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The Cinema: Piffle about Pola

... the singular fancy for regarding artists as artists. But women are different. I am told that a woman, when she goes to the theatre, imagines herself to be the heroine of the piece, and does indeed undergo, throughout three chocolate-munching hours, the ...

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

Criticisms in Cameo: MADAME PLAYS NAP, AT THE NEW THEATRE

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. V J|l J' I. MADAME PLAYS NAP, AT THE NEW THEATRE. MADAME plays Nap-- and wins. Truth to tell, she did not hold many trumps, for the play is merely an elaborated anecdote turned sans-gêne into a three-act play, the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1388 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Our Captious Critic

... O Op135 Oc om DEAR LOVE (77/e Palace Theatre THE Palace Theatre was built as a home for English grand opera, and now, after nearly forty years, an operatic singer has been engaged there to play a musical comedy hero. Affairs are progressing-- at glacier ...

The Literary Lounger: Terrors of the Salon

... greed, give fife a mechanical rhythm which can only find relief in sensation alism. Whether politics, sport, dancing, the theatre, music, literature or art provide the sen sation, it is the one thing talked of. The power of interesting oneself in others ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2371 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

The Cinema: Odds and

... the result that I have been represented as advocating a type of film which is twin with that conception of the theatre fostered by The Theatre Arts Monthly. I am persuaded that if that pretentious playhouse, with its dynamic scene, rhythmic planes, and ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1289 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: I. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, AT DRURY LANE; II. ARMS AND THE MAN, AT THE COURT THEATRE; III. MR ..

... were silenced by those sweet kids of the Winstanley School of Dancing, hereafter a name to conjure with in the world of the theatre and in general. But there are others who call for remembrance and tribute. The practised hand of Mr. Hickory Wood and his ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1389 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Our Captious Critic: on A WARM CORNER

... Qur Gft,ous Oc on A WARM CORNER (Princes Theatre). THE complaint which has been lodged against this play, which is by Arthur Wimperis and Lauri Wylie, is that it is a musical comedy without music. This is rather unfair, because, although the story is ...

Criticisms in Cameo: ILLUSION, AT EVERYMAN; JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, AT THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE; THE DOCTOR'S ..

... Miss Wilson, was no stranger to their consulting-room. J. T. G. II. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, AT THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE. T'HE Children's Theatre is worthy of its name. It is an ideal place of entertainment for Peter Pans and Wendys from six to sixty. The ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1500 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: IN THE ZONE AND THE MAN IN POSSESSION,'' AT THE AMBASSADORS; DARLING, I LOVE YOU, AT THE ..

... as drama it is but poor stuff, having only ingenuity for its saving grace. J. T. G. IV. THROUGH THE VEIL/' AT THE DUCHESS THEATRE. 44 HPHROUGH the Veil is another example of the A difficulty of harmonising the transcendental with the theatrical. As a play ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1459 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE PASSING SHOWS: The White Assegai, at the Playhouse

... respectful admir ation for the Outposts of Empire. It is all a question of illusion, and illusion is the primary business of the theatre. I wish that verandahs in outlandish places need not always contain a thirsty Scottish doctor, and that the women would dress ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1381 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review