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Speak to the Earth

... Speak to the Earth, by Fivienne de TV atteville (Methuen, 15s.) FEW people can ever have spent five months in East Africa more profitably than Miss de Watteville. Her love of Nature and all the inmates of the natural world is not merely keen it is flaming ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 62 | Tags: Review 

Personally Speaking

... Personally Speaking By A Jan Thomas THE TESTAMENT OF JOAD, by C. E. M. Joad (Faber and Faber; 8s. 6d.), is not an inspired work, because Mr. Joad himself says he is not inspired. He is, on the other hand, so intellectually detached that he makes a brilliant ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1180 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Africa Speaks

... Africa Speaks By V. S. Pritchett NOBODY cares much, or even knows, what happens to us down here behind God's back, said a settler in Tanganyika, and so gave a title to Mr. Negley Farson, the itinerant American transgressor. Behind God's Back (Gollancz; ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1375 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: Personally Speaking

... THE CINEMA Personally Speaking By JAMES AGATE ONE of the strong est pulls the cinema has over the theatre is the fore knowledge that from the film goer not the most fractional bit of cerebration will be required. Let the attention wander in the theatre ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1397 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Speaking as a Man..

... do you think Speaking as a Party member, Preminger said. I approve of your brother's attitude, Charley. Nuts, Charley said. Speaking as a man, Charley, Preminger went on. Please put Lueger on his back for at least six months. Speaking as a man that ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1348 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

The Cinema: Some Plain Speaking

... The Cinema Some Plain Speaking I By JAMES AGATE IN a week singularly barren of the usual epoch-making, world smashing, and Creation-staggering new talkies I have been delighted to receive a copy of a speech delivered in the American House of Representatives ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1312 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: Penny-plain Speaking

... THE CINEMA Penny-plain Speaking By JAMES AGATE THE other day I read that the captivating Mile. Anna bella is in England and that she had been discovered by an interviewer in the new studios at Denham looking strangely pale and surrounded by cameras and ...

Published: Wednesday 20 May 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1337 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT: In the Second Section of her Diary--and Other Literary Matters of the Week

... The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT In the Second Section of her Diary and Other Literary Matters of fhe Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS When Daisy, Princess of Pless, published a book all about herself and her extraordinary life, it made a great stir. This ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2532 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

JAMES BYRNES AND THE STORY OF YALTA: Speaking Frankly, a Revealing Record by America's Former Secretary of State

... Churchill in action, but of those three only the powerful figure of Stalin remained to over shadow the latter Conferences. SPEAKING FRANKLY (Heinemann. 21s.) is Mr. Byrnes's personal record of those Conferences and of his period of office as Secretary of ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1286 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE EX-CROWN PRINCE SEEKS THE TRUTH.: Little Willie Speaks Out--Poincare's Pre-war Memories--The Decline of ..

... THE EX-CROWN PRINCE SEEKS THE TRUTH. Little Willie Speaks Out Poincare's Pre-war Memories The Declitie of Socialism THE WEEK'S BOOKS I Seek The Truth. By the ex-Crown Prince William of Germany. (Faber Gwyer. 21s. net.) The Memoirs of Raymond Poincare ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3334 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review