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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 

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 

Two Journalists

... Flanders, whose continual immorality brought her to so comfortable and respectable an end. And as Mr. Freeman points out in speaking of this book, Moll was the surname of the Royal Geographer (in fact a friend of the author's) who wrote a book about Flanders ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 757 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

WHEN BOSWELL CAME TO TOWN: Reading His London Journal, a Very Real Personal Experience, Not Just a Pastime

... , and relates them, by his continuity of argument, to other Jacobean and Caroline dramas on which he is well qualified to speak as Lecturer in English at the University of Durham. Dr. Leech has a scholarly approach, but not one that is donnish. The World ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1587 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

at the theatre: The Fol-de-Rols (St. Martin's)

... which they illustrate in spectacle and dance, and notable among these set pieces are the Dresden Music Box, the title of which speaks for itself, and a number in which the whole company and the same number of marionettes combine in the gayest of dances. -Aniliuiiy ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 822 | Page: 12 | 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 

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 

at the theatre: The Young Vic

... Portia, at her best in the trial scene. It is not her part, but she has a natural grace of movement and can speak verse naturally. The speaking of the verse was the chief fault of an otherwise admirable production by Mr. Glen Byam Shaw. The young actors ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 915 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review 

THE LEGACY OF FLANDERS FIELDS: C. A. Forester's Brilliant Novel of a Young Man Who Returns to Civilian Life and ..

... any sense fiction tor the hard metal of true experience shows through on nearly every page The publishers describe Simple Speaks His Mind (Gollancz. 9s. 6d.) as a heavenly book, and they are not very far from the mark. Mr. Langstoii Hughes is probably ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1668 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

at the theatre: ''The Madwoman of Chaillot'' (St. James's)

... ragged finery, she is like a glorified maypole carrying a satyric face with the fixed expression of the Fool who knows that he speaks many a true word in jest. She is apparently as mad as a hatter; but all the poor people adore her and when she saves a would-be ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 868 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

A Penny For A Song (Hay market)

... given to a blinded soldier needs more enchantment than it can draw from the words the lovers and their philosophic spectator speak. For these defici encies the author must answer; yet I cannot help thinking that the words, such as they are, would have a ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 765 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review