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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 

PREVIEW

... timid bank clerk, is to hold up his bank manager and Simon, ne'er-do-well playboy, is to marry the first eligible girl who speaks to him after the reading of the will. Failure to observe theie conditions entails loss of the legacy in each case, and the ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

LA VIE COMMENCE DEMAIN

... Corbusier, Daniel Lagache tl psycho-analyst, and Jean Rostand the biologist. Each of these cminei men, in a brief interview, speaks his little piece, and M. Aumont got back to the provinces completely sold on the idea of the sort of worl they plan individually ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 482 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

A PENNY FOR A SONG

... philoso phises in an arbour to our great content. Add Marie Lohr (the author could have expanded this part) Basil Radford, speaking for the cricket and the Home Guard of 1804 and George Rose, who spends the evening, a cherub aloft, up a tree and there is ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

HENRY IV, PART ONE

... Redgrave craftily manipulates the Northumbrian accent used here, instead of the familiar stammer, as an interpretation of speaking thick. I am heretic enough to dis like Falstaff's sallies on the field of Shrewsbury and X have never wished more urgently ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

SHAVINGS

... SHAVINGS (St. Martin's IT sounds almost like a touring revue. Why not speak simply of a Shaw Triple Bill This is an in-and-out evening. The Man of Destiny is that tedious anecdote about the young Napoleon I am sorry to say that the acting increases the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF

... certain other fish, but is happier in matching poultry, game and meat with their appropriate wines. As in his previous books, he speaks with authority and grace. BOOKS IN BRIEF THE CONSTABLE AND THE LADY. By John Bude. Macdonald 8s. 6 d.) A not unpleasing novelty ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1559 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THREE SISTERS: Aldwych

... the real thing at the Aldwych. And now we have had the real thing, with a cast as distinguished as that at the Haymarket. Speak ing for myself, I have to admit (in astonishment) that the first night of the new play was more exciting than the first night ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 497 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

HASSAN: Cambridge

... his major work. At the Cambridge, where the piece makes a long night indeed, much of the prose labours and not all of the speaking satisfies. Andre Huguenet's Hassan is direct and unremarkable Frederick Valk's Caliph was hard to hear at the premiere and ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review