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EMIL JANNINGS RETURNS

... been shown in making the picture suitable for English speaking nations without the use of doubles. Jan nings, for instance, is depicted as a German professor of English literature, therefore he speaks, naturally, English with an ac cent. The cheap cabaret ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1251 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

Struggle 1914-1920: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 15s

... instal ment refers not only to the war, but also to the author's own efforts to further the growth and spirit of the English Speaking Union. It is not an easy book to describe perhaps it may be called a record of public events as seen by a man of definite ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1936
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review 

Mary Anne among 10,000 Islands''

... the good Finnish folk they will get a warm welcome. Language is not a real problem, for everywhere there is someone who can speak English and ready to come to the aid of the voyager. Wetherby 10s. 6 d.) Books for Various Tastes ...

Sambo and Susan

... in it seems to be that the story has to be written on blank pages left at the end of the book, which then is in pawn, so to speak, for months, until the judges have decided, after which the pub lishers will return it so long as four- pence for postage has ...

A LEADING TALKIE STAR

... voice is most attractive and her delivery arresting in its inten sity and realism. Although Harry Bannister, as the husband, speaks with a rather broad American accent when he is meant to be an Austrian, he, nevertheless, is good. This is chiefly because ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1064 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: American Justice -- English Jury; The Night of January 19th (Phcenix)

... from the skyscraper, the judge will speak the Acquittal Ending fur nished by the American author. If, on the other hand, you condemn her, deciding that the body was a corpse before it emerged from the window, he will speak the Electric Chair Ending, alternatively ...

Published: Wednesday 14 October 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 647 | Page: 15 | Tags: Review 

ART AND ARTIFICE

... is Russian. You hear their words in perfect synchrony with the movements of their lips, yet not one of them, I believe, can speak English with anything ap proaching perfection. The answer to this riddle is that they have all been doubled, but so doubled ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 670 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

MATRIMONY A LA MODE: Apron Strings, at the Vaudeville

... seen this clever actress give a better AT THE PLAY Barbara Olwell Ursula Jeans), the bride who speaks plaintively of neglect, and Hester Marie Mackie), who speaks with a Scottish accent, even in America Ezra Hunniwell (Joseph Coyne) put so much spirit into ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1037 | Page: 15 | Tags: Review 

Pearl's Mother and Julian's Fathers: Mother of Pearl

... silver lake-- Oliver Messel's décor is like that, so cool and stylish-- is no more plain than it is tuppence coloured. It speaks joyously, but m a classical whisper, there is no I room here for the brazen or the obvious, I and in and out of the pattern ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1129 | Page: 13 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: Ourselves and the Whigs

... Bells and John Cornfords to play the Byron, though more austerely, in foreign politics. We do not speak of Byron's demon, but is it less romantic to speak of his com plexes And if the Lad}' Caroline Lambs of to-day do not write witch-haunted melodramas ...

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

CLOTHES

... them neatness and precision. For neat and precise they are. Quite early in his essay Mr. Gill remarks, casually, We as often speak truth without knowing it as falsehood without intending it. A man who can express that thought so concisely is in little danger ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review