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High and Wide

... world, the goal at which the novel may eventually arrive? There is no other similarity between these two books of which I speak; but from Strangers in Florida, by Bernard Glemser (Cresset Press, 10r. (id.) I take the quotation, He looked up and saw a ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1549 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

Two Solo Flights

... removed pieces of Perspex was captured again said (quite truthfully) that he was Irish drew map to point out Galway was told to speak Erse didn't know any, so said, bring me a large whisky and soda and shut the window in Urdu was allowed to go got to Channel ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1682 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

Playful Ada

... opinion she was practically alone in the world. How simply she describes the relations of a period mother and a period child. Speaking of him with some formality as Master Archie, she asked the nurse a few questions, which she mistakenly supposed gave that ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1632 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

at the Theatre: Twelfth Night (Old Vic)

... Paul Rogers) and Orsino (Alec Clunes). Also to be seen are a sea captain (Mark Dignam) and. on the right. Dame Edith Evans speaking the prologue [lllustra -onl by Tom itt I ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 922 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

Candid Friends

... recommend you tc find a corner for The Visitor's Book. Idc 't know whether any of the ol rvers from abroad of whom I have bt i speaking happened to mention that t English are very fond of family feuds. 3ut this seems to be the kernel of G. B. Stern's strangely ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1919 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... television's schedule the ballet. This is a form of art that presents some very acu e problems of screen presentation. Broadly speaking, the producer is left with a choice of getting the whole scene into the earner in which case the figures become unrecognisable ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1518 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

HOW TO BE A CELEBRITY

... uninfluenced by the merely contemporary. It is not by chance, one feels, that on his penultimate page one of his characters speaks of the monkey-house competition of cities, a telling phrase in its context. There is about his work an isolation which reminds ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1086 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

ESSAYS IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Sir Charles Petrie, Sir Paul Dukes, Mr. Wyndham Lewis, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt All ..

... rather shape less drawings, and has added to the number of Irish tales she tells with so much charm and inconsequence. Miranda Speaks (Peter Davies. 9s. 6d.) has an attractive idea behind it, which is the search of a playwright for the ideal actress to play ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1611 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

New Worlds For Old

... to beat the Crystal Palace of 1851, described under the title of The Great Exhibition by Yvonne ffrench. (Harvill, 18r.) Speaking at the inaugural lunch (of about fifteen courses) at the Mansion House in March of the previous year, H.R.H. Albert, Prince ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1615 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... was produced for a vast arena, it televised very 'ell well enough to determine us to go along and see it in the esh, so to speak. SOver Yuletide itself, our set seemed permanently switched on nd we developed television indigestion, in addition to the other ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1593 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

FORTUNE'S FINGER: TEN DAYS OF CHRISTMAS; A MAN'S LIFE; THE ANATOMY OF VILLAINY; THE POACHER'S HANDBOOK

... about the change in a man's life and views after an adventure with an escaped German prisoner in the Welsh mountains. MIRANDA SPEAKS. By Olivia Robertson. (Peter Davits 9s. 6 d.) Laboured Irish humour. Miranda of The Tempest appearing to a playwright in his ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1578 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review