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DRAMA: The Return of George Robey: 'Peter Pan Revived. A Harmless Black Spider

... public school. rsut mere were not many 01 mem ai Bits and Pieces which George Robey has invented and produced at the Princes Theatre. There were one or two who affected a faint boredom while the whole house shouted with joy at pure Robeyisms, but the majority ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1786 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

A BYSTANDER among the BOOKS

... startling, reading. And, in any case, Lord Lathom's preface will interest even those who, like myself, feel some 4 relief that theatre-going has not yet been made compulsory for all adults with votes. R. S. Two New Maps Two maps recently issued by Messrs. G ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1928
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1185 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: BITS AND PIECES, AT THE PRINCES

... 44 Plum Warner, the well- known cricketer, is to play Jenny Diver in the revival of 44 The Beggar's Opera, at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, which is due in the middle of next month. This will be Miss Warner's first important professional part Photograph ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1928
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1392 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA

... first-class bookings to New York no manager has as yet handed his theatre over to a dramatic critic the rentiers are busier with the super-tax returns than with the state of the theatre, and the sex play remains exactly where 1927 audiences left it. |\/T ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1851 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE ADDING MACHINE, AT THE COURT; EDNA THOMAS, AT THE ST. MARTIN'S; ALICE IN WONDERLAND, ..

... commingling the sublime with the ridiculous. For this reason alone it was worth doing, for it goes to prove that, in the theatre, the bizzare has the power to beguile us all. The mag nificent acting by Sir Barry Jackson's Birmingham Players to whom much ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1928
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1442 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

BITS AND PIECES: AT THE PRINCES

... the plank at the pistol's point in the best style of maritime romance. An amusing scene shows us the doors of the Prince's Theatre with an enthusiast tak- lng up a position as the first arrival of the usual queue, a day or so before the show is billed to ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1928
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA

... Arrival of Expressionism in London's West End: Plays Still Running in London By ALAN BOTT, The Adding Machine, at the Court Theatre, is not pretty, but it is art of a kind. It also truthfully depicts life of a kind, despite its expressionistic formula ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1756 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Thomas Hardy

... have little relation to the facts. Are we decadents Costume. the theatre> too I fear I join the Jeremiahs, so far, at least, as the standard of plays, the administration of the theatre, and the art of acting are concerned. Not much left, you will exclaim ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1928
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2747 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review