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LONDON THEATRES: THE OLD VIC

... Mr. John Gielgud, not standing np aloft on a rostrum as Tree was i wont to do. Altogether this orchestral management, so to speak, of the crowd was very effec tive, though there was a tendency to irabble through the words noisily. Noiso, indeed, caused ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 696 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review 

THE GATE STUDIO

... finds that the butter cups suggest the poor slum- childrcn -.vho had never had a chnnce of enjoying them. We next find her speaking from Nelson's Column, to a rather un sympathetic audience of working men, by one of whom she is stoned. Then, despite the ...

Published: Thursday 11 December 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 811 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAYERS THEATRE

... presumably sister of the servant Gladys. The action takes place in the year of the Diamond Jubilee, 1897 and the Archdeacon, who speaks_ rather disrespectfully of Queen Victoria, has a heated altercation with Amy as they are on the point of start ing for the ...

Published: Thursday 11 December 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 767 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE EVERYMAN

... capitally by Mr. Francis L. Sullivan, Mr. Horace Hequeira, and Mr. H. Reyner Barton. These artists have often to chant and speak in unison, and so have the exponent* of the strollers, headed by Mr. Wallace Eveanett, as a suavely menacing Scaramcl. with ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 928 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: CHELSEA PALACE

... scene was im paired, at tho first house on August 4, bjr the muffled and un happily very indistinct tones of the player* speaking, off, tho important lines for the Judge of the Court. Tho tableau, in the first act, of the Jew driving the riedge through ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE PLAYHOUSE

... known as Tante Anna. She was made quite a character by that ex cellent actress Miss Marianne Cald well, always good in foreign-speak ing r61es. Mr. Ronald Buchanan, who was seen in 11 Aloma, was also very good as Mackenzie's loyal servant M'Buru, and so were ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1036 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: LEWISHAM HIPPODROME

... the morning comes Margot, who speedily finds out the assault on her married happiness has failed. Ann and Cary are not on speaking terms. Margot smiles wiselv and gets breakfast. Her plan has succeeded; tho girl has learned her lesson. The meal is interrupted ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1157 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: RIGHTS OF ARTISTS

... definite ones for which he was originally engaged. Also, it is inadinissable that, for exa.nple, an artist engaged for a speaking or singing film, having registered a song for this film, shogld see the vocal part of his performance cut out of tho original ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1235 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... ance of the aunt who speaks so frankly about politics and the then recent war. Mr. R G. Stoker now represent- with nniotlv mordant humour the secretary. Captain Rivers, familiar with the political hierarchy. Other plain speaking in this thoughtful nlav ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5411 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRE

... announcement of the engage ment of his daughter, Binnie, to an nnproduced playwright, Dreis ler, he, so to speak, seals his own fate. Binnie speaks very plainly on the subject of her father to the gracious Mrs. Heron, 1 who is known to her friends as Jacko ...

Published: Thursday 21 August 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2604 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... offence, though the scales seem weighted very heavily, perhaps un fairly. against the Victorians, and there is some very plain speaking in Barrett's last scene with his favourite and then eloping daughter. He owns to Elizabeth that she alone was a child of ...

Published: Thursday 25 September 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3438 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... feather-brained, and ineffably silly heroine, called Debonair as well as Loveday Trevelyan, runs away five times, or, to speak quite by the card, four timos and a half. I wico from the flat of an insincerely sweet and reasonable mother of an intermittently ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5796 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review