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... is no space to speak, though I am inclined to think, with due allowance for their period, that Mr. Hesketh Pearson rather underrates them. -ORNiNG Star, Mr. J. L. Hodson's latest book (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) is a daily newspaper. It speaks fearlessly, attacking ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2197 | Page: 42, 44 | Tags: Review 

Lady Chatterley's Lover

... is very hot. They arrange for an hour's truce, come down to the river banks. There is more, but the film should be left to speak for itself. Never was war shown to be more futile. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Macbeth

... a matter for debate. We have been used either to noisy Macbeths or to actors who treat the part as an exercise in verse- speaking. Olivier is at once warrior and haunted unconscious poet nobody in our day has probed Macbeth so deeply. The opening, in ...

Published: Wednesday 15 June 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

Achievement at Stratford on Avon

... This is only well enough as far as it will go. 'or her breathless eagerness hardly gives ler time to speak what in the part must be conveyed by speaking rather than by act ig. This is one of the specks on an other-, ise delightful production by Mr. Glen ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 866 | Page: 32 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

Brush up your Marx for this

... e them as they would impersonate imaginary characters: they speak for them at certain crises in their lives. The idea is that we should hear three members of Communist committees speaking words that they are either reputed to have used or which are ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 872 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

THEATRE: The Old Vic to the rescue

... THEATRE BY ANTHONY COOK MAN The Old Vie to the rescue ON A WET DAY IN THE COUNTRY Sainte-Beuve, speaking for a race of passionate readers, cried, Let us read all Mine, de Sevigné It is high time, cries the Old Vic, that the Waterloo Road learned to ...

Published: Wednesday 16 September 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 778 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

As You Like It

... except some fooling for the Martext- Audrey- Touchstone trio and we are lucky in an Orlando (John Neville) with a beautiful speaking voice, and in a young Rosalind (Virginia McKenna) who loves deeply, and who, as the weeks pass, will be merrier. The Arden ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

Look Back in Anger

... g boor, arrogant and shoddy, reminds me of the modern poet's demented wrestler, with gorge full of phlegm. Kenneth Haigh speaks him with great vigour, and such people as Mary Ure (wife) and Helena Hughes (mistress) help us through the night. There is ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

The Way of the World

... Hammond's j pouting Millamant, recites the articles of j matrimony and hears her reply, O horrid provisos Actress and actor speak this with the nicest finesse. Margaret Rutherford's J Wishfort (the old peeled wall is at least three times better than it ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

The Lovers of Lisbon

... seductive widow from England who takes up with Lisbon taxi-driver Daniel Gelin. Shrewdly amusing study by Trevor Howard (speaking slow French with an execrable accent) of a Scotland Yard detective patiently hunting down a murderer. Fascinating shots of ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

The Lady and the Tramp

... for a long time, Walt Disney has had the fancy to satirize a number of cinema conventions, using as his characters animals, speaking with human voices. Any resemblance to George Orwell's Animal Farm may safely be taken as coincidental, although one or two ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

HENRY IV, PART ONE

... Redgrave craftily manipulates the Northumbrian accent used here, instead of the familiar stammer, as an interpretation of speaking thick. I am heretic enough to dis like Falstaff's sallies on the field of Shrewsbury and X have never wished more urgently ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review