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Ghosts on the Rack and Panto on the Wing: The Streets of London

... Prevention of Cruelty to Ghosts. In 1975 things like Valse Bleue and the Boston will be period pieces fair game for the Noel Coward of the day. Down at the Ambassadors it is the 'sixties that are getting it in the pants. The tortured ghost is Dion Boucicault's ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 982 | Page: 15 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: Monsieur Korda Voit Clair

... ghostliness. In other words, the story is as unghostly as a ghost-story by Dickens, and there is not throughout the entire evening any greater upset of equilibrium than when we read about the Ghost of Marley in A Christmas Carol. In the New York procession ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1154 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

BLACK NARCISSUS

... with exotic pictures, dead brown leaves fluttering about the corners a wan, ghost palace, set in blazing, flowery gardens. The con trast of sun-heat and cold stone, the riot of colour outside and the faded relics within doors, the subtle blurring of textures ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 536 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review 

AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE: MACBETH

... representa tions of Macbeth that I have seen, the ghost of Banquo has been simply Banquo himself with a spot of red paint on his head as evidence that someone has been unkind enough to hurt him. The ghost has usually strolled in and taken a vacant chair ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1432 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... is irresistibly drawn to the fatal spot. There he encounters the ghost of his brother, quite dry anu even supercilious, in wmie lie ana tails, By one means and another the carefree ghost persuades the careful student to take his place in the night-club ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1467 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Law and Order

... Waterloo, Iowa.- Photograph by Kadcl and Herbert 1 MRS. WINTHROP IN THE GHOST TRAIN, AT THE GARRICK MISS EDITH SAVILE. Miss Edith Savile plays the part of Mrs. Winthrop in The Ghost Train, the thriller which is drawing everyone to the Garrick, and is ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2727 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

LONDONERS WOULD RATHER FORGET!: A Growl from a Blitzed Londoner; Alfred Neumann's and Evan John's Historical ..

... greeted a banner bearing the inscription, 73 batallion, 6 company, 12 arrondissement, fol lowed by fifes and drums. There was a riot. An under-sized civilian who looked like a Tartar and wore an unkempt dark moustache was in the thick of it. He was Dr. Georges ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1543 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... not afraid of ghosts. His neighbour. Sir Philip Briningham, interested in psychic phenomena, actually welcomed them, and obtained the Colonel's consent to spend a night in the haunted house. With fatal results. He died, not of the ghost, but of the scratch ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1745 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE ETERNAL QUESTION AT THE GARRICK THEATRE

... as against naughtiness in men, which invites our special interest, instead of the big goose berry, the sea-serpent or the ghost of the shooting-lodge. Natur ally, Mr. Hall Caine once again is on the side of the ladies why should the daughters of Eve more ...

The Life and Death of the Prince Imperial: An Engrossing Study of the Son of Napoleon III, and Other Books of ..

... obeah and pocomania, has a chapter or two on voodoo and ghosts and a review of the banana-growing industry at the present time. Mr. Makin was lucky enough to be in Kingstown for last year's bad riots and his eye-witness accounts he quelled one mob by reading ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1774 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: 1. TWO JOLLY FARCES; II. A MURDER HAS BEEN ARRANGED, AT THE ST. JAMES'S; III. THE QUEEN ..

... qualities, 44 A Murder has been Arranged is, as a play, not so good as his admirers would have us believe. The first act of this ghost story, too elaborate to spoil by detailing its development, is haphazardly constructed and nothing particular happens but from ...

Published: Wednesday 10 December 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1482 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review