... something years ago. Thomas Hardy, then aged eighty-four, had stopped working, but was more prankish even than Shaw. I spent the week-end at Max Gate, his home near Dorchester, to discuss the staging of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Hardy was not much interested ...

... what Hollywood calls a natural, showing the aged Thomas Hardy (Clark Gable) finishing his celebrated novel in a study the size of Olympia, reciting the key-line meanwhile in a deep, solemn voice. Hardy The President of the Immortals had finished his sport ...

... of literary fame than Mr. Maugham. He has denied that the E iward Driffield of Cakes and Ale was ever intended to be Thomas Hardy, at no denials could ever efface the port ait of Hugh Walpole contained in the ch trader of Alroy Kear. The much-cr icized ...

... country autobiography by Fathom Five MONICA HUTCHINGS X X Y Her passion forthe wild things of wood and meadow is akin to Thomas Hardy's. 1 TV T^awat JOHN O'LONDON (12/6) AHMAD KAMAL 4 Set in the community of island-Greek K2 Ed Cl sponge-fishers who sail ...

... Zuleika Dobson, for love of whom a whole generation of fabulous under graduates flamboyantly died, now lives at Rapallo. MR. THOMAS HARDY COMPOSING A LYRIC is lent by Mr. Henry Tozer. The great little man is alone in starkest Wessex, which he loved so much ...

... literary page Our 1893 Bookshelf A Rupert Croft-Cooke will review books published by such rising authors, for example, as Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson f A double-page of joke cartoons typical of the humour of the 'nineties. In our Sporting Background ...

... The libretto, which closely follows historic truth, is 5 by Alan Price- Jones and the set designs are by Felix Kelly. Robert Thomas will sing as Lord Nelson, and Victoria Elliott as Lady Hamilton. The entire i production will be broadcast by the B.B.C. on ...

... them as coming to us out of the Great Heart of the Eternal God this is to enter into life and to understand Christmas. Thomas Hardy once wrote beautifully, if sadly So fair a fancy few would weave In these years. Yet I feel If someone said on Christmas ...

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... was so gentle. We would stand at the bar, silent awhile, like two horses with their heads over a gate, then talk about Thomas Hardy's poetry, which we both loved. He died on the way to California, where he was to work with Stravinsky on an opera. Needing ...

... if re quired. Long experience country gentleman, landed estates. Moderate salary, highest references. Lawrence, Cricket St. Thomas, Chard, Som. A LITTLE CLASSIC makes a lot of spring excitempnt. Come and see new suits now at Simpsons of Piccadilly. PRIVATE ...

... latest, Three Winters, is think) his best to date. By Hubert Nicholson, Sunk Island (Heinemann, 13s. 6d.) is a novel in the Thomas Hardy tradition here are country characters, magnified by a regional solitude. Elemental passions are at work within the stolid ...