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at the theatre: Red Letter Day Garrick

... has not noticed at any rate, she has declined to recognize that her daughter is no longer a child. Though her son is in the army he is still her favourite baby, and she has shown her sense of the unseemliness of the infant's marriage by being perfectly ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 867 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

Such a moving millionaire

... himself alone who move le to pity. M. Montand is no Ad but he is a superb artist of i lense charm and it's my bet th every woman who sees him in hi test role will yearn to comfort 1 i (without a single thought c mink in the offing, either). Jean-Ma; Clement ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 941 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

CHURCHILL'S ENGLAND: The Final Volume of the History of the English-Speaking Peoples; The Record of the First ..

... the period from 1759 and the birth of this, the oldest regiment in the great Volunteer Army raised by the British in India, to 1956 and its role as part ot the new Army ot Pakistan. In his prologue Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck expresses his own sentiments ...

Published: Saturday 22 March 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1860 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A NEW NOVEL FROM NEVIL SHUTE: An Entrancing Tale of the New Australians by a Master of Story-telling

... the other, a golden land of freedom where, in spite of the fact that the pubs close at six o'clock in the evening, one may have steak and fried eggs for break fast as well as for every other meal. The New Australians in this happy land may be Czechs or Poles ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1780 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A GRACEFUL INNINGS: 1. A. R. Peebles' Book on Cricket; Least-known Heroes of the War; The Story of the Albany; ..

... as recce parties before invasions or landings and first proved the efficacy of his plan in 1941 when he swam ashore on enemy-held Rhodes. With expansion, this force became the eyes and ears of the Allied landings, swimming ashore noiselessly under the ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1744 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

NAPOLEONIC PRISONER OF WAR: C. S. Forester Edits the Diary of John Wetherell; the Life of John Stuart Mill; ..

... one of the principal crossings of the Rhine at Mainz, and so it was that during the years in prison Wetherell saw the Grand Armies pouring across the frontier to the victories of Austerlitz, Wagram and Jena, to the terrible defeat in the snows of Russia ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2455 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

She stayed home while hubby made history

... These letters, covering the dangerous and dramatic years 1813-1814, present a very feminine, domesticated, passive sort of woman, not at all relishing her position as a bargaining-counter in the balance of power politics, and continually wishing that every ...

Published: Wednesday 11 June 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1430 | Page: 51 | Tags: Review 

THE RIOTOUS STORY OF STANISLAVSKY: The Genius of the Moscow Art Theatre, and the Free and Full Life which He Lived

... bed, when his nurse sat reading to him the memoirs of a well-known actress, he stopped her and said Duse was a fascinating woman. She was so lemimne. isverymmg aDOur ner was feminine, from the straying wisps of hair at the nape of her neck to the tip of ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1673 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

VARIETIES OF COURAGE

... first novel is the work of a fairly young Englishman who, after war service in Burma, Malaya and India with the Fourteenth Army, worked as an actor and then decided to try Australia as a source of living. Once there, Mr. J. R. Spicer worked as a jackaroo ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1719 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Early Birds

... regarded as a very minor service, ancillary to the Army and Navy, have seen that service gain its independence, and develop into a major war- winning factor, capable of almost unlimited effort over the land and sea. Sir Philip seems always to have had the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1249 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review 

THIS WEEK, A STRONG ORIENTAL FLAVOUR: Frank Gibney's Five Gentlemen of Japan, Yoko Matsuoka's Daughter of the ..

... written about our late enemy seems to be. Daughter of the Pacific (Heine- mann. 15s.) is the autobiography of a young Japanese woman, Yoko Matsuoka, who has lived in Korea in the early days of the Japanese occupation, studied in a very advanced school run ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1655 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

A FOREIGN MINISTER SPEAKS OUT: Dr. Karl Gruber Writes of Austria in the Post-War World; My First Seventy-Six ..

... there was in Spain a man called Gonzalo de Cordoba, a spirited and brilliant nobleman who became commander of his country's armies and Great Captain of the King of Spain. His career was remark able enough to have inspired a biographer at any time in the ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2107 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review