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... autobiography, with 1914 war letters to his wife and other personal papers, edited by Herbert Read. It shows a Kensington boy hood merging into Slade School, Chelsea aspirations, and friend ship with men like Rothenstein, Tonks, Selwyn Image, Gordon Bottomley ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1906 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

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... memories can read without a lump in the throat. It takes me back to my boyhood when I would leap up the gallery steps of the Chelsea Palace to adore Gertie Gitana in her white topper HAD Georgian London possessed music halls, some of the sons of George III ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1577 | Page: 84 | Tags: Review 

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MOSHEH OVED: An Autobiography of Pace and Power

... together a number of distin guished and scholarly writers who endeavour to show the diffusion of Greek culture through the centuries. Dr. R. W. Moore, the Headmaster of Harrow, shows the origins ol Greek influence Dr. C. H. V. Sutherland writes on Greece ...

Published: Saturday 22 March 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

The Apthorpe Tradition

... also the will and the patience to write and go on writing in hope and in poverty He broke away from business to struggle in Chelsea, to be a reporter in Doncaster- from Doncaster to travel in Mexico, from Mexico to sail to Singapore. Is he going to have ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1081 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Gold and a Voice: The Grace Moore Story; Warner Theatre

... never know what you may be signing away, she said. When I left her hotel room (it was banked with blossoms like the Chelsea Flower Show), she pre sented me with a single lily on a 5-ft. stem. I appreciated the souvenir, but to this day I remember the nuisance ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 585 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

SOLDIER, POET AND QUEEN: Three Biographical Studies; Memoirs of a Great Music-Hall Star; Lord Jowitt Reminisces ..

... thought to have insulted a fellow C.B. But he was still great, and one of the clear objects of Lord Elton's biography is to show him as an object of admiration onH in rlirprP and pointed contrast to the denigrations of Lytton Strachey's study. I found ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1706 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

AN AIR OF APOLOGY

... be amusing, enticingly she explains, to show you how Mr. T. S. Eliot and Sir Alan Herbert might collaborate in an adaptation of East Lynne. We rehearsed the sketch; it was not amusing; and we shall not show it. This technique of apology works curiously ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 755 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

CRICKET, PEOPLE AND NOVELS: Last Year's Test Matches; Autobiography and Biography; and other New Books for ..

... child's happiness but to an extremely readable book. The World of Books-- A CHELSEA CHRONICLER: Richard Edmonds, for seven years Assistant Editor of The Sphere, is the author of Chelsea from the Five Fields to the World's End (Phene Press. 1 2s. 6d.). The ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1373 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

MR. SNOW ANATOMIZES MATRIMONY

... memorable pictures of wartime Whitehall. Reade s will remember how in The Masters and its successor The Nt it Men Mr. Snow showed himself as portrayer of men at work, an i analyst of professional relationships, with the rivalries and/or loyalties these ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1203 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

A SCENT OF RED ROSES IN THE BY-STREET

... BY-STREET MARGERY SHARP'S new novel, The Eye Of Love (Collins, 13s. 6d.) sports on its jacket a red, red rose. Truly, an early flowerer in the fiction flowerbed, 1957. Miss Sharp starts the year off well, for herself and us-- here's an unorthodox love story ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1069 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

MISS BRITTAIN'S WAR AGAINST THE FATES

... the writer returned to London and set up house with Winifred Holtby (see Testament Of Friendship). G. used to join them in Chelsea when on vacation. Tributes to this singularly unselfish man occur, rightly, throughout Testament Of Experience. So do testimonials ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1227 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

IRRESISTIBLE FORCE: The Life of Dame Ninette de Valois; Impressions of Italy, Greece, Persia and Japan; Lord ..

... tourism. Having gone to Persia to see its landscape, its architecture, its flowers and its people, presumably in that order, he owns himself rather dis appointed with the flowers, though the mosques and the mountains were more beautiful than he had dared ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1704 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review