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Motley Notes: BRIGHTENING THE NEW YEAR

... pVotlei* pofcs By ALAN KEMP. INVEST ME. I/H ly imotue^ Crive ME LEAVE. TO spe-AK. MHXO._ known men who could lasso a glass of champagne nine times out of ten. I have known others who could lasso an attractive human target ten times out of ten. It is odd ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1209 | Page: 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

BROWNING ON BRIDGE: CCCXXXIII: BYSTANDERS

... when an apparently strange break in the play or declaration is made, has no rights. He must be dumb unless he is asked to speak (and even then, between you and me, he would be well advised still to remain dumb). But it is difficult to keep quiet under ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 945 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

EX-WIVES and OTHERS

... literary merit, but I am bound to say that it is most entertain ing. Years ago we should have been scandalised by its very plain speaking, but what with Lawrence and Lord Brentford pamphleteering as hard as they can about the censorship, and James Douglas telling ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1138 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

A KIDDIES' CAUSERIE

... here since the house was re built which is reviewed in another place, to adopt the phrase used by the plebian Commons when speaking of the Lords. Also, following the usual practice, there is pantomime at the Lyceum. The theme chosen this year is Puss in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 531 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

SUCCESS

... telephone bell rang as it had never rung when he was merely the author of Red Ruins he was invited to appear at music-halls, to speak at cinemas, to sell the story of his life in general and the hoax in particular, for fabulous sums. Poor, inoffensive little ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3050 | Page: 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

COSTUME DANCE

... have to make a speech, and ho said, No! just enjoy yourself! ” She would have been in agony if slue l»ad thought that had to speak. She did thank them all, though, from the bottom of her heart for the groat honour they had done Iter that night in asking ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JANUARY, ,93. HE WORLD IS OUR OYSTER

... other subjects lend themselves to most vivid exposition by this means. I should imagine, too, that literary education, verse-speaking and drama in particular, will call heavily upon mechanical reproductive technique. Thus the poetry of Milton, Herrick, Spenser ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Bioscope
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 842 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

STUDIOS

... changed. Anyone can join an amateur film club and act for the movies only they won't. The very people who, the other day, so to speak, cried their eyes out because they could not get an interview with a casting director, are just the people who sniff at the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: Picturegoer
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1016 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

CURRENT COMMENTS

... rather thon the jawbone of an ass, said Mr. S. IL K. Glanville, of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, speaking to children at the British Museum. the similarity, said Mr. Glanville, between the sickle as used to-day, the ancient ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: South London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1693 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE N

... democracy is the freedom of criticism it permits. On education Dr. Burns writes : Drama is better than class instruction. Speaking and The Clarion By LEONARD JAMES better than any other book I have read the complete blankness and insensibility to suffering ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: Clarion
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 697 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

The Cinema: Piffle about Pola

... it seems not an hour of supreme and supernal joy she becomes, actually becomes, Saint Joan, giving her torturers as much, speaking verbally, as she gets; a second Mrs. Tanqueray or a first Mrs. Fraser coming to a defeatist or a victorious conclusion a ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1148 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review