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THE CONSTANT COUPLE: Winter Garden

... I shall think of the evening in terms of his line, Oh, the delights of love and burgundy Maxine Audley and Ruth Trouncer speak admirably for the plotting Lurewell and the chaste, the candied Angelica. As Wildair says in the last couplet Woman, Charming ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

The Seagull

... Hugh Williams. Diana Wynyard is splendidly the shallow Arkadina; George Relph (old Sorin) and Nicholas Hannen (the doctor) speak from the heart; and I am sure that Lyndon Brook does so as well, though he does not move me yet as some Konstantins have done ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA

... by an excellent cast, that it is the sort of picture that would probably be greeted with cries of delight by non-English-speaking audiences at foreign film festivals. A plain-clothes policeman, passing a modern block of council flats, grabs a young boy ...

Published: Wednesday 18 March 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1048 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

Regional Reviews: Jumpers

... detective adds light touches of com edy. One could claim it is all comedy although Sharon Lee Hill gets little fun out of the non-speaking secre tary. Anthony Calf plays Clegthorpe, Charles Rea is Crouch, and the jumpers are Floyd Bevan, David Dandridge, Timothy ...

Published: Thursday 13 December 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 21 | Tags: review 

Christmas Show Reviews: KIRKCALDY

... captures its young audience as much because of the suitability of the performers as the minimal script. From John Buick, speaking each word in bold articulation as the Sheriff of Nottingham, to Jeremy Rose, as Robin Hood, an upright man dressed in ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 31 | Tags: review 

Regional Reviews: Boeing-Boeing

... the house down. It is odd that Bernard and Robert, who are supposedly French, have English accents while the Air France girl speaks in gorgeous Gallic tones, but this is the only criticism. Richard Borthwick is great fun as bachelor Bernard, whose three ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 25 | Tags: review 

Regional Reviews: It's A Madhouse

... superbly played by Cliff Howells. Even when silent and apparently comatose he seemed to participate as powerfully as he did when speaking. Crutch clutching and canny Pete was piaved endearingly by jeffrev L.ongmore. who improves with each production. He was ably ...

Published: Thursday 18 October 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 29 | Tags: review 

ICE SHOWS: EDINBURGH

... Dudley Hare's direction of the Murrayficld Icc Rink Orchestra and Frederick Gommers Melodists, who provide the singing and speaking voices, deserve their share of praise ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1956
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 23 | Tags: review 

Keep Him My Country

... isolation lightened by a gloriously tough race-meeting, or the Flying Doctor's visits, or a jolting truck expedition: I can't speak too highly of the author's knowledge of her subject, her character-work, and her exquisite comic sense. But, through no fault ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 68 | Tags: Review 

FILMS IN BRIEF

... approached with all the subtlety of a lumbering puppy. With Walter Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore. it Bagdad. Maureen O'Hara, speaking Irish with an American brogue, as the English-educated daughter of a tribal chieftain of Bagdad, who manages to clear up ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

The Autumn Programmes

... Prairial Law, which needed only the testimony of two witnesses to secure the death penalty, and which forbade the accused to speak in his own defence. Fouquier-Tinville had many enemies, but his position enabled him to cope easily with them. All except one ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1109 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Regional Reviews: The Gambler

... creation, The Gambler com plete with the studio theatre converted into a seedy club for the occasion. Well, it's not strictly speaking a play, not quite a musical, certainly not always a comedy and despite the cabaret setting is not really that either. Director ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 14 | Tags: review