Refine Search

Play Reviews: Only In America

... Only In America ROUND HOUSE ONLY IN America, you might say, can you raise the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to the level of an art form. Two highly professional writers, they churned out dozens of tunes during the late fifties and early ...

Published: Thursday 17 April 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 362 | Page: 10 | Tags: review 

Play Reviews: In The Heart Of America

... In The Heart Of America BUSH THEATRE THIS IS a Gulf War play. It is also a Vietnam War play. It even touches on the recent US invasion of Panama. There's some gay love, half a hint of incest, some fleeting disability and a spot of bullying in the army ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 12 | Tags: review 

POLITICAL SCENERY: In the Americas, Russia and Africa

... is needed in relation to Latin America. With the publication of Mervyn Jones's BIG TWO (Jonathan Cape. 21s.) the question must surely arise, is it profitable to make a direct com parison between the way of life in America and Russia today? At any rate ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 707 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

ANDES ADVENTURE: Mountaineering in South America

... Andes Adventure Mountaineering in South America When Everest was climbed in 1953 a French moun taineer praised the achievement by saying that it had decapitated mountaineering. Eric Shipton, one of the great Everest pioneers, put it just the other way ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1000 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: O MY AMERICA!

... O MY AMERICA! PEOPLE adventure for many reasons. Money comes into it quite a lot; that is often the motive of the senders-forth. God also comes or came along as well-spring of the voyage or even as an after-thought. Theatre Roundabout is one company which ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 13 | Tags: review 

TWO NATURALISTS: Orang-Utans in Sarawak; exploring in South America

... TWO NATURALISTS Orang-Utans in Sarawak; exploring in South America As the swelling tide of civilisation erodes the few remaining pockets of unexplored territory in the world, so the attitude of Western explorers, hunters and naturalists has gradually ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 662 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR: The Conflict which Convulsed Half a Continent

... America's Civil War The Conflict which Convulsed Half a Continent To attempt to write a history of the American Civil War, the war between the States, in one volume is in itself an act of courage which can stem only from deep enthusiasm for the subject ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 821 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

SOPRANO FROM AUSTRALIA: The biography of Joan Sutherland; travel in America, Australia and Ireland; and this ..

... SOPRANO FROM AUSTRALIA The biography of Joan Sutherland travel in America, Australia and Ireland and this week's fiction Joan Sutherland is a very great singer and her story is, inevitably, a success story. But as Mr. Russell Braddon tells it, it is something ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1203 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

CHILDREN, CATS AND OTHERS: A variety of personal experience; novels of England's towns and country; adventures ..

... CHILDREN, CATS AND OTHERS A variety of personal experience; novels of England's towns and country; adventures in Russia and America Mr. E. R. Braithwaite, who described his experiences as a teacher with such unsenti mental warmth in To Sir, With Love, has ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

A WEEK FOR FICTION: Elizabeth Taylor's latest novel; novels about Ireland and America; thrillers and historical ..

... A WEEK FOR FICTION Elizabeth Taylor's latest novel novels about Ireland and America thrillers and historical works Some years ago Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor wrote a novel called A View of the Harbour and I have remembered it, with gratitude to its author, ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1221 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

LLOYD GEORGE, BY HIS SON: An unusual novel by J. R. Ackerley; fiction set in England and America; and thrillers ..

... LLOYD GEORGE, BY HIS SON An unusual novel by J. R. Ackerley fiction set in England and America and thrillers of the week LLOYD GEORGE (Muller. 21s.), by Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, is a very odd book for a son to have written about his father. It is ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1238 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE: Experiences from the Arctic Circle to South America; and some New Novels set in a Variety ..

... Travel and Adventure Experiences from the Arctic Circle to South America and some New Novels set in a Variety of Foreign Backgrounds -By VERNON FANE IT is a mysterious but true thing that there are general trends in writing-- or, rather, in the sub jects ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1520 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review