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THE BOAT, a TRAGI-COMEDY of MANNERS

... incidents in a book remarkable for its endlessly articulate characters, and for one of the most exquisitely observed scenes of kitchen life that I have ever read. Mr. Richard Llewellyn writes of a group of people rather more concerned with the war, and particularly ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1611 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

at the Theatre: Flowers for the Living (Duchess)

... Lily's devoted lover. But the other parts, including that of Lily, filled by Miss Nova Pilbeam, are uneven. Conflict in the Kitchen. Lily Holmes (right: Nova Pilbeam) greets her corporal Barry Morse) with unalloyed joy, while father in the background Noel ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 961 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

A Great Novel: SHORTER NOTICES

... Always, always, that large, dis cerning ear was cocked for what was cooking around town and seldom, if ever, around his own kitchen. He told fibs not lies about his early life and he improved the facts a bit in his stories. Once the real money began rolling ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2040 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... empty. Also don't get too absorbed in the programme. Keep an ear lifting for odd sounds. It may be the cat, making hay in the kitchen but it might not be. Those amateur suggestions bring us to an excellent documentary series, about those whose profession it ...

Published: Wednesday 10 May 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1566 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

Books

... Housewives will chuckle and learn. IN the age in which she lived Maria Edgeworth, strictly speaking, should have stuck to the kitchen, too. But she didn't. She wrote Castle Rackrent and shared the honour of pioneering the novel of manners with Jane Austen ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1708 | Page: 82 | Tags: Review 

Golden Age

... particular, Nesta Webster was there at that intriguing period when two strong personalities were in conflict. She found Lord Kitchener by no means the grim War Lord that he has so often been depicted. This was the ex perience of most who had the privilege ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1663 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

The Wyndhams

... is East and West is West for this book recapitulates the ugly story of what {Continued on PW C-i Booh Reviews The Alehouse Kitchen, by Rowlandson shows hoiv in 1810 the familiar public house was beginning to evolve from an ordinary domestic room. It is ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1568 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

GIN-PALACE ART: A Wide-ranging Survey on Public-house Decor

... development of the modern urban pub, the wine bar, the cocktail bar and the road-house from first beginnings in the alehouse kitchen, and he deals at length and lovingly with that fine flowering in the Victorian age, when the gin palace became, with all its ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 826 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Books

... Sir Would you be so kind to keep in your ice, but in dry angle, my yeast? There are ten (10) grams. Rinds of fruit from the kitchen would pleasure my parrots if not else disposed. Please counsel all that my man parrot, who has the yellow headtop, is angry ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2357 | Page: 88 | Tags: Review 

Sketch-Book

... waiter puts a dish before you and praises it to the point of ecstasy. He is delighted to place the master piece from the kitchen before Madame and Monsieur. He waits apprehensively while we take the first bite. We indicate that it is good. His happiness ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1825 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

at the theatre: Home and Beauty (St. Martin's)

... look well and yet to make women in the audience ask themselves if this indeed was how they looked in youth. Deadlock in the Kitchen. Holding forth eloquently yet discreetly Mr. Raham the solicitor Brian Oulton) shows a way of escape to the lady caught in ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 933 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review