Refine Search

THE CINEMA: That Dreyfus Affair!

... stupidities. It was redeemed by the steadfastness of Colonel Picquart. Before the Affaire Dreyfus was the Affaire Turpin. Turpin, who had invented Melinite, became a spy. During his imprisonment for spying he announced another great discovery. Mercier ...

Published: Wednesday 27 October 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1234 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA: FILMS OF THE WEEK

... England of the eighteenth century and Dick Turpin abroad on the King's highway here 's a subject for popular melodrama, bristling with romance and dashing deeds 1 John Stafford's lively direction of DICK TURPIN (Capitol) takes full advantage of the colourful ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1080 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS: Novelists born and made sane successful humour

... representative of one of the big tourist agencies. I should expect him to acquit Mr. Turpin of the charge of exaggeration and content himself with a warning. DlCHARD TURPIN, whose book, Doggett's Tours, will not amuse anybody outside the travelling public ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1932
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1325 | Page: 77 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS RECEIVED

... Allison (Allen and Unwin, 10s. 6d.) Championships, 1880-1931 (Amateur Athletic .s.? son as.) Doggett's Tours, by Richard Turpin (G]g d 7s. 6d.) Death Dams the Tide. J°h.n Wallace (Gravson, 7s. 6d.) Sergeant Sir Peter, by LdflaI (Chapman and Hall, 7s ...

THE CINEMA

... the company of those most erratic of spies, Chico and Harpo. Zeppo's suavity is again a foil to the others, and Harpo's Dick Turpin ride may console us for the silence of his harp and of Chico's piano. The screen adaptation of the stage success, BY CANDLELIGHT ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 898 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Films of the Day: Sark--Background for an English Film

... will have none of the difficulties commonly encountered in England, where it may be necessary to suspend the shooting of Dick Turpin's Ride to York while traffic roars by on the Great North Road, and re-make an execution in the Bloody Tower because a couple ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1008 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Seventeenth Century and the Ancient World

... the fact that Lowe, the personal conductor, the guardian angel malgre lui) of the party, has a private drama of his own. Mr. Turpin tells us a lot about Lowe's charges, but he does not allow us to forget the important question will Major Doggett accept Lowe's ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2399 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Tobacco

... there were circumstances that helped him to win our favour his life in the forest, the fact that he was one against many. Dick Turpin just manages to wriggle into the heroic class by virtue of his great ride on Black Bess but it is his mare, really, who saves ...

Published: Wednesday 17 June 1931
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2308 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Pleasant Vices

... of Rubens and gave birth to one of his most vigorous and striking pictures. What romance still clings to the name of Dick Turpin Who knows that in after years our descendants may not cherish the same feelings of tender ness and admiration for some prominent ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2398 | Page: 45 | Tags: Review