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CRITICISMS IN CAMEO: THE CINEMA; I. WEDDING REHEARSAL, AT THE NEW GALLERY; II. HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS AND HELLO, ..

... George Grossmith as the singularly old-fashioned parent of the youth ful twins seem to belong to a bygone era. II. HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS AND HELLO, TROUBLE, AT THE DOMINION. YET another inside story from Hollywood, so true to type in its various elements that ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1027 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... arranged it into a sheaf as shapely as one could wish. No one has ever been presented as vividly as Johnson his conversation speaks for him, its resonance echoes down the ages. But, though Reynolds has shown us how he looked, and Boswell and others have ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1361 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

CRITICISMS IN CAMEO: THE CINEMA

... she was far from being in an embryo stage, and it speaks volumes for the thoroughness of the American studios if this intensive nursing was deemed necessary. Why, to inure her to an English-speaking life, manners, and colloqui alisms, she even secured ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 954 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

At the Sign of the Cinema

... qualities than he sometimes does. _ A nice, clean boy who someone resents an insult to his Has to Pay. dandng partner in a speak-easy and accidentally kills the aggressor has to pay the price according to the Criminal Code. Within the gaol where he serves ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1931
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1015 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE STAGE

... be abrupt, abusive, and offensive But our code forbids. In the theatre we can see the code defied. Our repressed desire to speak out and even to hit out is thus safely released by the sight of somebody being robustly rude behind the footlights. However ...

Published: Wednesday 11 May 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1061 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... process in general. The dubbed film is one in which, the voices of the original foreign actors have been replaced by English-speaking players whose business it is to fit the phrasing and the timing of the translated dialogue carefully to the lip-work of the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1113 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

THE STAGE

... THE STAGE. By IVOR BROWN. IN the not very strong hand played this August at the Malvern Festival, the ace if one may speak bullishly, was a king. Charles II., the Merry Monarch, was an abiding hero of the stage before that Melancholy Monarch, the second ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1067 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... history picks him up. Abandoning his job for experimental work, and eking out a pre carious existence by teaching deaf mutes to speak, young Bell soon became absorbed in his invention of the talking machine. His early struggles, his great romance with the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1040 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Souvenirs of France

... tourist. The brick bulk of Albi Cathedral seen against the moon, he says, hit the soul like a hammer and in a vivid passage he speaks of vast, cold Byzantine cathedrals where no one seemed to enter except, at its hour, which is worth waiting for, the single ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1760 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

COMEDY: THEATRES OF THE WEEK

... their light shine in the glow of Miss Gertrude Law rence's wonderful talent. Thus Mr. Austin Trevor, an ideal impre sario who speaks ideal French Miss May Agate Mr. Morton Selten, and Mr. Walter Crisham, a most promising juvenile, who plays the plumber unaffected ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1059 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

At the Sign of the Cinema

... the unsophis ticated has, at any rate for the moment, lifted these uncom plicated stories of ad venture into promin ence. Speaking for myself, I have always enjoyed the drama of the Far West. Gal loping cowboys and stampeding herds, villainy unashamed ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1167 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

CRITICISMS IN CAMEO: THE STAGE; 1.--TEN MINUTE ALIBI, AT THE HAYMARKET

... Madeleine Lambert played a Franco- English part as well as a dozen French-speaking English girls could have done it. It has been proved that one can be all-British and yet speak French without a soupgon of an accent. PLAYS YOU MUST SEE. RICHARD OF BORDEAUX ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1210 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review