... and The Grand Duke, came from their joint pens, neither of which is now revived. The first is said to have offend ...

... served for nearly 40 years in the Volunteer army, rising from private to major, being presented upon eight occasions to Queen Victoria and numbering on his worksheets such notables as Bernard Shaw, J.M. Barrie, Pinero, Gilbert and Sullivan. The man was ...

... marketable. Under the concealing stage name of Le Petomane, he had a long and successful career. He even farted before Queen Victoria! I have only one very slight bone to pick with the authors. In the latter section, they include among plays that endured ...

... box office gold to cinema from the thirties to the fifties, with subjects ranging from historical romance Nell Gwyn to Queen Victoria, wartime biography (Amy Johnson in They Flew Alone), through the wildly popu lar 'Mayfair cycle', taking in contem porary ...

... quite striking, the main dif ference between today and the times Queen Victoria Goes to the Theatre, by George Rowell (Paul Elek, £.S5) Although for the last 40 years of her life Queen Victoria never entered a play house, she was our greatest royal theatregoer ...

... character. One of our greatest film stars, Anna Neagle has also graced the stage in some notable productions, including the Queen Victoria pro duction at the Palace and the long-running Charlie Girl at the Adelphi. Some of her films made British cinema history ...

... A Virago publication (first of a Pioneer series which will include studies of, inter alia, Teresa of Avila, Sappho and Queen Victoria) with a predictably over-wrought feminist viewpoint, Til- ley's life and career are squeezed and stretched to fit the ...

... understanding and good purpose. His book is a bright and discerning picture of many aspects of the England of his years; of Queen Victoria, Tree, Bern hardt, Mrs Kendall. Ellen Terry, the Siege of Sydney Street, Penny Far thing bicycles, Chesterton and Wells ...