which he invites the boys to partake of bread-and-butter and cocoa, as if these items must surely have formed part of the daily menu of Lucullus himself. I should think wjth a little revision something might be made of Vice Versa but in its present form it ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1910
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1475 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review