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on opera: THE INDOMITABLE SAILS AGAIN

... on opera J. ROGER BAKER THE INDOMITABLE SAILS AGAIN For me, as for most of the younger members of the audience, it was like seeing a new opera-- a new Britten opera too. Billy Budd has not been seen at Covent Garden since its first dozen performances ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1964
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

Sinbad (Yale style) sails again

... Sinbad (Yale style) sails again by ELSPETH GRANT CINEMA MODESTLY DESCRIBING itself as The Eighth Wonder Of The Screen, a new process by the name of Dynamation lends The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad a certain macabre enchantment which is a good thing as ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1114 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

ERMA SAILS TO FREEDOM: The Saga of the Baltic Refugees

... the men and women who sailed to freedom in her have an odd feeling that Erma is indestructible. Here is another adventure book of the sea. In BEYOND HORIZONS (William Kimber. 15s.), Carleton Mitchell, one of the great sailing enthusiasts of our day, ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 905 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

SOPRANINO SAILS WEST: A Fine New Tale of Adventuring in Small Boats; An Anti-McCarthy Manifesto, and a Romantic ..

... Sopranino Sails West A Fine New Tale of Adventuring in Small Boats An Anti-McCarthy Manifesto, and a Romantic and Unusual New Autobiography SOPRANINO means literally Little Soprano, and refers to the smallest wind instrument in music. When Patrick ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2073 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THE WONDER OF THE WORLD: The Life of a Great Medieval Ruler; Two Books on Voyaging Under Sail; Doctors as ..

... lazarette. The author writes of his days under sail vividly and at times brilliantly, and always with a welcome touch of humour. Moonraker, a solid cutter built sixty years ago, which looks like a box and sails like a witch, was the subject of Peter Pye's ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1760 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

ACTION AT TRAFALGAR: A New Exposition of the Battle: Sailing Ships of the South and West of England; ..

... Action at Trafalgar A New Exposition of the Battle; Sailing Ships of the South and West of England; Autobiographies of Youth; Two Aspects of Nepal; Party-Giving and This Week s Novels ONE of the most extraordinary and, I think, least known facts about ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1791 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

HE SAILED AWAY TO ADVENTURE: The Twelve-Year Journey of Pietro Delle Valle, who Sailed Away from Seventeenth ..

... He Sailed Away to Adventure -By VERNON FANE The Twelve-Year Journey of Pietro Delle Valle, who Sailed Away from Seventeenth-century Venice, is Tolcl in a Fascinating Book by Wilfrid Blunt PIETRO DELLE VALLE was a Roman patrician who, in the year 1614 ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2183 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

More Play Reviews: Single handed

... Single handed CROYDON WHY IS Ronald Bembridge sailing his trimaran round the world single-handed? In the Croydon Warehouse production of Jonathan Rich's play, a number of possible explanations present themselves to the audience. First, Bembridge is such ...

Published: Thursday 13 November 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 28 | Tags: review 

Ride Out the Storm

... Ride Out the Storm by ANGELA MILNE By Roger Vercel. (Heinemann 15s.) Have you ever sailed round Cape Horn, I mean really sailed, with masts and iced-up canvas, and all that No Then near enough to the real thing awaits you in Ride Out the Storm, along ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 277 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

A MISSED OPPORTUNITY: The Tragedy of the Scheldt Battle in 1944

... has another side to his character he is a sailing man of knowledge and enthusiasm, as is evidenced in his article Sailing for Beginners on pages 266-267 in this issue of The Sphere. In his new book, PLAIN SAILING (Faber and Faber. 25s.), Mr. Denes fully ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 810 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

PRODIGY OF BROADWAY: The Career of Orson Welles

... travelogue, but this time the subject is SAILING THROUGH ENGLAND (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 25s.). The author is John Seymour who, with his wife Sally, has sailed the rivers and canals of our homeland in a 34-ton Dutch sailing yacht. From the Wash they penetrated ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 806 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

Regional Reviews: Someone Like You

... may well sail into the West End sunset for it has every mark of professionalism energetic singing and dancing, a mag nificently tatty set by Tim Goodchild (this is the post-bellum American South), big names. May God bless her and all who sail in her. But ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 17 | Tags: review