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... infinite delicacy, charm, and befitting gravity of tone and rpien by Miss Irene Rooke, whoso hus band, Mr. Roomer, acts and speaks with the briskness and snap re quired as the multi-millionaire im personated in Dean Street by Charles Hawtrey, who had given ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2631 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES. (Continued from page 16.) Bestlay, a gentleman turned up at a quarter to leu It gen1* without ..

... improved by a little more of the musical- comedy element. Very funny, however, is the idea of making each of the characters speak in a dif ferent dialect, from Yankee to Irish. It is admirably played by Mr. Morris Harvey, Miss Irene Browne. Miss Beatrice ...

Published: Thursday 28 June 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: 19 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... newest idiom here, somo of which sound strangely as coming from the lips of u supposed old ?Dutch servant, who is made to 'speak with the accent and in the circumlocutory, cart-before-tho- horse fashion that used to be con sidered essentially German. To ...

Published: Thursday 30 August 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3567 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... Sebastian agrees to be ruled by Olivia. To perforin the play in its entirety within reasonable time-limits the artists had to speak their lines very trippingly indeed from the tongue, most of them doing well in the utterance of verse ar.d prose alike, though ...

Published: Thursday 08 November 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3612 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... descended o winding slope to take the Golden Road to Samarkand. Also down to that when Ml*. Basil Dean, with reason unable to speak fluently, explained how ho was merely taking another's place. and how his ten years' efforts to get Ilassan presented on ...

Published: Thursday 27 September 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8464 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... company linos, presented 44 The Merry Wives with tho maximum of action and the minimum of poetry in it, except for the pretty speaking of the lines for Fairy Queen in Windsor rorest, as delivered by Miss Phyllis Shannaw, indeed a Sweet Anne Page, to tho . ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6724 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... a method different from that of most revue comedians, and some really novel lines to speak, so that his humour is always fresh anil unforced. Mr. Reginald Adair speaks clearly, and with cultured intonation, and sings various numbers agreeably. Mr. Frank ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4617 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... else where it may tend to become mechanical. It is Ibest done where it is legitimately done where, that is, it is the actor speaking and not Edmund Kean the man. There is, (or example, that bravura display when Kcun wants to captivate tho crowd of doubting ...

Published: Thursday 10 May 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6803 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... of accessories, to de note the mourning over a corpse, for instance, served as locale for Mr. Dykes, who has a tendency in speaking to ladle out his words rather like our old friends the Villain at the Vic and Captain James Hook, to deliver such famous ...

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

London Theatres

... fear, and Mr. Hather- ton, who made one of the hits of the evening as the infamous Wat- kins, whose wife, in a manner of speaking, the Ayah who attends upon Mrs. Crespin, received a richly coloured and quietly impres sive j>crformance from Miss Helen ...

Published: Thursday 13 September 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5528 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theaters

... Hoffi who, despite a tendency to addre? directly the audience in-tead r J0 ;tho character to whom Nona i muiiMueil to be speaking, plav with sunc-ess in the short scene with Marko and in the var irregular outburst at the inquest. Lady Tybar's introduced ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1923
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6507 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review