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Three Actresses in a Line: Carnival King

... than his personal surmise Daphne Slater played Isabella with subtlety and power that were good to see. She has become a fine actress. Connoisseurs know her worth, and when there must be another discovery, I suggest Miss Slater as a candidate. Other parts ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 744 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

Remembrance of Things Past: A Question of Fact; A London Actress; 13 For Dinner

... thrusts the incriminating brace let in the actress's bouquet. Devilishly, she burns her own confession. And in domitably she stabs herself. A hard even ing's work. For the rest, Joan Blake is simperingly the Actress Tom Gill (of the Royal Navy) is buoyantly ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1366 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

ADVENTURESS ACTRESS: Strange Experiences in South Africa; the Wit of Peter Fleming; Murders Most Vile; Three ..

... Adventuress Actress Strange Experiences in South Africa the Wit of Peter Fleming; Murders Most Vile; Three Novelists from America; Science Fiction for Adults THERE is a little lady, now, I suppose, middle-aged, though that seems difficult to believe in ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1626 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

CATHERINE THE GREAT ACTRESS: The Memoirs of a Consummate Artist in Statecraft; Doing Justice to Magellan; ..

... Catherine the Great Actress The Memoirs of a Consummate Artist in Statecraft Doing Justice to Magellan Sigrid de Lima's Notable Novel Robert Graves and the Princess Nausicaa CATHERINE THE GREAT OF RUSSIA is one of the few notable women rulers to have ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2298 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC: Sir Winston Churchill's Third Volume of The History of the English-Speaking Peoples ..

... Third Volume of The History of the English-Speaking Peoples Reminiscences of a Diplomat, a Conscientious Objector and an Actress Frith's Memoirs THE scope of the new and third volume of Sir Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples is ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1434 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

CHEKHOV WITH A SMILE

... nervous and inexperienced actress of the mimic play scene (which is played for laughter), and she rises surprisingly well to the difficult final scene in which the seagull realizes that now all her dreams gone away she is an actress or nothing, whether fated ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 839 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Gallant Story

... The Gallant Story: By J. H. B. Peel. (Arthur Barker 12s. 6d.) Avice Gallant is an actress who at the age of seven eighty years ago knew where she was going. She leaves her Cornish home and sea-captain father to tread the boards the hard way and win fame ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

THE GAY INVALID: Garrick

... than because it brings back to London the Austrian actress, Elisabeth Bergner. Memories of Bergner are so strong from those days of the 'thirties, when she was hailed-- I fear, un warily-- as a great actress, that many people will be eager to know how time ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 463 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

at the Theatre: Larger Than Life (Duke of York's)

... spirit reflected on the stage. The Julia Lambert of the novel is a highly successful, very talented, serious and industrious actress. Looking for assurance that her physical glamour has not vanished with youth, she has a scandalous and absurd affair with ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 926 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

A Sprite in the Park

... a young prince who is likely to spend the rest of his life mourning an actress whom he loved for three days. Can it be possible that the pretty midinette and the adored dead actress are much alike The Duchess does not say so. But the midinette by this ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 683 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

THE MILLIONAIRESS

... tamarisk. Nothing could have stood, it seemed, against that hurtling gale. I thought of it when Katharine Hepburn, the film actress, appeared in the first minute of Shaw's comedy. We knew at once that she was made for Epifania, that symbol of the boss, ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

LACE ON HER PETTICOAT

... plain. It is the comedy of 1885 in which Aimée Stuart has created a Lady of the Isles, a party-piece in future for young actresses. There is an almost equally good chance for another girl of the same age, though Lady Alexandra is more showy than wee Elspeth ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 461 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review