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To the Editor of The Stage: WHY ACTORS WON'T GO ON TOUR

... member of the company with which I am touring was charged £7 for a double bed room with the minimum of com fort and the use of kitchen, in a district where the rent for the whole house couldn't have been more than 30/-. In Liverpool, an actress was so badly ...

Published: Thursday 06 October 1960
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: 'KITCHEN SINK'

... over Drama's destinies for so many centuries. Will any gentleman, or any lady, be so kind as to pull out the plug of the kitchen sink and let the suds of salao't y and stupidity go down the drain? Mat C. Bryne. 13, Taunton Avenue,. S.W.20. ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 1961
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: 'KITCHEN SINK'

... 'KITCHEN SINK' SIR,--I was interested in Yoti Lane's article on the present controversey regarding modern playwrghts especially her reference to Coward and Rattigan. The latter recently contributed an excellent article in one of our national newspapers ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 1961
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor . of The Stage: Shabby Triangle

... triairgle affair. Ray Rigby is the author of this shabby drama, which rs cleverly set in a divided stage1, the wife's bedroom and kitchen on two levels separated by an outside alleyway from the Sat of the girJ. Michael Hunt, in a strong North Country accent, was ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1961
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 18 | Tags: letter 

New Kitchen Sink Public

... New Kitchen Sink Public CIR, I am writing to say how much I agree with your leader commenting on my use of the words boom in the theatre. In self-defence I must tell you that the word was used in the form of a question by a journalist who asked: Do ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1961
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: End of the Pier

... and I fail to remember the late Fred Karno, or the Army contemplating actions for libel. I am also given to understand that Kitchen Sinks and Lavatories, both practical neces sities, find themselves uninsultcd at being coupled with Drama and Humour. Forty ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Cheers for Priestley

... rose-coloured spectacles. A well produced variety show has a theme of elation, which will never be equalled by any of our kitchen sink playwrights. Yours faithfully. Harold Jordan (Purser). R.M.S. Claymore, Oban. ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1963
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: A veteran pantomime star's viewpoint on TW3

... in the twenties, and the TW3 young men often seem to be saying Who's for charades or Let's dress up and go down to the kitchen to make the ser vants laugh, and when they allowed that great comic Frankie Howcrd to appear in the pro gramme, they either ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1963
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 612 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Complaints from viewers

... possible to have a national opinion poll, I think the results would be overwhelmingly in favour of getting away from the kitchen sink and, most of all, that in evitable bedroom scene. I have noticed moaning letters coming from every part of Great Britain ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1964
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 10 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Recordings would reveal quality

... fee? To my mind the spoken lines would soon reveal a good or bad play. It is my belief that both channels have flogged the kitchen sink, only to learn (as those of us who nave lived in the back streets could teH them) that when you have muck for break fast ...

Published: Thursday 17 September 1964
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Put story into modern terms

... Put story into modern terms Dear Sir, I am interested to find that I had anticipated kitchen sink drama with my adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's The SiLk Stocking (Philip Purser's article Drama The Single Play in Tele vision Today's ITV Supplement). All ...

Published: Thursday 30 September 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 13 | Tags: letter 

Flower passion

... insect sprayer as she gaily bout her first task of the :h Laying the flowers. Now ;li hole house, including the Da om and kitchen, looks like j. aic Garden of Eden. but for one room. She is v i coking for a pink floating a. lily. Sandie Shaw, Dagenham ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 63 | Tags: Letter