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THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Specialists

... altogether unusual knowledge of birds in a most palatable form. The Times recognised this, and paid her hand somely for her Nature Notes. Nor can I say that Ordinary Families is a novel for the yachtsman, or for such as go down to the sea in sailing- boats ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1385 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... correspondent, William Boot, one of the Boots of Boot Magna, whose journalistic experience had hitherto been confined to Nature Notes. It was all a mistake not William, but John Boot should have been sent John Boot, the friend of that versatile society ...

Published: Wednesday 18 May 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2279 | Page: 76 | Tags: Review 

The Stage of the Day

... April Fools at the Play house. Being in time, out of consideration for others, I spent a happy five minutes perusing the nature note on the programme. Most interesting some theatre programmes are tell you what to do if your dog has distemper, how and when ...

CRITICISMS IN CAMEO: THE STAGE; I.--SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD, AT THE LITTLE; II.--THIS ONE MAN, AT THE EMBASSY

... clearly cut in style, our joy would have been unalloyed. But the authoress, Miss W. E. Gunn, but rarely struck this vital, natural note only once before, in the delightful scene with Marjorie Fleming, his child pal, when the great man, at the hand of his ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 869 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... sincere and manly as the handsome English exile. Frances Farmer, defending her commandeered schooner, strikes a clear and natural note, and Lloyd Nolan's smooth blend of cruelty and fanati cism emphasises the mystery of his un charted island. An excellent ...

Published: Wednesday 03 November 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 997 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

CRITICISMS IN CAMEO: THE CINEMA

... itself well to cinematic treatment, and a shrewd wit decorates the dialogue. The play demands an unforced and completely natural note in its interpretation, and herein the older generation is by far the most successful. Frieda Inescourt, as the serene and ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1050 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

CRITICISMS IN CAMEO. THE CINEMA

... an outstanding figure John Howard's study of a tormented mind is sensitive and restrained, and Jean Parker's frank and natural note helps romance to tread discreetly on the stony paths of a stern and often gripping drama. The authors of the original story ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1092 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... business of the Baron's robots. Thus Fran9oise Rosay's incisive and intimate portrayal of Catharine strikes a supremely natural note that seems a decade or so ahead of the hocus-pocus in the puppet- maker's workshop. But the elegant, if bizarre, Baron ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1120 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review