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The Gondoliers

... Pratt and Fisher Morgan come through best. Mr. Pratt is a mercurial, twinkling grandee (though, by the way, need the Duke speak of Wezley and Wezleyan and Mr. Morgan's Grand Inquisitor has the blandness of cream-cheese he would be the life-and-soul of ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

WHITTAKER CHAMBERS, WITNESS

... prefaces it with these words from Hamlet If thou art privy to thy country's fate which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O speak. That is exactly what Whittaker Chambers has done in accents clear and bold. The facts are all there as Chambers has presented ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2016 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Fantasy Wins

... from which he only partially recovered. Yet this again is a truly sympathetic study, as it must needs be, siqce Sir Charles speaks of reading some of his books many times over, an effort quite beyond my own powers. The last memoir is of his own two sons ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1254 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING...: Good

... CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING Good THE musical programmes of the recent past. The First Night of the Proms was notable for an inspired performance of Rach maninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 by Moiseiwitsch, accompanied beautifully by the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A DISTINGUISHED SET OF TALES: J. B. Priestley's New Collection of Short Stories of Time and People; and a ..

... JONES-- THE FATHER OF THE U.S. NAVY Vice-Admiral J. Wright, U.S.N. the C.-in-C. of U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic, is speaking from the platform outside the cottage in Kirkbean, Scotland, where Paul Jones was born. The plaque was given by the Army-Navy ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2378 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

... especially when it invites us to compare him with the celebrated Loch Lomond monster Of the human acting I would prefer not to speak. For my own part, I never found this parti cular beast frightening at all if anything, rather discriminating and ill-used. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

at the Theatre: The Confidential Clerk (Edinburgh Festival)

... characteristically vague way, imagines that the personable young man owes his appointment to her influence. Taking him over, so to speak, she questions Colby about his antecedents, and on hearing that he has been brought up at Teddington by a Mrs. Guzzard, is ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 875 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE: THREE'S COMPANY; TAKE IT TO HEART

... Rossetti, who can take love gaily and a kiss for what it is worth till the market fails. These three featured players, so to speak, not the stars, rouse us to spon taneous applause every time they appear and personally I should have been altogether satis ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1509 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

Hamlet

... Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland. But since Michael Benthall will have reconsidered matters for the Vic, it is wiser to speak only of the acting. Here I was disappointed too often. Mr. Burton's voice is not matched to the verse. At Edinburgh better ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

at the theatre: ''Hamlet'' At The Edinburgh Festival

... happened. The tragedy should have seemed to be, as it were, projected into our midst, and the actors should have been able to speak the text so as to be audible to those members of the audience who were farthest off without seeming unbearably ham at a range ...

Published: Wednesday 16 September 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 827 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THE LIFE AND NATURE OF GYPSY BORROW: Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald's New Theory of George Borrow; More Stories by ..

... the Diocesan Bishop) seen at London Airport before leaving for Montreal. During their three- month tour of Canada they are speaking at meetings in an endeavour to raise £100,000 towards the building fund of the new cathedral. The cost of the cathedral is ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1716 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Helena, Nora, and Penelope: All's Well That Ends Well

... Lancaster, with James Bailey's permanent fa9ade and proscenium). Fay Compton's Countess has the grand manner and Claire Bloom can speak and look Helena, though she is an oddly cold actress. It takes a lot to make me love Helena, a little opportunist if ever there ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 696 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review