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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 

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 

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 

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 

Criticisms in Cameo: ALMOST A HONEYMOON, AT THE GARRICK; HONOURS EASY, AT THE ST. MARTIN'S; FRANKENSTEIN. AT ..

... guileless souls who accept the occurences without intro spection, and as such it may draw the London public to the Little Theatre, as it will make a fortune in the provinces. Therefore, why criticise or go into such questions as to why Henry Frankenstein ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1405 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND WISE, AT THE NEW; CHARLES AND MARY, AT THE GLOBE; THE LADY OF THE ..

... Mary have moved from their tiny Hampstead theatre, and are now at home in their more palatial residence in the West End to all who love their company. This gentle play, which is fathered by the Everyman Theatre Guild, is epic in theme, and beneath the ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1590 | Page: 76 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Personalities

... Rich Americans, impressed by the sensational side of her powers, carried her off to America to demonstrate her gifts in the theatre. Her debut before the materially minded audience, seeking after a sign, was a pitiful fiasco, and she returned to her native ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2941 | Page: 74 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Mr. D. H. Lawrence

... NAME-PART IN THE LION-TAMER, AT THE GATE THEATRE. Mr. Elliott Seabrooke is the actor-artist who is playing the name-part in The Lion-Tamer the English version of Savoirs amusing play recently produced at the Gate Theatre. He is a brilliant landscape painter ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2883 | Page: 74 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Behind the Scenes

... Theafre the b°°k are We plunged theatre. into the wor)d of her childhood, plunged, willing and enchanted, into the world of the Russian State Theatre thirty-five years ago. It is not at all like the world of the theatre anywhere else, and this gives it ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2418 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: I. THE DAMASK ROSE, AT THE SAVOY; II. COCHRAN'S 1930 REVUE, AT THE LONDON PAVILION; III. ..

... create the make-believe of melody. Last, but not least in a masterpiece of satire it hits the habitual late-comers to the theatre right between the eyes in a murderous skit on their reprehensible ways and manners. This sketch alone was to me the supreme ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1943 | Page: 90 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: ON THE SPOT, AT WYNDHAM'S; RIO RITA, AT THE PRINCE EDWARD; FOURTH FLOOR HEAVEN, AT EVERYMAN

... brain, of his leader. J. T. G. II. RIO RITA, AT THE PRINCE EDWARD. 1WI R. LEE EPHRAIM has endowed London with a palatial theatre beautiful and comfort able, acoustically perfect, an ideal place to ensconce oneself into the cosy chairs and to listen and ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1436 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review