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A LITERARY LETTER: An Anthology in the Making

... best prose sketch in the book is The Purple Lie, an account of the journey from friend to friend of two free tickets to a theatre. The book is worth buying if only for this delightful little sketch, but there are others. A last book by Lady Ritchie reaches ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2037 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Golden Barque

... with the dramatic movement, and all his plays have been produced by the Abbey Theatre and similar organisations. The Shuiler's Child, his first important success in the theatre, was pub lished in 1909, and was followed by Three Plays (1912), The Bride (1914) ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2064 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Fine Restoration Comedy

... natural proceeding for a brilliant poet to write himself down among his lordship's slaves. 'The play was first performed at a theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields during Easter, 1672. The Duke of Buckingham in his tamous play, 1 lie Kenearsal, pro duced in 1675 ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1979 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE: Some Interesting Books of the Day: Then and Now

... fatal evening on which Lord Yardleigh met his death. A Factory Heroine The Theatre Queue, by Arthur Wallis (Sampson Low). Arnold Ellison was standing in the pit queue for a theatre when he first met Ruth Helme, the beautiful factory girl, in her plaid shawl ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1515 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Romance of Debrett

... evenings at my disposal for such excite ments as life can give-- and to me the House of Commons is much more exciting than any theatre. T like the atmosphere of the parliamentary lobbies. I like the pleasant friendliness of the dining-rooms. It is interesting ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2013 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Wordsworth and the Cinema

... by that poet. C. K. S. BroRen Blossoms Two little pictures from the wonderful film now being ex hibited at the Alhambra Theatre, an adaptation of Thomas Burke's story in Limehouse Nights. The story tells of a young Chinaman who finds himself in love ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1986 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

MRS. HUMPHRY WARD: The Famous Victorian Novelist

... 1896 Helbeck of Bannisdale 1898 Eleanor (played at Court Theatre, 1902 and 1905) 1900 Lady Rose's Daughter 1903 The Marriage of William Ashe 1905 Agatha, a play (produced at His Majesty's Theatre) 1905 Fenwick's Career 1906 Diana Mallory 1908 Daphne 1909 ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 844 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Theatre Memories

... A LITERARY LETTER Theatre Memories. London, April 19, 1920. I have re ceived a third volume of Welsh sketches, by Mr. Caradoc Evans, My Neiglibours (Melrose). i see that ot this writer's two other books. M v People is now in its sixth edition, and Capel ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2305 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: From Bohemia to Bohemia

... life, does duty as the legend on that one of my book-plates which is devoted to volumes on London. It is the London of the theatres, the Soho restaurants, Piccadilly at night not the London of Society with a big S which I have learned to love during the ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1902 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Six Days in Czecho-Slovakia

... be of long duration. ()ne'of the pleasantest experiences during the six days was the visit by motor car to the open-air theatre at Sarka. Here was a veritable Grecian amphitheatre erected in a beautiful mountain pass. There were about 20,000 people in ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1829 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: An English Wife in Berlin

... eagerly to Green Apple Harvest. TVT iss Kaye Smith, by the way, spent an evening during a recent visit to London at the Empire Theatre, and very much enjoyed, in common with a crowded and enthusiastic house, Miss Edith Day's beautiful presentation of Irene ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2106 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Oxford Splits its Infinitives

... the younger generation, and those who wit nessed a farcical comedy called Pll Leave It to You, by Noel Coward, at the New Theatre the other evening had a very marked experience of this character. Amid enormous applause at the end of the play, Mr. Noel ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2065 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review