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ROYALTY THEATRE

... Christian Herre, Herr Ziegler, and Emma Friihling, who came out splendidly as Hanne, an old market-woman, who is in the habit of speaking her mind without fear, without favour, and without distinc tion of person or position. ...

SUCH PLEASURE

... Muckerry to live with her purple-faced, hard-drinking, hard-riding father. Her position there is at first anomalous. Lord Malwyn speaks of her as his cousin, but as time goes on he takes such pride in her that he cannot suppress the truth. While she is still ...

Published: Wednesday 12 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 266 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD

... matter, and, despite an almost passionate admiration for some of Mr. Barrie's work, he is bound, in justice to his public, to speak as he feels. Of course, there is a literary charm about the volume as a whole; some of the chapters are almost worthy of the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

CRITERION THEATRE

... footlights with the liveliest young lady in the Eccles household. Of Polly it may be said as of Shakespeare's Beatrice, that she speaks all mirth and that she makes for merriment. The Criterion's audience tho roughly enjoyed the early scene between Polly and ...

Posh Tosh: THE STOLEN CELLINI

... Only once does the author strain our cre dulity, and that is in reprinting a first-rate leader from the Southbourne Gazette. Speaking as one who has made a lifelong study of the lesser provincial journals, I unhesitat ingly declare this article to be spurious ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

The Sorrows of Michael

... with assumed names, I suppose Sir Brutus is a portrait though I do not quite know which of the newspaper bosses of the day speaks with so strong a Cockney accent. Had it been a Lancashire accent, now Mr. Wakeling Dry Musical critic and author of the Life ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1907
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: A Yank at Oxford

... believe in the destiny of the English-speaking peoples, is taking place at the Empire Theatre to-night. J 'ever read such nonsense? Did anybody ever dream of linking up Charley's Aunt with the destiny of the English-speaking peoples? If there is anything at ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1344 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: Two Good Films

... All the officers speak French, and while it is easy to identify the English officer, because he speaks bad French, it is difficult to tell the French officer from the German. Why did they not arrange for the German officer to speak guttural French when ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1318 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: The Stupid Sex

... smells, but in its snugness and smugness. A fascinating difficulty is that he does not speak Dutch and one or two of the leading suspects in the case do not speak French which means that Maigret has to deduce what he can by using his eyes. Also he has ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1301 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE

... brought to a close on the evening of the 16th inst., when the popular actor-manager, Mr. George Alexander, was called upon to speak more words than were set down for him in the comedy entitled Saturday to Monday. Mr. Alexander, in recent times, has been chary ...

THE GAGE OF RED AND WHITE

... a story that has much to commend it. There is no Wardour Street English indeed, young officers of the French Army in 1543 speak in a manner not unknown to mess-rooms of to-da)', and the effect is not unpleasing. The writer knows her period thoroughly ...

Published: Wednesday 18 May 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 288 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: Things to Come

... speech was possible was proved by Mr. Derrick de Marney, and later by Mr. Charles Carson. In addition, the music was, roughly speaking, six times the volume of anything to be heard in the Queen's Hall. I am not a technical expert. But if any body tells me ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1267 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review