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THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS NEW AT THE THEATRES. THERE is an excellent programme at the New Theatre, where a bright little comedy by Mr. A. A. Milne is sandwiched between two short plays by Sir James Barrie, and all three have much in them to delight. The Old Lady Shows ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 706 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Members of the theatrical profession will learn with deep regret of the death, at his residence, Woodville, ..

... the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama, and South Africa: had become practically a household word amongst theatre-goers in those distant parts of the globe. Since the outbreak of war he had toured in South Africa and India with the Follies ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. BUBBLY, the new piece at the Comedy Theatre, has a cleverly chosen title, for in all the notices I have read there is an effort to make some kind of play upon the title in con nection with the piece. Such effort gives to ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 939 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS NEW AT THE THEATRES. THE Lancashire people in Miss Mary Stafford Smith's new play, at the Prince of Wales' Theatre, are a curious mixture of innocence and malignity; and it is difficult to say which ingredient looms largest in their characters; ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 414 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Sage-Brush Stories

... (EveleTgh Nas/t.) Even in such stirring times these short stories need not look too tame. They are episodes played out in a great theatre-- nothing less than the great wild wide west ctf America. They deal with hardships and with making good as stern and man-proving ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1335 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. QUITE a debauch of serious plays-- two of Brieux's and two of Ibsen's at the same time. Startling! Apparently the censors have shut up shop during the war; I hope they won't re-open it when peace comes. The Brieux comedy The ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1710 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

ALL ABOUT BOOKS: Ninety-Six Hours' Leave

... their home at Merstham. Surrev. Miss Terriss is aooearine shortly in a new musical comedy, Cash on Delivery, at the Palace Theatre.-- [Photograph by Coinptoil Collier ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 991 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. IN The Saving Grace, presented at the Garrick Theatre, Mr. Haddon Chambers has written a comedy which, whilst it touches upon present circumstances, is not exactly a war play, but an agreeable combination of hamour and sentiment ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 663 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. THE Palace Theatre has thrown overboard its own particular brand of revue, and is now presenting a musical farce which in reality is a farce on quite orthodox lines, apart from the fact that the characters now and then sing ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 683 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. BREWSTER'S MILLIONS-- which on its first appearance some of us thought rather poor stuff-- has, of course, been considerably modified since Mr. Gerald du Maurier presented it some years ago, so when it was revived the other ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 631 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Concerning New Novels: Uneasy Money

... secret sorrow he was merely putting in the time thinking of the best method of laying a golf-ball dead in front of the Palace Theatre. Three imp ecunious beings man aged to touch him for eleven shil lings while he thus passed the time in mental golf. And all ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1083 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... on Dec. 16, Tableaux Vivants arranged, from reai Posters, by Lady Newnes, Miles, de Lalaing and Davignon, at St. Martin's Theatre, in aid of the Society for writing and sending parcels to Belgian soldiers in the war. Photograph by Malcolm Arbuthnot. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1251 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review