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LONDON THEATRES: BLANK VERSE

... is for the poet to speak in drama. It wants his vision, his larger con cept of life and conduct, the alchemy of his words. The stage wants too the due speaking as well as the due writ ing of blank verse. The old actors used to speak blank verse as though ...

Published: Thursday 07 July 1932
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1282 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review 

TOYNBEE HALL

... many done throughout the country during I the last few months, but no marks or prizes were given. The festival was. so to speak, for its own sake, and it could be taken that the selected plays were represen tative of much of the amateur work now being ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1948
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE TORCH

... with a fairy tale quality. It we accept the new con vention. there are things to en joy clear, warm speaking, for example. As Benedick. John Rule speaks especially well, and he also has wit and an attractive air of mischief. Rosemary Wallace's Btatrlce ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 1949
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 7 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: DRURY LANE

... telling it. The author would have done better to take the advice of one of his own characters in the play and let the facts speak for themselves. rather than hold the action with so much introduction, so much explanation, so many detailed dates Something ...

Published: Thursday 04 November 1948
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 411 | Page: 5 | Tags: theatre review 

BARN. WELWYN

... have a find Her Hermione is a pathetic and mov ing figure, and she brings to the part a fine stage presence and a beautiful speaking voice. The I Autolycus of Wally Hill is a rounded and well-finished snap- per up of unconsidered trifles a leery rogue who ...

Published: Thursday 09 December 1948
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 435 | Page: 7 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: MANCHESTER PREMIERE

... fulfils. Audrey Christie has all the lines for laughs and speaks them with telling effect, making a vivid and amusing per sonality from her richly-drawn character. The solid core of the play, so to speak, is Wendell Corey, whose acting as the kindly and tolerant ...

Published: Thursday 19 June 1947
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 416 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THERATRES: THE PICCADILLY

... belief that the old domestic- relationship can be re-established. You're speaking like someone in a trance. he tells her. Whereas the truth is that at this juncture she is speaking just like someone in an old-fashioned novelette. The first-night audience ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1949
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 433 | Page: 7 | Tags: theatre review 

WOMAN OF TO-DAY

... at once authoritative and eloquent in their subject. The chairman, the Marquess of Donegall. introduced Eric Maschwitz to speak on music in the theatre. Things were not made easy in this country for the writers of musical plays, said Mr Maschwitz. At ...

Published: Thursday 02 June 1949
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE QUEEN'S

... delightful performance as the young lady who woos a very fickle fortune at the fantastic Kinema City by teaching stars how to speak the King's English, and she has a fine artistic grasp of the part's bustling possibilities. No doubt site will develop the ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1933
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 443 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... Tearle's voice and bearing are equally impressive in the part of the King. He is able, without effort, to make every word he speaks perfectly audible, and his gravity and dignity fulfil every need. The same mav be said .of Mr. Gill's Exeter It is a part ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1934
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 796 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE APOLLO

... Hannen'j Overton is again a i-.ipital piece of work, as also is Miss Constwjce Cuin- mings's Alice, except in parages tfiat she speaks in a tone $o con versational as to be almost in audible. She should also correct her pronunciation of the man-ser vant's name ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1934
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE Q

... revival here. The character of Mr. Dulcimer is by no means an easy one to play and requires delicate handling. It therefore speaks well for i Raymond Lovell's interpretation that he invests it with just the correct touch of Machiavellian subtlety without ...

Published: Thursday 20 July 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review