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... Edwardian Story (Rockliff, 18s.). An Anglo-Irish rheto rician who dreams in genera lities and talks in italics, he writes as he speaks. It may be that the quiet, mellow, humorous Max Beerbohm manner of going back is better, and that one should decant one's ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1708 | Page: 82 | Tags: Review 

BACKGROUND

... and how the middle child, thirteen-year-old Adrian, his life suddenly crumbled about him, also stares dumbly, too hurt to speak. Later, in another unexpected scene which, though some may hold it to be stagey, has for me a ring of truth, the children express ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 481 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA *: ORPHEUS

... content is something that everybody must settle with his own soul. On its qualities as film, however, I do feel entitled to speak. Orpheus is magnificent cinema. Very rarely do we see the camera used to such purpose all the tricks of slow motion, double ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1271 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

at the Theatre: Golden City (Adelphi)

... at their naivety. Miss Shelley is competently partnered by Mr. Norman Lawrence; but this is an entertainment in which deeds speak louder than words, and il is not really going until the characters get to blows and give Mr. Michael Benthall a chance to show ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 858 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

Book Review: Everywhere, the Guns

... through out the regiment's history has been derived very largely from families in which the boy, almost as soon as he could speak, has been taught that his object in life is to be a gunner and to live up to the standards set by Ramsay or Bobs or Bradbury ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1455 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review