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The Literary Log: A LOOK ROUND AMONGST THE BOOKS

... like the other great ones, will have to be collected. Stage memories have an interest of their own, and there will be many theatre-goers to enjoy the Stage Cat's volume, From The Wings (Collins 15s. net), edited by Elizabeth Fagan. The Cat is certainly ...

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

BATTLING BUTLER

... very properly, to the comic side of that very busy centre. I have an idea that patrons of prize fights and patrons of the theatre constitute two entirely different sections of the pleasure-loving public. If I have guessed rightly, I it may be that the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1923
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1212 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Coaching Era

... coach lurched and swayed round a dangerous corner. John Palmer. was John J Palmer He was the manager of the Bath and Bristol Theatres, and John Palmer was the man who invented the mail-coach. A letter would take three days to reach Bath from London at this ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2727 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: TREASURE ISLAND, AT THE STRAND; ROBINSON CRUSOE, AT THE LYCEUM; DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE ..

... down into the country to see new plays tried 44 on the dog. So when Percy Hutchison, the owner of the lovely Theatre Royal at York a theatre with a chapel front and a crypt, and inside as comfortable as any in London said, 14 I am trying a new play by ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1596 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

MUSIC of the Week

... SLC fl f of tfio ct'k^ T* By FRANCIS TOYE. When, in the dim and distant past, The Beggar's Opera was produced at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, there were found people to say that its success was due solely to the original genius of Lovat Fraser, who designed ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1353 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

TREASURE ISLAND AT THE STRAND

... piece that they were turning away money at the doors and I think they must be doing some thing of the kind at the Strand Theatre just now, though I expect they ask it to call round again another day, as it is a pity to lose sight of the good stuff altogether ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1923
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1366 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

MUSIC of the Week: The Charm of The Immortal Hour

... JACKSON- The founder of the Birtnittgha:7i Repertory Theatre L-- l MR. APPLEBY MATTHEWS-- Musical director of The Immortal Hour l I I A Scene from Mr. Rutland Boughton's _Music Drama at the Regent Theatre Regardless of the King's appeal, Etain moves towards ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1101 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: PLUS FOURS, AT THE HAYMARKET

... HAYMARKET. THE chief attrac tion just now at the Haymarket Theatre is the sight of Miss Peggy O'Neil in plus fours. It seems a strange lure for the home of high comedy, just as Covent Garden Theatre is a curious lodging for the eye brows of Mr. George Robey ...

Criticisms in Cameo: IF WINTER COMES, AT THE ST. JAMES'S; THREE'S A CROWD, AT THE COURT; THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, ..

... gusto and a little too much vocal effort for so small a house as the Court. III. THE PRISONER OF ZEND A, AT THE PALACE THEATRE. YVTHEN Anthony Hope's famous novel took the world by storm, as surely as any Ethel M. Dell love-story of to-day, we hailed ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1518 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review