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A Sense of Humour

... mis understandings and the shadow of the Divorce Court a matter too grave for the buffets of a rollicking fancy. Strictly speaking, the book is not a novel, but a farcical comedy in novel form. It would play, by all internal evi dences, at least as well ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Re-Birth

... whom he heard reciting a sad, sensuous poem into the night. Mr. Rathmell Wilson says that it was inevitable that they should speak without an introduction, and Mr. Percival thought it one of the most daring things which the moor had ever seen. \Continued ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

AT THE WHITE CITY

... Scotland, and that it was only invented by Mr. Harry Lauder in a fanciful moment as a background for his successful songs but I speak as one who has seen it marked on the map, and so I know it is there. The Scotch Village promises to be one of the most popular ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1531 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

The First Round

... temperament who endure the miseries that befell Denis Yorke in The First Round, and they of all people find it least easy to speak. We all know Byron's views of life at a great public school, as well as the impression he made upon his schoolfellows. How ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: COLONEL SMITH, AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE

... with wooden ships the telephone and electric signal have softene.d the sea voice the Crimea virtually saw the passing of the speaking trumpet. Mr. Evelyn Beerbohm acted very well as the young candidate Tarver in love with Phyllis Faraday there is more candidature ...

NEW AMERICAN PLAYS: THE WOMAN IN THE CASE AT THE GARRICK. EUNICE AT THE HICKS; THE WOMAN IN THE CASE; AT THE ..

... were any doubt as to the class to which Claire belongs, Miss Vanbr ugh dispels it the moment she appears. Her flashy attire speaks for itself, and she has cleverly empha sised the make- u p of her face to ensure the completeness of theimpersona- tion. The ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1176 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

The BOOKSHELF: William Morris

... The Mind of Napoleon as Revealed in his Thoughts, Speech and Actions, by Harold F. B.Wheeler (Sisley) in which the Emperor speaks for 7 ii himself. Despite the 1 abundance of fresh material from new sources which the author has added to his book since ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1909
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1203 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

The BOOKSHELF: William Morris

... The Mind of Napoleon as Revealed in his Thoughts, Speech and Actions, by Harold F. B.Wheeler (Sisley) in which the Emperor speaks for 7 ii himself. Despite the 1 abundance of fresh material from new sources which the author has added to his book since ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1909
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1203 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: MID-CHANNEL, AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE

... clearness by Mr. Lowne, who has some truths and some fallacies to enunciate, but all admirably expressed. Blundell once or twice speaks of Mottram as a bore, and sometimes there is a little too much of him but it is difficult to stand a bore at the theatre what ...

AT DALY'S THEATRE: THE DOLLAR PRINCESS

... nce turns of the evening. It seems a trifle cheap to talk about a little Ray of sun shine, but, after all, the facts must speak for themselves, even if they are guilty of punning when they do it. TWrR. JOSEPH COYNE seems to lose a little of his glamour ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1573 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review