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CINEMA: Recent Productions

... actors John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. The story 's a mere trifle about a young couple who fall in love, suddenly, in the Caribbean, and decide to build a home round a brass bedstead on the sunny beach of an otherwise uninhabited island. The Sheriff of ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

Satirical count-down

... Cod, but not before he ■las invented a frightful thing called ice- ■nine, the ultimate entoftotal destruction. I Add 'a Caribbean land, a holy negro who ■las come up wit: a new Zennish religion ■called Bokononis' a beautiful love god- Idess who plays ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1963
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 433 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

BOOK REVIEWS

... British Empire only became practicable when economic expedients permitted. Slavery was essential in the sugar colonies of the Caribbean for the production on a large scale for the export market. Once that production decreased, as it did in the early years of ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 577 | Page: 17 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... defiance of grammar rules. You don't need to be a purist to shudder at him, and I advise the sen sitive to begin this volume, Caribbean Nights, at Chapter Two. Otherwise they might not read on and that would be a pity, for he 's worth reading. He spent a ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2238 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

AT THE SIGN OF THE CINEMA: DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS

... and yet I- like her. The veteran square-rigger Charles W. Morgan, built in New Bradford in 1842, whose activities in the Caribbean Sea form the crux of the film, is a very gallant vessel, carrying her bulging canvas beautifully despite her eighty -odd ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 102 | Tags: Review 

AMERICAN DILEMMA: An explanation of U.S. foreign policy

... The name of Alan Ross needs no introduction to followers of cricket or to those who enjoy good English prose. THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN (Hamish Hamilton. 21s.) will please both groups. Mr. Ross records the M.C.C. tour of the West Indies last winter. There are ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 651 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Jazz in the calypso country

... Jazz in the calypso country by Gerald Lascelles RECORDS MY RECENT VISIT to the Caribbean prompts me to observe how jazz-conscious most of those islands in the sun have become in recent years. Not only was I inundated with requests to broad cast jazz ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 571 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

ELECTRONICS AND LATIN-AMERICAN

... most authen interpretation of the l and illustrates the long-s ing alliance which many J men have had with the n of the Caribbean and bo America. on records ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1963
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 567 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

CHASING AN ANCIENT GREEK: Douglas Young, Scholar, Poet, Journalist, and Traveller, Reveals Himself as an ..

... with the fabulous career of Henry Morgan, the bold buccaneer captain. This extraordinary figure fought the Spaniards in the Caribbean for the excellent reason that he hated them, and won himself fortunes, and women, too, for the reason that he loved both ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1698 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

HOME IS TO-MORROW

... for Unuto it is not his fault that the Corabanian plan falters, or that his wife, who is more of Curzon Street than the Caribbean, should turn to a tough and deplorable American suitor. Lady Fortrose might well say of Corabana as Masefield of the port ...

Published: Wednesday 24 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 712 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

RELIEF OF MALTA: The gallant voyage of the oil tanker Ohio

... there were thrills in plenty), but because of its charm, its infinite variety, its idle days and years in the waters of the Caribbean and the Pacific. At the end of it all the sailor author has one point in particular to make, It is not possible, he says ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

POLITICAL SCENERY: In the Americas, Russia and Africa

... this week. First isNicholas Wollaston's RED RUMBA (Hodder and Stoughton. 25s.), which is based on a journey through ten Caribbean and Central American countries in 1961. The author's tour began and ended in Cuba, where he saw a people tired of the old ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 707 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review