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The Literary Log: ROLLED

... taken on the grounds that the type in question is, psychologically speaking, doubtful, although the unfortunate youngster, who is supposed to be reverting, is, psychologically speaking, a clear case. All this, however, does not matter very much, because ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1923
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 687 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE LITTLE MINISTER, AT THE QUEEN'S; FLEDGLINGS, AT THE ST. MARTIN'S; SESSUE HAYAKAWA AT ..

... personality is arrest ing, his manner re strained, his counten ance ominous in his seriousness. He speaks English with the faint est trace of an accent, but he speaks it like most Easterners, not wholly distinctly. The words seem to linger in his mouth, instead ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1441 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Book on the Way

... A word on the Literary Links, personal and particular, which help the English-speaking world to go round and a particular word on Newman Flower's Memoir of Handel. WE speak of the wise doings, by wise men, which keep the world together in the high sense ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1923
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1487 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: LITTLE REVUE, AT THE LITTLE

... the palace. A. midnight the life of voice animates the monument. They remain motionless but the mind is wakened and speaks in sound speaks of past glories, past joys and in the background we behold true, in somewhat defective perspective-- the ball-room ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1689 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

MUSIC of the week

... and, speaking for myself, I became very weary of the procession of singers, [im presari, and conductors whose names traverse its pages like a stage army. Here and there one catches a glimpse of the curious international opera world, not to speak of Caruso's ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1165 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

THE DANCERS: AT WYNDHAM'S

... Tony at lunch at the Savoy Hotel. I do not know why Tony should drop into schoolboy French as he does in this scene when speaking to the waiter. The last time I lunched at the Savoy, the waiter seemed to understand English quite well. It may, however ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 1923
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1217 | Page: 53 | Tags: Review 

Book on the Way

... A word on the Literary Links, personal and particular, which help the English-speaking world to go round and a particular word on Newman Flower's Memoir of Handel. WE speak of the wise doings, by wise men, which keep the world together in the high sense ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1923
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1487 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Log

... always ready to use long words if they happen to come to mind. It is a little curious, however, to find an Old Harrovian speaking of a Dr. Theobald Butler as Headmaster Henry Montagu Butler, of course, is meant and allowing the school motto, even though ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1923
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 538 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review 

MUSIC of the Week

... they like certain individual concertos they may feel more disposed to go and hear a player in them rather than in others. Speaking generally, however, they are,, when what is known as solo-music is in question, more interested in the soloist than in the ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1236 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Log

... a manner which Lewis has made peculiarly his own, but which is, perhaps, not too far removed from that of Bennett when he speaks of the Five Towns. It may seem queer, this American business world, but there is never a moment when it is difficult to understand ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1923
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 619 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Log: A LOOK ROUND AMONGST THE BOOKS

... Guards, and I hazard a guess that it will be wholly unlike most regimental histories. Of the other books I have no space to speak, but in the autumn there may be another volume by Norman Douglas, and that is coming to be a little literary event. He writes ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1923
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 820 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review