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 The dubbed film is one in which, the voices of the original foreign actors have been replaced by English-speaking players whose business it is to fit the phrasing and the timing of the translated dialogue carefully to the lip-work of the ...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

Twelve Novelists and Three Wanderers

... still wondering. She makes Frank Davis a reasonable, fairly understandable, fairly vital figure yet he is, comparatively speaking, the failure of the book. A draw would be a fair result, perhaps. If she has almost failed, she was attempting the almost ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1832 | Page: 63 | 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 

BOOKS

... novelist with a scientific bias, he likes to look on life as a biological experiment. While psychologists speak the language of Freud, Mr. Wells speaks the language of the laboratory. The grandfather of the hero of The Bulpington of Blup (Hutchinson. 8s. ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2386 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Bulpingtons and Brydens

... Wells loves to tilt. There is, by the way, a curious error in the account of Theodore's unheroic war experiences. Mr. Wells speaks of B and D Sections of a platoon. I admit that Captain Blup-Bulpington was a law unto himself. But was his regiment Continued ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1215 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Wisdom from the Past

... Winter Sport is the title of a booklet by Ian Fenwick. Its title speaks for itself. It is published by Cobden-Sanderson, and is full of ribald sketches like this This picture also speaks for itself. The back ground is in rich deep blue Clauschen is in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1243 | Page: 36 | 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 

Wigs on the Green

... Lost City of Atlantis, where, after some various bicker ings with fishes, they en counter an urbane citizen of Atlantis who speaks per fect English. Really, Mr. Wheatley I mean to say. On the jacket of the book there is the announcement that he has another ...

Published: Wednesday 15 January 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1185 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Earth, Sea and Fire

... Thorne Smith was of the school of Rabelais. But he was gradually climbing out of the cess-pool into the Mermaid Tavern, so to speak, and his last book, The Bishop's Jaegers (Barber ys. 6 d.), is delightfully free from the vulgarities which marred his early ...

Published: Tuesday 24 July 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1200 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review