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LONDON THEATRES: THE PLAYHOUSE

... known as Tante Anna. She was made quite a character by that ex cellent actress Miss Marianne Cald well, always good in foreign-speak ing r61es. Mr. Ronald Buchanan, who was seen in 11 Aloma, was also very good as Mackenzie's loyal servant M'Buru, and so were ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1036 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE OLD VIC

... Mr. John Gielgud, not standing np aloft on a rostrum as Tree was i wont to do. Altogether this orchestral management, so to speak, of the crowd was very effec tive, though there was a tendency to irabble through the words noisily. Noiso, indeed, caused ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 696 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... Jim Burke, who ba^ 'jeen fond of Leah, or was it Rachel When the two meet In takes ft for granted that Leah is Rachel, and speaks to her about herself and her calling very rdainlv so plainly and so toudh that it. seems surprising that the combined forces ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7605 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... placed on the lips of some member of the com pany that the author was not in the house, but would mereiy say. 41 I can't speak before my betters.** Thus modestly did Mr. Roland Pertwee pass over his own important share in 'he unmis takable firs*, ni^ht ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5956 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... Cora's old servant, out of whose name, Decent, much fun is made. Miss Brough is given many apt. if Malapropish saying* to speak by Mr. Travers. whose skill in writing blight dialogue continues with un abated force. Mr. Ralph Lynn saunters de lightfully ...

Published: Thursday 20 February 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6664 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... feather-brained, and ineffably silly heroine, called Debonair as well as Loveday Trevelyan, runs away five times, or, to speak quite by the card, four timos and a half. I wico from the flat of an insincerely sweet and reasonable mother of an intermittently ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5796 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... various reasons, id Cary, bec ause ho, as a nerve- ahaken parent, would rather seek rest and change in Europe; Rren- nan, who speaks Americanesc, if with a Scots accent, as being anxioi* to return to his not un naturally jealous wife in Los An- {;elea The ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4964 | Page: 36 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... graced actor, one of whose chief attributes is the possession of a generally mellifluous, most expres sive, vml skilfully-used speaking roioe. Moissi, who was born in Venice, and educated in Vienna and Berlin, is a youngish man of rather short stature, with ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4619 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... : and Charlotte Schultz delivers the resounding admirably as the mimic m Queen who protests too much. Bruno Eichgrun also speaks the prologue! M brief as woman's love/* Rudolph Amendt is the Rosen- ?3^ _ kranz, thus spelled in the German, and Fritz Seemann ...

Published: Thursday 05 June 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7536 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... Olympe's. in tho fourth act, tho players were shown as seated and speaking from beyond a yellow curtain, on which their shadowy forms seemed to become reddish silhouettes, so to speak, from the ruddy glare proceeding from tho rim of tho picture frame ...

Published: Thursday 19 June 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5967 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... To turn a saint, even a plaster one, into a self-confessed harlot, seducing a farm-boy just for the fun of the thing, so to speak, puts a considerable strain upon the powers of make believe possessed by such K intellectual audiences even as those wont to ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4180 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... top of his bent. He becomes furiously in dignant when he learns nc has been u*c*d as a tool, a stalking- horse, a mop, so to speak, behaves with unoourtier-like d ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6434 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review