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Some Portraits in Print: BeinĒµ the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles

... new ones and those who had already reached their creative zenith. H. G. Wells and Galsworthy were still writing, so were Joseph Conrad and Arnold Bennett, the latter, alas, in his pot-boiler stage. Sinclair Lewis had burst upon the scene with Babbit at the ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1833 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

KERIMA AS AISSA

... KERIMA AS AISSA She knows no fear and no shame, wrote Joseph Conrad of his heroine in Outcast of the Islands. Carol Reed, an admirer of the book since his boyhood, produced and directed the film. He found Kerima in Algiers after a long hunt for a worthy ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 74 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

The Royal Tour Film Is A Triumph

... lapsed. All through Outcast of the Islands I kept wondering why Mr. Reed had turned back to this cruel, dismal story by Joseph Conrad: he said because he had always wanted to do a Conrad story for the spirit of adventure in them. Whenever a whiff of adventure ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

TALK AROUND THE TOWN: Being the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles

... Modigliani and Picasso. The Modigliani appears at first sight to be a portrait notably unstylised, for the artist of Joseph Conrad, but is actually of his doctor painted to repay a debt. Artists, if their lives are apt to At the City of London Art Exhibition ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1609 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Beauty And The Beast

... excesses and determined ugliness, does not lose hold of the heart. The foreword to Laughing Anne reminds everybody that Joseph Conrad, who appears in the person of Robert Harris, was one of the great story-tellers of his time. Somebody should have reminded ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 581 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

Reflections on the Amateur Championship

... rough, he was nearly always in play. His opponent in the final and the new Amateur champion, twenty-five-year-old Lieut. Joseph Conrad, deserved to win because he outplayed his dour, thirty-six- year-old opponent in the difficult morning conditions, and ...

SPRING SEA TOURS: A Cruise in Warm Waters by Cargo-Boat Provides an Inexpensive and Comfortable Holiday Away ..

... Holiday Away from it All By GORDON COOPER MY taste in literature finds most satisfaction in re-reading time and again Joseph Conrad's Youth, that superb story of the lure of the sea. When I reach its final sentences, beginning By all that's wonderful ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1967 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWS IN PICTURES: ADVANCES ON THE MOTORWAYS

... will be the first to be fitted with radar. Of a special small size, it has been provided as a memorial to the novelist Joseph Conrad ADVANCES ON THE MOTORWAYS An aerial photograph by Aero- films of the Slough By-pass, to be opened this week by Mr. Marples ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1187 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

S.E. ASIAN COMMITMENT

... John Connell The other day I discovered for the first time-- it was a lamentable and inexplicable gap in my education-- Joseph Conrad's magnificent long novel, Nostromo. Its sombre and complex narrative is set in an imaginary South American state, towards ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1563 | Page: 47 | Tags: Photographs 

ADVENTURE IN THE CHINA SEA

... ADVENTURE IN THE CHINA SEA Joseph Conrad is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of English literature. Born in Poland of Polish parentage in 1857, he had come to manhood before he mastered the English language while serving in British merchant ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 206 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs