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ARTS THEATRE

... uppermost, and lynchings, public hangings, and bloodhound trackings are quite the order of the day. It is an aspect of America, of a bygone America, rarely seen on the etage these days, and it helps ono to under stano. if not to oondone, tho brutal treatment ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1929
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 670 | Page: 19 | Tags: theatre review 

THE LITTLE

... transferred on Monday to the Little, with a change of importance made in the short cast. Mr. Crane Wilbur having to go back to America, the place of this well -verged actor (author 6f that thriller The Monster, it might be noted) has been taken by Mr. Godfrey ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1929
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

London theatres: THE SHAFTESBURY

... was >vssing under her maiden name, as an in nocent and, as Armand puts it, so Virginia! creature, though she had married in America, and obtained a divorce there after a couple of dys of oonnubial jarring, her temporary husband having been Ker.neth Courtney ...

Published: Thursday 16 September 1926
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1046 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... The play produced by Mr. Stanley Bell Owing to various rumours whleh were circulated when tills play as pro- j n, e,( in America, the author wishes to state that t.lie characters In It are entirely imaginary. Miss Margaret Bannorman; who ]i, hitherto ...

Published: Thursday 20 September 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4395 | Page: 16, 17 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE Q

... rive a certain amount of novelty thereto, they then tried to work in an uncanny murder mystery of the type imported from America fairly frequently during the past few years. Good there may be in the play, but the authors have been v areful to obscure ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1926
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: WYNDHAM'S

... apostles of free love, are left sob bing, and Julia, realising what a shallow person Tony is, goes off to a film engagement in America. She, alone, displays consistent strength of character. Nothing further need be added tho story, such as it is, has already ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1929
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 863 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

IRISH PRODUCTION

... witty. Act 1 takes place on a small trans-Atlantic liner. Chance brings together a group of passengers all on their way to America on lecture tours. Ches terfield Wragsdalo, English novel ist; Vivienno Waters, an English singer; Molly O'Sullivan, a young ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1929
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 19 | Tags: theatre review 

REPERTORY PLAYERS

... characterisation, by Claud Allis ter, an actor, one of the early members of the Repertory Players, who has spent much time in America latterly.* In the play produced by his old comrades at the Strand on Sunday Mr. Allis ter has started apparently with the ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1928
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 841 | Page: 24 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE LYRIC

... oa>er from Kansas City. This show girl P^yed cleverly by Mien Joan Clarkson. and diverting in a vein of quaint and ultra- America-. oddity is the uncompro- lisiogiv played Topsy St. John of another visitor from across the pond. Miss Ruth Terry. Mms Joan ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1926
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 908 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... some ignorant toooinsters of the 44 Stunt [iPress as having broken fresh [ground, is understood to havo met Lwith success in America, and we [noticed fully 'by us when it was 'given, in curtains, at the Battersea frown Hall as lately as January 30 by the ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4254 | Page: 16, 17 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE QUEEN'S

... he took credit for the fact that thrre words only of the racy dialogue had been changed in the course of transference from America to this country. The proof of the pudding will be in the eat ing, and the play was certainlv re ceived with favour by the ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1924
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 860 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... This second drinking scene was treated effectively on Monday bv Mi-* Kitty Kelly, a quire unnccessarilv boosted actress from America, who endowed this very cute and wideawake belle of Chicago with an accent thick enough to cut with a carving knife, with a ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1926
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review