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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 

The Literary Lounger: Light Reading

... MINIATURE LAWN-TENNIS COURT AT THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW MRS. HANBURY, VISCOUNT LASCELLES, H.R.H. PRINCESS MARY, AND SIR WILLIAM AND LADY NOREEN BASS. Their Majesties the King and Queen visited the Chelsea Flower ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2889 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Eighteenth Son

... By E. W. Hornung. {John Murray 75. 6d. net.) Mr. Fortune's Practice. By H. C. Bailey. {Methuen 6s. net.) I AT THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW LADY JULIET TREVOR. Photograph by C.A\] Lady Juliet Trevor is the daughter of the fourth Earl of Lonsdale, and the wife ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2828 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Doing a Gauguin

... Caryl, was still there, dressed in a long, flower-patterned dress that might have belonged to her grandmother, and the setting that Sutton had arranged for her-- an old, flower-patterned curtain backdrop and a flower- patterne bedspread on the floor-- v. still ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1964
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 41 | 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 

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 

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 

ROUND THE THEATRES

... Pygmalion of course there would be. Defiantly wilfully wrong things, intended to irritate. If Mr. Shaw for any length of time showed no signs of any intention to irritate I should have the gravest apprehensions about his health. He will per sist in doing ...

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 

A WRITER FOR THE SPRING

... than one by Miss Sharp. There is a lightness of touch and a gaiety about her work which goes well with sunshine and early flowers and an occasional edge to her observations which has something of the sharpness of an April wind. Her new book is again concerned ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1231 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

A tale of two Smiths

... Smiths. He was a man of quite extraordinary gentle ness and kindliness that showed itself from the moment of our first meeting. I had gone to his tiny one-room flatlet in a Chelsea block to inter view him one winter morning and found him amusing his charlady's ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 987 | Page: 45 | Tags: Review