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LONDON THEATRES: THE Q

... revival here. The character of Mr. Dulcimer is by no means an easy one to play and requires delicate handling. It therefore speaks well for i Raymond Lovell's interpretation that he invests it with just the correct touch of Machiavellian subtlety without ...

Published: Thursday 20 July 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE Q

... Christine, in pleasing contrast. Carl Barnard is not ably good as the film star incognito. Particularly notice able is his fine speaking voice which he uses to full advantage. Daisy Bindley gives a sound characterization of Mrs. Angst, the homely wife of the ...

Published: Thursday 02 November 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: GOLDERS GREEN HIPPODROME

... This latter actor is well-suited to the part of the excitable artist, but he tends to become difficult to follow when he speaks excitedly. His acting, however, is admirable. Alan Webb gives a clever and amusing performance as Ernest. A neat character ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

THE WIMBLEDON

... THE WIMBLEDON ROSE MARIE One has had frequent occasion in the past to speak highly of the work of the Lyric Players in their appearances at this theatre. Their opening presentation of Rose Marie on Monday evening, however, was lacking in an important ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... this pleasant little thesis with gentle and contrastive colouring. It seems, in fact, as if her literary needlework, so to speak, had been left stabbed through and through with needles and pins of the most uncomfortable and annoying pointedness for any ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1159 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: G0LDERS GREEN HIPPODROME

... man. Geoffrey Edwards gives a sterling performance imnAvfonf tallf linsnPC- 111 tlic M*uv TT I tacular part of the judge. He speaks with a fair and measured solemnity which always attracts attention. The other male members of the cast consist of Basil R ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 516 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

THE GARRICK

... microphone recording the voices of various members of the audience, aug mented at discreet intervals by 44 planted assistants, who speak the lines of a highly melodramatic burlesque, which is finally played back through loudspeakers from the stage. An amusing ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... Ligurio, his elocution is clear and strong. Ivan Brandt plays Callimaco with as much sparkle as the part allows, though he might speak some of his lines more slowly. As the amorous Jesuitical priest Eadie Palfrey is suave, subtle and in sinuating. Godfrey Kenton's ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 782 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: HIS MAJESTY'S

... Roger Treville partners her very pleasantly as Michael Herriot, but is it neces sary for a romantic young English duke to speak his own language with a foreign accent? Are there no young Englishmen who could not have taken this role? The villain, Count ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 733 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

THE OLD VIC

... other than slapstick dough, which Petruchio proceeds to swing across the faces of his friends and servants. Moreover, they all speak at such a pace that one sometimes can scarcely hear what is said. And all this is done in the hilarious name of Petruchio's ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 852 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

THE RICHMOND

... love passages easily and pleasantly. The latter acts in a refreshing, unaffected manner, and has a particularly agreeable speaking voice. Ronald Shiver's funny manservant is perhaps a shade too studied, and Drusilla Wills makes the spinster lady as absurd ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 805 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: KING'S, HAMMERSMITH

... dainty Catherine and Charles Hickman is the darkest of villains as FredeTik Peter Lindsay is clever as the boy, William, and speaks hia lines bravely, and Kitty de Legh is good as Mrs. Bartholommey. Others who do well are W. Scott Harrold as her husband ...

Published: Thursday 04 May 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review