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THE ART OF THE CINEMA

... seen how Mayfair and Belgravia flocked to see Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush, which appealed to just as high a class of theatre goer as any stage-play. Very much the same sort of people took the management of the New Gallery by surprise when they crowded ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1511 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: HENRY VIII., AT THE EMPIRE; 9.45, BY OWEN DAVIS AND SEWELL COLLINS, AT THE COMEDY; DICK ..

... BEFORE THE GATES OF ROME. George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion was revived by the Macdona Players at the Regent Theatre and presented as a Christmas programme, together with The Showing-Up of Blanco Posnet. Photograph by G.P.U. ANDROCLES AND ...

Published: Wednesday 06 January 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1445 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review 

THE STAGE OR THE DAY

... W'liit- tington, the pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre. AS A CHINESE DECOY DUCK MISS BETTY CHESTER IN A CO-OPTIMIST SCENE CALLED PIG-TAIL ALLEY. In the new Co-Optimists' programme at His Majesty's Theatre, Miss Betty Chester has a dockside song- scena ...

A BYSTANDER among the BOOKS

... whiff of salt, and the accompanying text is exactly what one could have wished it to be. You wander by chance into a cinema- theatre, and witness the most amazing melodrama. The hero never ceases to be painfully heroic, and main tains a dignified (and sartorially ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1926
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1162 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Are You a Crook?

... beginning of her career, and has no intention of leaving the stage on her marriage. She has already played at three West End theatres in London Life at Drury Lane, in Kismet at the New Oxford, and in Easy Money at the St. Martin's. She made her stage dibut ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2941 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: 9.45, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE

... rv* Opr,ou5r.^c 9.45, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE. THIS is so compact and neat a little Ameri can play that though you prod it ever so with your critic's bodkin you can hardly find a kink in its chain of coincidences or a chink in its armour of mystery. It ...

Criticisms in Cameo: A POINT OF VIEW, BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS, AT THE COLISEUM; MR. HENRY BAYNTON AS CALIBAN, AT THE ..

... Sonia in the Barnes Theatre production of 44 Uncle Vanya.- THE BARNES THEATRE PRODUCTION OF UNCLE VANYA MISS DOROTHY MASSINGHAM AND MR. HENRY HEWITT. Uncle Vanya. the well-known Dlav bv Tchekov. was nroduced at thf RamM Theatre by Mr. Philip Ridgeway ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1407 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Cave Men

... The Daisy, proved too fantastic and mystical for English theatregoers. They hang upon his lightest word in the Hungarian theatre, and his latest play was produced only the other day, though not, as I understand, with great success. I fear I know little ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2959 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: ALL THE KING'S HORSES, AT THE GLOBE; MARY ROSE, AT THE HAYMARKET; UNCLE VANYA, AT BARNES

... Miss Irene Vanbrugh. For that was the clou of the evening. We are all happy to see her once more in our midst at a central theatre she should never go away again, for we all love her personality and her distinguished art. She played the wife to perfection ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1364 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review