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THE OLD PLACE

... law or members of the British Army. The only thing I did not show them was the rose-window glade what would be the use of speaking to these men about the death of celandine and primroses ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION TODAY: An unimpressive beginning

... that most people now accept the conven tion of actors speaking proper English when they are playing foreigners, whereas hearing Eng lish actors putting on accents when they are meant to be speaking a foreign language is both instrusive and inconsistent ...

Published: Thursday 21 August 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 11 | Tags: review 

Regional Reviews: The toils of war

... (designer Elizabeth Ascroft) with 12 bells suspended from the flies and draped as a background shroud-like linen, the company speaks the verse fluently with an admirable range of tone, bringing the chorus vividly to life. There is lingering incantation i ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 27 | Tags: review 

The Winter's Tale

... Tale Old Vic This has been slammed unwisely. A good deal of it (and it is madly difficult) comes over. Wendy Hiller cannot speak Hermione's verse, but she feels it, and gets us to feel Paul Rogers has no pathos but plenty of passion John Neville's spiv ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

The Passionate Search

... letters to M. Hegel and if I say that I can't see any problem here beyond that of putting yourself in the poor girl's place, I speak with the advantage of having read a writer who has done just that. ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

THE WAY THINGS GO

... timing has a deadly assurance. No doubt Mr. Squire would deny any of this and say that he merely speaks the lines. But it is clear that he was born to speak Lonsdale. I am still wonder ing, by the way, abput the family tree of the Bristols, and where one ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

Mr. Purdom's Week: THE EGYPTIAN; Carlton and Odeon. Marble Arch

... Marble Archi IN The Egyptian, there are sixty-seven major sets, seven stars, two dozen featured players, eighty-nine other speak ing rĂ´les, over 5,000 extras, and 5,000,000 separate objects, items and costumes of Egyptian antiquity, including the Nile ...

Published: Wednesday 03 November 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

The Road (La Strada)

... and Stan Laurel, and become the. toast of the continent. America's Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart are her leading men, speaking Italian with dubbed voices. A film to talk about at seasonal parties. REVIEWS ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Bleakness and Borkman: ON PLAYS

... convicted embezzler, remains year after year immured in the same house with the wife he has dis graced and who will not see him or speak to him. Ibsen contrived for the tomb-like drawing-room in which the twin sisters sit exchang ing barbed memories of the past ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1961
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 772 | Page: 45 | Tags: Review 

THEATRE

... quite quickly learn to speak out. Then this too will be a memorable performance. Static, brooding, hard and, above all, matter of fact, she taps her foot to summon the spirits that tend on mortal thought from beneath the earth, speaking urgently, hus kily ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

BALLET

... expected when the film's principal speaking characters are dancers namely, Kirsten Simone and Mette Honningen. It makes one wonder, though, how Nadia Nerina and Ann Jenner, both comparable artists, would respond to speaking film roles. Because Ballerina is ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 45 | Tags: Review 

Play Reviews: Camelot

... moral dilemmas it poses, unbearably moving. His speaking and singing voice is as young and musical as ever. Christine Ebersole, fresh from playing the very different role of Ado Annie in Oklahoma, speaks and sings with the purity and refined English accent ...

Published: Thursday 31 July 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: 23 | Tags: review