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The Tigress on the Hearth

... The Tigress on the Hearth The Tigress on the Hearth By Margery Sharp. (Collins 10s. 6d.) A long -short Collins 10s. 6d.) A long -short Victorian story told with Margery Sharp's coolly distinctive humour. It is the tale of a wild, handsome Albanian girl ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION TODAY: Reviews page: Harmony exact and wholly successful

... through discipline--gives unique opportunities to producer and writer which few have failed during the present season. The short story form on television can be an excellent antidote to the general trend in drama which seems more and more to indulge length ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1968
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 517 | Page: 14 | Tags: review 

THE WRITER'S TRADE

... the present volume he has specifically analysed short stories by such masters of the form as Maupassant, Chekhov, Kipling and Ernest Hemingway, and he has also emphasised the demands that the short story, by its very brevity, make on the author. In discussing ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1265 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: COLLEGE THEATRE

... Work shop Theatre Riders to the Sea, by J. M. Synge; Manchester Umbrella Ivan, by Anthony Clark, based on Tolstoy's short story The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Gogol's Marriage; Nene College Val ley of the Ashes, inspired by T. S. Eliot and developed ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: 19 | Tags: review 

CINEMA: RECENT PRODUCTIONS

... Russia, about young lovers torn apart by war. The Crimson Curtain (Cameo-Royal) Anouk Aimee in a little gem from France; a short story with a touch of Maupassant, set in France towards the end of the last century. Fantasia Studio One) Yet another revival ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

THE TRIBULATIONS OF A POLYGAMIST: An American Historical Novel With its Setting in Salt Lake City at the Close ..

... revised form. Men and Buildings (Chan try Publications. 35s.), un usually enough, has an epi logue in the form of a short story. The short story js less than four pages 'n length. It is very much to the point, and, incidentally, bears testimony to Mr. Gloags ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1439 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

The spectre & the rose

... The spectre the rose J.11M lg| IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM AS A LONG SHORT STORY, later as a play, and more recently as a film (The Innocents) Henry James's The Turn of the Screw retained its power to chill. Now Benjamin Britten's operatic version is in the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 649 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

This stuff called skiffle

... are reprinted from magazines in which they have appeared over the last 1.5 years, in America. Elliott Grennard's fiction short story is the high spot of the book, but there are inter esting articles by Otis Ferguson, George Frazier, Lillian Ross's naive ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 646 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

FRENCH GENIUS in the 19th CENTURY: Memories of Maupassant, Flaubert, and Baudelaire in Three New Volumes

... of the man without whose talent the short story, as we know it, would never have attained its present exact form or its popularity. Chekhov and .Maupassant understood and, in its modern sense, created the short-story form, and at the height of his career ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1571 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THIS WEEK, A STRONG ORIENTAL FLAVOUR: Frank Gibney's Five Gentlemen of Japan, Yoko Matsuoka's Daughter of the ..

... seven short stories, Shepherd's Hey (Staples. 10s. 6d.). Here is a writer of considerable power who is suited by this difficult form and has learned to discipline and shape his writing admirably within the limits and exigencies of a short story. Again ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1655 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

A NEW TRICK OR A DOOR IN THE WALL?

... and cons. The subject chosen for this initial experiment was only a 30-minute piece, made in England from H. G. Wells' short story The Door in the Wall. But the American inventor, Glenn Alvey, has since been approached by several major companies, who ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 722 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Many twists but no loose ends

... Scorpion Tales is the apotheosis of the television short story and this particular example had as its peripateia. a final sting in the tail that would have made O. Henry himself green with envy. Apparently the story of a duel to the death between father and son ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 850 | Page: 21 | Tags: review