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THE DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... interpretation as Mrs. Huntley, though not unin telligent, shows lack of experience. This revival is preceded by that of Mrs. Oscar Beringer's rather bizarre comedietta, A Bit of Old Chelsea, with its most striking features in its curious theme, and in ...

Criticisms in Cameo: ENGLISH MARIONETTES; THE LAST WARNING, AT THE COMEDY

... oblong slit, just like the mouth of a gigantic pillar-box. That is the English Marionette Theatre the Gair Wilkinson Puppet Show every day till the end of the month at three, some days also at six and half-past eight. As the neighbouring church chimes ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1597 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... resigned and blissfully happy with that gentle, mildly talented old creature, Mr. Prince, the etcher. The Bohemian scenes in Chelsea and the Paris bits are excellent, and I enjoyed the romance of the strange Miss Wheeler and her two lovers but, said the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1106 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Lilies and Weeds

... Decadence. Decadent art is often full of flowers, but flowers whose fragrance is turned to an evil odour worse than weeds. That odour is, to the followers of this cult, itself a fragrance. Such were the Flowers of Evil of the prince and ancestor of all ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2817 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: First Acts

... some Chelsea mansions. One day a flower-girl takes his attention. She has a pathetic story to tell, and Granter listens. He feels sympathetic and inclined to help the girl. But he must first make sure that her story is true, so he visits the flower-girl ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2678 | Page: 43 | 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 

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 

THE HEIGHT OF TRUTH

... their chronicler, for Mrs. Tovey is a very funny writer, swift, simple, technically admirable. The drawings, by Maurice Wilson, show perfectly the Siamese individuality in grace and occasional awkwardness; and in a charming introduction Michael Joseph points ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1457 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Parallel Game

... STUDENTS OF ST. MARTIN'S ART SCHOOL READY FOR THE CHELSEA ARTS CLUB BALL LADY GODIVA AND HER ATTENDANTS. Lady Godiva will attend the Chelsea Arts Club Ball on Feb. 24 at the Albert Hall. Our photograph shows Miss Sylvia Bergen as this well- known character ...

Published: Wednesday 16 February 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2493 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Books

... 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 

BOOKS:

... may it be thus wjth his sons but when she was nearing seventy, and Jemie preparing his first one-man show in Pall Mall, the Whistler household in Chelsea was nearly always three jumps behind the duns. He rented the gallery, we learn, and decorated it ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2041 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review