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SAGAS OF THE SEA: As Seen on the Screen; The Rescue

... for the sake of the light in a woman's eyes, and Captain Lingard (Ronald Colman) in the film The Rescue, adapted from Joseph Conrad's famous novel, is no exception. He cruises in the Java seas, ob taining guns and powder, con trary to law, in order to ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 532 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

Unfinished Novels & Other Books

... unfinished novel by a great writer be completed, when given to the public, or left alone This question is suggested by Joseph Conrad's posthumous story of the Napoleonic times, Suspense. SHOULD a novel, left unfinished by a writer of the first order, ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1925
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1674 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Films of the Day: Sabotage, Lethal and Musical

... does, a sincere, convincing performance. John Loder and Desmond Tester are also in the film, which is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel, and is now at the Tivoli ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1000 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Unfinished Novels & Other Books

... unfinished novel by a great writer be completed, when given to the public, or left alone This question is suggested by Joseph Conrad's posthumous story of the Napoleonic times, Suspense. SHOULD a novel, left unfinished by a writer of the first order, ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1925
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1674 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE MOUTHPIECE, AT WYNDHAM'S; STRINDBERG AT THE FACULTY OF ARTS; GENERAL JOHN REGAN,' AT ..

... to strive against these conditions and especially in the episode of the visiting masqueraders found them too much. In Joseph Conrad's 44 One Day More, the curtain-raiser, these handicaps were still more evident, for in this case the piece lacks the emotional ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1271 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

The LEAVES OF YESTERDAY: A Book Page for Tomorrow

... as to quantity, for of fiction there seems to have been a tremendous lot. One of the ||*3 year's novels may go on, Mr. Joseph Conrad's Arrow of Gold, if only because it is more Conradish than anything else he has done, k Apart from him, where are the ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1919
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1288 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Passing Show: London Hippodrome

... shows Mr. Somerset Maugham once more as one of the most able dramatists we possess. The Globe Theatre. f you haven't read Joseph Conrad's book you will be rather puzzled by Mr. Basil Macdonald Hastings' dramatisation, Victory, produced the other day by Miss ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1919
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1365 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

The Cinema: The Rescue and Other Matters

... due to my anxiety to find a reason for the comparative failure of The Rescue, the film at the New Gallery, adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel of the same name. This film seemed to me to have two faults. First, the story was too muddled. It pursued Conrad's ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1929
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1409 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The LEAVES OF YESTERDAY: A Book Page for Tomorrow

... as to quantity, for of fiction there seems to have been a tremendous lot. One of the ||*3 year's novels may go on, Mr. Joseph Conrad's Arrow of Gold, if only because it is more Conradish than anything else he has done, k Apart from him, where are the ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1919
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1288 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

Book Reviews

... idealism William Morris would thoroughly have approved, in a series of dampish cottages in the Romney Marsh area. He became Joseph Conrad's neighbour, collaborator and friend, and also moved into the urbane circle surrounding Henry James in his house at Rye ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1865 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review 

HINDENBURG: The TRUTH: And Conrad's Mind and Method

... jackals has escaped being bumped off by our literary gangsters. Here is an excellent book on Conrad by Mr. R. L. Megroz, Joseph Conrad's Mind and Method (Faber and Faber.- 10s. 6d,). It is the first book about Conrad that gives us the necessary survey of ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2026 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER Mr. E. V. Lucas's Novel

... have a re-issue of Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage, of A. E. W. Mason's Four Feathers, of Conan Doyle's Rodney Stone, of Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly, while the arrangements have been made tor novels by Robert Louts Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Hall Caine ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1906 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review