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THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON: No. 17. BALLET AT SADLER'S WELLS

... orchestrated by William Walton, and Paul was at once content. Laura didn't wake up till the Rex Whistler drop-curtain rose upon the four grave but provocative Rex Whistler cherubs. She loved the costumes, the white finery of Margot Fonteyn as a scared and serious ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1148 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... tone and his book which, like all Batsford books, is beautifully produced, has the advantage of mahy illustrations by Mr. Rex Whistler drawings not quite in that enchanting artist's happiest vein, perhaps because the humour and gaiety natural to him are ...

Published: Wednesday 03 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1629 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: An Ideal Husband (Westminster)

... no less steadily than it is presumed to reflect nature. And on the scenery and costumes of this Edwardian thriller Mr. Rex Whistler has so generously exercised his flair for decorative pastiche, that murmurs of appreciative delight greet the superb still-life ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 829 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: International Ballet (Adelphi)

... mimed version of the old Morality play danced to music from Richard Strauss. Both these ballets have settings designed by Rex Whistler, whose recent death on active service in France is such a loss to the theatre his art adorned. Whistler was a master of ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 785 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: Sadler's Wells Bullet (New)

... I will confess that when the curtain rose on The Wise Virgins I was dismayed to see that the beautiful set designed by Rex Whistler had disappeared, to be replaced only by a cyclorama with gauze in front. This, I thought, will kill the composition stone ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 753 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: Love for Love (Phœnix)

... generation may hope, or possibly care, to come. It certainly gives great pleasure. The settings (a little post-dated?) by Mr. Rex Whistler are formidably handsome, and Miss Jeanetta Cochrane's admirable costumes have the authentic cut. The advances of the gay ...

Published: Wednesday 28 April 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 885 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Round the New Shows: At the Theatre

... is the bridegroom, Margot Fonteyn the bride. The music is Bach's, arranged by William Walton. Costumes and decor are by Rex Whistler. BLACK VELVET, which had its 450th per formance last Wednesday, has among its many attractions Bubbly Rogers ex-Cochran ...

SAGA OF THE PENNY DREADFULS: E. S. Turner Surveys Our Popular Literature, Through the Ages

... complete digestion but as an excellent and analytical guide to the craft of short- story writing which so many attempt. Rex Whistler (Art and Technics. 12s. 6d.) is a charming book which will please and perhaps sadden those who admired the work of a brilliant ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1352 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Books

... of their owners and a host of Continued on page 64) Jacket design of OHO, a series of reversible faces drawn by the late Rex Whistler, with verses by Laurence Whistler (John Lane, 5s.) Books (Continued from pagel^f) other interesting friends in further ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1947
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1461 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

STORIES WITH THE PERSONAL TOUCH: A Family Chronicle on Heroic Lines; A House in the Country; An Autobiography ..

... 12s. 6d.), beyond that it is charmingly expressed by Miss Edith Olivier, and wittily illus trated and decorated by Mr. Rex Whistler. Also that you will certainly want to give it to someone who has a birthday within the next few weeks. As a book it is ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1775 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Workshop Guide

... National Gallery of Scotland at Edinburgh. Another reproduction in Gainsborough The Death of Pan, an ornament by the late Rex Whistler heading a page in 44 The World's Room (Heinemann 15s.), the collected poems of Laurence Whistler. Somerset Maugham of now ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2441 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: Everyman: International Ballet (Lyric)

... attractions. The music by Richard Strauss, cleverly adapted by Ernest Irving, has its own inalienable moods and associations. Rex Whistler's decor is distinguished, and presents some fine stage pictures that William Chappell's costumes complete. But the dances ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 775 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review