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LONDON THEATRES: HARE AND LYNN AGAIN

... ridiculcd and Messrs. Jones and Jowett tilt with equal force at Tories. Labour ites, Liberals and the mythical Free Whigs. The Free Whigs arc a two-man party whose voles can save the Government or bring it down in a critical division. Hence the play. All ...

Published: Thursday 30 September 1954
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 568 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: BLACKPOOL PREMIERE

... their old liberties, particularly licensing hours, but without success. When Leonard Bilker, a so-called member of the Free Whig party, is made an M.P. under shady circumstances, an opportunity arises for Grout to get his Bill read and passed by a small ...

Published: Thursday 04 February 1954
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

CHIT CHAT: History moves in mysterious ways

... provoke a political crisis. William Pitt the younger, 's Tory administration depended on the King for support. The opposition Whigs, led by Charles James Fox, looked to the Prince of Wales' camp. A certifiably insane king would mean the adoption of the prince ...

Published: Thursday 14 July 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Desmond Taylor

... stitution and Queen's University. After National Service in the army he went into journalism as a reporter for the Northern Whig in Belfast and then as a sub-editor for the Belfast Telegraph. He joined the BBC news division in 1954 and went to television ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

CHIT CHAT: Making class room for Panto punters

... disaster but in the end good triumphed over evil and social harmony pre vailed. Perhaps it is Margaret Thatcher's fault that this Whig interpretation of the seasonal show no longer seems to be very popular in British theatre and has been replaced by class-war- ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 185 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Television Today: Pilkington Committee Investigates N. Ireland

... evidence from the Standing Con ference of Women's Organisa tions, the National Union of Small Shopkeepers and the Northern Whig, a Belfast morning newspaper. The local member. Professor Francis Newark, has already done a lot of preliminary investi gation ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1961
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Edinburgh Festival: Uncorking Old Sherry

... endearing manner, sharing his high hopes and final disappointments over the Drury Lane Theatre, his political loyalty to the Whig cause and love of Parliament, his love-life of elopement and duels, and his constant financial worries. Tragedy and comedy ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

HEYDAYS: Overnight sensation

... it justice. The play had acquired social significance, as the dilemma of its plot reflected the poli tics of the time. The Whig Marlborough had applied to be made 'Commander in Chief for life and Tories took this as an attempt to establish a perpetual ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 673 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... returned from troop shows in Israel and concert tour in Canada. g Adler is one of the living monuments of 8 20th century music. (Whig-Standard. g Kingston.) ijjj Bach would have been amazed and j delighted Adler was a revelation. m (Montreal Star.) He played ...

Published: Thursday 13 December 1973
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 255 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Play Reviews: Fighting For The Dunghill

... Gillray as the epitome of the Wildean cynic: a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Courted by Whigs and Tories for his coarsely malicious pow ers of caricature, he works for both in order to pay the rent. The dangers of playing ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE GATEWAY

... of the mis- ress of the house. After the de feat inflicted on the Jacobites he returns as a fugitive but is captured by the Whig force. He passes secret despatches to his sweetheart, v however, who makes the journey to France and presents them to James ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1950
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON'S MERRYMAKER

... holding one corner of a music sheet from which Tom was singing, with great viva city. one of his own burlesques against the Whigs for the poet was a stout Tory. He has made the world merry, wrote Addison of him. while Alexander Pope posed the query Dares ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1953
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 451 | Page: 11 | Tags: none