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LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW: Not Yet the Dodo

... the heartbreaking This is to Let You Know. There was an exasperated Open Letter to a Mayor, chilling memories of the Second World War via the words of Lie in the Dark and Listen, and much more. One line from a Coward song kept coming to mind at the end ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 15 | Tags: performance review 

Grand scene changes on the greatest stage of them all

... dying yet again between the two world wan, this time due to the phenomenal pop ularity of the cinema. In tum, after the Second World War, filmgoers were lured away from the theatre to the convenience entertainment of television. Modern theatre needs government ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1738 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Millennium Ten

... than six-fold. Despite the protectionist efforts of European governments which continue to this day, talkies and the Second World War ensure the imbalance remains a feet of life ever since. H Sunday Night at the Lu London Palladium Broadcasting makes ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 3199 | Page: 24 | Tags: listings 

OBITUARIES: JILL CRAIGIE

... the problems being encountered in the rebuilding of the city of Plymouth following the devastation suffered during the Second World War. Craigie was subsequently widely acclaimed for Blue Scar (1948), a drama set in a South Wales mining village, but there ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 224 | Page: 28 | Tags: notices 

SHOWCASE REVIEW: Barry Dye Showcase

... and Mike Carter is a name who has been around for some time with this particular speciality. The sound of steam trains, Second World War sirens and bombing raids may not be particularly familiar to many of us, but would no doubt be a boon to a radio producer ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 806 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

OBITUARIES: MARJORIE ANDERSON

... Cathedral on the West End stage and abroad, and gave lessons at the Italia Conti stage school. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she was turned down for the WRNS on medical grounds, and later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Spells as a radio ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 295 | Page: 28 | Tags: notices 

BOOK REVIEW: Turning the spotlight on variety's high-flyers

... Southwold, where she first became interested in dance, and then trained at the Mary Wigman Schule in Dresden before the Second World War and toured Europe with a modern dance group, appearing with them at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936. With the war looming ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1847 | Page: 30 | Tags: book review 

DA YID WATKIN tours some of the lesser-known castles of Germany. A faintly East-German flavour permeates the ..

... touches on the de truction of palaces for political reasons: first by the French revolutionary armies and again after the Second World War. The book rightly concentrates on Baroque buildings, but in the former East Germany, the schloss at Weimar presides over ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 674 | Page: 66 | Tags: none

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... touches on the de truction of palaces for political reasons: first by the French revolutionary armies and again after the Second World War. The book rightly concentrates on Baroque buildings, but in the former East Germany, the schloss at Weimar presides over ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 12662 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

LETTERS: What's the story of Joyce's glory?

... Joyce Grenfell for John Murray publishers. Did any readers, or their parents, work with her or see her perform during the Second World War, either in revues or for ENSA? Janie Hampton 80 Temple Road Oxford 0X4 2EZ e-mail:ham pton.oxforcMiWial.pipex.com ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter 

NEWS BRIEFS

... and current musical theatre, changing her costume for each sequence. In addition, she presents We'll Meet Again, with a Second World War theme, the music hall-styled The Good Old Days, Magic of the Musicals, A Night at the Opera and, more unusually, George ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1150 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Magical monologue mastery

... and others, crammed in an incredible amount of information about Holloway's early days in seaside concert parties, pre-Second World War West End success in The Cc-Optimists and Life Begins at Oxford Circus with Flanagan and Allen, and much more, by keeping ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 921 | Page: 19 | Tags: none