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SYMBOLICALLY SPEAKING

... SYMBOLICALLY SPEAKING-- is not enough says C. A. UEJEUAE A HOLLYWOOD executive has just made a highly significant remark. Now that the innovation of the large-size picture has been accepted, he says, we can again place emphasis on the story. The italics ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 668 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING...: Good

... CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING Good THE musical programmes of the recent past. The First Night of the Proms was notable for an inspired performance of Rach maninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 by Moiseiwitsch, accompanied beautifully by the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING...: Good

... CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING Good The violently controversial Elizabethan Evening's Diversion. In fact, very good indeed. From the start it was quite obvious that much time, thought and work had gone into the assurance that all the items were absolutely authentic ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Volume II: The New World,

... A Historv of the English-Speaking Peonies. Volume II The New World, by Winston S. Churchill (Cassell, 30s). Unquali fied to give a critic's view of this new volume of a mighty work, and unwilling to read it at more than a student's pace, I will merely ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

... TAMING OF THE SHREW (Open Air Theatre) TIE that knows better how to I I tame a shrew, now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show. When Antony Eustrel speaks the lines under the floodlights at Regent's Park, we feel that no one can teach this Petruchio much ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

HENRY THE FIFTH: Stratford-upon-Avon

... Henry the Fifth the King says of Fluellen: There is much care and valour in this Welshman. Richard Burton might have been speaking of himself. The young Welsh actor, who appeared as Prince Hal in the two parts of Henry the Fourth, now presents the King ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 483 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

Trapeze

... Trapeze Odeon, Marble Arch Gina Lollobrigida, in spangles, speaks her own brand of English, breaks up friendship of aerialists Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Directed in France for an American com pany by Carol Reed, who has left only a faint imprint ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 46 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Othello

... Othello, which is not his part. He looks well and no doubt feels the passions of the man he cannot yet communicate them. His speaking in the earlier scenes is tight-lipped, spasmodic. It is not until he prepares to strangle Desdemona that Mr. Quayle suddenly ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 307 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

Stranger Come Home

... Shirer. (Robert Hale 12s. 6d.) The proper study The proper study of mankind may still be man all right, but, fictionally speaking, I suggest that it is now not man in conflict with himself (how is Tom managing his schizophrenia or man in relation to his ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

Richard the Second

... Birmingham Kepcw} This is a Richard unaffected, for one, by the Montague reading of the conscious artist in sorrow. Jack May speaks with 3 beautiful lucidity, and Douglas Seale shows again that, in this matter of producing the Shakespearean histories, he ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

SOMETHING TO READ N THE SITTING-ROOM

... this one (I speak with as much keenness as if I was charging twopence a borrow) this one is I cast about for words to describe how good it is this one is good. (Now you see why reviewers write as they write. They could hardly write as they speak, could they ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1064 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review