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W. E. HENLEY

... . By John Connell. (Constable 21s.) IT would be a cruel and sweeping criticism to say of this book that it will be of interest chiefly to Stevensonians, but it would not be altogether untrue. Henley means little to the present age except as a man whose name appears in the index of almost every literary biography of his period. Of his own work no more than a few stanzas survive, and they have ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 331 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

THE PRICKING THUMB

... . By H. C. Branson (Bo dley Head 8s. 6 d.) This week's detective novel gets its title from one of the witches in Macbeth By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes. And something very wicked had obviously been at work in New Paget (U.S.A.), for the local doctor had been shot apparently by a jealous husband who had afterwards murdered his own wife and com mitted suicide. ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Review 

FIRST NIGHTS AND NOISES OFF

... . By Beverley Baxter, M.P., with Illustrations by Grant Macdonald. Hutchinson 21s.) The publishers describe this book as a selection from the weekly theatre criticisms which Mr. Baxter has now been contributing to the Evening Standard for more than six years. But it is much more' than that. Mr. Baxter's criticisms can be read, if the reader so wishes, for their verdicts on particular plays and ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 305 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

DAPHNE LAUREOLA

... 44 DAPHNE LAUREOLA IT is a Soho restaurant and in some disarray. The place, we gather, is being repaired. But who will worry? At Le Toil aux Pores the play must go on. Two spivs bargain in a corner. A bored man and woman argue. Four Cockneys twitter. Yorkshire and Poland are represented. And, enthroned in an alcove at the back, is a vision in shining satin: a lone diner who seems content to ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 815 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF: ALL I COULD NEVER BE; ATTILA; BRAVE AND CRUEL; TWENTY SHILLINGS IN THE POUND

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE ALL I COULD NEVER BE. By Beverley Nichols. Jonathan Cape ISs.) ATTILA. By Louis de Wohl. Gollancz 10s. 6d.) BRAVE AND CRUEL. By Denton Welch. (Hamish Hamilton 8s. 6d.) TWENTY SHILLINGS IN THE POUND. By W. Macqueen-Pope. (Hutchinson 21s.) ALL I COULD NEVER BE.-- It would be difficult to find four books more sharply contrasted than the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1158 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

THE PARADINE CASE

... ANY work of Alfred Hitchcock's, whether successful or unsuccessful, requires more than a cursory glance from a critic, and my choice this week falls on The Paradine Case not because it is a particularly good film, but because the man behind it is one of the very few directors who is allowed to make his own mistakes, and knows exactly what he is doing. This version of the Robert Hichens novel ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 717 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

FILMS IN BRIEF

... THE LUCK OF THE IRISH. One of the few Hollywood whimsies that have nearly come ofi, thanks to the beguiling performance of Cecil Kellaway as a leprechaun in attendance cm journalist Tyrone Power. my own true love. Phyllis Calvert and Melvyn Douglas in one of Hollywood's cost fire side chats about post-war marriage and neurosis Don't worry if you have to miss it. There 'li be lots of others. ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION'S TERRIBLE FADE-OUTS

... . Bv Robert Dane THERE must, I imagine, be few more disconcerting experiences than to be left goggling into a television camera at the end of one's act, uncertain whether one's face has been faded out or is still, smirking on the viewer's screen. I know nothing of the technicalities involved, but it does seem to me that it ought to be possible to devise some simple plan to put both performers ...

THE SMALL BACK ROOM

... j MICHAEL POWELL and Emeric Pressburger, the people who whang arrows into a target for their trade-mark, have had a pretty big tussle with the critics over their pictures, and sharp things have been said on both sides from time to time. But I don't think there should be anything except mutual cordiality over The Small Back Room, the Archers' latest. I It is intelligent, exciting, ...

Published: Wednesday 16 February 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 626 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

DEAD LION

... . By John and Emery Bonnett. Michael Joseph ;8s. 6 d.) This is a reviewer's paradise-- a convincing novel about a murdered writer. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 24 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... by Ray Allister (Deputising for Robert Done, on holiday.) OF two October plays, one was right for television; the other was just right. I want to demonstrate the world of difference between their qualifications. It 's a honey of a play. We were talking three weeks before the play was produced. The speaker was Royston Morley, senior television drama producer, and the honey was Frank Tilsley's ...

WE'LL HEAR A PLAY

... WE 'LL HEAR. -A PLAY. By J. C. Trewin. (Carroll and Nicholson 12s. 6 d.) MY colleague, Mr. J. C. Trewin, has an inveterate love of apt quotation-- no the thumbed phrases that are pulled by the hair out of dictionaries of Quotations and dumped down in the text, but those supremely right yet somehow unanticipated sentence which fit his text without strain. I find this gift for quotation an ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 254 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs  Review