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THE ART OF THE CINEMA: With the Film Society-- From Haroun al Raschid to Jack the Ripper-- Music of the Screen

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. With the Film Society From Haroun al Rase hie, to Jack the Ripper Music of the Screen By So R. ILHTTLEWOQD Whether one altogether agrees with its views of things or not, the founding of the Film Society remains none the less one ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1860 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: SECRET SERVICE

... in London, and the Jack the Ripper crimes are not within that category. And if the police here had powers such as the French police possess, the murderer would have been brought to justice. I will only add here that the Jack the Ripper letter which is preserved ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1272 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

The Mummy Moves

... Three murders follow each other, with pre cisely similar details of a ferocious, uncivilised brutality. They exhibit no Jack the. Ripper, no hooligan characteristics they exhale the brutal subtlety of the East in this capital of the West. A scholarly old ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: Happy As Hell

... is one of those who suspect they have the key to the Jack the Ripper mystery. He met a man in France who was convinced that one of the best grown up friends of his childhood had been Jack the Ripper The theory sounds plausible. The consulting-room stories ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1164 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: Now The Day Is Over (Embassy)

... not for the purpose of strewing the town with murdered women. Reason (official and unofficial) rejects the notion that Jack the Ripper was a mere simpleton. â– Thus we know almost from the outset that it is Cheerful Charlie who done it and that he is up ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 773 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

CRITICISMS IN CAMEO: THE CINEMA; A SUCCESSFUL CALAMITY, AT THE REGAL

... His personality, his secret comings and goings, feed the growing suspicion that he is the perpetrator of a series of Jack the Ripper murders. Needless to say, since the part is played and very well played by Ivor Novello, the solution, which I will not ...

Published: Wednesday 12 October 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 882 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

REVIEWS: SHORTER NOTICES OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

... This volume is a welcome addition to true tales that are stranger than fiction. New light is thrown on the exploits of Jack the Ripper, and other causes celbbres treated include the careers of Edgar Edwards, John Owen, Gleeson Wilson, and Lacenaire and ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1057 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

THE ART OF THE CINEMA: On the Road to Repertory--Another Warning Shadows?--A Sunday Night Adventure

... periments in stylised acting by Jannings as Haroun A1 Raschid, by Conrad Verldt as Ivan the Terrible, and by Werner Krauss as Jack the Ripper; Nju, with Jannings and Elizabeth Bergner, who played the Maid in Reinhardt's produc tion of Shaw's Saint Joan; The Stone ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2183 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

A GREAT BOOK OF WANDERLUST: Mr. Negley Farson's The Way of a Transgressor

... greatest singers of the century like Adeline Patti and Melba. He was also frequently visited by dangerous villains like Jack the Ripper and Dr. Crippen. His wigs paved the way even to Bucking ham Palace, Windsor, and to many of the first salons of the early ...

A Born Leader

... Morrison. I never could agree with the theory, lucidly put forward by Mr. H. L. Adam, that George Chapman, the poisoner, was Jack the Ripper, though certainly there are some odd coincidences in the dates. Mr. Eric Watson does the best he can with Smith, the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1179 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

Some Holiday Reading

... is only the first volume of several. It is maddening, for instance, to be told that Dr. Laurie believes that he saw Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel, and then to be told nothing more about it. This is the season for the reading of short stories. It is ...

Published: Tuesday 17 July 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1201 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review