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THE ART OF THE CINEMA: On the Road to Repertory--Another Warning Shadows?--A Sunday Night Adventure

... Sennett comedies of the Key stone period, when Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuclde, Buster Keaton, A1 St. John, Mack Swain, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, and Mabel Normand all acted in the same series. Among more ambitious efforts are revivals of Caligari, The ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2183 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

REVIEWS: SHORT NOTICES OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

... Elizabeth Villiers. (Stanle Paul. 12s. 6d. net.) As may be deduced from the title, this book tells the story of highwaymen Turpin, Duval, Wild, and others less famous or infamous. The stories c such folk are inevitably of interest, not only to the rimin- ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1197 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

At the Sign of the Cinema: THE NEW TIVOLI

... that he reads furtively, with fear and precaution against the paternal eye, in the more or less related histories of Dick Turpin, Claud'e Duval, and Sixteen-String Jack Will he not hide his blood and thunder, with its deadly designs of prison and gibbet ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1220 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE HONOURABLE MR. TAWNISH, AT THE KING'S, HAMMERSMITH; FAIR OAK PLAYERS, ROGATE, PETERSFIELD

... picture of a man of the road in a three-cornered hat and a fancy coat As a boy I loved to read about Claude Duval and Dick Turpin with his Bonny Black Bess (0 Romance, when shall I find such another pair as these and JackSheppard was a hero too, for he ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1344 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

MACBETH

... schoolboy, who is denied bv watchful parents or wary schoolmasters the prevailing light litera ture on the subject of Dick Turpin or Sixteen-String-Jack, this absorbing play will come as a sheer delight; while the abilitv to sit in purring contemplation ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1927
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1257 | Page: 17 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: I. ARTHUR, AT THE OLD VIC

... Gordon have washed the Ethiop white. They have made him a hero for old boys as well as young to love. He is related to Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Tom King, and Sixteen String Jack. Here is 44 a great bear with arms to hold a Queen, and claws to fight for ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1422 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: London, My most Kindly Nurse.--Spenser

... hall of the White Bear. I very much doubt if there is any justification based on sufficient authority for associating Dick Turpin with the Spaniards. All the associa tions with that famous highwayman are pro bably as valid as the blood of Rizzio on the ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2158 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

LINER LOVE

... and Deliver. By Elizabeth Villiers. (S. Paul 12s. 6 d.) Sketches, half-fiction, half-fact, of old-time heroes of the road, Turpin. Duval, Sheppard, and the unspeak able Jonathan Wild as a matter of course and a few lesser fry, like Richard Dudley and ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1817 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review