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A LITERARY LETTER : The Life of O. Henry

... produced pernicious books. Another interest in the pamphlet is to be found in the pleasant reminder that the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford looked in 1683 precisely as it does to-day, such being the comparative permanence of good architecture throughout ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2291 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

Things New: At the Theatres

... Miss Joan King so that everything is as a pantomime should be. No complaint of emptiness could be made about that gorgeous theatre the London Opera House on tbe night when we witnessed Mr. Oswald Stoll's presentation of Cinderella and the huge audience ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1284 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. IN some respects the book-reviewer is more fortunate than the dramatic critic, for the former is not expected to consider seriously and pass grave judgment upon the ordinary shilling shocker, upon the commonplace detective ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 465 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... safely be said that there are scenes of beauty and vivid colour and picturesque outline unsurpassed in the record of the theatre. Miss Jose Collins gave a remark able performance as the heroine, for she sang admirably, and acted with plenty of fire. Miss ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 556 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Bookselling and the War

... Buckstone and Sothern, senior, was due to the fact that a poor woman was killed in the crush at the door of the Haymarket Theatre a painful form of advertisement. J t does not do for actors to intervene when annoyed by the eccentricities of individual ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2331 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: AT THE APOLLO THEATRE

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MONTY'S FLAPPER, AT THE APOLLO THEATRE. MR. WALTER W. ELLIS, who wrote that successful Little Bit of Fluff still to be found at the Criterion Theatre, has not had the same luck with his new farce, Monty's Flapper, at the Apollo ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... in revue. J. W. YOUNG ENGLAND TRANSFERRED TO DRURY LANE THEATRE. Miss Dorothy .Jtvy as Joan, the Plymouth lass in love with Tom Moon. THE REVIVAL OF THE CATCH OF THE SEASON, at the Prince's Theatre. Bucket (Master Charles McConnell) makes love to Angela ...

THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES

... THINGS THREE plays of the week have been studies of women-- very different women. One was La Parisienne, presented by Le Théâtre des Alliés at the Garrick. Henry Becque's quite famous comedy, now a little more than thirty years old, if a trifle antique ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1711 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review