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Speak to the Earth

... Speak to the Earth, by Fivienne de TV atteville (Methuen, 15s.) FEW people can ever have spent five months in East Africa more profitably than Miss de Watteville. Her love of Nature and all the inmates of the natural world is not merely keen it is flaming ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 62 | Tags: Review 

Personally Speaking

... Personally Speaking By A Jan Thomas THE TESTAMENT OF JOAD, by C. E. M. Joad (Faber and Faber; 8s. 6d.), is not an inspired work, because Mr. Joad himself says he is not inspired. He is, on the other hand, so intellectually detached that he makes a brilliant ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1180 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: Personally Speaking

... THE CINEMA Personally Speaking By JAMES AGATE ONE of the strong est pulls the cinema has over the theatre is the fore knowledge that from the film goer not the most fractional bit of cerebration will be required. Let the attention wander in the theatre ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1397 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The Cinema: Some Plain Speaking

... The Cinema Some Plain Speaking I By JAMES AGATE IN a week singularly barren of the usual epoch-making, world smashing, and Creation-staggering new talkies I have been delighted to receive a copy of a speech delivered in the American House of Representatives ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1312 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: Penny-plain Speaking

... THE CINEMA Penny-plain Speaking By JAMES AGATE THE other day I read that the captivating Mile. Anna bella is in England and that she had been discovered by an interviewer in the new studios at Denham looking strangely pale and surrounded by cameras and ...

Published: Wednesday 20 May 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1337 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT: In the Second Section of her Diary--and Other Literary Matters of the Week

... The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT In the Second Section of her Diary and Other Literary Matters of fhe Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS When Daisy, Princess of Pless, published a book all about herself and her extraordinary life, it made a great stir. This ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2532 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

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 

Review

... experience is that veterinary surgeons are often wrong too. They will, doubtless, continue to be so until horses learn to speak. D. L. L. .Practical Jumping and schooling, Dy Major J. L. M. Barrett. (Country Life, ios. 6 d.) The Elements of Stabling, ...

An Involved Story of an African Farm

... of sorts. Now I did not expect this British cast to speak Dutch or even Double Dutch, which the average English audience has a way of not being able to understand. But why did some characters speak in broken English The fact that one of the young men ...

THE CINEMA: Miss Bergner's Rosalindchen

... Rosalind is Rosalind at all. It may be, and in Miss Bergner's case it is, an enchanting some thing else. This clever actress now speaks the English language remarkably well, yet with a German quality which takes all the Shakespeare out of the verse. This is ...

Published: Wednesday 16 September 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1154 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE PASSING SHOWS: Strictly Dishonourable, at the Phoenix Theatre

... proprietor of the speak-easy and groom of the chambers to the amorous Count, is as volatile as Vesuvius. When Tomaso. his look-out man (Mr. J. W. Gilchrist), and Mario, the waiter (Mr. Marius Rogati), get together, the term, speak easy, takes on another ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1931
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1546 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review