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New Books for the New Year

... facsimile reproduction of the list of plays in which Sir Henry Irving appeared, between 1871 and 1903, at the Lyceum Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as marked by Her Majesty Queen Mary to indicate which were the plays she witnessed. In this connexion ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2928 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... ance in town, you must put up with a very grim prison film, and go to see James Cagney in EACH DAWN I DIE, at the Warner Theatre. The story is just another ex posure of racketeer ing, and the brutal methods of discipline practised in the past tense in ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1295 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

Kelly's Directories

... within easy reach of London, with the name of the secretary, the nearest railway station, telephone number, fees, etc., and a Theatre Supplement, containing seating plans, are other features. Kelly's Handbook (42s.), which has reverted to its old title of ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre

... The Theatre: Herbert Farjeon All Clear Queen's WHO would not go where to see Miss Beatrice Lillie? Which question being as complicated to answer as it is complimentary to ask, let me confine myself to the statement that I would (and did) go to the Queen's ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 525 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: Corrosive Criticism

... can get at Macy's for forty-nine cents. A movie theatre also has a peculiar concept of ventilation. I suppose there are exceptions, but not in the case of the movie theatres, I seem to go to. These theatres apparently work on two principles. Either they ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1422 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Who Who in the Theatre

... the Theatre The ninth edition of this invaluable book of reference has at last appeared, compiled and edited as usual by John Parker, pub lished as usual by Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., Parker Street, Kingsway, at 30s. Who 's Who in the Theatre is, of ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: Panto and Ustinov (Players' Theatre)

... The Theatre Herbert Farjeon Panto and Ustinov (Players' Theatre) The Players' Theatre in Covent Garden, being a period theatre, has appropriately celebrated the Christmas season by presenting a period pantomime, that period being the Vic torian 'sixties ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 582 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: The Past Year's Films

... which is just that period too long, this charming young actress comes back to us in this film to be presented at the Warner Theatre next Friday, January 12. Bette Davis co-starring as the other sister who is in love with the same man, Clem, played by George ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1173 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... is especially well suggested this is fine cinema usage the real thing. THE OLD MAID is the new picture due at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, on January 12. Delia (MIRIAM HOPKINS seated and her sister, Charlotte (BETTE DAVIS right), agree to live ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1211 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... screen entertainment in the wide sense. Basil Dean, directing, has a surer instinct for the way things look and sound on the theatre stage than the way they look and sound on a film-track. The novel-readers and the playgoers will probably like 21 DAYS better ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1040 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... bourne production of The Beggar's Opera, which i ft due for its first performance last night, Tuesday January 16, at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, and is scheduled to remain on tour for a few weeks be/or' coming to London. Mr. John Gielgud is the product' ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2436 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre

... The Theatre By Herbert Farjeon The Golden Cuckoo Duchess) THE action of this new comedy by Denis Johnston arises out of a very nice point. An editor com missions a contributor to write an obituary notice of an eminent scientist who has been investigating ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 617 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review