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HISTORY REWRITTEN: The Puritan's Position in History Questioned: Cromwell Challenged: The Star Chamber and the ..

... innate charm of this man, at once sensitive and resolute, glows in the tributes paid by Barxy, Birrell, and Garvin. Lord John Russell, by A. Wyatt Tilby (Casseli. 15s.), is a much needed biography of the little giant of liberty in the later nineteenth century ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2038 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS: Bülow Whitewashes Himself at the Expense of Everyone else: Sitwell on Mozart: Gore on Gore: Richard ..

... was often in dire straits, but it was still the age of patronage, and at twenty-eight, after acting as secretary to Lord John Russell, he became the Commissioner of Woods and Forests at a salary of £1,200 a year. He was safe for life. Their youngest son ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2519 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS FOR ALL TASTES: C. B. Fry's Reminiscences on Cricket, and Other Things--Books About England and Wales- ..

... in 1574 Lady Hoby married John, Lord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford. She wears a Viscountess' coronet; behind her kneel Elizabeth and Anne Hoby (both died 1570) and Elizabeth Russell; at her feet is her son, Thomas Russell (died in 1580); and in front ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2045 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Films of the Day: Intelligence, Military, from Hollywood

... held proudly on high, have a bitter, hateful beauty. Stars of the Film A Young Man's Fancy, by F. M. Russell Flint Young Russell Flint, son of W. Russell Flint, R.A., went down to Ealing to paint this picture for the 1939 Royal Academy. Stars of the film ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1112 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

MR. BANCROFT'S RACY MEMOIRS: A Wealth of Good Anecdotes in Stage and Bar: When Hawtrey was After Reynolds

... 6d. HARPERS. Adventures of America 1857-1900: A Pictorial Record from Harper's Weekly. By John A. Kouwenhoven. 12s. 6d. HARRAP. In Search of Soviet Gold. By John D. Littlepage and Demaree Bess. 8s. 6d. HEINEMANN. What Happened to the Corbetts. By Nevil ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2831 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

A Comic Operetta and a Non-Stop Evening

... show, another chorus dance, and the fourth programme was at an end. Should I, who had arrived at half-time, stay on and see John Tilley, the resident comedian and something, I gathered, of a find Duty, and a proper respect for the original birthplace of ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1111 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: Ourselves and the Whigs

... For the library list Escape from Freedom. By Richard Ullman. (Faber; ys. 6 d.) The Silver Swan. By John Clayton. (Heinemann 8s. 6 d.) Uncle Arthur. By John Pudney. (Longmans ys. 6 d.) Despair and Delight. By Ralph Arnold. (Constable ys. 6 d.) Master of ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1183 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: VARIETY FOR OUR VARIETIES; GRAND GUIGNOL II; THE SILVER CORD, AT THE EMBASSY

... as ever. Now, here there was variety in its widest sense, and in Graham Liddington they have found as good a balladmonger as John Tilley is a most original comedian. His doddering piano- tuner is shriekingly funny. At the Savoy also we found good singers ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1350 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

ENTERTAINMENTS á la CARTE: The White, White King

... r BISHOP JUXON, CHARLES HODGES TRUE THOMAS HERBERT, STAFFORD HILLIARD A ROUNDHEAD OFFICER; VERY SCOTTISH NOBLE, MALCOLM RUSSELL; TURNCOAT HOLLAND, ROBERT HOLMES TOM TlTT Entertainments a la Carte continued from. p. i3 canting exaggerated into the manner ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1125 | Page: 78 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... EVELYN MOORE, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Moore, of New York, to Mr. Alan Russell, youngest son of the late Hon. Cyril Russell and of Mrs. Russell, took place at St. James's, Spanish Place. THE LITERARY LOUNGER Continual from Page 486.) ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2185 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review