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... Manners, was banned to please the sensitive Socialists. The first spot of bother can be forgotten and ignored the second cannot. Why all this fuss anyway r Briefly, the story of the play is about a Socialist head of the National Atomic Board who, on receiving ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 511 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

More Play Reviews: Dick Whittington

... Dick Whittington DONCASTER WHAT saves Rony Robinson's socialist pantomime Dick Whit- tington from being as big a turn-off as it sounds is a willingness to keep the pantomime tradition intact and a strong line in self-mockery about the socialism. That ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 14 | Tags: review 

Soviet chocolate boxes

... paved the way for the era of Socialist Realist paint ing and drove most of the major artists into voluntary exile. If we may judge from the exhibition Aspects of Con temporary Soviet Art, now at the Grosvenor Gallery, Socialist Realism has died the death ...

Published: Wednesday 24 June 1964
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 646 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

COURT THEATRE

... contents: Stately Bosoms,'' 'Beautiful Earls, Dung and Diamonds, Don't Throw the Jelly, Novelist Answers the Bell, Socialists in Breeches. Historical facts of minor norlance are sometimes distorted e.g., It was some line before the new King (George ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

REGIONAL REVIEWS: Shaw shows the more cynical side of the coin

... the outspoken shy voung poet. The placid and observant Candida was played demurely by Primi Town- send and the Christian socialist Morel), in the garb of a parson, was neatly timed by Jonathan Newth. Roger Hume received laughs for his dry humour as Burgess ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 18 | Tags: review 

Plays in Performance: Candida

... 1WH. Bernard Shaw s domestic play, set in the sombre study of Morell, is the unlikely tale of how this upright Christian Socialist is faced with a threat to his happy marriage in the form of an 18-j^ar-old curly-haired adonis, the poetv Eugene Marchbanks ...

Published: Thursday 30 June 1977
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 11 | Tags: review 

MORE PLAYS REVIEWS: BELFAST FESTIVAL

... man, a gamb ler and liberal landlord. The pioneer socialist William Thompson was played by Don Foley who conveyed the committed thinker Mark Dowse was very effective as the dedicated Manchester socialist who is manager of the co-operative and so too was ...

Published: Thursday 14 December 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 683 | Page: 21 | Tags: review 

OCTOGENARIAN HARVEST

... terms b„lh Morley and Haldane, and in the campaigns uilawing war and for social betterment, he worked lesser Liberal or Socialist lights, among whom Arthur Ponsonby and Masterman. His estimate [sincerity and importance of the former in further- bose causes ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

The advance from Moscow

... s during the past few years he has introduced us to the work of several notable artists who are evidently not slaves of Socialist Realism. Last year, when he showed the work of about 70 artists under the title Aspects of Contem porary Soviet Art, the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 726 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

HIS EXCELLENCY

... (Princes) The Job is the Governorship of a British colony, the Mediterranean Island of Salva, and the Boy for the Job is a Socialist politician and ex-stevedore (name of Harri- l son). He is a good, determined, single-minded Yorkshireman, but as S obstinate ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

More Play Reviews: A Quick Deco

... evocative and extremely relevant, but the show does give the impression that pre-war entertain ment consisted largely of socialist cabaret interspersed with outbursts of sophistication as represented by Coward and Cole Porter. A Quick Deco also trails ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: 14 | Tags: review 

Play Reviews: The Little Rabbi/Knightley's State

... bogeyman in full spate as he rails against the special relationship between the Jew and his God which impedes the progress of a socialist heaven on earth. He is spouting all this to a humble rabbi forced to play stooge to the omnipotent Soviet dictator, who has ...

Published: Thursday 05 July 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 296 | Page: 11 | Tags: review