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The well-tempered rhomboid

... The well-tempered rhomboid MB-- ALL SQUARE VAUDEVILLE THEATRE (NAUNTON WAYNE, BERYL REID, JOYCE BLAIR) MR. MELVILLE IS POSSIBLY THE MOST DISARMING man now writing for the London stage. Hav ing been a personage in the theatre for a decade or two he is ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1963
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 899 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Play Reviews: One For the Road

... One For The Road should not attempt to send up this Phil Woods recreation of what one such temperance group tried to achieve. Leeson's Renowned Temperance Entertainment is touring the Rhondda Valley of South Wales in the 1880s, where the reputation ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 416 | Page: 11 | Tags: review 

Out of the Clouds

... performances Robert Beatty as a harassed duty officer, and James Robertson Justice as a veteran pilot with a Gilbert Harding temper. David Knight and Margo l.orenz, as a young American Jew flying to Israel for adventure, and a young German Jewess flying ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

Whisky galore

... for a hundred or so thirsty Sioux Indians are preparing to pounce on the wagon train, and a horde of hymn-singing female temper ance campaigners is out to in tercept it and destroy the pre cious cargo. All the parties meet in the middle of a howling ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1022 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE GAY DOG

... parish there is a good deal of amiable comedy and amiable sentiment, and Wilfred Pickles presides over all, jaunty, good-tempered, on top of the world. Beyond that we have little more to say of Joseph Colton's piece. It is an odd play to find in the West ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

Bath Tangle

... gentlemen of quality. Enjoyment assured from the title-page, we settle down to be vastly intrigued while the lovely but hot-tempered Lady Serena and her ex-betrothed, the sullen-seeming Marquis of Rotherham, fight it out to a happy ending among the quiet ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

Regional Reviews: On Approval

... Theatre Com pany's summer repertory season. The play is strong on style and vitality. The chauvinism of the male cha racters is tempered only by their impecuniosity, though the Duke of Bristol still ranks as high on the bounder and cad lists as in the a ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 25 | Tags: review 

More Play Reviews: Seeing is Believing

... huge and gentle Irish wolfhound earns a measure of fear from the same children who rushed to caress a rather less, certain-tempered Shetland pony. A large and fairly placid sow gave rides and both a goose and a hen made their appea rance. Some of the episodes ...

Published: Thursday 10 May 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 20 | Tags: review 

Regional Reviews: Betrayal

... n gives a smooth performance as the complex husband Robert, studied and cool but also able to erupt into a violent fit of temper. Each compact scene builds on the next, gathering fire as the play progresses or rather regresses as the clocks turn backward ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 15 | Tags: review 

Music for the party

... Holliday, by Michael Holliday Mr. Acker Bilk's Lansdowne Folio The Best of Barber Bilk Vol. 2, by Acker Bilk/Chris Barber The Temperance Seven When The Saints Go Marching In, by The Saints Jazz Band Sidney Bechet Jazz Classics Vol. 2 It Was a Lover, by Cleo ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1961
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

Regional Reviews: O'Flaherty VC

... less than customary felicity as his foil, and Anna Welsh did not quite achieve the cutting edge of Mrs O'Flaherty's vaunted temper. But the production was extremely well mounted and Martha Beirne, who directed, also contributed a flash of Celtic fire that ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 27 | Tags: review 

THE CHRISTMAS SHOWS OF 1957: WINDSOR

... Counsell. As asual there, Duncan Lewis plays Dame: and, as usual, his ex- j cellcncc merits his popularity. Amusement must be tempered with genuine affection at the way he takes both the Babes on the stage and the children in the audience under his capacious ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1956
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 30 | Tags: review